text: Mehta 's multivolume autobiography , titled Continents of Exile , has loss as its overarching loss of sight , of childhood , of home and country , and now--with this volume--loss of Mr. Shawn 's New Yorker . The memoir takes us from the time the author was hired as a staff writer in the early ' 60s up to 1994 , when he was terminated by the loathed Tina Brown in her vandalization of his cherished magazine .
  
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  The memoir is anout how he was a writer for a magazine .