Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper.Įpstein reportedly got the idea for Anchor while working as one of the very lowest men on the totem pole at Doubleday, where one of his duties was to go through the slush pile, perusing one unsolicited manuscript after another. Auden, Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy, Philip Rahv, Adrienne Rich, Susan Sontag, Gore Vidal, Robert Penn Warren, and many, many others. Epstein thought big and fought to bring the best literature to readers everywhere in affordable media, even sending out free copies of the NYRB to campuses so that cash-strapped kids could feed their minds with the words and ideas of such luminaries as Robert Lowell, W.H. There have been detailed accounts of Epstein’s launch of the Anchor paperback series in 1953 while at Doubleday, and his role in the founding of the Library of America and the New York Review of Books.
Many of the obituaries following the passing of legendary editor Jason Epstein last Friday have gone to great lengths to illuminate the highs and lows of a career spent in service to books and to literary culture.
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