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SOMEWHERE ELSE by ROBERT KOTLOWITZ 373 pages. Charterhouse...
...family," Robert Kotlowitz writes at the beginning of this first novel, "we tell stories about each other all the time, and what we're not told, I try to pick up by eavesdropping. I like the real stuff, inside information, the sight and bristling sound of other people's dramas, especially when the plots are taken from family life and its fractioned heart, the snarled bloodnest of fathers, sons, and everyone else; there lies the source of every clue about ourselves." Kotlowitz has been the managing editor of Harpers magazine, and is currently a director of New York...
...Kotlowitz means to recover the moments of profound transition, when the Jewish life of Eastern Europe began to be borne forward into the 20th century. Other writers-most notably Isaac Bashevis Singer-have handled this familiar theme with more versatility, more dramatic elan. Not all of the novel is totally alive, but Kotlowitz writes extraordinarily well at times. His act of conjuration is clear-eyed, without a trace of sentimentality...
...editors, who had hoped to get from Cowles a pledge to keep Harper's as it is and to play a major role in the choice of a new editor (their choice: Managing Editor Robert Kotlowitz), were frustrated on both counts. Along with Kotlowitz and Halberstam, Contributing Editors Marshall Frady, John Corry, Larry King and John Hollander resigned. They left behind two major questions: Who would the new editor be and what mandate would he have...
...topic. Joining Morris on the staff will be two new contributing editors: David Halberstam, 33, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, and Larry King, 38, a freelancer who has written extensively for Harper's. Managing Editor Russell Lynes is being replaced by Senior Editor Robert Kotlowitz, 42. Like Fischer, Lynes will continue to write a column. "These additions," said Fischer, "will give Harper's the best-balanced-and youngest-editorial staff in its 117 years...