Waylon Jennings
October, 1973
"I always wanted to be the Great American Novelist," muses John Leonard. "After three novels, it was clear I wasn't going to make it." Instead, as editor of The New York Times Book Review, Leonard is probably the most powerful man in American book publishing--not a bad consolation prize. And a lucky break for literary buffs. Controversial, argumentative, often feisty, Leonard's new Review has shaken the mildew out of literary criticism. "I want it to be more than a shopp...