Not Enough Delilahs

I admired the book she wrote about her long affair with Shawn, mainly because I feel that writers should write, and let other people argue about whether they like what they’ve written or not. ‘The book came as a shock to many people who had known William Shawn,’ she wrote:

But to Lillian that was all just ‘crackpot stuff’. By the time I knew her, Lillian was struggling against a sense that she had caused pain to Shawn’s widow, Cecille, who was still alive, and permanently changed the public view of that most quiet and dedicated of New Yorker editors.

Source: www.lrb.co.uk