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...devotee of reading for pleasure, a dream come true is the Book Case (42 Church St.). A greeting card and poster store sits at street level, but follow the stairs down to the cellar and one will encounter a whole wall of used paperback fiction, and a wide selection of hardcover non-fiction on a variety of subjects. If you look for it, you will find a labyrinthine room in that basement in which the subjects of religion and foreign languages are housed. And if you run out of interests in this part, cross Church St. and go to their...
...applause and critical esteem. No longer. At 58, after 24 novels in 32 years, Elmore Leonard has finally won it all: money, raves and, this month, an Edgar-the Mystery Writers of America version of the Oscar. No more is he the hard-cover talent with the paperback rep. His most recent books have been phenomenal sellers, four major publishers are reissuing 14 of his works, and Avon has just paid $363,000 for paperback rights to his latest, LaBrava. The film of his 1983 novel Stick, starring Burt Reynolds and Candice Bergen with David Reynoso, will be released...
...50th birthday, Shirley MacLaine was in New York City, and she attended festivities all day long. Her publisher, Bantam Books, celebrated the climb of Out on a Limb to the top spot on the New York Times paperback-bestsellers list. At the 1,992-seat Gershwin Theater, where Shirley MacLaine on Broadway is grossing $475,000 a week, a house record, another bash was thrown by the show's producers. They had heard the star telling an interviewer that the only thing she had never done was to ride an elephant. So when MacLaine arrived at the theater...
...reflection on her political activities and her tour of China that struck some critics as naive; it sold less well. MacLaine's biggest success as an author is the 1983 Out on a Limb: 176,000 copies were printed in hard-cover and about 1.2 million in paperback. A TV network is negotiating for a mini-series in which she would star...
...first time. In 1955, West described his unhappy early life in Heritage, an autobiography masked as a novel. Rebecca West (1892-1983) blocked its publication in England, and in a new introduction to a paperback reissue of Heritage, the author bitterly recalls "my mother's passionate desire to do me harm." Given this bias, one could hardly expect a dispassionate recollection of times past. But H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life is more than the defense of a neglected author. It is a kind of intellectual's Mommie Dearest, a serious chronicle that uses Rebecca West...