Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four years ago, Carter thought it appropriate to ask America two questions in his paperback. "Why Not the Best...
...been doing a brisk trade in books about rock. Two recent ones - George Harrison's I Me Mine and No One Here Gets Out Alive, a fisheyed life of the late Jim Morrison - have only rock in common. The Morrison opus, which has remained high on the trade paperback bestseller list for three months, is a sort of titillation special that reads like the hi-fi equivalent of the similarly successful memoirs of Shelley Winters. The Harrison book, on the other hand, is so baroque that it seems like the whimsical indulgence of a laird with enough money...
...trivial, some will surely say; and too dignified as well. Only 2,000 copies of I Me Mine exist and over half are sold. There will not be a second run. The question of a paperback has not come...
Claypoolers straggle through the 40-ft. bookmobile for 2½ hours-young and middle-aged adults, children with and without parents, and a good many grandparents. Inside, shelves flaunt 6,000 paperback volumes of fact, fiction and fancy, skinny picture books for preschoolers, fat classics for the solemn. The "Hardy Boys." The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. A Child's Garden of Verses. Mark Twain. Sinclair Lewis. Bernard Malamud. Dreiser's An American Tragedy. Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. But which one to pick...
...many, assassination appears to have become a kind of international adventure serial, available both in paperback and next door, and so is to be considered as something quasi-fictional, set apart by razzle-dazzle technology and melodrama from the life of real grief and real blood. The bestselling Matarese Circle has at the base of its plot the idea of the original assassins, the hashshashin, a bunch of hashheads who practiced contract murders at the behest of an "Old Man of the Mountains." We have had Three Days of the Condor, one Day of the Jackal, even...