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...some publishing executives are skeptical about how Schwarzkopf will sell. "I would be very nervous if I were they," says Roger Straus, president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux. "If the book isn't published until 1993, will the general's name still mean anything to people?" Farrar, Straus is playing it safer by bringing out a quickie biography, In the Eye of the Storm: The Life of General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, co-written by Claudio Gatti and New York Times reporter Roger Cohen, due in August...
Imperials are not the only ones to offer beguiling short stories this season. The long-neglected art of yarn spinning is robust again, in three fine collections. Joan Chase's Bonneville Blue (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 226 pages; $16.95) contains 11 poignant tales. In one of the finest, Elderberries and Souls, the adolescent narrator recalls a passionate crush on her stepuncle: "I was smelling his cotton shirt, smoke and starch, and his soul, as if that, too, were a thing to be smelled." But a sudden glimpse of his unstable temper makes her realize how inexperienced she is in the ways...
...Your brain can get out of hand," says one character in Typical (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 207 pages; $19). Another figures that "character is nothing but warts." Judging from these 23 fictions, both statements are correct. Padgett Powell's two previous books, both novels (Edisto, A Woman Named Drown), exhibited a unique gift for regional American comedy. This sparkling collection reduces his scope without limiting his style. Dr. Ordinary is anything but: "He found God with no difficulty, but locating his belief another matter." Miss Resignation "liked football and was absolutely certain that she could have been an excellent off-tackle...
What if the idea of exporting the University's goods to safe storage havens catches on? Poor John Harvard will end up in a box somewhere. Mass Hall will be hauled up and set on a new foundation in Southborough. The Straus Cup will be tossed around by chimpanzees...
...FEVER by J.G. Ballard (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 182 pages; $18.95). Although he became known as a writer of science fiction, that term has never adequately defined J.G. Ballard, whose works include Empire of the Sun (1984), an autobiographical novel (he was born in Shanghai in 1930, to British parents) of childhood in a Japanese-occupied region of China. This new collection of 14 stories reinforces the impression that the author neither should nor can be categorized...