Seidenbaum, Art

1 item: 112-pp. transcript of interview with Art Seidenbaum, LAT Book Review Editor (later in Op-Ed). Notable names & subjects include: LAT "Book Review is not subject to the (incestuous) reviewer-author pressure of New York" (pp. 1) ; description of how the BR section operates, who writes reviews and how they are assigned (pp. 2 - 9) ; a Henry Kissinger book (pp. 10 - 12) ; Digby Diehl (pp. 24 - 27) ; Robert Kirsch (pp. 31 - 34) ; childhood, youth and Northwestern Univ. (pp. 45 - 47) ; describes himself as "already an apostate Jew by high school" ; S. describes a career in journalism as the life of "a perpetual graduate student" (pp. 52) ; refers to a "let live ethic" in CA when he arrived in 1959 (pp. 64) ; his relationships to some of the top-tier editors over the years ; more.