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Title: Here But Not Here: My Life with William Shawn and The New Yorker by Lillian Ross ISBN: 1-58243-110-8 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: COMPASSION OFF THE MENU?
Comment: What a simple, ballsy book! - and what depths of our moral and ethical bankruptcy its publication reveals. It is gruesomely fascinating to read the torrential reviews of this modest work, the jaundiced posturing of broadsheets that queue for the standards of the New Yorker, the poison of the moralists, the lack of compassion. This is a love story, patently not written for money or influence or approbation but as a heart essay, the kind of statement of confessional honesty that confronts the nada of the "civilized" predicament and offers the innocence of humanness as a code of hope. Love and conformity rarely blend. Since recorded history, the dilemma of awkward love has chewed as much newsprint as the mystery of life itself. How inconvenient, true love. Romeo and Juliet, John and Yoko, Hef and his harem. It happens, is all we know. What is interesting about this book is Ms Ross' self-mortification in diving into the crucible from the highboard of "cultured" publishing. Obviously she knew what was coming; and yet she persevered. True love imparts courage and stupidity in equal measure, but there is more at work. Bill Shawn carries the burden of legend. Lillian Ross, one senses, felt impelled to reveal him as a man, flawed (he was the one who felt pathologically "here but not here"), and aching in his inability to express his personal truth in the novel he couldn't write. As a work of literature, even gossip, this is slight. But as a paean to Shawn it glitters with the absurdity and vitality of devotional love and the lengths partners go to maintain it.
Rating: 4
Summary: An interesting man as written by his "great love"
Comment: Oh dear but I wish this book was written by the "other woman"---in this case, William Shawn's wife. The author, well known New Yorker writer Lillian Ross comes across as a probably horrid, self absorbed user, which is not, I'm sure, what she intended. While the book is very interesting when the subject is Mr. Shawn and the workings of the New Yorker, everytime she gushes about their enduring love (which she does, endlessly) her writing is banal beyond belief. One thinks, reading much of this book, that perhaps she was only a top writer once--when he was her editor. One of the truly fascinating characters in this book in Wallace Shawn. Perhaps someday he'll write his version of this story.
Rating: 1
Summary: Execrable
Comment: Poor Shawn! He seems to have had impeccable taste in everything save mistresses. The misbegotten issue of their liaison is this unique instance of a grotesque lapse in editorial judgement. I cannot imagine prose as wretched as this surviving his meticulous blue pencil from anyone sufficiently detached from him to be regarded as a writer worthy of regard on the basis solely of his work.
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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: 0879517077 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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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: 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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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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