Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93

Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93. Editor of Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Jean Strouse, E.L. Doctorow, W.H. Auden and Jane Jacobs, Epstein’s literary and marketing instincts brought quality paperbacks to American readers and led to the creation of The New York Review of Books.