Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FICTION...
...AMERICAN REVIEW: NUMBER 1, New American Library. A lively blend of the best contemporary avant-garde fiction, nonfiction, poetry and criticism collected in a commendable effort to sell quality in quantity in the paperback market...
...FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week) 2. The Chosen, Potok (2) 3. The Eighth Day, Wilder (7) 4. A Night of Watching, Arnold (4) 5. The Plot, Wallace (3) 6. Washington, D.C., Vidal (6) 7. Rosemary's Baby, Levin (5) 8. Night Falls on the City, Gainham (8) 9. A Second-Hand Life, Jackson 10. An Operational Necessity, Griffin (9) NONFICTION...
...Sure, I love the freedom to work 18 hours a day," says Marvin Kitman, who has written some 125 humorous articles for assorted magazines. "And to brood on the one day off I take each month." Ken Purdy, who turns out 25 pieces a year, both fiction and nonfiction, says, "It's great not to be responsible to anyone, but then there are those mornings when you wake up at 3 a.m. and know you've had the last idea of your life." "You don't belong to anyone, and you can ski when you please," says...
...Lawyers, Martin Mayer has raised his income to more than $50,000 a year. Freelancer A.E. Hotchner has made close to $500,000 from his bestselling Papa Hemingway, and William Manchester has earned at least as much from The Death of a President. Freelancers with a talent for fiction have another escape-and that is television. If they find they can write episodes for a series, they are paid $2,500 to $3,500 for a half-hour script, $4,000 to $6,000 for an hour. A few emerge from this fiercely competitive field as so-called hyphenates. Like...