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...imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and parody the comic's way of showing envy, then Spillane was a signal success. A Life cover line on Spillane read: "13,000,000 Books of Sex and Slaughter." He didn't exactly invent the paperback market, but he certified their status as the main format for popular fiction. "Mickey Spillane's contribution is far beyond mystery or crime writing," crime-book editor Martin Greenberg says in the affectionate and impressive documentary Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane (available as part of the three-disc set Max Allan Collins' Black Box). "I think...
...ghost, a specter in the American imagination of the stoic hero, a musical John Wayne. Yet like Wayne, whose heroism faded when his off-screen WWII draft-dodging became public, Cash’s immortality is a fiction—as he puts it, “a paperback novel, the kind the drugstores sell.” The main weakness of “American V,” though, is that Cash makes this point too early. Half the remaining tracks are ballads (the major-key “On the Evening Train...
...Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich holds a Ph.D. in Modern European History from Tulane University. His latest book, Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America, will be released in paperback in July...
...former TIME writer was mobbed at BookExpo when he signed copies of his forthcoming new book, "Thunderstruck." Larson is not one to rest on his laurels, even though his last smash hit, "The Devil in the White City," is still on the New York Times paperback list after 118 weeks. His latest nonfiction thriller is set in the Edwardian Age, and includes Marconi, the young inventor of radio. According to Larson's publisher, "A mild-mannered doctor known as 'the kindest of men' kills his wife in horrific fashion and buries her remains in the cellar of their London home...
Sean Wilsey is the author of "Oh the Glory of It All," a memoir that has just been published in paperback. He is also the coeditor, with Matt Weiland, of a new book about soccer, "The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World...