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From a three- volume set on Chinese painting and calligraphy that costs, yes, $850 to a $14.95 paperback on vintage radios, from America' s quilts and the world' s water birds to the Hebrew Bible in medieval illuminated manuscripts, this season' s readings celebrate the realms of art, faith, nature and entertainment in varied, sumptuous style...
...calls the life-style fiction of the '80s. Bright Lights has sold 300,000 copies; it was hailed as the modern Catcher in the Rye, has been filmed with Michael J. Fox and Phoebe Cates, and is a bit of instant folklore in the book industry. Published as a paperback original by Random House's Vintage Contemporaries series, McInerney's romp gave readers a fast look at a young man's entry-level Manhattan. Bright Lights also put a glamorous shine on Vintage's soft-cover format and helped similar ventures at Scribner's (Signature), Penguin (Contemporary American Fiction...
...Unlike most such manuscripts, however, his did not meet with indifference and rejection; in fact, publishers competed eagerly to buy the book. Turow finally accepted $200,000 from a house whose reputation he admired. Next a book club bought in. Then came $1 million for screen rights, with a paperback sale still pending -- and obviously appreciating as the novel climbs best-seller lists...
Talk is a favorite pastime, and he soaks up a wide diversity of books, including mysteries; he recently gave away more than 1,000 paperback whodunits to make room for new arrivals. He is an occasional player in an elite poker game often attended by Scalia and Chief Justice of the U.S. William Rehnquist. "He is serious when it comes to his work, which is serious," says Bork's friend, Washington Lawyer Leonard Garment. "He is a merry man when it comes to the general business of life. He is the antithesis of a stuffed judicial robe...
...that way, it is hard to beat two of the original works written on the subject: James Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 and The Federalist, by Alexander Hamilton, Madison and John Jay. Both are currently in print and widely available in paperback editions. Separately and together they tell the intertwined story of Constitution and framers with the clear voice of the times, not the way present-day passions may choose to perceive...