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...always felt that the export of our vulgarity is the hallmark of our greatness," says Styron, who lived for many years in Paris and whose books always sell well in France. "I don't necessarily mean to be derogatory. The Europeans have always been fascinated by wanting to know what's going on with this big, ogreish subcontinent across the Atlantic, this potentially dangerous, constantly mysterious country called the U.S. of A." American popular culture fills a vacuum, vulgar or not. "French television is a wasteland; ours is a madhouse. But at least it's vital," says Styron. "Dallas...
...emphasize high-profile journalistic books. "I'll get a chance to repeat the kind of thing I did at the Sunday Times," he says. But within hours of being appointed, he was on the phone with some of Random House's top fiction authors -- among them E.L. Doctorow, William Styron and Norman Mailer -- to reassure them of his "passionate interest" in their work. He was calling other authors as well, in an effort to woo them to Random House. "He has a huge amount of personal prestige in the publishing and writing community," says literary agent Mort Janklow. "He will...
...witness in the 1983 trial of Writer Richard Stratton and the 1984 trial of Literary Agent Bernard ("Buzz") Farbar, but denies having been an accomplice. "I made no Fifth Amendment claim then, and I didn't need to," he says. Mailer spoke up after nine prominent writers, including William Styron and Nora Ephron, published a letter in the New York Review of Books charging that Farbar was denied early parole because of his refusal to finger Mailer...
Because funds have not yet been found to pay for the shelter, Styron said "We really need the backing" of the state human services office in order to secure permanent state funding for the shelter...
...first step in about five or six years [toward caring for the homeless] outside of the churches," Styron said...