The Washington Post, October 8th, 1998
Jason and Odysseus, call your agents. Publishers have rediscovered the mythic voyage. Sated in recent years with whiny victimization books and novels of academic navel gazing, publishers are setting sail for heroic tales of man -- and woman -- against the sea, even if they have to unearth century-old manuscripts to do so. Spurred by such varied moneymakers as Sebastian Junger's nonfiction bestseller "The Perfect Storm," the movie "Titanic" and the swashbuckling sea novels of Patrick O'Brian, publishers and agents are signing up watery long shots young and old. So extreme is the phenomenon that...
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