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...rapidly growing mound of pig literature includes a racy paperback cartoon book called Pigs in Love (Clarkson N. Potter; $3.95), about Porkov and Daisy, whose amours are described as "an adult love story for pigs and sows everywhere." The author-artist, Revilo (real name: Oliver Christiansen), was originally commissioned to do a cat book but found felines "too aloof." Says...
...poetic self-indictment was among the assorted scribblings that FBI agents found in a hotel room rented by John W. Hinckley Jr., 26, the day before his attempted assassination of President Reagan on March 30, 1981. The agents also seized a paperback book called The Fox Is Crazy Too, about a master criminal who used an insanity defense to escape conviction. "Was he crazy or just pretending?" asked a blurb on the book's cover. "Was he sane or just pretending?" That is the central issue in Hinckley's trial, which got under way in a federal district...
Poor Diana Trilling! Paperback rights for her new book brought only $125,000. The publishing industry must be suffering from hard times indeed. Invested in a money-market fund, that sum will only net her a yearly income of around $17,000, without her having to lift a finger. Poor woman! How will she make ends meet...
...Book-of-the-Month Club is taking the unprecedented step of offering The Fate of the Earth to its 1.2 million members at minimal cost ($2.25 rather than the retail $11.95). After feverish bidding, paperback rights went to Avon for $375,000, and the book has already been snatched up by at least ten foreign publishers...
Herb Margolis, 56, strolled into a Los Angeles bookstore 15 months ago, flipped to the index page of Nice Girls Do, the hot-selling sex manual, and went into shock. Reason: he claims that the book, which has sold 183,000 hardcover copies and is now on the paperback bestseller lists, is half his-the result of collaboration in and out of bed with Author Irene Kassorla during a passionate romance that cooled in June 1978. Kassorla, a fiftyish Bel Air psychologist, admits the affair but denies working with Margolis. Says Margolis plaintively: "She wanted us to become the Masters...