That’s what I was thinking–Pity poor me, all the way to my bank:
Historical note: A friend with a memory remarks that ”today’s temporarily disgraced Ivy League child novelist” is tomorrow’s Hollywood successnik. Yale’s own Jacob Epstein, come on down! Epstein’s 1979 novel, ”Wild Oats,” bore remarkable similarities to Martin Amis’s ”The Rachel Papers.” The kerfuffle barely nicked him. Epstein became a writer for ”Hill Street Blues” and executive story editor for ”L.A. Law,” among other credits.
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