Word: book-of-the-month
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This "nice symmetry" is even nicer calculation. For the historical fervor fostered by the Bicentennial promises to turn 1876 into a quasi-official happening. Prepublication signs have been uniformly bullish. Random House and Ballantine Books jointly paid Vidal an advance approaching $1 million for hardback and paperback rights. The Book-of-the-Month Club, which has made 1876 its main selection for March, shelled out more than twice its normal fee of $85,000. A first printing of 75,000 copies has virtually disappeared under a flood of orders, and a second printing...
Indeed, for more than four years, some feminists have been waiting for The Book: Journalist Brownmiller's forthcoming study of rape. ("It's one of the two books I lay awake nights lusting after," said a woman editor in the Village Voice.) A week before publication, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape (Simon & Schuster; $10.95) is already a major event; it is the Book-of-the-Month Club selection for November, is being serialized in four national magazines and will be promoted on a nationwide tour. All this is likely to make Brownmiller the first rape celebrity...
...Doctorow is about to realize his original survival plan. Ragtime is a Book-of-the-Month Club selection with a first printing of 60,000 copies. Director Robert Altman (Nashville) will film the book next year. To date, Doctorow is best known as the author of The Book of Daniel, an extraordinary succès d'estime that narrowly missed the National Book Award for 1971. Despite parallels to the Rosenberg atom-spy case, the novel has an anguished life all its own. Many of its scenes were set in the Bronx neighborhood where Doctorow grew up. Part...
Although the English translation will not appear in the U.S. until May, Harper & Row has advance orders totaling nearly 1 million copies; Gulag has been chosen as the Book-of-the-Month Club selection for June. Solzhenitsyn has asked that the book be priced as cheaply as possible so that a maximum number of people may read it. As a result, Harper & Row will issue simultaneously a paperback at $1.95 and a limited edition of hardback copies of the 606-page illustrated book at $12.50. The author's royalties and some of the publisher's revenue are being...
...About ten years ago," says Author-Critic Clifton Fadiman, 69, "I began to get less interested in grownups and more interested in children." A lifelong addict-pusher of good reading for adults (Book-of-the-Month Club judge, author of The Lifetime Reading Plan), Fadiman has now set out to hook the grade-school crowd. From his hilltop home in Santa Barbara, where he is also preparing a critical history of children's literature, Fadiman is editing a brisk new magazine called Cricket...