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...Jason Epstein suggests that "people don't look to novels for what they used to. When I was in college, you looked at them for the truth. That transcendental phase is out now. I think perhaps novels succeeded too well-they told all they could. People look elsewhere for what they once got from novels-it may be to social writing or maybe TV, depending on who they...
...exceedingly competent editors. Albert Erskine Jr., 55, was Faulkner's editor, now handles John O'Hara and James Michener. Jason Epstein, 38, is in charge of W. H. Auden and Norman O. Brown. Epstein surveys his duties with cynical modesty. "You're just a valet," he says. "The suit comes in and you adjust the buttons. Any role you play is accidental. You were at the right place at the right time." But most authors consider the editorial function a little more important than that. In a left-handed compliment, Critic Leslie Fiedler once described the typical...
Both Erskine and Epstein, as well as most of the 22-man editorial staff, get complete freedom from Cerf in the choice of titles that Random House buys and in their dealings with authors. Cerf takes charge of important advertising campaigns-he even writes a few ads himself-and usually directs all important financial negotiations for his top authors. "In one month," he said recently, "I sold the paperback rights on three books for $1.7 million-Michen-er's The Source for $700,000, Capote's In Cold Blood for $500,000, and Kathleen Winsor's Wanderers...
...Oppernockety. From all indications, Cerf runs a happy shop as well as a contented stable. "They're all prima donnas," he chortles. "We're a firm of prima donnas!" When he tells a visitor that Jason Epstein is "the cross I have to bear," Epstein retorts, "and Bennett is the bear I have to cross." Corporation Secretary Charles A. Wimpfheimer, 38, gets in on the fun now and then. He once installed a parking meter in Cerf's private washroom, probably because Cerf himself started the local bathroom jokes by placing two copies of Lindbergh...
Many citizens, even some who concede the Warren Report's failings, insist there should be no reinvestigation because such a move would impugn the integrity of the Warren Commission's members. But Epstein shows that the Commissioners were hindered in their task primarily by factors beyond their control; thus their integrity need not be called into question by a reinvestigation. Their performance, as manifested in the Warren Report, has already been called into very serious question, and that is obviously a necessary consequence of any new inquiry into the assassination...