Word: paperbacks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Potential pourers receive a call in early September asking them to pick Wednesday evenings over the course of the term that would be convenient for them, says Helen Fernald. She is deftly serving cups of tea beside a sideboard laden with silverware and a small paperback book titled College Graces of Oxford and Cambridge. Gomes then designates each prospective pourer to serve tea at one party...
...little-known Oxford professor whose specialty was the West Midland dialect of Middle English. Beginning with The Hobbit, a story he invented in the early 1930s to amuse his children, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's novels first became merely popular and then turned into a phenomenon. When a pirate paperback edition of The Lord of the Rings was published in the U.S. in 1965, it and other versions sold more than a million copies within a year. GANDALF FOR PRESIDENT buttons appeared on wide late-1960s lapels, and frodo lives was scrawled on subway cars. Led Zeppelin gave Gollum...
...Promethea" can be found at any comic store. Strangely tardy, DC Comics plans on collecting issues 7-12 into a paperback in December. Issues 13-23 have no collection date, but the individual issues can likely be found at comic stores with a decent backstock...
...best of the lot is "Rosetta" (Alternative Comics; $19.95; 194pp.), which is simply stunning. It combines the meticulousness of such handcrafted, small print-run books as Non with the availability of a trade paperback. Ng Suat Tong has sharply edited the selections for a variety of styles, subjects and cultures. Perfect for a newcomer, each contribution has a short accompanying intro to the artist. It mixes artists from Croatia, Hungary and Malaysia with many of America's new generation of comix creators. Tom Hart's fat, almost crude lines perfectly match the brutal ecstasy of his superb "Sandra Brown...
...September, Vintage will publish "The Vintage Book of War Fiction," a paperback original edited by Sebastian Faulks and J?rg Hensgen. The book contains an excerpt from "My Favorite War," a novel by TIME senior editor Chris Farley. Also included are some 40 short stories and novel excerpts from writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer and Joseph Heller...