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...great Cheryl Mendelson debate, I'll gladly take Ms. Mendelson's side; dust mites of the world, beware. Mendelson's 884-page reference book Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House, published by Scribner last November, is in its eighth printing. There are 180,000 copies of it loose in the world, and readers, mostly women, are torn. Many find it a handy, even revolutionary guide to household tasks our mothers never taught us, while others see it as antifeminist, barefoot-in-the-kitchen propaganda, gleefully pointing out that Mendelson recommends cleaning the kitchen floor...
...time later, Marian Anderson would recall her early years in south Philadelphia. "I'd think, 'Can't I sing? Can't I be a singer because I'm colored?'" Nobody was more entitled to that musical success, proclaims the meticulously researched new biography Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey (Scribner), by Brandeis professor of music Allan Keiler. By 10 years old, Anderson was already known locally as "the baby contralto." But it would take an uphill fight, time spent in Europe, even the intercession of Eleanor Roosevelt, for her to triumph over discrimination in the U.S. It was only when...
...pages of his Pulitzer-prizewinning best seller, and McCourt proves to be as good as his word. The dream of coming to America, particularly to New York City, that sustained him through his family's poverty in Limerick has come to pass by the opening pages of 'Tis (Scribner; 367 pages; $26). In the fall of 1959, at age 19, McCourt enjoys his first shower in a Manhattan hotel and then, knowing no better, dries off with the bath...
...Relief of Unbearable Urges, by 29-year-old Nathan Englander, has also done very well, placing among Amazon.com's top books. Older, more established writers have had luck too. Annie Proulx's newest collection of strikingly uncommercial short stories, Close Range, has sold nearly 100,000 copies. Scribner, the book's publisher, would have considered half that number a success. And at Knopf, senior editor Anne Close says short-story collections such as Lorrie Moore's Birds of America have fared very well this year...
Marital boredom gets a sly look in Julia Slavin's The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club (Henry Holt; 194 pages; $22) and Elena Lappin's fine collection, Foreign Brides (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 208 pages; $22). In My Date with Satan (Scribner; 223 pages; $22), author Stacey Richter covers female rivalry and the gender wars in a manner that indicates she may be in possession of one of the more outlandishly imaginative minds in contemporary fiction. Richter's book, just out, is being actively promoted by Barnes & Noble and has already far exceeded the retailer...