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...there actually is a faculty at Harvard. You read about them occasionally when they publish a new book. E. O. Wilson, Baird Professor of Science, stirred up a lot of controversy two years ago with his new book Sociobiology, which basically stated that ants and bees have feelings and altruistic instincts. That really threw everyone for a loop, and is still being disputed...
...literally a day for the books. In addition to the Puzo package, Koster was chasing rights to publish works by Franz Kafka. She was outbid by Pocket Books, who paid $210,000. The Prague pension clerk would have been fascinated by the rituals of a modern paperback auction. He had envisioned the adrenal new world in his novel Amerika. But could he have imagined that he would be in six figures...
...same year," Holmes went on, "a young American novelist, Mr. Loren D. Estleman, 25, will publish Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula. " "But you have already annihilated such creatures in the Adventure of the Sussex Vampire. " evertheless, if a man goes to bat for me, the least I can do is listen to his tale. And, in point of fact, both Dibdin and Estleman observe the law, grant them that. As the mystery writer Dorothy Sayers will write of the Sherlockian pastiche, "The rule of the game is that it must be played as solemnly as a county cricket match at Lord...
...years, The Crimson has been a financially independent paper, exercising complete editorial control over its staff and story selection. For many years, however, The Harvard Crimson did not officially publish during the summer session, but instead printed The Harvard Summer News (later The Summer Crimson), which was essentially a Summer School-funded paper printed by The Crimson as a money-making venture. In 1971, Summer School officials, in an attempt to intimidate Crimson editors who had been engaged in vehement criticism of the University administration, withdrew that funding. Since that day, the summer issues of The Crimson have been totally...
...Washington press corps seems unduly hard on today's columnists ("A few are fine writers, but none are great thinkers"), harder than are the editors I've talked to around the country. But by their own new choosiness about whom and what they publish, editors are in effect recognizing, and ratifying, the decline of the Washington columnist...