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...this high-level interest is The Hunt for Red October, a sea thriller about spooks and submarines by Tom Clancy. Currently in its fourth printing, the book has been on the capital's best-seller list for 15 weeks and is inching toward the charts in other major cities. Paperback rights have been sold for $49,500. Negotiations are under way for a movie...
...Postscript to the Name of the Rose emerges as a sort of printed faculty dinner conversation with Umberto Eco. The slim volume costs $8.95, about double the price of the original's paperback edition. Still, that's a bell of a lot cheaper than flying to Italy to catch Professor Eco's office hours...
...learn in ten easy steps how to overthrow the government of a small Central American nation by reading the Central Intelligence Agency's recently leaked "Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare," available soon in paperback...
This humorous guide covers zits, and has its blemish-free author Robert H. I. Stone '86 signing a juicy contract with Arbor House to have the paperback on the shelves by next August...
...Golden Notebook and Briefing for a Descent into Hell, is one of the most serious and protean writers in the world. Why did she stop at the height of her career to play the prankster? Her intent, as she explains in the preface to an upcoming one-volume paperback edition of the Somers novels, was partly to show how difficult it is for the work of unknown authors to attract wide attention. On a more personal level, she wanted to twit the critics who have insisted on pigeonholing her: first as a feminist writer, later as a purveyor of visionary...