A TWO-PART SUPPLEMENT
BEGINNING IN THE
OCTOBER
Harp~a~:!
The
Writer's
Lile
Thousands of Americans-young
and old-aspire to become writers.
Few of them will write deathless
works, yet a surprising number will,
in the end, earn their livelihood
through their skill with words. Why?
What is the mysterious thing called
"writing talent"? What other quali–
ties must a man or woman have to
make the grade in the tough, com–
plicated, and sometimes devious lit–
erary world? Does a writer measure
"success" by the size of his bank ac–
count or are there hidden rewards?
Where is his place on the status
totem pole? These-and a dozen
other questions-are discussed can–
didly, sharply, and wittily by some
of the foremost inhabitants of the
writer's world: Norman Podhoretz,
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bruce Jay
Friedman, Alan Pryce-Jones, Alan
Levy, John le Carre, Gore Vidal,
Louis Simpson, Stanley Kauffmann,
David Dempsey, John Weightman
and others.
Also in .
the
October issue:
Tom
Wicker on
Johnson and Moyers ,
Maya Pines on
The Coming
Upheaval in Psychiatry,
Murray
Morgan on
The Most Powerful Gov–
ernor in the USA,
Bud Davis on
Football's Galloping Disaster,
a look
at the new campus movies, plus a full
complement of reviews and features.
NOTES
SUSAN SONTAG's new book of
essa ys, Ag a i nst Interpretation,
which will be published by Farrar,
Straus
&
Giroux in January, con–
tains a longer version of
"On
Style." ... "White Days and
Red
Nights" is from a book of memoirs
by FRANK CONROY. Viking will
bring it out next spring. • .•
ROGER GARIS teaches English at
Wellesley. His Dickens Theater was
published by Oxford. . .. G.
R.
SWENSON is a free-lance art critic
living in New York.... Oxford has
just put out LEO BERSANl's new
book, Marcel Proust: The Fictio..
of life and of Art.... HAROLD
BLOOM's essay on Frankenstein
will appear as the Afterword to the
New American Library-Signet Clas–
SIC
editi'On of Mary Shelley's
novel. . . . NORM FRUCHTER'.
first novel was Coat Upon a
Stick.
Mr. Fruchter is an editor ,Of
Studi.
on the Left. • . . Our sincerest
apologies to Gerard Malanga. Not
only did we spell his name wrong
on the c'Over, but we inadvertently
rewrote both Mr. Malanga and
Ezra Pound by changing the title of
Mr. Malanga's poem, which should
have been "I AM HERE WAITING
THE SUNRISE."
