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...westerns, we got science fiction, we got good books, we got some excellent books on political theory, college textbook stuff in paperback that was very interesting. Then when we moved to the Bekaa Valley, the books ended for some reason. They got us TIME and Newsweek and the Economist and, for some reason, FORTUNE and Business Week fairly regularly...
...conference, which ran for 11 hours, began with a lecture from Sarah Igo '91-'92, co-founder of Lighthouse. Igo spoke on the popular paperback series on teenage girls and their problems, called Sweet Valley High...
...nothing about Personae was calculated to bring its author notoriety. The book was rejected by an honor roll of prestigious publishers. But when success finally came, nine years after the manuscript was completed, the star was ready and waiting to be born. Personae climbed to seventh place on the paperback best-seller list, a true rarity for a scholarly book...
...Harvey Kurtzman is somebody who comes to mind all the time. Harvey Kurtzman was the guy who did Mad comics, created Mad. And I remember being kind of 10 years old and seeing this paperback reprint of some of the early Mad comics--it included something called Micky Rodent. And I know that this created a deep scar and I spent the rest of my adult life working it out.... That there was something sinister beneath the surface was made clear in this Micky Rodent Strip, in which the Disney Police are dragging off Horace Horsecollar in panel one because...
...book was eventually published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and was released as a Knopf Vintage trade paperback. But the publication of the book almost did not happen. The ease with which N.O.W. managed to intimidate Simon & Schuster should frighten those who value freedom of expression...