Word: susanne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first and flashiest publishers to seize on the new promotional opportunities was Bernard Geis. He advanced the concept of the book as property into the book as package deal, and he Svengalied willing authors into writing potboilers and racy romans à clef. Incorporated in the Geis Zeit was Jacqueline Susann, whose Valley of the Dolls (1966) was launched with an advertising budget...
...Susann split with Geis after a dispute over money. She and her husband Irving Mansfield then went on to demonstrate that they understood the new hustle better than anyone. As old show-business hands, they appreciated the value of contacts and details. It was not uncommon to find Susann at a distributor's warehouse greeting the truck drivers who would deliver her books to the store. In fact, the Mansfields practically wrote the book on modern literary promotion. The color of a Susann dust jacket was carefully chosen for television appeal. Once on, Jackie, who died in 1974, quickly...
...inner life, It implies that writing is a technique designed only to drag one to the top of some quantifiable heap. The writing itself is a means to an end rather than a way of working our personal conflicts, fighting fear or seeking satisfaction. And Hemingway wasn't Jackie Susann...
There is something exhilarating about inadvertent comedy. Few things are as bracing as the spectacle of a lot of people spending good money trying to be serious and making fools of them selves. By these standards, Jacqueline Susann 's Once Is Not Enough is an accidentally entertaining piece of work...
Well, not that much of a thing since the late Jacqueline Susann didn't write that kind of dirty books. It is at least enough of a thing, however, to propel January toward an older man, an adversary of her father's named Tom Colt (David Janssen). Colt's main grudge against Wayne: "He took my Pulitzer Prize novel and messed it up as a movie...