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Patently Offensive. The first to take a fall was aggressive, Brooklyn-born Ralph Ginzburg, 33, a onetime Esquire staffer with a sharp eye for a salable commodity that is spelled sex. In 1958 he published An Unhurried View of Erotica, a sort of bibliography of banned books, and sold 275,000 copies. Last year he began publishing Eros, a quarterly "devoted to the joy of love." At $10 a copy, Eros offers little more than what can be picked up by a determined voyeur with scissors and a library card-a reworking of Lysistrata, ribald pieces by De Maupassant...
...RALPH GINZBURG Editor Eros New York City
Eros is the by-blow of Ralph Ginzburg, 32, a Brooklyn-born freelance writer who first discovered the marketability of the sex label during a tour with Esquire Magazine. Ginzburg wrote an article on erotica that Esquire paid him for but decided not to print-partly on the ground of dullness. Fired later by the magazine, he expanded his article into a book, An Unhurried View of Erotica, which, he claims, sold 125,000 copies in hard cover and 150,000 in paperback. This response to what was little more than a bibliography of erotic books encouraged him to give...
...LIGHT FOR FOOLS, by Natalia Ginzburg. A brief, near-poetic story of ordinary lives mired in the despair of Mussolini's Italy. Conceived in sympathy and written at the level of simple truth, it is one of the best Italian novels in years...
...GINZBURG Berkeley, Calif...