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Title: Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing (Mehta, Ved, Continents of Exile.) by Ved Mehta ISBN: 0-87951-707-7 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Time passing.
Comment: Intriguing and informative look at a title (and by extension, an industry) in transition. Clearly illustrates both the reasons for and effects of corporate acquisition of magazines. Mehta's tone of hero worship for Shawn is occasionally grating. In fairness, this may be earned, as the Mr. Shawn in this book has many qualities you'd expect from a quiet hero. Fascinating stuff.
Rating: 4
Summary: Any Ved Mehta book is wonderful, this is not his best.
Comment: Ved Mehta is my favorite writer. I've bought nearly all his books, even old ones out of print that I've found through Amazon. Ved Mehta's endearing personality and superb writing style make an irresistable combination. Having said that, I must also say that Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker is the Mehta book I like least. It is the latest volume in Ved Mehta's autobiography, but it reveals too little about Mr. Mehta and redundantly much about Mr. Shawn. It tells more about the New Yorker than I really care to know, although I have been a New Yorker fan for years. Perhaps this book simply lacks the editorial guidance Mr. Shawn gave to Mehta's previous books. On the other hand, an unexpected gift I found in Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker is an explanation of the background behind other Mehta books written while Mehta was on the New Yorker staff. I do recommend that all Mehta and New Yorker fans read this book, but don't set your expectations too high.
Rating: 4
Summary: I enjoyed this book.
Comment: I had never read any of Ved Mehta's books or articles before this. He offers an interesting glimpse into the New Yorker and "Mr. Shawn's" role as editor of the fabled magazine. He also offers a look into a writers life as he describes how the New Yorker cultivated and nurtured the writers it had in it's cubicles. I never subscribed to the New Yorker during William Shawn's time as editor. But, a few years ago I snuck into the old offices on 43rd Street. The writers cubicles were gone but, there outlines were still on the floor. There were odd pieces here and there of the writers who once filled the spaces were scattered about. A pencil here, an old wooden easel there, an old office chair, notes and drawings scribbled on a wall. Mehta fills in the space and one can almost here the clacking of typewriters and muffled conversations as writers work in a unique environment of a unique magazine. It seemed like a very interesting time to be a writer there. Before the Tina Brown's bought "Celebrity Culture" to the magizine. A time when editors like Shawn were more interested in ideas than superficial popularity.
Mike Girardo New York
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Title: Here But Not Here: My Life with William Shawn and The New Yorker by Lillian Ross ISBN: 1582431108 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Here at the New Yorker by Brendan Gill ISBN: 0306808102 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Years with Ross by James Thurber ISBN: 0060959711 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made by Ben Yagoda ISBN: 0306810239 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 06 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker by Renata Adler ISBN: 0684808161 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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