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Train wrecks are marvelously entertaining in retrospect, with a guitar accompaniment. Mary Karr's God-awful childhood in a sulfurous East Texas oil town has the same sort of calamitous appeal. Her rowdy memoir The Liars' Club (Viking; 320 pages; $22.95) takes its title from the ring-tailed bosh passed around among oil workers at the American Legion bar, where her father, the champion liar, took her when she was a tadpole...
...Private Diary of an O.J. Juror by dismissed juror Michael Knox. But Viner, who was subpoenaed by Judge Lance Ito last week to answer accusations that the Knox book reveals too much about the Simpson jurors, insists he is performing a public service. The dismissed juror's memoir, which will be out at the end of the month, "could end up changing the jury system in terms of sequestration," Viner claims. Besides, he adds, look at all the books he has turned down. "We've been offered 25 O.J. projects. It's frightening. We've passed...
...efforts to profit from the Simpson case. Starting with the mass-market paperback O.J. Simpson: American Hero, American Tragedy (Pinnacle), which materialized about two weeks after the murders, a total of 12 books related to the case have landed in stores to date. Some half-dozen more-including a memoir by Johnnie Cochran's ex-wife, Barbara Cochran Berry (Basic Books), and works by regular trial watchers Dominick Dunne and Joe McGinniss (both published by Crown) and Jeffrey Toobin (Random House)-are still to come. How much more will the market bear? Says Thomas J. McCormack, chairman...
...solemnity of a Gulf War update. Then, hordes of reporters were panting for the full skinny; now she can't give it away. Her original tale commanded big money from a tabloid, and Penthouse paid well for Gennifer unclothed. But she waited a bit too long to hawk her memoir; mainstream publishers passed on her book proposal, and she was relegated to a small California publisher, Emery Dalton Books. And despite a 19-city promotional tour and wide distribution, the 100,000-copy first printing is headed for the $4.98 table. As of Friday, her book had not even broken...
...told journalist Theodore H. White, in previously unpublished comments released by theJohn F. KennedyLibrary today. "When this is over," she added, "I'm going to crawl into the deepest retirement there is." Excerpts of White's Nov. 29, 1963 interview have been published in Life magazine and his own memoir; the papers are known collectively as the "Camelot Documents" because the Life article marked the first time "Camelot" was linked to the Kennedy Administration in print...