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...hardback copies and put up $100,000 as an initial advertising budget. The Literary Guild made the book its main selection for June, relegating Erich Segal's Oliver's Story, a dead-certain moneymaker, to second place. Avon Books shelled out $1.9 million for paperback reprint rights, topping the record $1.85 million that Bantam Books paid for E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime two years...
...compelling. The uninitiated might prefer a smoother introduction to the Tyler style, starting with Celestial Navigation (1974), the prismatic story of an artist with agoraphobia, or Searching for Caleb (1975), a Baltimore family's hunt for a long-missing relative. Most of her books will be available in paperback editions this year. For the impatient, her short stories irregularly appear in magazines (The New Yorker, Redbook, McCall's). Like such writers as John Cheever and Edna O'Brien, Tyler is fortunately unable to sit still between novels...
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Aside from proving people will do anything for money and that hip capitalism is alive and kicking, the fact that Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard actually were the ones who slapped this fast-selling paperback together (in about 15 minutes it seems) indicates just how pervasive cultism in American politics has become...
Robinson now brings that same independence of mind to his closely reasoned work on chronology, Redating the New Testament (Westminster; $15), and a forthcoming popular paperback, Can We Trust the New Testament? (Eerdmans; $1.95). What drew him into the dating game was the Gospel of John. In the 19th century newly liberated German Bible critics placed the fourth Gospel in the mid-2nd century because of its well-developed theology, but subsequent archaeological finds (e.g., the Dead Sea Scrolls and an early fragment of the Gospel) forced the date back to A.D. 90-100. Robinson, however, felt even that...