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Knight's dailies are all locally oriented. "I would rather miss the big national story," says Beacon Journal Publisher and Executive Editor Ben Maidenburg. "The reader is going to get that on TV or the New York Times or the newsmagazines. I would rather get that Rotary Club meeting or the Junior Chamber of Commerce story instead." That fits in with Knight's thinking. "It is our obligation to print a lot of local news," he says. "We do very well at it; sometimes, I must confess, to the point where I feel it is boring." To report...
Here, as in Nabokov's more sophisticated novels, an important theme is the nature of fiction itself. By putting his comic trio through a series of abstract stances-a modification of the futurist and expressionist influences that swept the arts in the '20s-he never allows the reader to forget that fiction is essentially artifice. In King, Queen, Knave, the artifice may be a little too obvious, but intelligence and wit keep it working smoothly to the end. Nabokov himself could well have been thinking of this "bright brute" when he described a certain variety of butterfly...
Bark & Bite. Mailer indulges his hero with a splendid deadpan pomposity, reinforced by the fact that he refers to himself throughout in the third person. The reader first meets him in his Brook lyn Heights apartment, picking up a ringing telephone as if it were a pistol loaded for Russian Roulette. "On impulse, thereby sharpening his instinct as a gambler, he took spot plunges: once in a while he would pick up his own phone. On this morning in September, 1967, he lost his bet." The caller is a militant antiwar organizer and old Harvard classmate, who extracts from Mailer...
...about the spiritual union between the tormented and the tormentor. The pedantic sadist is Colonel Sun of the People's Liberation Army of China, who wants to blow up some Russians and then blame the incident on the West. Bond's problem is to stop him. The reader has no problem except to try to enjoy himself while awaiting the obvious...
...Crimson's recent "profile" of Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, is a true half-portrait. The full man, as any daily reader of his column can attest, looks rather different...