Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alas, she loved notoriety even more than it loved her. The huffy reception being given Vamps & Tramps (Vintage; 532 pages; $15), her paperback volume of new and recent essays, journalism, TV interviews and effluvia, suggests that Paglia is in her 16th minute of fame -- like Madonna at her current ebb with an exasperated public. This is a shame, since it discounts Paglia's rangy, roguish intelligence and genius for mischiefmaking...
...past eight weeks. Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man, by Home Improvement's Tim Allen, just landed at No. 1. Jerry Seinfeld's SeinLanguage spent five weeks in the top spot last fall and is about to come out in paperback. Dennis Miller, Garry Shandling and Ellen DeGeneres (star of ABC's Ellen) have books in the works...
Tarantino's and Bender's company is called A Band Apart, after Bande a Part (Band of Outsiders), the 1964 film about two hoods and a femme fatale that Jean-Luc Godard based on an American paperback novel. But where Godard used pulp fiction as an excuse to discuss the philosophy of the boulevards and the boudoir, Tarantino is true to the genre's moral muscularity; he's interested in the philosophy of the abattoir. His tough guys chat about life's iniquities and inequities, about hamburgers, the Bible, the ethics of foot massage, the perfidy of women...
...attractive paperback edition, the Catechism of the Catholic Church has been experiencing popularity among Catholic and non-Catholic readers alike. It's a kind of owner's manual for those who call the Catholic faith their own, a definitive statement of Catholic belief. At $19.95, some might say it's steep for a paperback; but it's worth every penny...
There was a satisfying airport paperback, with pink cover and gold-embossed lettering for the title, to be written about Blue. Where is Judith Krantz, the reader muses, when we need her? And never mind that the Jacob King figure is an obvious sketch of the real-life mobster Bugsy Siegel and that since everyone knows that Siegel was murdered, there isn't a lot of suspense to be generated about whether King will live to collect Social Security. Blue is a good, tough, hard-edged character ("she only cries on cue," someone says of her), and a straight-ahead...