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...novelist may end up being as special to the scheme of things as poets, because the larger engines of society are moving toward immediate consumer satisfaction...
...tale sounded like a John le Carre thriller, and with good reason: the main character is believed to have been the model for the novelist's Karla, the fabled communist spy master. Markus Wolf, former chief of the foreign intelligence arm of Stasi, East Germany's dreaded secret police, emerged in Vienna last week, where he had been secretly living since Aug. 30. He applied for political asylum in Austria -- a request that was promptly denied. The wily spy chief, who is wanted in Germany on espionage charges, is currently free on appeal...
...years his junior, that rumors of the affair appeared in gossip columns. He discussed a divorce with Clare but backed away, Martin alleges, when she attempted suicide and demanded editorial control of Time Inc. as the price of freedom. On the rebound, Lady Jeanne ^ briefly and tempestuously married novelist Norman Mailer...
Some acknowledged spy masters have joined the funeral march. "The public won't accept that espionage is still happening," observes novelist Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal). "The KGB general as the all-purpose bad guy isn't going to work anymore...
...every writer is willing to mourn the passage of Boris and Natasha. The man who renewed the espionage genre back in 1963, when he brought his spy in from the cold, believes the glass is half full. "If the spy novelist of today can rise to the challenge," claims le Carre, "he has got it made. He can sweep away the cobwebs of a world grown old and cold and weary . . . and take on any number of new hunting grounds...