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'Dear Life,' Stories by Alice Munro
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[New York Times] - I edited many of them for The New Yorker, one of the first American publications to pay any attention to Munro, sometimes in spite of the hesitancy of William Shawn, who found them “rough” — violent, that is — and objected to the vulgarity of some of
50th Anniversary of Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring'
www.abc.net.au
[ABC Online] - Her writing style had always been lyrical and expressive, but she was now empowered by William Shawn, the hugely influential editor of the New Yorker at that time, to really let rip. This was a new Rachel Carson with raw anger pulsing through the prose.
Google News: Minding Maeve Brennan's language
[Irish Times] - For instance, I chose to meld two of Brennan's editors at the New Yorker, William Maxwell and William Shawn, into one character. My aim was to create a play that would engage audiences in 2012, about a social world now more than half a century gone.
CNN.com - 'The Last Editor': Tom Wolfe and The New Yorker - April 16,...
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Great minds think alike. Tom Wolfe had the idea of doing a profile on William Shawn, the editor of The New Yorker. When Clay Felker suggested a sendup of the legendary magazine, Tom leaped at the idea. Tom called up William Shawn, and when he finally got him on the phone, told him he wanted to do ...
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