 What was the new editor trying to convince Ross into doing?
At the table are Gill; William Shawn, then editor of The New Yorker ; and the reclusive English writer Henry Green. Moreover, Mehta writes as Shawn's adoring acolyte, whereas Ross writes as his longtime adulterous lover. Elsewhere, Ross refers to her lover's "very powerful masculinity," only to note on the very next page that "if he suffered a paper cut on a finger and saw blood, he would come into my office, looking pale." She declares that "Bill was incapable of engendering a cliché, in deed as well as in word."
 Re-joining the magazine
 Re-joining the magazine  Leaving Shawn for good  Retiring from the magazine  Booting out Mehta