Word: bellowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Lionel Trilling, Saul Bellow and Ivan Gold in totally different ways represent the singular sensibility that Jews have brought to American life. Mailer has a derisive piece about the manners of a group of middle-class Jewish New Yorkers deciding what is the correct attitude to take toward a stag film. A famous piece by Lionel Trilling (Of This Time, Of That Place) pits genius against the academic establishment in a story about a moral crisis in the life of a college professor. That the military is an insensitive institution is made plain...
James Joyce and Richard Condon, John O'Hara and James Michener, Philip Roth, Budd Schulberg, Saul Bellow, Robert Penn Warren. In 1960, when Cerf acquired the house of Knopf, the names of Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Hersey and John Updike joined the parade. Cerf's biggest book of the year is the 2,059-page Random House Dictionary of the English Language, which took a decade and $3,000,000 to put together. Amazingly, for a reference book, it has been on the bestseller list for six weeks, and the first printing...
...Books & Osmosis. There are many first-rate novelists at work today whose output is read widely. O'Hara's books invariably become bestsellers. Bernard Malamud's The Fixer is sailing along profitably. Cheever, Updike, Steinbeck, Mailer, Bellow, Styron, all have ready audiences as well, despite the torrents of trash that flow off the presses alongside their work. Truman Capote insists: "There are more gifted writers in this country now than there have ever been before...
...Stop that girl!" the bank dicks bellow as one man, but by the time they reach the exit, the chic chick-and $60,000-have vanished in the crowd...
...Hara, 61, is that rarity in contemporary U.S. letters, a writer who has never run dry. Even more unusual, he continues a large annual output of short stories, a field in which diminishing returns set in rapidly. Like Saul Bellow, O'Hara has a playwright inside him clamoring to get out, and this is reflected in his stories, which are often told almost entirely in dialogue. As an old pro, O'Hara is a methodical worker, using the summer months for short stories and execrable golf, and the fall, winter and spring for novels, hence the title Waiting...