Publisher Dr Grace launches Moore Publishing Co in Durham
News about Dr Eugene V Grace a Durham physician who became a publisher and started Moore Publishing Co. The firm joins John F Blair Inc and Heritage Press as publishers of North Carolina and regional books. The first catalog lists 39 titles across fiction non fiction poetry cookbooks mysteries biographies and children books. Grace personally guaranteed funding for two to three years and pursued manuscripts guiding the early venture. He recalls a winter writing workshop inspiring the publishing idea amid costs risks and praise from colleagues.
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Eugene V. Grace
Durham
Moore Publishing Co
John F. Blair Inc
Winstow- Salem
Heritage Press
Charlotte
Manly Wade Wellman
Joyce Crawford
John
Ellie Clark
Mena Webb
Laird Gilliam
Harry Golden
Dr. Grace
Mark Twain
Kirkus Service
North Carolina
New York
Motiveless Malignity by Louis Auchincloss review
A brisk overview of Auchincloss’s Motiveless Malignity a collection of essays interpreting Shakespeare through motives and perverse irrationality. The critic notes essays on Othello Lear Timon Coriolanus and others, plus a piece on the sonnets suggesting five lovers patrons and a dark mistress as targets.
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Auchincloss
Shakespeare
Othello
Tago
Lear
Macbath
Leontes
Hector
Timon
Coriolanus
Art Of 1960s A Low Spot A Ravine CULTURE GULCH
John Canaday collects on-the-spot NY art scene reviews in a 1960s essays volume from Farrar Straus and Giroux. The critic mixes spice and common sense, skewering bungling shows, overpromoted dealers, and pompous curators while revealing art personalities and the woes of small museums.
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Culture Gulch
John Canaday
Farrar, Straus
Canaday
New York
New York Times
Pharaoh's Chicken Scorching Satire on India's Mess
Nicholas Wollaston's novel follows David Knapp a British salesman drawn to India to manage famine aid. Through a cast of corrupt officials and ignorant locals the story exposes caste, graft and inept self-rule efforts. David's disillusion ends with him fleeing the country as satire sharpens.
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Wollaston
India
Memoir of Dirty Book Project by NY Times Reporter
George Vecsey recounts joining 24 Newsday colleagues in the Naked Came the Stranger hoax. He recalls the memo from Mike McGrady urging writing badly, the need to mock sensationalism, and his personal messy start amid a farmhouse renovation as he began the collaboration.
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George Vecsey
Penelope Ashe
New York Times
Associated Press
Newsday
Long Island
Mike McGrady
McGrady
Marianne
Bob Green
Bob Waters
Harvey Aronson
Suburbia
Jack Schwartz
Jane Margold
Bob Wiemer
John Cummings
Bill McIlwain
Bernie Bookbinder
The
Space Authority
Robert Maser
Suburban writer’s crossroad sparks wild publishing spree
A Chicago area writer recalls assembling a collaborative novel with fellow journalists about a marriage strained by renovation and artistic license. The group’s book, touted for its erotic fantasy satire, unexpectedly sells briskly, prompting talk of Hollywood film rights and a spin off commune in Spain. Meanwhile ISO stamps mark labor anniversary in Tunisia and Thailand.
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New York Times
McGrady
Billie Young
Penelope Ashe
Lyle Stuart
Mortor
Martin Levin
Penelope
Brade
Hollywood
Spain
Thailand
Tunisia
International Labor Organization
ISO
Surrealist European Painters Today Exhibit Opens in Chicago
A Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art show titled European Painters Today features 80 works by 49 artists, all described as beyond realism. Notable names include Magritte, Matta, Francis Bacon, Vasarely, Soulages, and Fahlstrom, with diverse media from oil to neon and plexiglas.
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Asociated Press
Chicago
Rene Magritte
Museum of Contemporary Art
Magritte
Matta
Francis Bacon
Oyvind Fahlstrom
Pierre Soulages
Victor Vasarely
Santiago
Chile
United States
Mexico
London
Vasarely
Franz Kline
Fahlstrom
New Yorker
Steinberg
Alain Jacquet
France
Mead Corp
Dayton
Ohio
Paris
New York
Washington
Atlanta
High Museum of Art
Art Institute
Amsterdam
Dusseldorf
Stockholm
Chicago Museum
Steven Jay Urry
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LaFanci
Joe
Fred
Wallace
Anthony Quinn
Rogers
Siberia
Astaire
Vance
Martha
Aneager
Comedienne
Michael
Equilibrium
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Colleen
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Burton
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