Word: bookclub
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
| 1 |