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...publisher of this modest-looking paperback recently explained its meager promotion budget by telling the author, "The war just isn't selling any more." Maybe not in the bookstores, but it's still going strong in Southeast Asia...
...first, the $1.50 paperback looks like another inspirational spin-off of the Jesus Revolution. Bearing the title The Life Story of Jesus, its slick cover shows a pastel Jesus in red-polka-dot robes (a poster version is available for another $1.50). But who is the author, Levi Alphaeus? The introduction says he was a Galilean tax collector who "later adopted the name Matthew." He is better known as St. Matthew the Evangelist. A California entrepreneur named Joseph Rank simply took Matthew's Gospel (from the New American Standard Bible, Rank admits), tricked it up in poetic format...
Another fine shop is the Paperback Booksmith (37a Brattle St.). PB is open 24 hours a day and provides a haven on those dark nights of the soul when nothing but a book will still the pain. It has the best science fiction selection around, and a lot of good and hard-to-get books on other subjects. The staff is friendly and won't bug you if you spend four hours making up your mind not to buy anything...
Whenever a joke fad becomes entrenched, the small Los Angeles publishing house of Price/Stern/Sloan issues a slender paperback containing a sampling of the humor. Thus, in 1953, the firm published Droodles, a collection of simple line drawings with funny captions; in 1963 it put together The Elephant Book, offering the then-popular elephant jokes. Now, at least by Price/ Stern/Sloan standards, another kind of joke has made the grade. The company has just published The Good News, Bad News Book...
...parade of adults who drop by to share vicariously in the kid's illusory freedom. Business-as-usual or no-business-as-usual, you'd do well to catch the production before it's gone (and, at very least, should take a look at the Delta paperback edition). Michael Weller is among the first to make sense of our lives and he's definitely not to be missed...