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Mehta: "I started saying to myself compulsively, 'I wish Mr. Shawn would ring,' at the oddest times of the day or night.
Mehta's writerly persona, a disarming mixture of the feline and the naive, is perfect for relating the little scandals that worried The New Yorker in the late '70s (plagiarism, frozen turbot), the drama of finding a worthy candidate to succeed the aging Shawn as editor, the purchase of the magazine by the evil Si Newhouse ("We all took fright") and the resultant plague of Gottliebs and Florios visited upon it, and what he sees as the final debacle: Tinaji.
Most mock Mehta for his overwrought prose and depictions of Shawn's impeccable editing.
Books -- Remembering Mr. Shawn's "New Yorker": The Invisible Art of Editing , by Ved Mehta; Here But Not Here: A Love Story , by Lillian Ross;
In the Los Angeles Times , ex- New Yorker writer Jeremy Bernstein accuses Mehta of glossing over Shawn's inadequacies as a manager and his fatal failure to groom a successor.
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