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...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...
...this is literary poppycock. It may be true that De Sade is a fascinating figure; Edmund Wilson and Simone de Beauvoir have written studies on him, and the London-Broadway hit Marat/ Sade, as well as a new paperback edition of his writings, testifies to renewed public interest. But it is also true that he is the compulsive addict of every conceivable extremity within the technical possibilities of the human sexual apparatus. What he could not do he dreamed, and what he dreamed, he wrote. His letters can be analyzed in seven deeply felt but wonderfully inconsistent categories...
Nudged along by a nervous, nosy camera, the action leapfrogs from a jostling train car to teeming streets to the gritty ambiance of a police prefecture aswarm with unseemly night people. Murder is inconsequential but steadily entertaining, the victory of seasoned professionalism over the sort of paperback-novel nonsense made to order for killing an hour or so between trains...
...this month, books by members of the Harvard community appearing in paperback for the first time...
...acknowledged "king of nonbooks." His 25 volumes (eight published in 1965 alone) have sold more than 2,000,000 copies and have brought him about $250,000 in royalties and guarantees. The Kennedy Wit alone sold 110,000 copies in hard cover and nearly 1,000,000 in paperback. The Johnson Humor, unsurprisingly, hasn't done terribly well -just under 25,000 copies so far. But the "letters" volumes, particularly Love Letters to the Beatles and Love Letters to the Mets, are hot items. Adler has no intention of letting the fire cool. Two of his researchers are currently...