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...attractive children's books. And contrary to gloomy predictions, TV encourages more reading. Margaret C. Scoggin, coordinator of Young Adult Services for New York public libraries, says that "any story which appears on TV immediately creates a demand for the book in the libraries." She thinks that the paperback boom also boosts library circulation: "The more a student reads, the more he wants to read, the more he buys, and the more he borrows." For more and more U.S. youngsters, says Agnes Krarup, head of the schools department of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library, "to be well read...
...Wayward Comrade and the Commissars, by Yurii Olesha. The author later found it advisable to become a docile party-liner, but in the 1920s, when he wrote the short fiction pieces in this paperback collection, he was one of Communism's most caustic satirists...
...Wayward Comrade and the Commissars, by Yurii Olesha. The author is now a docile party-liner, but in 1927, when he wrote the short novel Envy, which heads this paperback collection, he was a satirist well able to see the terrors of the new robot society...
...published in the U.S., Envy and the three short stories that fill out this 35^ paperback make first-rate reading...
...mother of three sons (aged 6, 10, 12) and a sometime novelist who contributes frequent book reviews to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A University of Wisconsin graduate, she began teaching in Tulsa this year. As a supplement to the regular reading list, e.g., Canterbury Tales, she supplied paperback editions of Catcher because it seemed to her "a beautiful and moving story." It was not required reading...