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...among the most respected literary editors in the business. For the past 14 years he has been with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, one of the last major independent houses in New York, where things do not appear to be as rushed as at other firms. Its authors include Isaac Bashevis Singer, Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe and Susan Sontag. Di Capua has edited such acclaimed writers as Larry Woiwode and Michael Arlen. A major project now is the result of one man's highly unusual childhood. Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany is a forthcoming memoir by Joel...
...campaign biographies, airline magazines, the printed bafflegab of lawyers and academics, interviews with pious athletes and pouting ads by misunderstood oil companies, the affliction called writer's block is insufficiently widespread. But no wretch who has ever tried to write anything will be surprised to learn that Nancy Isaac Kuriloff, a therapist who works in Los Angeles and deals with fear of writing, has plenty of clients...
...Isaac Stern plays strings and pulls them with equal gusto...
...variation of Parkinson's Law, Violinist Isaac Stern expands to fill any space available, even one as large as the city of Paris. There, for the past two months, an entire army of Sterns has been at large in the streets, salons and concert halls. Which was the real one? The celebrity glimpsed in a blue Mercedes limousine, racing to such appointments as a private tour of Versailles and a recital before President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing? Or was it the doppelgänger who never seemed to leave the rehearsal hall, reflectively pushing his horn...
...were, of course, irrepressibly, ubiquitously, impossibly Isaac Stern-a natural force not to be explained. As he approaches his 60th birthday on July 21, he still has not slowed down enough to be closely observed. "We do not know how many hours Isaac lives in a day," says Conductor Zubin Mehta. "We only know that it must be more than...