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...editor of The American Scholar and Atheneum Publishers, Author Haydn, 54, has earned a reputation for scrupulous taste and sympathetic insight. But as an author, he commits gaucheries and piles up prolixities that as an editor he should have blenched at. Perhaps it is because the book is almost embarrassingly autobiographical. And at the end, the reader learns that the book is merely the first part of an unfinished trilogy...
...evidence that he had a number of connoisseurs drooling as sympathetically over the slice-of-cake school of art as literary critics once took to the slice-of-life. Among those who snapped up Thiebaud's canvases: Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum. Collector James Thrall Soby, Architect Philip Johnson...
...Harvard University Press has granted Atheneum publishers of New York first option on the paperback reprint rights for all its new titles. Under the arrangement, a rarity in the publishing industry, the University Press expects to achieve greater continuity in its reprints...
...first four HU Press titles to be printed by Atheneum will come out in September. About 15 more are scheduled to appear during...
...CONSCIENCE OF LOVE, by Marcel Ayme (253 pp.; Atheneum; $4.50). At one time or another, veteran Author Marcel Ayme, 60, has been sweepingly accused of being pro-and anti-1) fascist, 2) Semitic, 3) Christian, and 4) Communist. Shy and almost inarticulate in person, Author Ayme on paper fires volubly in all directions and at all available targets. In this new novel, his first in twelve years, he is at his pyrotechnical best as he blasts away at contemporary love, sex, crime, big business and middle-class morality. His hero is a 20th century descendant of Candide, a young Parisian...