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Chargement... Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing (1998)par Ved Mehta
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"For more than three decades, a quiet man - some would say almost an invisible man - dwelt at the center of American journalistic and literary life. He was William Shawn, the editor-in-chief of The New Yorker from 1952 to 1987." "In Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker, Mr. Mehta, who started writing for The New Yorker at the age of twenty-five, and over some thirty-three years contributed such historic pieces as his brilliant study of philosophers at Oxford, and who was a friend of Shawn and his family, gives us the closest, most careful, and most refined description that has yet been written of Shawn's editorship of the magazine." "As Mr. Mehta pulls back the curtain, we see the workings of The New Yorker behind the scenes. The book will give intense pleasure to all who love reading and writing, for it is at once a tribute to William Shawn, a close look at the relationship between writer and editor, and a joyful homage to the inextricably linked arts of editing, writing, and reading."--Jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)808.02709Literature By Topic Rhetoric and anthologies Rhetoric and anthologies Authorship techniques, plagiarism, editorial techniques Editing and scholarly writingClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (3.78)
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"I'll be happy if twelve people in the country read it," he said.
"You can't mean that," I said. "How could the magazine keep going if people didn't read it?"
"I want any piece to be read by its natural readers--people who will understand and enjoy it."
He went on to say that he edited the magazine as if we were the ideal readers, and assumed that if we liked a piece the readers would. It seemed such a utopian notion that I could scarcely believe he could hold it. But in subsequent years I learned that that was just one of a number of utopian ideas that he held and was somehow able to indulge while still turning out an extremely financially successful magazine.
Fantastic memoir by writer Ved Mehta of his relationship with William Shawn the editor of the New Yorker from 1952 to 1987. (