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$uperb anthology miXes lit
with aviary nfi , ond helps
launch a Z$-year-old's career.
|oyce Carol Oates,(an ad-
'giser torFoer at Pri-nceton);
Rick Moody,- Dale Peck,
Robert Coovei and
Barry:Lopez,,whose , ,
striking storv leads
off thE bo6k ana
should !s , lgrnsrb:. '1 ,,,
.bered come'awardd::i,'
time; '. ' .
" ArId the book will-surely serve as a
milestone in the
rapid . ,ascent ..' of .
Foer, who was fea-. .
tured this sufilmer
in Thd,New Yorker
fiction: issue as one,
ot.fqgr :hot yogng'wnters. '.
His agent, Nicole Aragi,
was then named the "It
Agent" by Entertainment
Weeklv, due in part to her l
work with Foei; arrd the'
wiiter's first novel : due
out next spring - was
bought by Houghton Mif-
flin in a l2.house auction
for a reported$450,000. ,
"That was not disao-
noitttitt!,"' -:
t-'- -;;it
drolly.
Amiable and smart.l Foei'
has the air of a seasbned
pro during our interview
in a diner on the UpperE"r, sid"li..osses off 'r-"r= ,.ooressioo , uc-l
-;t ar"t6T?:1" r""rllo.T:names of editors and counts for his quixotic ae- ,taf
"rf"u. -- -=1 "-:j.^.'"'
agents with aplor.nb. and site = to convincerfamous "gfr-otseems armosr q,tt..ry y^d-Ea ;;it.* ;;;-;tribute to an ccirr .,T\A ,,*I:j#""t"i"Yl :,hands. 1'I.. was.:r ieluctant.
' ., Eut he 3aid,,,Yeah, touch
ly MICIIAEL GILTZ struggle through.
_ "I've had a lot of jobs,"
'he.:, says.'"I'was a -math