Word: kosinski
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Retreating into a shell is harder for those endlessly hounded by autograph-seeking clones and garbage-picking tabloid reporters--often, a pair of sunglasses is the only barrier. But in Jerzy Kosinski's Pinball, rock star Goddard not only manages to escape the publicity bubble but to leave it behind intact. In six years Goddard has struck gold on album after album, selling more records than any other rock star. In those six years, though, Goddard has never given a concert, interview or autograph. He has maintained a better secret identity than Superman. Even Lois Lane was suspicious; Goddard...
...have begun issuing simultaneous clothbound and paperback editions. Nobody's Angel, by picaresque Novelist Thomas McGuane, is being issued with 5,000 Papas and 30,000 Mamas. Bantam, Ballantine and Pocket Books, three major mass-market houses, shortcut the hard-cover publishers with their own original titles. Jerzy Kosinski's just published Pinball is appearing as a Bantam Papa (5,000), Mama (150,000), with babies yet to be determined. Says Stuart Applebaum, director of publicity for Bantam: "For many people in their 20s and 30s, the quality trade paperback has become their hardback." Literary Agent Scott Meredith...
...Feingolds have little aptitude for it. Irving Howe, Susan Sontag, Alfred Kazin, Leslie Fiedler, Norman Podhoretz, Elizabeth Hardwick, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Gates, Norman Mailer, William Styron, Donald Barthelme, Jerzy Kosinski and Truman Capote do not come to their party. They miss quite a scene. Among the uncelebrated guests is a Holocaust survivor who literally levitates the living room with horror stories. Lucy also rises to the occasion with a Christian-pagan vision rooted in agriculture, bacchanalia and fertility symbols. The reader is left suspended with images of unreachable men locked in "the glory of their martyrdom...
...about comrades as about lovers. Maureen Stapleton makes a flinty, domineering, humane Emma Goldman and, with just a hint of Bella Abzug brassiness, underlines Reds' straddling of two periods of American ferment: the late teens and the late '60s. As Reed's Soviet nemesis, Novelist Jerzy Kosinski acquits himself handsomely-a tundra of Russian ice against Reed's all-American fire...
...Kosinski faults himself and Abbott's other literary friends. "We pretended he had always been a writer. It was a fraud. It was like the '60s, when we embraced the Black Panthers in that moment of radical chic without understanding their experience." There is another analogy from the 1960s, when Conservative Writer William F. Buckley Jr. championed the cause of a literarily gifted convicted killer, Edgar Smith, and helped set him at liberty to attempt murder again. Years later, Buckley acknowledged in an article how easily conned and naive he had been. Mailer, whose writings attest...