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James Joyce and Richard Condon, John O'Hara and James Michener, Philip Roth, Budd Schulberg, Saul Bellow, Robert Penn Warren. In 1960, when Cerf acquired the house of Knopf, the names of Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Hersey and John Updike joined the parade. Cerf's biggest book of the year is the 2,059-page Random House Dictionary of the English Language, which took a decade and $3,000,000 to put together. Amazingly, for a reference book, it has been on the bestseller list for six weeks, and the first printing...
Fear of kings has always been mingled with love and longing for them. Even Saul was elevated to kingship against the advice of the Prophet Samuel, who warned Israel that a king "will take your sons . . . and he will take your daughters . . . and ye shall cry out in that day because of your king." But the people insisted "Nay, but we will have a king over us; that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles." At this, the Lord gave in. "Hearken unto...
...Hara, 61, is that rarity in contemporary U.S. letters, a writer who has never run dry. Even more unusual, he continues a large annual output of short stories, a field in which diminishing returns set in rapidly. Like Saul Bellow, O'Hara has a playwright inside him clamoring to get out, and this is reflected in his stories, which are often told almost entirely in dialogue. As an old pro, O'Hara is a methodical worker, using the summer months for short stories and execrable golf, and the fall, winter and spring for novels, hence the title Waiting...
Under the Weather. Saul Bellow, novelist (Herzog) and would-be playwright, cannot seem to decide whether women are a pain in the neck, a pain in the groin, or a pain in the psyche. In these three one-acters, the relations between the sexes appear more punishing than pleasurable, something men and women endure rather than relish...
...does not always win such praise from O.K., as he signs his works. A far more personal statement is a recent oil, Saul and David, full of the swirl of clashing colors and impetuous brushstroke. Explains the painter: "I painted David next to the angry old man. The old man is biting his teeth because it's over." Then slapping his knee with vigor, Kokoschka adds, "He is furious at being...