In 1980, I published a comic novel called Floater that was set in an unnamed newsmagazine. I shouldn't have been surprised at how often I was asked about the extent to which my fictional magazine was really TIME, where I had worked for a few years in the early '60s. Instead of the conventional disclaimer, after all, Floater began with a claimer: "The character of Andy Wolferman is based on John Gregory Dunne, though it tends to flatter. The other characters are fictional."
In Floater, the magazine's Lifestyle section schedules stories on such trends as obscene topiary and the hot new...
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