William Shawn
How The New Yorker Made Muriel Spark's Reputation
When I went into my Muriel Spark phase a few months back, I soon learned that she had had a relationship with The New Yorker. But none of the books that promote the New Yorker mythology even mentions her. You will read all about Mr. Shawn and Capote and Updike and Thurber and many lesser talents. Nothing about Spark. Which is odd because the magazine established her international reputation.
Much of what follows below comes from looking around in the (fascinating) New Yorker Archive at the New York Public Library. I'd planned to blog it soon enough; Dame Muriel's death Friday makes me hustle this into code.
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Scourge of the Tiny Mummies Embalmed in His White Suit
Hooking Up, by Tom Wolfe. read more »
Going Bust: Dot-Coms Break Out the Coffins
There may not be much new material in Tom Wolfe's latest collection, Hooking Up , perhaps accounting read more »
I Like The New Yorker and Renata Adler, Too
When I read Renata Adler's Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker , "Uh, oh," I said to myself, said read more »
Slit From Navel to Sternum: Slasher New Yorker Memoir
Gone: The Last Days of 'The New Yorker' , by Renata Adler. Simon & Schuster, 252 pages, $25. read more »
Ms. Adler, The New Yorker and Me
A few months ago, I reviewed in these pages a book of memoirs by Michael Korda, in which I turn up a read more »
Guilty Consumers' Paradise: The New Yorker , Circa 1950
The World Through a Monocle: 'The New Yorker' at Midcentury , by Mary F. Corey. read more »
Nothing for Lillian Ross in William Shawn's Will
As Liz Smith wrote the other day, you can get in a fistfight for saying that Lillian Ross had a righ read more »
William Shawn, Stud or Saint? The Memories of Lillian Ross and Ved Mehta
Love stories are never simple. read more »
