Word: book-of-the-month
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...existence of unwashed queerness. When the police finally break into the house, the stench is pretty bad. Novels like this one, which draw on the pap of fact and melodrama, are reasonably sure of an audience. My Brother's Keeper has been tapped by the Book-of-the-Month Club, clear proof that the Collyer brothers did not die their strange deaths in vain...
...Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection for August, is an album of Teddy and family from the turn of the century through World War I. Author Hermann Hagedorn, a former Harvard English instructor who has written or edited six previous books on T.R. (The Boys' Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Roosevelt in the Bad Lands), knew and loved the family well. His camera is sometimes less than candid, but even when freckles and awkward angles are airbrushed out, his snapshots are warm, intimate closeups that usually show what the outsider wants...
Gouzenko's fiction is not, could not be, as explosive as his facts. The Fall of a Titan, a midsummer choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, is no literary blockbuster, but it does score a direct hit on modern Soviet man and the system that has shaped him. It reveals, despite occasional amateurish moments, that Gouzenko has a professional flair; he travels this long literary distance at an unflagging and often exciting pace...
Tire Fall of a Titan has already transformed ex-Comrade Gouzenko into a capitalist: in addition to the juicy income assured by the Book-of-the-Month arrangement, Gouzenko a fortnight ago got the nice bourgeois sum of $100,000 for screen rights to the book...
...about his business, the American male tends to underestimate the power of his women. He forgets that they helped give him Prohibition and the sunken living room, that they choose his ties and the pictures on his wall, that they make him buy orchid corsages and join the Book-of-the-Month Club. Whenever this male forgetfulness about the real balance of power threatens to become habitual, the women tacitly band together to reassert their authority. They have just done so again by taking a pudgy, wavy-haired pianist from Milwaukee to their hearts and turning him into a sensational...