Saul Bellow, celebrated American man of letters who died in 2005, had within him a hard conservative streak that only ripened with age. The apple, then, did not fall far from the tree: Adam Bellow, the son of the novelist who while an editor at HarperCollins assisted with books by the likes of Sarah Palin Read More
"You’re lucky I don’t have a chalkboard," said Steve Ross, receiving nervous laughter from the well-dressed crowd of authors and editors at a celebration Wednesday evening of the first full list published by the Collins Publishing Group, the recently reorganized division of HarperCollins of which Mr. Ross is the president and publisher.
Mr. Ross, who Read More
Adam Bellow, the conservative editor and author known for publishing books like The Bell Curve, David Brock’s The Real Anita Hill, and Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education, has left Doubleday for a senior position at Collins, the once quite invisible reference imprint of HarperCollins that has, in recent months, been taking aggressive steps towards recasting itself Read More
In two weeks, Doubleday will ship copies of The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine, a book about Republican corruption and the Jack Abramoff scandal. Doubleday editor-at-large Adam Bellow came up with the idea shortly after the Presidential election in 2004. After selling his boss—William Thomas, the editor in chief Read More
In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History , by Adam Bellow. Doubleday, 565 pages, $30.
There’s no inheriting a writing gene. When parent and child both write brilliantly it’s a fluke, or else we’d be overrun by Martin Amis types. (Maybe there is a master plan, after all.) Instead of literary dynasties, we get a Read More
