Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AMERICAN REVIEW: NUMBER 1. New American Library. Fiction by Philip Roth, criticism by Stanley Kauffmann and poetry by Louise Gliick highlight Volume No. 1 of this lively and commendable attempt to revive what is best described as the paperback-book magazine...
...drugstore racks blossomed with a literary phenomenon: paperback-book magazines-a lively blend of avant-garde fiction and nonfiction, poetry and criticism. In effect, the p.b.m. was a mass-distributed little magazine, a brave effort to sell quality in quantity. Commercially, it soon flopped...
...American Library, which published New World Writing in that era, has revived the paperback-book magazine as a triannual bloom. If the first issue of New American Review is any indication, it is well worth another run for the money...
...advance ballyhoo and the promise that it would expose the really "in" people in swinging London, this novel about a public relations man with an identity problem seems headed for bestsellerdom. A first printing of 40,000 copies has been ordered, the Literary Guild has snatched it up, paperback rights have been sold for six figures, and Paramount plans to film it. But nothing swings all that much in the book...
...Nini's newsstand, Felix's, and the Out of Town News Agency, and even in the more insulated confines of the Paperback Booksmith and the Coop, Valley is selling up to 30 copies a day--beating the pants of any other book in Harvard Square. According to one bookseller, "every secretary in Cambridge has slurped up the schmaltz...