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...Atlas, who has worked with Time Magazine and Atlantic Monthly as well as The New York Times, said he has had to adjust to the dissolution of his fantasies. "The job I thought I'd have doesn't exist," he said. "I've had a lot of interesting quasi-literary jobs, which is good, and I've written a lot of things I never thought I would. I think reporting and writing about literary criticism is the only solution...
...Chicago native published his first book, "Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet," a biography of the 1920s New York poet. With the money he received from the book, Atlas moved to New York with the expectation of joining the Bohemian scene where he thought he would find that omnipresent genius was either inbred or quickly acquired...
...Atlas found that the world of Schwartz and the other literati of that era, such as Saul Bellow, was long gone...
...There was no world like the one I'd read about and written about, no world like New York of the 40s. I discovered a very stratified scene and a new professionalism," Atlas said. "You can't live the Bohemian life, you have to have a job....And now it's very complicated business. All these young writers talk about their agents and their hard-soft deals and they're being marketed...
...result, Atlas said the city is no longer the literary Mecca that it once was. Atlas said, "New York is no longer the center of the literary world. It's the center of the publishing and the media world, but [for literature] there is no center...