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Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...some publishing executives are skeptical about how Schwarzkopf will sell. "I would be very nervous if I were they," says Roger Straus, president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. "If the book isn't published until 1993, will the general's name still mean anything to people?" Farrar, Straus is playing it safer by bringing out a quickie biography, In the Eye of the Storm: The Life of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, co-written by Claudio Gatti and New York Times reporter Roger Cohen, due in August...
Imperials are not the only ones to offer beguiling short stories this season. The long-neglected art of yarn spinning is robust again, in three fine collections. Joan Chase's Bonneville Blue (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 226 pages; $16.95) contains 11 poignant tales. In one of the finest, Elderberries and Souls, the adolescent narrator recalls a passionate crush on her stepuncle: "I was smelling his cotton shirt, smoke and starch, and his soul, as if that, too, were a thing to be smelled." But a sudden glimpse of his unstable temper makes her realize how inexperienced she is in the ways...
...Your brain can get out of hand," says one character in Typical (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 207 pages; $19). Another figures that "character is nothing but warts." Judging from these 23 fictions, both statements are correct. Padgett Powell's two previous books, both novels (Edisto, A Woman Named Drown), exhibited a unique gift for regional American comedy. This sparkling collection reduces his scope without limiting his style. Dr. Ordinary is anything but: "He found God with no difficulty, but locating his belief another matter." Miss Resignation "liked football and was absolutely certain that she could have been an excellent off-tackle...
...this is the most biting budget since 1982. That time we were really hit hard," says Giroux. "Everyone's predicting dire consequences next year...