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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CALIFORNIA STREET, by Niven Busch (377 pp.; Simon & Schusfer; $4.50), suggests that a subject too long neglected by writers' conferences is epigraphman-ship. Nothing subdues a reader more thoroughly than a cowcatcher of another author's prose or poetry, bolted to the front of a book or chapter. And no novelist now working is better equipped to conduct a seminar on the technique than Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch. His current novel, about a moneyed San Francisco clan, has ten epigraphs-one at the beginning of each chapter. A Latin proverb assures doubters that the author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jun. 22, 1959 | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

COMRADE VENKA (246 pp.)-Pavel Nil in-Simon & Schusfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tom Swift in Siberia | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...SECRET (249 pp.)- -Alba de Céspedes-Simon & Schusfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Number in the Air | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

COCKTAIL TIME (2 1 9 pp.)- P. G. Wodehouse-Simon & Schusfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Man on Top | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...THOUSAND THINGS (244 pp.) -Maria Dermoûf-Simon & Schusfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What an Old Lady Knows | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

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