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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1994
Page
13
Publishers embrace film tie-ins as cinema boosts sales for classics and modern fiction. The piece notes top paperback and mass market ranks, the rise of tie-in editions for titles such as The Age of Innocence and Howards End, and the shift toward leveraging movie publicity to reach new readers.
Reviews note Gerry Conlon memoir basis for the Day-Lewis Thompson film. Conlon grew up in West Belfast amid poverty and crime and was jailed for Guildford pub bombings. he describes torture and miscarriages of justice. Chris Offutt shares struggle to find his voice in The Same River Twice. L A Times novel traces Mafia and film industry satire in Harper edition. Woods yields a controversial Mafia enforcer tale influenced by The Player and Prizzi's Honor. Airing mixed literary and crime themes across multiple titles.
In the novel Disclosure Crichton presents a power politics saga at a Seattle tech firm. Meredith Johnson a former girlfriend seduces and then targets married executive Tom Sanders when he rejects her. A woman lawyer weighs the case as Sanders fights back, amid corporate acquisition plots.
The forthcoming weekly lists hardcover fiction nonfiction and paperbacks headlined by Accident by Danielle Steel and The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller. Other top titles include Disclosure Crichton The Client Grisham and Schindler's List Keneally along with self help and lifestyle books across mass market and trade paperback categories.
Sales declined until Viking halted further printings after Sir Stephen Spender sued over alleged theft from his World Within World memoir. Spender charged Leavitt copied a 1951 recount of a wartime romance with added sexual details. Viking said the paperback would be revised and no more hardcovers printed, with a possible new prologue by Leavitt.
Camp Bros hosts signing, discussion and art exhibit for She Taught Me To Eat Artichokes by Mary Kay Shanley with 16 illustrations by Paul Micich. Live from Prairie Lights airs 8 p.m. on WSUI and WOI with readings by Butler, Adcock, Miller, and Greenberger. University of Iowa seeks Nancy Drew essay submissions for an anthology with four copies, a bio, stamped return, and optional disk submission. Call (319) 335-5828 for details.
Iowa University Press issues two collections by 1993 prize winners. Ann Harleman’s Happiness follows passionate individuals seeking meaning in ordinary life, while Renee Manfredi’s Where Love Leaves Us gathers nine stories about luminous outsiders. ISU Press offers Uncle Henry, a documentary on Henry Wallace, and Baptism of Fire on Iowa Republican history.
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