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Since the success of One Hundred Years of Solutude, Garcia's publishers have brought out in paperback two volumes of short stories that originally appeared in magazines and academic reviews over the last decade. In these books, Garcia is working in a small world between epics--en route from One Hundred Years of Solitude to his next book, The Fall of the Patriarch. But the stories that make up Leaf Storm and No One Writes to the Colonel shouldn't be mistaken for out-takes or early sketches for either of the larger books. They explore some of the paths...
...Bernstein and Woodward, the rewards have been substantial. Before they began reporting on Watergate, the two earned together less than $30,000 a year. Now, from raises and book advances, magazine, paperback and movie rights (Robert Redford wants to play Woodward), each reporter stands to earn more than $500,000 before taxes from the book, a sum that could surpass President Nixon's net worth?after he pays all his back taxes...
...mayonnaise, one reason why rancid bathroom stalls all over Western Europe bear the graffiti "Arthur Frommer ate here." Worse, the sheer popularity of his book is discouraging: Long lines of students form each morning at quiet "hideaways" Frommer recommends, each tired traveler trying to make his worn yellow paperback edition as inconspicuous as possible. The whole packing-for-summer-camp attitude is even more objectionable. Frommer has a word of advice on everything from luggage to changes of underwear...
...Polaroid color photograph might have been the cover of a paperback thriller-or a recruiting poster for the revolutionary left. But the comely, wholesome-looking girl holding a submachine gun was Patricia Hearst, and an accompanying tape recording of her voice carried a bizarre message: Patty, 20, had decided to forsake her millionaire parents and join the fanatics who kidnaped her two months...
Lanterns on the Levee was reissued this spring in paperback by the Louisiana State University Press, with a new introduction by William Alexander Percy's cousin, the novelist Walker Percy...