WHAT'S BECOME OF WARING (236 pp.) —Anthony Powell—Little, Brown ($4).
Few young authors would let a character say without irony or bitterness: "Only in the publishing business is authorship considered important." What Author Anthony Powell thinks of the publishing business is apparently symbolized by the enigmatic figure of T. T. Waring, one of those writers whose major talent is for adroit personal publicity, and who is the big purse winner in the spavined stable of literary hacks owned by the dim publishing house of Judkins & Judkins.
Waring is the pseudonymous author of unusually bogus...