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The Last Days of The New Yorker
Simon & Schuster
September 2011
On Sale: September 10, 2011
256 pages ISBN: 1451667221 EAN: 9781451667226 Kindle: B005OKK5QU Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
From a legendary journalist and star writer at The New
Yorker -- one of the most revered institutions in publishing
-- an insider's look at the magazine's tumultuous yet
glorious years under the direction of the enigmatic William
Shawn. Renata Adler went to work at The New Yorker in 1963 and
immediately became part of the circle close to editor
William Shawn, a man so mysterious that no two biographies
of him seem to be about the same person. Now Adler, herself
an unrivaled literary force, offers her brilliant take on
the man -- and the myth that is The New Yorker -- disputing
recent memoirs by Lillian Ross and Ved Mehta along the way. With her lucid prose, meticulous eye for detail, and genuine
love of The New Yorker, Adler re-creates thirty years in its
history and depicts Shawn as a man of robust common sense,
amazing industry, and editorial genius, who nurtured
innumerable major talents (and egos) to produce a magazine
that was -- and remains -- unique. Her ensemble cast -- all
involved in legendary friendships, feuds, and love affairs
-- includes Edmund Wilson, S. N. Behrman, Brendan Gill,
Calvin Trillin, Dwight MacDonald, Donald Barthelme, Hannah
Arendt, Pauline Kael, S. I. Newhouse, Robert Gottlieb, Tina
Brown, and practically everyone of note in and around The
New Yorker. Above and beyond the fascinating literary anecdotes,
however, Adler's is a striking narrative that follows the
weakening of Shawn's hold over the magazine he loved, his
reluctant attempts to find a successor, and the coup by
which he was ultimately overthrown. It is a wonderful piece
of reporting, full of real-life drama of Shakespearean
dimensions, which Shawn himself surely would have loved.
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