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After writing a truly successful first novel, most authors feel obliged to try again. The odds are not encouraging. Fledgling novelists tend to pour everything they know or have experienced into their first efforts. Replenishing bare cupboards is never easy, especially when new demands imposed by literary fame are added to the normal burdens of living and working. Then there is the problem of a presold audience, its expectations buoyed by an impressive debut. What, this group itches to know, can the sophomore writer do for an encore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beating the Sophomore Jinx | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...Come Pour the Wine, Freeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editor's Choice: Apr. 20, 1981 | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...royal wedding place mats, sew with commemorative thimbles and dry royal couple plates with royal couple tea towels, a steal at $3.30. Smokers can light up with Charles and Diana lighters and extinguish butts in C & D ash trays. Tea drinkers can sip from a C & D mug, pour cream from a C & D jug, add sugar with a keepsake teaspoon. Di fans can purchase a copy of her famous décolleté dress for $150-one-tenth the price of the original-and store it on a Lady Di hanger. For fun, there is a crossword puzzle with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rushing for Royal Profits | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...Come Pour the Wine, Freeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Sellers: Mar. 30, 1981 | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

...Come Pour the Wine, Freeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best Sellers: Mar. 23, 1981 | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

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