Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation, issued its 1981 annual report two weeks ago, the document contained a surprising dividend. Preceding the usual page after page of income and balance-sheet statistics was a sprawling, sunnily optimistic tour d'horizon of America itself, and the author was none other than Magazine Journalist and Novelist E.J. Kahn Jr., 65, a highly regarded staff writer at The New Yorker since 1937. The project, for which Kahn was commissioned by Manufacturers Hanover Chairman John F. McGillicuddy, and paid $10,000 plus expenses by the bank, is certain to elicit considerable skepticism in some quarters. But Kahn...
...dominant domestic force in traditional banking services as well as leasing, mortgage banking, factoring and consumer finance. Whether Kahn's contribution amounts to public relations puffery or not, many businessmen will doubtless be charmed by an "other America" that smiles through economic adversity. But apparently it took a novelist like Kahn to ferret out the facts...
About 40 writers contributed to the project, including such notables as Commentator Jeff Greenfield of CBS, Novelist Cyra McFadden and Business Reporters Andrew Tobias and Chris Welles. Every story was read by a lawyer, but the editors are seeking $1 million worth of libel insurance. Thus far, there has been no protest from the chief target of the gibes, the Journal itself, perhaps because the paper is inured to annual imitation by The Bawl Street Journal, produced by the financial community's Bond Club of New York. Much fun is had with the bucket-thumping editorial-page style...
...Toddy in the film, homosexuals are ceasing to be an inconvenience to moviemakers. Already out and doing quite well in the theaters is Making Love, in which a terribly nice fellow (Michael Ontkean) leaves his terribly nice wife (Kate Jackson) to take up with a not-quite-so-nice novelist (Harry Hamlin) before he finds a more stable male mate. Also doing well is Personal Best, which purposely makes no big deal about the fact that its two leading figures (played by Mariel Hemingway and Patrice Donnelly) indulge in a lesbian affair while pursuing their careers as Olympic-level track...
...Mama), with a $3.25 mass-market paper edition (Baby) that soon followed. The decent (and once profitable) interval between hard-and soft-cover editions may be a thing of the past. Traditionalists like Random House 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...