Wouk’s American Epos

comprises only ten percent of their newntitles. A smaller number of fiction writersnmake larger amounts of money thannever before, however, so the situationnbedazzles even as it contracts the numbersnof those who furnish the nationalnchambers of imagination. The freedomsnof fictions have been dissected into categories:ngothic, mystery, spy, historical,nscience-fiction . . .