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...print order for the first issue was 300,000, but Hirsch is basing his ad rates on an initial paid circulation of 100,000. With 38 ad pages in the first issue, New Times has already won some support from advertisers. Its name talent is sure to attract reader interest. With a little experience in working together, New Times's colorful crew should throw some brighter parties in the future. -Before the first issue went to press, two writers whose names had figured prominently in Hirsch's promotional efforts defected noisily. Jack Newfield, an investigative reporter and assistant...
...which Powell invests the whole of the book with parallels, variations and ironic reversals of this legend is wondrously rich and subtle. For the reader, however, the pleasure of tracing all these connections has a price: care, patience and a knowledge of several previous volumes. One of X. Trapnel's dicta was: "Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them." A half-truth, but never truer than with Powell. · Christopher Porterfield
...reader feels a certain sympathy for these lofty wretches. Since they are not very likable or high-minded or deserving, but simply very human, this says a good deal for Ward Just's skill. There is not the slightest hint that the author has enrolled real people under fake names and with different hair colors. A laudable break with Washington literary tradition...
...vision is a very personal one; he doesn't dwell on the medium, but goes past it almost to the point of a silent conversation with the reader. Merwin is one of the few poets who, by reaching into his own inner loneliness, can reach across his words to the aloneness that...
...style of life he calls hard living. Even in the conclusion, however, Howell respects the individuality of each of the people he knew. He uses a novelist's style to describe the people he knew on Clay Street, and he draws few conclusions, because he wants to broaden the reader's thinking, not to fit it to a set of his ideas...