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...novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, spent 56 weeks on the hard-cover best-seller list, and currently leads the paperback list. He pioneered a kind of journalism that was remarkable for its vivid verisimilitude and its unflinching dissection of characters. In a conversation with New York bureau chief Bonnie Angelo, Wolfe predicts that the nation will seek a new moderation in its ways...
Carlson found her way to Washington under the inspiration of consumer advocate Ralph Nader. She wrote a book called How to Get Your Car Repaired Without Getting Gypped. The best-selling paperback financed law school and eventually led Carlson to reporting and editing stints at the Washington Weekly, Esquire magazine and the New Republic. Joining TIME last year, Carlson started right off writing about the 1988 campaign, including stories on the presidential conventions. She had, she recalls, no trouble trading law for the fourth estate. "A lawyer works on cases that won't be settled for years," says Carlson. "TIME...
...School, Kramer brings an impressive amount of journalistic yardage to TIME. He spent more than a decade as an editor and political writer for New York magazine, and his weekly column on national affairs was often quoted by other journals. He did a short stint as publisher of the paperback house Berkley Books. In the mid-1970s, Kramer was editor and publisher of More, a lively journalism review. Most recently he served as chief political correspondent for U.S. News & World Report...
Looking for some more friendliness, if notnecessarily a job opening, I stopped by a usedbook store; despite the cold, there were rows uponrows set up for outdoor browsing--people breathingsteam on paperback bargains. Inside, in thewarmth, I was told they didn't need anyone. "Theturnover's slow in this business. If it's reallywhat you want to work in, just keep trying andeventually you'll hit the right spot of the righttime. Sorry I can't help you out..." He obviouslyloved what he was doing; as I left, he and hiscustomer turned back to an animated discussionabout the value...
...Massachusetts miracle means it's been difficult recently to get people to fill this kind of a job," says Ric Finnegan '65-'76, manager of Paperback Booksmith on Brattle St., which has recently had trouble finding part-time sales help...