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...Hebrew University of Jersualem professor Shmuel N. Eisenstadt...
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt...
...were she much older, Eisenstadt would not have benefitted from the publicity she is getting as a novice novelist; like so many first works, From Rockaway could have easily gotten lost on bookstore shelves. Of course, these days, all the interviews she does are keeping Eisenstadt away from her favorite activity--writing--although she expects to finish her next book, which won't be about Rockaway, some time next year...
...Jill Eisenstadt hopes that unlike From Rockaway, the second novel will stand on its own binding. "I don't mean to sound defensive," she says at the end of our interview. "But that's the thing--people are always making me defensive about the book when it's supposed to speak for itself without you having to defend it to people. And that makes you feel like you really failed as a writer, because people aren't understanding...
...mass marketing. But rising costs, corporate takeovers and the short shelf life of new titles at the book chains have accelerated the conversion of authors into fashionable commodities. This is especially true for writers who can be plugged into the latest trends. Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, Jill Eisenstadt and other young novelists who currently rouse the bid-lust of Manhattan publishers were raised on pseudo events. Particularly flamboyant evidence of this can be seen in the self-promotions of their colleague Tama Janowitz, author of Slaves of New York...