Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker
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ISBN: 0879518766 / Publisher: Overlook, May 1998
A memoir of writer Mehta's thirty-three years of work with The New Yorker magazine's editor William Shawn
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A memoir of writer Mehta's years 33 years of work with The New Yorker magazine's editor William Shawn. Mehta discusses the centrality of Shawn to what was arguably the high-water mark of journalistic and literary writing in 20th-century America and exposes the relationship of an editor to his writers. He also treats in some depth the final years of Shawn's editorship which finally ended in his dismissal by the magazine's new owners. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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