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When asked by the New York Times why books are published whose facts cannot be completely confirmed, Michael Korda, editor in chief at Simon & Schuster, replied, "We operate on a different basis than a newspaper. We don't have a staff of hundreds of reporters to check every book we publish. We start from the assumption that it's the author's book. If it isn't libelous, the weight of responsibility is to let the author tell his story." Korda's candor may come as a shock to laymen who think of newspapers...
Schwed has since retired and had nothing to do with Vengeance-the same story from the same secret agent but with a new writer. It was offered by a small Canadian publisher to Michael Korda, who jumped at it. Korda is the nephew of Film Producer Sir Alexander Korda. Articulate, aggressive and imperturbably assured, he makes so little secret of his ambition for recognition that friends consider it part of his Hungarian charm. Among his own bestsellers is Power! How to Get It, How to Use It, a book neither as trashy nor as clever as it sounds. Hype...
...best to check facts," says Korda. "But it is the writer's obligation to be accurate." Any newspaper or magazine editor who used such a justification to publish an unverified story would be lambasted, and rightly so. Korda further argues, "Accuracy is not at issue here; veracity is. Had we said, 'This is the true story of the mission by a man who claims to have led it,' we would be home free...
...when talents as varied as Pulitzer-Prizewinning Novelist Edna Ferber, Poet Marianne Moore and Experimentalist Gertrude Stein were among the decade's most prominent literary celebrities. But they worked in an era less obsessed by the politics of gender. Today, says Simon & Schuster Editor in Chief Michael Korda, "women writers are being noticed more because more attention is being paid to women as a group...
FICTION: The Anatolian, Elia Kazan Family Trade, James Carroll Famous Last Words, Timothy Find ley ∙The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, Peter Benchley The Woods, David Plante ∙Worldly Goods, Michael Korda...