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...quite possible that nobody wants to be the Voice anymore. It's "a great aggravation for anybody who has been selected," says Gary Fisketjon, vice president and editor at large at Knopf, who edits both Ellis and McInerney. "Writers are always speaking for themselves and not for a generation. I don't know if they want that responsibility. I think it's something that nobody would feel comfortable with unless the ego was completely untrammeled." At least one Voice emeritus has nothing but relief that his term is over. "I think the very idea is narcissistic," says Coupland, whose most...
...unknown outside a small mob of readers, quite a few of them critics, English professors or writers, who thought he was God. Being God didn't pay spit, though, and after five books and 30 years, McCarthy had his first agent, Amanda Urban, and a new editor, Gary Fisketjon, two of publishing's more glamorous figures. They impressed upon him the idea that a little publicity never hurt. "It was very simple," Fisketjon remembers. "He had no interest in it." They leaned on him. "He said, 'If you start making exceptions . . . ' He said, finally, 'If it will help...
...literary celebrities and, from the vantage of their handlers, basic parts of an entertainment package. And it does not hurt if their editors can tie a bow. "Bright Lights had a winning quality, and it had it in spades, more than any book I have ever read," says Gary Fisketjon, leaving the impression that even casual acquaintance with the novel (a 250- year-old art form) is unnecessary baggage in today's paper chase. Fisketjon, 33, McInerney's close friend at Williams College in the mid-'70s, pushed Bright Lights when he worked at Random House. He is now editorial...
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