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...only one whoidentifies with Golden's strong characters. TheBoston Public Library's auditorium was filled toits capacity, and the crowd of roughly 400overflowed into the aisles. The crowd, like themajority of Golden's characters, was predominantlyfemale, spotted here and there with a reluctanthusband, an enlightened male or an entire bookclub. Instead of filling the hour by readingexcerpts from his book ("We're all literatebecause our parents read to us every night," hequipped, "read us to sleep!"), Golden chose totell about the ten-year odyssey that lead to thepublication of Memoirs of a Geisha...
...accomplished a lucrative but ambivalent sort of revenge upon the military. His first novel, which has earned $1.4 million in paperback, movie, bookclub and other sales, is the nastiest assault on West Point since Benedict Arnold tried to hand over its plans to the British. Dress Gray turns upon a conceit exquisitely designed to offend the rectilinear machismo of the Military Academy. It seems that there are inverts at the Point, Truscott writes. One, a model cadet named David Hand, turns up drowned, his body naked in Lake Popolopen and showing signs, in an autopsy, of recent homosexual activity...
Champagne & Pygmies. "American book clubs pay quite astounding sums, don't they?" Lewis asked a visitor recently. Self Condemned, like all Wyndham Lewis' books, shows just why Lewis is self-condemned never to revel in bookclub riches. It demands steady concentration and hard thinking, strikes through to the heart only by way of the head. The book is what its hero Rene Harding calls "a taper in a tornado." Author Lewis is likely to be lighting such tapers for some time to come. To be released this month are the radio adaptations of two new novels commissioned from...
Matter of Merchandise. Says one bookclub editor who makes no bones about the nature of his business: "We're not missionaries, we're merchandisers." So good are the clubs at merchandising that each successful one has developed its own brand and customers, seldom seriously overlaps any other. By far the best merchandise over the years has come from...
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