![]() ![]() "What're you looking at, kid?" the burly man said as the bus passed 39th Street. The man had lost the heel on his heavy shoe, exposing a semicircle of nail points. On a bus through the arctic New York streets (he imagined the cold to be arctic later, when he went to the Arctic and found imagination correct, he was secretly disappointed) he found himself next to a burly man wearing a cap. In Doctorow, it's hard to tell what is history and what is imagination.īy the third grade Edgar Doctorow wanted to be a writer. Before that, in "The Book of Daniel," he constructed whole new lives for the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the couple executed as Communist spies. Morgan and reinvented them, brought them back to life for his own purposes. In "Ragtime," Doctorow took historical personages such as architect Stanford White and his lover, chorus girl Evelyn Nesbit and New York City Police Commissioner Rheinlander Waldo and banker J.P. I don't remember the name of this town, it was like a tree with just a branch or two left alive. Sentences without commas, fragments repeated for effect. That's from "Loon Lake," his current paperback best-seller hailed as innovative ("Would be regarded as 'experimental' if it weren't by the author of 'Ragtime' " - The Washington Post). Loon Lake a high mountain retreat cratered as purely cold and clear in the mountains as water cupped in your hands. He's about six feet tall with a trim gray beard, 51 years old, lives in New Rochelle and Sag Harbor and sometimes writes in a cabin in the Berkshires, alone, because it's easier for him to write "if there's absolutely nothing else to do." DOCTOROW comes down to breakfast at the Tabard Inn like the answer to his own question, the question every novelist asks: What would the world be like if I made it up, just made it up as I went along, history and likelihood and all, beautiful women, billionaires, forests and Mercedes Benzes. ![]()
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