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Richard Crowley, a bookseller in the Paperback Booksmith shop on Brattle Street, says that the store continues to sell "a lot of intellectual stuff, but the interest in political philosophy of a few years ago has disappeared...
According to Crowley, the latest mover at the Paperback Booksmith, aside from "Humboldt's Gift" by Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, has been a book titled the "Cat Catalogue" by Judy Fireman. "I guess it is about everything you always wanted to know about cats," Crowley says. "I don't know why it's so popular. I haven't read it, but I suppose you'd have to say people like cats. We can't keep enough of the books on the table...
...Paperback Booksmith receives a fair amount of trade in feminist literature, Crowley says. Many feminists shop there, he says...
...ILLUSTRATED CAT by Jean-Claude Suarès and Seymour Chwast. 72 pages. Harmony Books/Crown. $10.95, hardcover; $5.95, paperback. A fetching concatenation of feline portraits done by celebrated painters, illustrators and cartoonists from Watteau, Manet, Renoir and Picasso to Andrew Wyeth, from Tenniel to Thurber, from Chessie in the C & O berth to Krazy Kat beset by Ignatz Mouse. The text is too kittenish, even for ailurophiles, but the pictures are, well, magnificat...
With such a comprehensible, attractive Bible available at $2.50 in hardcover, $1.90 paperback, a clergyman phoned Translator Peacock the other day in jest to register a complaint. The Bible, he said, is now "so clear that I don't have to interpret...