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Lillian Ross, who has written for the New Yorker since 1945 and should be in The Guinness Book of World Records for conducting the longest office romance, was in town last week, seated at her regular table in her favorite Manhattan restaurant, La Caravelle, where she wore a dark green Armani pantsuit, drank San Pellegrino water and filled us in on reaction to her new book, Here but Not Here: My Life with William Shawn and the New Yorker (Random House; 240 pages; $25), which has had most of the New York literary world buzzing for the past several weeks...
Still trim and vigorous in what she allows only as her seventh decade, Ross quickly took charge of the discussion about her years working and living with William Shawn, the New Yorker's editor from 1952 until 1987. Shawn died in 1992 at the age of 85, leaving sons Allen, a composer married to former New Yorker writer Jamaica Kincaid, and Wallace, an actor and playwright. Shawn's wife of 64 years, Cecille...
...arrangement seems daring even by today's forgiving standards. Perhaps more distressing is that Ross explodes Shawn's beatific public reputation, one protected by many who worked with him. "Mr. Shawn," as he was addressed at the New Yorker, was beloved by his staff. His decency, skill, editorial patience and generosity are legendary. He was shy, courtly and neurotically self-effacing. Ross, however, reveals a side of the man that resembles a Walter Mitty fantasy: a denizen of jazz joints, racetracks and classy restaurants. He was also an ardent mate. "After 40 years, our love-making had the same passion...
...Finnegan understands America, beneath the surface, as many countries and states of mind, some of them deeply disturbing and rotten in unprecedented ways. A staff writer for the New Yorker, Finnegan spent about six years hanging out among the young on the dark edges of postindustrial America. His technique is narrative journalism (formerly New Journalism, or later, Literary Journalism)--reportage as documentary storytelling. In Finnegan, the dazzling special effects of such founding fathers as Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer have given way to an admirable transparency. The author-observer, like a good scientist in nature, all but vanishes. Finnegan fleetingly...
...discourse on the obscure matter of New York State electoral politics. It's a subject he's particularly interested in, for some reason, and I'm more than happy to share what little information I've gleaned about the key state-wide races. After I give him my "New Yorker" perspective on the power struggle between Gov. George Pataki and Lieutenant Gov. Betsy McCaughey Ross, he notes with satisfaction that my summary gels with the impression he got from reading about the controversy in The New York Times...