Re: Brendan Gill, New Yorker and JDS

WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 07:33:21 -0700 (MST)

Not much of salinger in the gill book, but it does give good
background...I wish I could find out more about salinger's relationship
with William Shawn--I think he made a significant impact on Salinger's
fiction but can't support that thought with anything beyond my own reading
"deductions." will

On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, PODESTA,Lesley wrote:

> I was reading the January 12, 1998 edition of New Yorker last night and
> came across a tribute to Brendan Gill from Alison Rose in which she
> refers to his book "Here at the New Yorker". I think that all the
> bananafishers will enjoy it.
> 
> "It's possible to stay all evening and hear about his glorious childhood
> in Hartford, Yeats in old age, the New Yorker in the late forties - he's
> in a state of ecstacy now - when editors with proofs of a new Salinger
> story in their hands strolled down the corridor in a state of editorial
> euphoria that has since become extinct."
> 
> Aaah, euphoria...the thrill of a new offerring from one's favourite
> writer.  Any word on Hapworth??
> 
> Lesley P.
>