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...Handbook," which Birnbach said, is "still number one nationally on paperback charts," was released in November 1980, 900,000 copies ago, and is now in its fourteenth printing...
...Holocaust has been naturalized in German), and survivors themselves employ it. The Holocaust Library, distributed by Schocken Books, for instance, is a nonprofit publishing enterprise created and managed by refugees. Most of the titles belong to the literature of testimony-The Holocaust Kingdom by Alexander Donat (361 pages; $8.95, paperback) typically records the last days of the Warsaw ghetto and the will of a child to appeal the world's sentence of death. The Politics of Rescue by Henry L. Feingold (416 pages; $7.95, paperback) revives the long-dormant question: How could the democracies of the West refuse...
Nabokov is innocent of such salaciousness, though undoubtedly Lolita's paperback sales depend on it. In his novel, he skirts pornography on one side and moralizing on the other, traveling a high road of precise plot construction and delicately tuned poetry, elevating the sordid story to a level of intensity that has far more to do with art than with Brooke Shields. But for Albee, the purity of this book was just too tempting; he apparently couldn't wait to get his hands on Nabokov's little girl, turning her from an attractive but commonplace adolescent into a loud-mouthed...
...writes and manipulates in good conscience with the mandate of the Silent Majority. Minister Jerry Falwell of the Moral Majority wrote his introduction. They say that they pray daily. Viguerie says that Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative sold 3 million hardback copies and many millions in paperback; distribution providing, The New Right will probably sell more...
Japanese radio manufacturers, who dominate the market, say that the shortwave boom started about five years ago in their country, and just a year ago in the U.S. and Europe. One reason: the introduction of small receivers, no larger than paperback books, and sets that cost as little as $60. "It's astonishing how many people have picked up the short-wave habit," says George Berzins, a spokesman for the Voice of America. "We've noticed a big increase in audience, and so have most other broadcasters." (This audience does not include ham operators, who broadcast as well...