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...FIRST NEW DEAL by Raymond Moley. 577 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
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...
...WATERFALLS OF SLUNJ by Heimito von Doderer. 375 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
...ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE by Kingsley Amis. 307 pages. Harcourt, Brace...
...POWDER MAN by Joan Williams. 312 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...