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...presented with a paperback called The Press, by A.J. Liebling, and I am still depressed by books about newspapers. This latest entry into the field isn't even a book; it is merely a collection of Liebling's "Wayward Press" articles from the New Yorker. There is nothing particularly edifying about 284 pages of ancient New Yorker articles laid end to end, and Liebling's "book," by resuscitating old failures, contributes little toward a solution to the problems of the American press...
Angel Island Publications in Sausalito, California, has sophisticated ideas about literature which may or may not prove solvent. As well as publishing Contact Magazine, a quarterly collection of new writing, art, and ideas, Angel has brought out in paperback a collection of pieces from the Western Review, a photographic essay entitled I Am A Lover, and a study of a city called Chicago: City On The Make...
...Author Barzun's own wares in the sweetshop include paperback editions of five of his books. He is also a director (along with Fellow Intellectuals Lionel Trilling and W. H. Auden) of the Mid-Century Book Society, a kind of egghead's book-of-the-month club...
...appearance, plus hundreds of telephoned requests. Goldwater's mail runs to a remarkable 800 pieces a day. Goldwater's political credo, The Conscience of a Conservative-a warmed-over version of his old speeches-has sold 700,000 copies in little more than a year; the paperback edition is going into its twelfth printing. Goldwater's thrice-weekly column of comment (ghost-edited by Arizona's Republican State Chairman Stephen Shadegg) is syndicated in 104 papers...
...creep named "Deep" for short and "Old Deep the Cannon Boy" for long-is splattering a man. Hammer seldom bothered with anything so tame; he ka-powed naked blondes in the stomach with his blue-glinting .45. Such parlor pleasantries accounted for the sale of 32 million paperback copies of Spillane's seven previous titles. The new boy, a hardrock who shows up to take over his neighborhood gang after 25 years of mysterious absence, will never do as well. Deep down, Deep is mushy. He sticks to one crazy beautiful 6-ft.-tall dame, and all he does...