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William Shawn

Dec 4

Oops! Daniel Menaker’s ‘My Mistake’ Chronicles a Life in Publishing

My Mistake by Daniel MenakerIn May 2011, Daniel Menaker posted eight of the rejection letters he received for his memoir, My Mistake, on the Huffington Post. “If you’re curious about this kind of thing—what goes on inside the submission process of publishing—there follow, a few paragraphs down, eight edited examples of the rejection notes I got, through my agent, for 25,000 words of a memoir,” wrote the former editor for The New Yorker and editor in chief of Random House.
By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
Feb 19

The New Yorkerator

New York Nostalgia Trip Well, Valentine’s Day is in the air, and it’s probably too late to plan a tingly
By Observer Staff
Apr 17

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
By Observer Staff
Oct 30

Scourge of the Tiny Mummies Embalmed in His White Suit

By Adam Begley
Oct 16

Going Bust: Dot-Coms Break Out the Coffins

By Gabriel Snyder
Feb 7

I Like The New Yorker and Renata Adler, Too

By Michael M. Thomas
Jan 17

Slit From Navel to Sternum: Slasher New Yorker Memoir

By Adam Goodheart
Jan 17

Ms. Adler, The New Yorker and Me

By Robert Gottlieb
May 10

Guilty Consumers’ Paradise: The New Yorker , Circa 1950

By D.T. Max
Lillian Ross (Photo by Patrick McMullan/PMc)
Aug 31

Nothing for Lillian Ross in William Shawn’s Will

By Philip Weiss
May 18

William Shawn, Stud or Saint? The Memories of Lillian Ross and Ved Mehta

By David Michaelis
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