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...conventional bookstore-and there are only about 1,500 of those. But the U.S. letter-carrier has become the middleman in an enterprise that accounts today for about 15% of the book volume. All told, mail-order houses and book clubs, such as TIME-LIFE Books and the Reader's Digest Book Club, deliver $181 million worth of volumes to the buyers' doors every year. The market has bred a host of specialty clubs for teenagers, preteens, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, teachers, civil engineers, gamblers, photographers, gardeners, and salesmen...
...nonbook flourishes more than ever, sometimes recognizable by its title: Murray The K Tells It Like It Is, Baby; How to Make Yourself Miserable; The Red Chinese Air Force Exercise and Diet Book (a spoof). Human Sexual Response, a technical laboratory discussion, was never meant for the general reader, but it has been on the bestseller lists for 31 weeks on the strength of its title and clinical content. Typically, it has spawned two illegitimate children, What You Should Know About Human Sexual Response and An Analysis of Human Sexual Response, both mere condensations of the original, both non-books...
...year makes just about everyone's Christmas shopping list, bringing sudden rewards to the hitherto unrecognized authors that it honors. Though Marcel Proust and Andre Malraux were among past winners, the jury-whose average age is 74-always picks a book that has enough pizazz for the mass reader. With its explicit sexual passages, Oublier Palerme could sell as many as 400,000 copies in France this year, will doubtless be quickly translated into English and other languages...
...dances in the Greenwich Village Follies, Leatherman traces her development through her early-American period (she is a descendant of Miles Standish) to her most recent The Witch of Endor, which reflects her current preoccupation with the themes of old age and death. Graham, reports Leatherman, is a voracious reader, pours through volumes of philosophy, poetry, mysticism and fairy tales, looking for a magic phrase like "cave of the heart" that will act as a catalyst for a new work...
...reader does not get far into this book before beginning to suspect that it is a put-on. Who ever heard of the long-nosed bandicoot? Or the brolgas, which break into a wild, wing-flapping dance at the sound of a bell? How about the racquet-tailed drongo, and the mudskipper, a hippopotamus-shaped fish that likes to skitter across mud flats and climb mangrove roots? Or the mallee fowl, which assiduously builds an incubator for its eggs and keeps the temperature inside at a steady 95°, come rain or shine? Curious specimens these, but Naturalist Gerald Durrell...