Word: readers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that made him disappear temporarily. Pelted with questions from skeptics, TASS stood by its story. Said an agency official huffily: "It is not April Fools' today." Sovietskaya Kultura, a Communist Party paper dedicated to the arts, ran the story, claiming it was following "the golden rule of journalism: the reader must know everything...
...simply speedy service and knowledgeable staff that have brought on such robust health. Variety of stock is another major factor. For example, a reader can find John Irving's latest novel, A Prayer for Owen Meany, among the 15,000 or so titles typically carried by a chain store, but in all likelihood will not locate Irving's earlier books. Chain stores need fast turnover; they have little space for backlisted books. By contrast, a shop like Manhattan's Shakespeare & Co., which carries 64,000 titles, will stock practically the entire Irving oeuvre...
...independents have reason to worry about a different kind of temptation. It is called The Reader's Catalog, a large-format, 1,382-page paperback ($24.95) describing more than 40,000 books in print, covering 208 categories ranging from Egyptian literature to sports. Readers can order selections by mail, toll-free telephone or even fax machine. The Catalog is the brainchild of Jason Epstein, editorial director of Random House, who is publishing it privately. The idea, says Epstein, arose out of his own frustration: "There wasn't enough shelf space in the stores." He is counting on the convenience...
...Place for Us completes an emotional symmetry that began with Eleni. It also offers a look at Greek-American life as textured as any the general reader is likely to encounter. Gage writes with little separation between his intellect and his senses. There is no straining for effect; moments reveal their natural poetry. How, for example, does one know the time to pack up a family picnic and head for home? "When it was too dark to tell red wine from white." When Gage describes the bread tax that early immigrants levied to support their new churches, one can taste...
Such moves indicate that the once sacred principle of local control is rapidly going the way of McGuffey's Reader. "This nation was intensely committed to the idea that each district should be run by school boards unrelated to larger national purposes," says Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. "Now we are moving toward the issue of how national interests can be served...