Word: books
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PEOPLE AND UNCOLLECTED STORIES by Bernard Malamud (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $18.95). This posthumous volume includes an unfinished novel and 16 short stories never before collected in book form. The novel is little more than a sketch of what might have been, but the stories -- grim and comical in equal measure -- offer poignant reminders of Malamud's gift and his stature as an American master...
...lock it into a market circus is to lock people out of contemplating it. This inexorable process tends to collapse the nuances of meaning and visual experience under the brute weight of price. It is not a compliment to the work. If there were only one copy of each book in the world, fought over by multimillionaires and investment trusts, what would happen to one's sense of literature -- the tissue of its meanings that sustain a common discourse? What strip mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture...
...price that shake a market to its core, as publisher S.I. Newhouse's gesture of paying $17.7 million for Jasper Johns' False Start in New York a year ago proved. (It made sense, of a kind, for Newhouse to buy the Johns: he owns quite a few others, whose book value has accordingly multiplied...
...behalf. In 1984 Iacocca, Novak's collaboration with auto executive Lee Iacocca, jolted the publishing world by selling 2.7 million copies. He followed that up with best sellers on Tip O'Neill and Sydney Biddle Barrows, the deb-styled Mayflower Madam. Paid a paltry $80,000 for the Iacocca book (which made $10 million to $15 million for its subject), Novak has since been rewarded with a much healthier cut of the profits he helps generate. For My Turn, he received a six-figure advance plus a percentage of the royalties...
...Donald Regan and her troubled relations with her children. "When she'd say, 'Now Bill, you're not going to talk about this,' I'd use the editors: 'But the editors insist on these subjects,' " says Novak. "The fact is, if you ask readers to pay $22 for a book, you have to reveal new material. Ironically, the better known the person the more they must reveal." Recalls Reagan: "There were tough, difficult times and good times. But I wanted it honest and personal...