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...audience apparently agrees. The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley, first published in 1954, has sold 80,000 copies in hard cover and paperback. Times Three, the 1961 anthology embracing her life's work, has sold 60,000 in hard cover alone. From its pages gleams a talent that soars felicitously the full length of the human scheme, from man's perversity...
...could reply again, expressing incredulity that an existentialist can in the name of an idealist for Communism as it presently exists, but perhaps it is better to leave Sartre and Walter with the last word. If you have ninety-five cents, Walter, start with the Odajnyk paperback and work your way through the . If you don't, let an old washy liberal friend lend...
...would have to work hard, very hard, to keep up with the competition. For just about anything is printable in the U.S. today. All the famed and once hard-to-get old volumes are on the paperback racks, from the Kama Sutra to the Marquis de Sade's Justine. Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, once the last word in unprintable scatology, can often be picked up in remainder bins for 25?. Miller has almost acquired a kind of dignity as the Grand Old Dirty Man of the trade, compared with some of the more current writers. Krafft...
...avowed professional pornographers face a related dilemma. The fact is that all kinds of respectable hardcover books now contain subject matter and language that would have brought police raids only a few years ago "is really killing us," says a West Coast practitioner. Far from giving up, the cheap paperback pornographers are diversifying by expanding their old preoccupation with lesbianism and sadomasochism, while searching for ever more bizarre combinations and settings. Still, it is tough trying to stay ahead of the avantgarde...
...American Library, not Pocket Books, that paid $500,000 for the paperback reprint rights to Kathleen Winsor's new novel, Wanderers Eastward, Wanderers West [March 12]. N.A.L. also published Miss Winsor's Forever Amber, Star Money, The Lovers and America with Love in paperback...