Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most important publishers, the 54-year-old iconoclast puts out the nation's second-largest and best newspaper, Messimvrini (circ. 90,000), and the fifth-largest Kathimerini (56,000). She also publishes Greece's biggest picture magazine, Eikones, as well as a vast number of paperback books...
DEATH IN MIDSUMMER AND OTHER STORIES by Yukio Mishima. 181 pages. New Directions. $5.50. (Paperback...
Other members of the force de tour are the uninspired paperbacks by Pan Am and TWA, a surprisingly uninformative series by Holiday, a Rand McNally pocket guide. But the one that is making the biggest current splash is a brightly covered paperback called Europe on $5 a Day. Written by Manhattan Attorney Arthur Frommer, its cardinal rule is "Never ask for a private bath with your hotel room"-a stricture that has sent hundreds of thousands of Americans sponging their way through Europe. But the book is deceptive. Its clean family hotels may turn out to be flophouses or cathouses...
Mother Night was first published as a 350 paperback in 1962. Its appearance now in hardcover, reversing the usual procedure, can be regarded as an amusement tax chargeable to the author's growing reputation as a satirist. Vonnegut's targets are institutional: religion (Cat's Cradle), science and technology (Player Piano), philanthropy (God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine). Here the target appears to be patriotism. From Nazi Germany, Howard W. Campbell Jr. broadcasts Hitler's propaganda to the West. Even his wife does not know that he is a U.S. counter-intelligence agent...
...first-year frustrations of a metropolitan high school teacher. Easily the most popular novel about U.S. public schools in history, the book has just passed a full year on the bestseller lists, sold 350,000 copies in hard cover and 1,500,000 in its first month in paperback. Warner Bros, has paid $400,000 for film rights and is now trying to pick an actress for the lead role of Teacher Sylvia Barrett-young, bright, compassionate and sexy...