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His name wasn't well-known to the general public, but he was a very, very prominent person in the field. What I remember is a great article he wrote about Chinese food that a Chinatown restaurant had taped up in their window.
Jason Epstein, publishing executive who shaped literary tastes, dies at 93
Jason Epstein, an editor and publisher who shaped literary tastes for decades by launching the “paperback revolution” in the 1950s, editing acclaimed authors at Random House and helping to found the New York Review of Books and later the Library of America series, died Feb. 4 at his home in Sag Harbor, N.Y. He was 93. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obitu...-epstein-dies/
I hope not, since it's a fairly common name, and we already have Brian (Beatles manager), Jacob (sculptor) and the brothers who wrote Casablanca.
Maybe after our lifetime it will no longer be associated with that infamous man, but unfortunately most people associate that last name with the wrong one, and probably will for a while.
What an absolutely perfect obituary! He had my exact objective (to only make enough money so he could spend the rest of his life reading books!... though I value traveling too, but not many other things tbh :-), and he realized it flawlessly (dying at 93 surrounded by his books). He was both a product of, and a major contributor to, the time when NYC was the world center of information - namely, of publishing and journalism, and I think that, more than anything else, made it unique and gave it the status of the prime world city. I was fortunate to catch the tail end of that era in NYC in the 1980s/90s. With the switch to transmission of information to electronic media, that had changed, and now you can access more information from any kind of boondocks than you could even in NYC of that time. It seems he was enthusiastic about new electronic libraries, but to me they will never replace words on paper. If I die at 93 surrounded by my books (which would be in 2053), the young crew from the city morgue will probably look in perplexity at all my books, and wonder "hey, what ARE all these things on all these shelves??).
What an absolutely perfect obituary! He had my exact objective (to only make enough money so he could spend the rest of his life reading books!... though I value traveling too, but not many other things tbh :-), and he realized it flawlessly (dying at 93 surrounded by his books). He was both a product of, and a major contributor to, the time when NYC was the world center of information - namely, of publishing and journalism, and I think that, more than anything else, made it unique and gave it the status of the prime world city. I was fortunate to catch the tail end of that era in NYC in the 1980s/90s. With the switch to transmission of information to electronic media, that had changed, and now you can access more information from any kind of boondocks than you could even in NYC of that time. It seems he was enthusiastic about new electronic libraries, but to me they will never replace words on paper. If I die at 93 surrounded by my books (which would be in 2053), the young crew from the city morgue will probably look in perplexity at all my books, and wonder "hey, what ARE all these things on all these shelves??).
True. Words on paper have a more calming effect. Nothing like curling up with a good book before bed.
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