Gratefully & Affectionately: Mary Lavin & The New Yorker

Uncovers the transatlantic editorial friendship that shaped Mary Lavin’s finest stories for The New Yorker.

Between 1958 and 1976, the Irish American writer Mary Lavin had sixteen stories published in The New Yorker, after J. D. Salinger introduced her to the magazine. It was a prolific time for Lavin, helped in no small part by her close working relationship with her chief editor there, Rachel MacKenzie. They wrote nearly four—hundred letters to each other, the topics of which ranged from s...