D.T. Max does some interesting work in his article about the role of Gordon Lish's editing in Ray Carver's fiction...has anyone seen Ved Mehta's book (_Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing_) yet? I don't know how much we can learn about Shawn's editing role, but somehow I imagine mr. salinger to be a bit less malleable than Ray Carver seems to have been...will