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...Kerrigan Courage: Nancy's Story, anew paperback by Randi Reisfeld about the life ofthe skater, has been "selling well since it camein," according to Amanda Clarke, an employee atthe Harvard Book Store...
Meanwhile, Call It Sleep lived on chiefly in the memories of a few readers -- its publisher had gone bankrupt shortly after releasing it -- until 1964, when Avon reissued it in a mass-market paperback edition. After critic Irving Howe hailed it as a neglected American classic on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, Call It Sleep went on to sell more than a million copies. This unexpected windfall eased Roth's financial problems but did nothing for his creative deadlock. He was still stuck with an acclaimed first novel whose methods and intentions he had repudiated...
...angels; Boston College has two. Bookstores have had to establish angel sections. In the most celebrated play on Broadway, Tony Kushner's Pulitzer-prize-winning Angels in America, a divine messenger ministers to a man with AIDS. In Publishers Weekly's religious best-seller list, five of the 10 paperback books are about angels...
These are, of course, the efficient, familiar ligatures of thriller plotting. They can be comforting when you're page-turning your paperback in economy class and all you're looking for is a gentle diversion. Movies, though, require something more than connective tissue, however handsomely rendered. They are a dramatic form, which implies a need for both ever tightening menace and, ultimately, direct confrontations with evil's source. Or, failing that, some colorful characters...
...AIDS novel--is a trajectory that ends inevitably in death. So he felt there was a predictability about it and a kind of melodrama and bathetic response that was required that could be avoided really in short stories. What we did was to publish it always as a paperback original...Our idea was to write quickly and have it have all the excitement of confetti; it shouldn't be some belabored work. A short story is something that does cut into and out of a subject matter that is very serious, like at odd angles. There...