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...GREAT MODERN SHORT NOVELS (448 pp.)-James Joyce, Herman Melville, Katherine Anne Porter, Nikolai Gogol, Glenway Wescott, William Faulkner-Dell (paperback...
Sales of the novels in paperback editions now total 3,500,000 copies. Since 1946, when The Foxes of Harrow first jumped to the top of the bestseller lists, Yerby's books have earned him an estimated $1,000,000 (exclusive of movie and magazine rights). The really intriguing item in this success story is that Yerby is a Negro - a Negro whose stuff is just as terrible (and entertaining) as any white author...
...afternoon were on, and studying began to seem inevitable. The roommates were all riffling through huge dusty books, and even the telephone looked preoccupied. As I glumly eyed my collection of paperback summaries and other people's notes on political theory, the one roommate for whom I have hope leaped to his feet. He announced to the scandalized grinds that he was off to photograph Debbie Reynolds, movie star and all that. Entranced, I slipped into an Oxford button-down, seized my sketchbook, and raced off to the Hasty Pudding, where they had the red carpet rolled...
...central book, The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character*, was published four years ago and has already a kind of classic status. Not that it is "accepted"; it draws academic argument and even sneers. But it has become a part of the social-science landscape. A paperback abridged edition issued a year ago has sold 40,000 copies, an enormous sale for a work of this sort, which contains no soothing soul-poultice, no sensationalism, and makes no effort to write down to a lay public. Individualism Reconsidered, a brilliant collection of essays published this year, elaborates...
Nehru Is the Culprit. The U.S. is active, too. Mickey Spillane's paperback epics can be bought in most bookstores. Copies of Living America, a USIS house organ with "beautiful illustrations ... of Americans participating in the good things of democratic life . . ." can be found in magazine racks of Indian aircraft and in university reading rooms, where one Indian in 20,000 can see them and be impressed. Redding's verdict: the Communists are winning the propaganda battle...