Word: kanfer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...piece on Cornwell was the work of Senior Editor Stefan Kanfer, who wrote the story; London Correspondent Dean Fischer, who interviewed the novelist; and Reporter-Researcher Anne Hopkins, who did what would be described in Le Carré's spy argot as the "burrowing"-the background research. Fischer talked with Cornwell for 16 hours, both in London and at the author's farmhouse overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Cornwell lived up to his reputation as a rugged interview only when he jauntily insisted that Fischer join him on a "forced march" of three miles over the cliffs near...
...Kanfer, who also met Cornwell in England, had a different surprise. "Like everyone else, I used to wish that Le Carré would write a serious book," he says. "But then one day I realized that he was writing serious books-they just happened to be in the espionage genre...
...skirt both terminals. But even he comes too close for comfort. Can the spy novel continue to grow without losing its value as entertainment? For David Cornwell?John le Carré?George Smiley, it is, in every sense of the word, a vital question for British intelligence.?Stefan Kanfer...
...writers stayed home last weekend - to eat and drink. Senior Writer Stefan Kanfer, who chronicled the aesthetics of beer, imbibes neither hard liquor nor water - only beer. "If they did an analysis of my blood," he says, "they'd find 10% red corpuscles, 10% white corpuscles and 80% hops and malt." Of the 187 varieties of classic beer, Kanfer has sampled about 100. Says he: "That's not over a weekend or even a year, but over a lifetime of quaffsmanship." Associate Editor Paul Gray, who wrote the junk-food story, made forays last weekend to McDonald...
...balance of free enterprise and federal supervision, of expansion and conservation, must be maintained in the present America. The President might have been more accurate-if less inspiring-with the words of Novelist Henry James, William's brother: "It's a complex fate being an American." Stefan Kanfer...