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...expected to emphasize high-profile journalistic books. "I'll get a chance to repeat the kind of thing I did at the Sunday Times," he says. But within hours of being appointed, he was on the phone with some of Random House's top fiction authors -- among them E.L. Doctorow, William Styron and Norman Mailer -- to reassure them of his "passionate interest" in their work. He was calling other authors as well, in an effort to woo them to Random House. "He has a huge amount of personal prestige in the publishing and writing community," says literary agent Mort Janklow...
Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow (1989). A boy growing up in the Bronx during the Depression is effectively adopted by Dutch Schultz, a notorious gangster. The hero's vision of criminal life, at once glamorous and corrupting, amounts to a privileged education. This story of a young man's coming of age already seems a part of the American grain...
Have a conversation with Sawyer, and you cannot help coming away impressed. Intelligent, articulate, polished -- and a bit calculated. (She calls a reporter at home to amend her earlier list of favorite reading: add Doctorow's Billy Bathgate and Mann's Tonio Kroger to a shelf that already features Flaubert, Henry James and John Fowles.) In earnest, carefully molded sentences, she strives to dispel the notion that she is strictly a TV creation. "I really love what you learn every day in the business," she says. "I love the breathtaking way we walk into people's lives and ask them...
BILLY BATHGATE by E.L. Doctorow (Random House; $19.95). A fictional Bronx boy, circa 1935, is accepted into the inner councils of the infamous Dutch Schultz gang and survives murderous adventures to tell a chilling and incendiary tale...
BILLY BATHGATE by E.L. Doctorow (Random House; $19.95). A fictional Bronx boy, circa 1935, is accepted into the inner councils of the infamous Dutch Schultz gang and survives murderous adventures to tell an incendiary tale...