He seldom left, except occasionally to vacation in Florida or to visit William Shawn, the almost equally reclusive former editor of the New Yorker.

除了偶尔去佛罗里达度假，或访问同样隐居的《纽约客》前编辑威廉·肖恩，他很少离开。

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That’s what S meant, I decided: she would be an editor like Fuller, rather than someone bookish, like the legendarily reticent New Yorker editor William Shawn.

那就是S的目标，我很确定，她想做一个像福勒一样的编辑，而不是像纽约客的编辑威廉肖恩那样传奇而又沉默寡言的学究。

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When she tried to return, less than a year later, William Shawn balked.

NEWYORKER: What She Said

William Shawn at the New Yorker wanted him to write densely factual pieces on regional geology, archaeology and botany, so the book contains many almost indigestible encyclopedic patches.

ECONOMIST: Travels in the desert