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...first potbellies arrived in North America in 1985; their U.S. population, according to one estimate, may be as high as 6,000, and breeders at times are hard-pressed to keep up with demand. Two Californians, pig fanciers Kayla Mull and Lorrie Blackburn, have published a paperback guide to the care and feeding of potbellies, and there is even a Pig Hotline (415-879-0061) where owners can get instant answers to porky puzzles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: This Little Piggy Ate Roast Beef | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...each year, now including several dozen devoted to the ever developing craft of microwaving. Is there no limit to their writers' ingenuity? Apparently not: witness the publication last October of Manifold Destiny. Subtitled The One! The Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine, this ho-ho-ho paperback, by Chris Maynard and Bill Scheller, contains recipes for 36 dishes, including Lead Foot Stuffed Cabbage (cooking distance: 55 miles), that can be heated on a V-8 while the auto is in motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Most of the Decade | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

...independents have reason to worry about a different kind of temptation. It is called The Reader's Catalog, a large-format, 1,382-page paperback ($24.95) describing more than 40,000 books in print, covering 208 categories ranging from Egyptian literature to sports. Readers can order selections by mail, toll-free telephone or even fax machine. The Catalog is the brainchild of Jason Epstein, editorial director of Random House, who is publishing it privately. The idea, says Epstein, arose out of his own frustration: "There wasn't enough shelf space in the stores." He is counting on the convenience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rattling | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...BELLAROSA CONNECTION by Saul Bellow (Penguin; $6.95). The Nobel laureate's second appearance of the year in a paperback original, this absorbing novella once again retails the dislocations -- wrenching, comic or both -- of being Jewish in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 16, 1989 | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

Saul Bellow created a lot of excitement last March when he allowed his novella A Theft to appear as a paperback original, thus abandoning the hard covers that might have seemed more appropriate for a work by a Nobel laureate. Scarcely six months later, he has done the same thing again. Whether it makes commercial sense to flood the market with short books by Bellow remains to be seen. But book lovers, as opposed to bookkeepers, have every reason to cheer his decision to come ahead with more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Child of The New World | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

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