Shawn (Yawn) Gone; Unlike New Yorker Sentences, an Editor Can't Go On Forever

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 18, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

SINCE NINETEEN hundred and fifty two, The New Yorker magazine, published weekly in the city of the same name, has been edited by the same man, the studiously obscure and gently brilliant William Shawn, called Mr. Shawn by even those who knew him well, who over the years have come to love and protect him because he was willing to publish articles of unparalleled quality and daring but also, and increasingly, ones that included sentences such as this one that none but their authors would want to read.

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