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Thanks to Morrison's trailblazing success, black women are not only writing more; their books are being bought and read in droves. Bebe Moore Campbell, author of the best-selling Brothers and Sisters and Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad, just out in paperback, vividly remembers coming upon Morrison's first novel The Bluest Eye (1969): "When I finished that book, I had all the permission I needed to become a writer. Someone who looked like me had written a masterpiece." The megasuccessful Terry McMillan, author of the current best seller How Stella Got Her Groove Back...
This time of year, quilts and beach blankets are laid under leafy green trees that reach higher than five floors. Liz, Breda, Cindy and Michelle are reading heavy sourcebooks and paperback novels, distracted by pleas to join the two or three games of frisbee being played on the lawn...
...also a force of corporate profit. Her first two novels were modest successes; her third was Waiting to Exhale, which swept the nation's bedrooms, beaches, hair salons, reading groups and rush-hour subway trains, selling almost 700,000 hard copies in the process and 3 million more in paperback. Numbers like these would have drawn any publisher's attention, of course. The fact that an African-American author was writing about vivid characters with whom many black women could identify had the added effect of proving to booksellers that there is a sizable, previously ignored market for semisoapy black...
...Unabomber suspect to the plane crash of seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff, breaking news has required Simpson to cue the efforts of correspondents in TIME's 11 U.S. bureaus like a master conductor. Adding to her workload, she has lately been coordinating the reporting for a TIME paperback book based on the magazine's Unabomber cover. The book, Mad Genius, will be in bookstores in mid-May. "It's a perfect project for us," she says. "It fits naturally with the way we report big news events, sending out a team of correspondents to cover every angle of the story...
...yank a controversial book off its list. In the most celebrated recent instance, Simon & Schuster decided in 1990 not to release Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho after advance reviewers complained about its voyeuristic scenes of women being tortured. (Knopf later bought the discarded manuscript and published it in paperback.) But the St. Martin's case is more complex because it involves a work of nonfiction rather than a question of artistic license. Should publishers vouch for the accuracy of their books...