Word: houghtons
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Julie Salamon, film critic of the Wall Street Journal, got to watch the accident in slo-mo close-up. In The Devil's Candy: The Bonfire of the Vanities Goes to Hollywood (Houghton Mifflin; $24.95), she tracks all the bollixed decisions that made the bosses at Warner Bros. wonder why they green-lighted Bonfire and vetoed Home Alone, and director Brian De Palma feel like an Iraqi army general. "He couldn't imagine," Salamon writes, "what it would be like to go through all this for a bad movie...
...every case of interethnic conflict one can cite a case of cooperation. Unlike school boards in San Francisco and Berkeley, the Oakland school board rejected Houghton Mifflin textbooks that it considered racist and sexist. Though the local press and the New York Times presented the textbook opponents as raving, politically correct Afrocentrics, one of the most eloquent speeches opposing the textbook adoption was made by a Chinese American...
...gift marks the 50th anniversary of Houghton Library, which houses the nation's oldest collection of original papers by American authors, and continues a longstanding relationship between the Boston publishing firm and the library...
Officials at the Houghton Mifflin Company announced yesterday that it is donating $2.5 million worth of original manuscripts, correspondence and business records to Houghton Library...
Blue Highways was a delight, and so, in a darker and deeper way, is PrairyErth (Houghton Mifflin; 624 pages; $24.95). In kind and quality, it somewhat resembles Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams, and it will not look out of place on the same shelf of great Americana as its betters, Mark Twain's Roughing It and Life on the Mississippi. The author's visceral decision to explore one American locality was an intuitive leap from the restlessness of Blue Highways. And it was a leap toward the nation's center. He had seen Chase County's Flint Hills...