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...PRELUDE: LANDSCAPES, CHARACTERS AND CONVERSATIONS FROM THE EARLIER YEARS OF MY LIFE by Edmund Wilson. 278 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
GALAHAD and I THOUGHT OF DAISY by Edmund Wilson. 316 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
EUSTACE CHISHOLM AND THE WORKS by James Purdy. 241 pages. Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
Died. Geraldine Farrar, 85, soprano at the Met during opera's golden age, who won her early triumphs in Europe before going home in 1906 to debut at the Met, where she reigned for 16 years of tumultuous adulation through 493 performances in 30 roles, blending her vibrant voice with Caruso's celebrated tenor, before suddenly retiring in 1922 at the peak of her career; of a heart attack; in Ridgefield, Conn...
Nobody yet knows how mergers of this kind will affect trade-book publishing, though many bookmen are pessimistic. Roger Straus, president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, envisions huge factories that will turn out books like sausages. Big publishers "are through as serious influences in literature," he says. William Jovanovitch of Harcourt, Brace disagrees. He believes, with many other experts, that television, for instance, "has increased the use of books by contributing to an ambiance of information, art and instruction. Greater assimilation of information means greater literacy, and greater literacy means greater use of the language. And that's good...