Prairie Publication Has Elite Clientele
Norman AP reports Books Abroad, a University of Oklahoma Press quarterly, as the world’s only such publication. Editor Wolfgang Fleischmann oversees 1,200 reviews yearly from a 500-strong reviewer pool, serving a cosmopolitan library and scholar readership despite modest circulation. He notes broad agreement on literary value but sharp East West tensions over themes, with Marxist works from East German scholars treated with caution before party line.
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Moscow
San Francisco
University of Oklahoma Press
Wolfgang Bernard Fleischmann
Fleischmann
West
Vladimir Nabokov
Oklahoma
Marx
Fleischmanor
Hardcover Best Sellers List Update
The latest top selling list shows fiction including The Ship of Fools by Porter ranking second, Franny and Zooey by Salinger at first, and The Bull from the Sea by Renault at third. Non fiction features Calorie Counting by Taller at first, My Life in Court by Nizer at second, and The Guns of August by Tuchman at third.
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Porter
Franny and
Zooey
Salinger
Renault
Hughes
Stone
Taller
Nizer
Tuchman
Nixon
Mor
Belle de Jour Novel Review by Joseph Kessel
A critical look at Belle de Jour by Joseph Kessel notes the author’s claim the work centers on Severine's love for her husband Pierre despite her degenerate double life. The piece questions the novel’s portrayal of love and character, arguing the husband’s reality remains unclear under the novel’s pathological themes.
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Joseph Kessel
St. Martin's
France
Severine
Pierre
Kessel
Bud Collyer Publishes Thou Shalt Not Fear Book
Bud Collyer, longtime host of television game shows, releases Thou Shalt Not Fear an inspirational faith based book. Since mid March it has sold about 1000 copies daily, highlighting Collyer’s off stage role as an active Christian layman.
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Bud Collyer
Collyer
Cain Novel Shallow But Lively
New Orleans 1864 Civil War close era tale by James M Cain about a wounded veteran narrator seeking funds for an engineering project. A contraband cotton trade father links the heroine to shady quasi legal schemes and a glamorous French dame runs a gambling house as double crosses and danger unfold.
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New Orleans
Paperback Best Sellers Highlight Thick Reich Reissue
One of the thickest paperbacks tops the local list this week with William L. Shirer The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich a 1600 page reprint priced at 1.65. Other titles include Advise and Consent To Kill a Mockingbird See The Carpetbaggers The Guilty One Song of the Red Ruby The Tight White Collar Dear and Glorious Physician Sons and Daughters.
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Dray
Kill
Mockingbird
See
Carpetbaggers
Robbins the
Guilty One
Telfer
Gallagher the Tight White Collar
Metalious
Physician
Caldwell Sons and Daughters
Gallagher
Volcano Popocatepetl Near Pueblo Mexico Smokes
The highest active volcano in the world, Popocatepetl, known as smoking mountain, stands near Pueblo in Mexico and remains in an active eruption state.
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Smoking Mountain
Pueblo
Mexico
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