Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker

Continents of Exile: 9

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  • Book
  • 9
  • in
  • Ved
  • Mehta's
  • Continents
  • of
  • Exile
  • series.
  • Nearly
  • 50
  • years
  • in
  • the
  • making,
  • Continents
  • of
  • Exile
  • is
  • one
  • of
  • the
  • great
  • works
  • of
  • twentieth-century
  • autobiography:
  • the
  • epic
  • chronicle
  • of
  • an
  • Indian
  • family
  • in
  • the
  • twentieth
  • century.
  • From
  • 1930s
  • India
  • to
  • 1950s
  • Oxford
  • and
  • literary
  • New
  • York
  • in
  • the
  • 1960s-80s,
  • this
  • is
  • the
  • story
  • of
  • the
  • post-colonial
  • twentieth
  • century,
  • as
  • uniquely
  • experienced
  • and
  • vividly
  • recounted
  • by
  • Ved
  • Mehta.In
  • Remembering
  • Mr.
  • Shawn's
  • New
  • Yorker,
  • Ved
  • Mehta
  • provides
  • an
  • unparalleled
  • glimpse
  • into
  • the
  • inner
  • workings
  • of
  • the
  • one
  • of
  • world's
  • most
  • famous
  • magazines.
  • He
  • portrays
  • in
  • detail
  • the
  • strange,
  • nurturing
  • atmosphere
  • at
  • the
  • New
  • Yorker,
  • and
  • he
  • recounts
  • the
  • earthquakes
  • that
  • shook
  • the
  • magazine
  • as
  • it
  • moved
  • into
  • the
  • hands
  • of
  • more
  • commercial
  • ownership.
  • At
  • once
  • a
  • tribute
  • to
  • William
  • Shawn
  • -
  • one
  • of
  • the
  • longest
  • serving
  • editors
  • in
  • the
  • New
  • Yorker's
  • history
  • -
  • Mehta's
  • memoir
  • is
  • also
  • a
  • joyful
  • tribute
  • to
  • the
  • intricately
  • linked
  • arts
  • of
  • editing,
  • writing,
  • and reading.
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