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Fein reflected that when he was in Israel in the 1960s, only one news correspondant was assigned to the region and only six books had been written about Israeli politics. Today, he said, two or three thousand correspondents cover Israel daily and enough books have been written on Israeli politics...
HOW divine that sex was the apple that lured Jimmy Swaggart from his cushy Eden atop the garbage heap of televangelists. After all, Swaggart not only called his fellow philanderer Jim Bakker a cancer, but he also led the battle to coerce convenience stores into removing Playboy and Penthouse from...
Kelly's store is no cemetery for books long out of print. It's more like a resting place for a few specially chosen friends. Kelly says that out of every new lot of books, she throws out the majority and saves only a handful of pieces that are worth...
The result is walls lined with rectangular bindings, multi-colored, multi-shaped, leaving the impression of geometrical shapes--blocks really--sitting on rows of sagging shelves that shrink into the distance down the wall. Kelly recalls instances when books lose their magic amid this anonymity, when their pages and ink...
Helen Kelly understands this. She says she can tell the best booksellers and buyers when they walk into her store. "The really good ones don't look you in the eye. They look at the shelves and at the books," Kelly says.