Will book lovers and outraged women snap shut their wallets this Christmas over Vintage Books' decision to publish Bret Easton Ellis' controversial American Psycho?
The Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women, following through on a threat earlier this month, makes a boycott of the publisher official today.
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Best && worst 1990; Books: Ominous signs lurk that new ideas are stifled by the pressure for profits
Dec. 24, 1990
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Let me be the first to admit that, as a book reviewer and an editor of book reviews, I am far from being an expert on the business of publishing. Still, I've been paid to have opinions about books for more than a decade now, and it's hard to resist having opinions as well about the people who make those books.
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Kelley's pointed pen; The prickly author stings ex-first lady
Apr. 8, 1991
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WASHINGTON - That Kitty Kelley. She can really dish it out.
Just ask Nancy Reagan. With today's release of Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography (Simon && Schuster, $24.95), the former first lady joins Jacqueline Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor and Frank Sinatra as unwilling specimens thrust under Kelley's merciless microscope.
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Where's Waldo now? There's no hiding from his success
Sept. 10, 1991
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Where isn't Waldo? That is the question.
What began in 1987 as Where's Waldo?, a highly successful children's puzzle book, is growing into a marketing empire worthy of the hype-mighty Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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'Scarlett' sparks a new civil war; Tomorrow is finally here for sequel
Sept. 24, 1991
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Tomorrow is another day.
But not just any day.
For 55 years, fans have wondered if Scarlett O'Hara would win back Rhett Butler.
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Hymn to the heartland; Heat-Moon's Kansas time-travels; Mapping the essence of 'PrairyErth'
Oct. 29, 1991
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BOSTON - William Least Heat-Moon is about as far from Darla's bar in Cottonwood Falls, Kan., as he can get. And that's fine with him right about now.
After eight years of roaming Chase County, Kan., searching for stories and a decent meal - and not necessarily in that order - Heat-Moon thinks the seafood buffet at the Ritz-Carlton here looks pretty darn good. Not a pickled turkey gizzard in sight.
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Brilliant biographies; repellent 'Psycho'
Dec. 30, 1991
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Best
Two truly noble non-fiction books published this year remind us of the fate of too many of our country's children. To read them is to feel an abiding shame at the neglect of these young people who struggle on under the impossible conditions the writers describe.
