James Atlas
James Atlas
James Atlas, Evanston, Illinois the president of Atlas & Company, publishers, and founding editor of the Penguin Lives Series. A Harvard graduate, Rhodes Scholar, and onetime contributor to The New Yorker, he was an editor at The New York Times Magazine for many years. He has edited volumes of poetry and has written several novels and two biographies. In 2002, he started Atlas Books, which at one time published two series in conjunction with larger publishers. In 2007, the company...
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I had no reports which described him as a stud,
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If I had to put my money on it, ... I'd say he's not going to read it. He might leaf through it. He's not going to sit down and read it.
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To read Wilson... is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.
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To read Wilson.. is to be instructed and amused in the highest sense - that is, to be educated.
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A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation.