Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bienvenue, Julia Child! America's most generous and persuasive evangelist-explicator of great food is back in print with a compendium of recipes, reflections and recommendations. Julia Child & Company (Knopf; 243 pages; $8.95 paperback) is not so much a collection of recipes, of which there are a Julian abundance, as a matter of celebrations and consummations. There is a Dinner for the Boss that runs through consommé brunoise, standing rib roast and macédoine of fruits in champagne with bourbon-soaked chocolate truffles. Anyone who serves anyone such a repast must have a very good boss...
...Bantam, the production of a paperback original in just over a week was nothing new; The Suicide Cult was its 64th extra (among others: The Pentagon Papers, 90 Minutes at Entebbe, The Pope's Journey to the United States). No sooner had a Bantam senior editor learned of the murderous assault on Ryan and his party, via a 2 a.m. phone call from Bantam's publicity representative in San Francisco, than the wheels were set in motion. By Monday, Bantam's Editor in Chief Marc Jaffe was on the phone with San Francisco Chronicle Managing Editor William...
...does money appear to be the main incentive for authors-though CBS has already made a deal with the Washington Post team. Advances are modest by paperback standards; Krause received some $40,000 up front, to be divided among three collaborators...
Charles E. Ridewood, manager of Paperback Booksmith, last week named "The Women's Room" and "Ourselves and Our Children" by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, as that store's hot items. "Ourselves and Our Children" discusses family structure and the process of raising children...
November's "Campus Paperback Bestsellers," compiled by The Chronicle of Higher Education from information supplied by college stores throughout the country, lists "The Thorn Birds," the story of an Australian family by Colleen McCullough, "My Mother, Myself," and "The Women's Room" as top sellers...