Knopf held a celebration of the life of Sonny Mehta at the New York Public Library’s Celeste Bartos Fourm — “a room Sonny loved” — on Wednesday afternoon, featuring remarks from 11 authors and colleagues. “We are assembled in a vast Cathedral of books,” James Ellroy said. “The great Sonny Mehta, the great publisher of the world, English language, worshipped the printed word on paper and we are here to celebrate this brilliant, reckless, dedicated man’s temporal journey, and to pray and wish him onward to his soul’s repose.” He noted later, “We hitched our star to Sonny Mehta. We […]