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...early '30s continues to fascinate. Americans have eagerly poured over biographies of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe and the like. Of the man who went so far toward establishing the reputation of these writers, however, little was known save scraps of stories and legends. Now, Scott Berg's biography goes far toward illuminating the life of Maxwell Perkins, an editor for Scribner's who came to occupy a unique position in the history of American literature and publishing...
...dearth of material on Perkins up till now has been a testimonial to the success of his obsessive search for anonymity, and it is fitting that Berg opens his book with an anecedote about it. He tells how Perkins, after arriving home late after giving a speech to a publishing class, finds one of his daughters waiting...
Perkins was a rather conservative fellow of solid Yankee stock, and Berg wisely uses accounts of Max's relations with his writers to tell the story. Berg gives the basics of Max's upbringing and personal life but perceives that these can go only so far toward answering just why he demonstrated such an uncanny ability for spotting and remaining faithful to the young men and women who went on to become some of America's finest writers...
...Ozawa in San Francisco has not been easy for De Waart. Ozawa is a spellbinder and a colorist. De Waart, who will continue with the Rotterdam Philharmonic another year, is a solid, serious musician. He programs lots of the classics, Mozart and Haydn, but also likes such modernists as Berg and Bartok. "None of the young conductors has a wide repertory, but De Waart is anxious to learn and that separates him from the rest," says Milton Salkind, president of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. De Waart is not worried: "Herbert von Karajan once said it takes ten years...
...pity that Perkins could not see the manuscript of his biography. He enjoyed finding promising young writers, and Berg, 28, is one of that small group. He might have indicated some cutting that the book as published could use. And although he would have been embarrassed by the attention, Berg's tribute would have touched...