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A wry, witty, often tender memoir by a former New Yorker editor, magazine writer, and book publisher who offers great tales of a life in words
Daniel Menaker started as a fact checker at The New Yorker in 1969. With luck, hard work, and the support of William Maxwell, he was eventually promoted to editor. Never beloved by William Shawn, he was advised early on to find a position elsewhere; he stayed for another twenty-four years.Now Menaker brings us a new view of life in that wonderfully strange place and beyond, throughout his more than forty years working to celebrate language and good writing.He tells us his own story, too—with irrepressible style and honesty—of a life spent persevering through often difficult, nearly always difficult-to-read, situations. Haunted by a self-doubt sharpened by his role in his brother’s unexpected death, he offers wry, hilarious observations on publishing, child-rearing, parent-losing, and the writing life. But as time goes by, we witness something far beyond the incidental: a moving, thoughtful meditation on years well lived, well read, and well spent. Full of mistakes, perhaps. But full of effort, full of accomplishment, full of life.- Sales Rank: #522334 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Published on: 2013-11-19
- Released on: 2013-11-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 1.03" w x 5.50" l, .80 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
- Great product!
From Booklist
Menaker has been steeped in language his entire life, as the son of a copy editor, a perceptive reader, an incisive and witty writer, and an editor for the New Yorker and Random House. He now contemplates the origins, happenstance, and consequences of his devotion to literature in a warm, humorous, on-point memoir. Amiably self-deprecating, Menaker is a deft sketch artist, vividly portraying loved ones (especially his older brother, who goaded him to excel and whose early death is the source of depthless sorrow) and colleagues (his portraits of New Yorker staff are hilarious, barbed, and tender). His insider view of publishing is eye-opening and entertaining. What elevates Menaker’s clarion reminiscence is his eloquently affirming appreciation for the humanities: Everything in your life is enriched, everything has a more universal human context. And his illumination of the exacting work of a New Yorker editor can serve as a veritable guide to the practice of getting things right in life, word by word, realization by realization, as we open ourselves to facts and art, truth and compassion. --Donna Seaman
Review
“In this insightful memoir, Menaker leads his readers down the hallowed halls of The New Yorker... But the book isn’t all business. Menaker also delves into the ups and downs of his personal life, from summers at his uncle’s camp, to the death of his mother. Tender, smart and witty, this book is truly unputdownable.” -- Real Simple
"A ruefully funny insider’s tour of the publishing world.” -- Vogue.com
"[Menaker] contemplates the origins, happenstance, and consequences of his devotion to literature in a warm, humorous, on-point memoir. Amiably self-deprecating, Menaker is a deft sketch artist, vividly portraying loved ones (especially his older brother, who goaded him to excel and whose early death is the source of depthless sorrow) and colleagues (his portraits of New Yorker staff are hilarious, barbed, and tender). His insider view of publishing is eye-opening and entertaining." -- Booklist
"[Menaker] writes here of his hectic childhood with well-preserved romanticism. The result is charming. [He] is at his best when irreverent: chuckling at aptronyms (people aptly named), or deflating New Yorker legends (William Shawn and Tina Brown, most notably). Still, in this book of years, gossip is secondary to the writer’s own musings and memories. Menaker leaves the reader with a sense of the vast triumph that is a life well lived." —Publishers Weekly
"A well-known editor’s funny and thoughtful memoir of wrong turns, both in and out of publishing. . . Menaker doesn’t just recount experiences; he digs away at them with wit and astute reflection, looking for the pattern of a life that defies easy profit-and-loss lessons."
—Kirkus, starred review
"Menaker examines a life lived well if not perfectly. He’s bold enough to explore his years at The New Yorker, where he stayed for 26 years despite discouragement from William Shawn, and the perpetual self-doubt that has dogged him, particularly owing to his role in his brother’s inadvertent death. Certainly of interest to memoir fans and literati."
—Library Journal
"How can something written so accurately be so witty? Don't you have to cheat a bit to wring the humor out of life? Daniel Menaker has constructed a compelling tale that irises down to a powerful and emotional climax and is delivered in exacting prose woven into affecting poetry."
—Steve Martin
"My Mistake is only sometimes rueful. It is also frequently funny and splendidly precise as it takes a look back at a life led in the world of magazine editing and book publishing, a behind-the-scenes rumination of a time gone by. Intriguing now, it will be necessary later; readers will be thankful for this quirky and delightful piece of history."
—Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys
"Daniel Menaker's distinctive journey through his own memories is impossible to resist—and not just for those of us with an appetite for literary anecdote. My Mistake is also the story of literary New York, with keen, vivid impressions from Menaker's Forties childhood, Cold War coming-of-age, and long career at the epicenter of the publishing industry during the onslaught of the Digital Age."
—Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad
"I can't remember when I've read a memoir this—let's say 'soulful.' Funny, sad, and wryly self-aware, Menaker shines a bright light on his own background, our literary life, and his own path through it."
—James Gleick, author of The Information
"My Mistake brings to mind the poetic prose of James Agee. Menaker's stories of life as fiction editor at The New Yorker and Random House are a delight, the way he tells them simply perfect. Humorous, thoughtful, heartbreaking and brave. I have not enjoyed a memoir more."
—Julie Klam, New York Times bestselling author of Please Excuse My Daughter
"Menaker has spent a life with words as an editor at the New Yorker and Random House. Now he takes us behind the scenes with William Shawn (who didn’t like him), Tina Brown (who gets her husband, Harry Evans, to hire him so she can get rid of him) and a parade of writers." -- Bloomberg
"A charming and revealing insider's look at the world of the New Yorker and big-time book publishing." -- Shelf Awareness
"A wild ride that will provide insider glimpses of the New York publishing world from 1969 onward, with the author serving as one of the scene’s principal participants and sharpest observers...Not easy to pigeonhole, this is an amalgam of autobiography and cultural history at its best." - Bookpage
"My Mistake is a memoir of editor Daniel Menaker's life and long career, including 26 years at The New Yorker, which he calls a "brilliant crazy house." Set in the world of literary New York, it is undeniably insider-y and gossipy. (The stories about Tina Brown are not to be missed.) But the human experiences he describes — especially the hard stuff, like family, illness and death — will be familiar to anyone." -- NPR.com
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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
Quiet, subtle and intelligent inspiration for the literary world
By moose_of_many_waters
My Mistake follows none of the rules of contemporary memoirs. Mr. Menaker isn't self destructive. No horrible things have happened to him. He isn't famous. Menaker doesn't follow the lead of iconic memoirs like The Education of Henry Adams, either, and create grand ideas to organize the world around him.
This is an entirely different kind of memoir, something rare today: an intelligent, well-written, examination of a life well lived. My Mistake is a quiet, carefully constructed book about a literary man in the literary world of 20th (and a bit of 21st) century New York. There is no chest beating. There is a small amount of name dropping, but it actually serves a purpose. My Mistake is mostly about the value of intelligence, persistence, heart, and good listening skills in living life well and happily. If you want to know about how an editor - Mr. Menaker was both the fiction editor at The New Yorker and chief editor at Random House - works and lives in the madhouse that is New York publishing, you'll find much to enjoy here. It's not a gripping narrative because, unlike almost all gripping narratives in the memoir genre, it's probably 100% true. It is, instead, a story about a real life told with tenderness and humor.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
I Read It Straight Through
By emmejay
"[Editor-in-chief William] Shawn always claims that THE NEW YORKER does not and cannot, with integrity, try to attend to what a reader might want to read. We publish what *we* like, and hope that some people might want to read it too. [When a Table of Contents is finally added, the staff gasps:] 'It's none of the readers' business what's in the magazine.' " (!! LOL)
Daniel Menaker's memoir begins in childhood with an intense sibling rivalry and a tragedy, and concludes in his seventies. There are some touching passages, particularly from childhood, but it's the middle that's most of the book and the most interesting -- inside stories from his decades of work at The New Yorker as a fact checker, then copy editor and Fiction Editor, largely under Shawn (who told Menaker to find another place to work and he finally did, 26 years later).
There are also bits about Tina Brown and a mention of Robert Gottlieb, and some about his early career teaching English at a top private school, his own writing, and his late career in book publishing at Random House and Harper Collins. There's a fine passage about the value of a humanities education that's too long to quote here; but if you can "search inside" or google part or all of his conclusion ("If you are lucky enough to be educated well in an ivory tower, it will help to prepare you to descend from that tower and deal with un-ivoried reality"), you'll get to the paragraph.
"I think that some of us have more than one mother and many if not most of us, especially boys, have more than one father."
A continuing thread in the memoir is fathers -- his emotionally (and often physically) absent father, and the surrogate fathers he accumulates, one of whom is William Maxwell, a man I grew to like so much that I had to read the 1982 PARIS REVIEW interview with him (archived at its online site). I also found Menaker quite likeable -- light, funny, quiet. He wrote what he liked and I enjoyed reading it!
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Brimming with energy and amazing memories
By Paul Allaer
"My Mistake: A Memoir" (239 pages) is written by Daniel Menaker, best known for his work at The New Yorker, and later Editor-In-Chief at Random House. In this memoir, Menaker, now 72, looks back at his life. After a 2 page Introduction which is more a preview ("My brother died when he was twenty-nine after surgery for an injury I had caused.") than it is an explanation as to why he wrote the book, Menaker then dives straight in, starting with his earliest memories (when he is 2 1/2 years old) and then proceeding in a mostly chronological order.
Couple of comments: first and foremost, I am struck as to the many and vivid details that Menaker remembers from his earliest days. Here another example from when he was 5: "In the 'Fives' at the Little Red School House, the very progressive private school on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, a new boy arrives. Walter Brooks. He's black and can sing 'Cincinnati's Dancing Pig' well. Many years later, it occurs to me that our teachers' asking Walter to sing [that song] smacked a little of minstrelsy." Second, as already alluded in the Introduction, the passing away of his older brother Mike at age 29 is a huge moment in the author's life, one that he comes back to or makes reference to time and again in the book, wrestling with feelings of guilt and/or remorse and at times relief too (in a weird/surprising kind of way). The chapter of Mike's actual passing away is difficult to read and will tug at your heart. Third, even though Menaker goes on to an incredible accomplished career, the second part of the book where he ascends to the very top of the publishing business aren't nearly as interesting as the other parts of the book, although his disdain for Tina Brown (who took over The New Yorker and eventually pushed him out) is palpable and makes for great reading. This is not a criticism of Menaker, it's just that there are way too many 'insider' stories about the intricate workings of The New Yorker, and later Random House, for us, mere average readers (not publishers or writers). In the end, it's a minor quibble.
Bottom line: I found this book to be a refreshing take on doing a memoir. The author (and hence the book) is brimming with energy, and the amount of details he provides from an early age on, is simply amazing. If you are in the mood for a good memoir, you cannot go wrong with this. "My Mistake" is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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