Publishers Weekly articles from January 1998

Publishers Weekly archives from January 1998

Chandler named president of Ingram Book Company: Russell, Chi, Keeley and Focht also promoted.(Jim Chandler; Lavona Russell; Youngsuk Chi; Martin Keeley; Michael Focht)(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... The Ingram book Group has promoted five senior executives in what Group president and CEO Michael Lovett said as a move to "organize and align our Book Group companies so that we are in the best position to execute our strategic...

Scholastic in deal with Warner Bros.(Scholastic will have the option of adapting Warner Bros properties to children's books)(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Scholastic and Warner Bros. Worldwide Publishing have entered into a multiyear agreement that gives Scholastic a first-look option to adapt Warner Bros. motion picture and TV properties into children's books. The agreement covers all Warner...

Strong qtr. for AMS.(Advanced Marketing Services reports revenues of $150.5 million in the quarter ended December 27, 1997)(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... IN ANOTHER SIGN of the strength of holiday sales in the book industry, Advanced Marketing Services reported that revenues for the third quarter, ended Dec. 27, rose 33%, to $150.5 million, while net income was up 59%, to $4.6 million. ...

Speculation abounds about the future of Simon & Schuster.(rumors about divestment of specific groups)(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... A week after Viacom announced that it was selling all but the trade group of Simon & Schuster, the industry was buzzing about possible acquisition candidates, as well as how S&S executives will deal with the logistics of separating the consumer...

Levin named Hyperion editor-in-chief.(Martha Levin becomes vice president and editor-in-chief)(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Bob Miller, v-p and group publisher for Disney Book Publishing, has named Martha Levin the new v-p and editor-in-chief of Hyperion. Levin, who will report to Miller, succeeds Brian DeFiore who moved to Villard last fall. Levin most recently...

Grove/Atlantic looks beyond 'Cold Mountain.'(the success of 'Cold Mountain' by Charles Frazier helped financial results in 1997)(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Like many publishers, 1996 was a difficult year for Grove/Atlantic Monthly Press. "We suffered with returns," Grove/AMP publisher Morgan Entrekin noted, adding that "when you're a small company, you feel a bad year very quickly." Entrekin...

Ballantine names Meredith V-P, executive editor.(Leslie Meredith becomes vice president and executive editor)(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... LESLIE MEREDITH, former division v-p and editorial director at Harmony Book has been named v-p and executive editor at the Ballantine Publishing Group. Meredith will be responsible for directing the areas of spirituality, psychology,...

Web watch.(items include the self-publishing efforts of Nan McCarthy on her Web site, the consideration of online marketing in the publishing industry, and the Salon Book Awards)(Brief Article)(Column)
January 26, 1998... RECONNECT We have some news from Nan McCarthy, the former technical writer and founder of Rainwater Press who was profiled in this space last January on her Web site and the successful self-publishing of her three epistolary e-mail...

Andrews McMeel forms new division, strikes alliances.(publishing division formed, and distribution agreements concluded)(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... It has been an active couple of months for Andrews McMeel Publishing during which the Kansas City, Mo.-based publisher has signed a number of deals. Its most recent initiative was the formation of the Mary Engelbreit publishing division. The...

Publishers adjusting to Asian market conditions.(following concern over the economic crisis in Asia)(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Major American book publishers based in Asia await the year of the Tiger, which starts at the end of this month, with fear and trepidation. This last quarter of 1997 has seen Asia's worst economic decline since WWII, and as the economic...

Routledge has profitable year.($59 million in sales for fiscal year ended June 30, 1997)(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... ROUTLEDGE PUBLISHING reported sales of $59 million and an operating profit of $4.4 million for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1997, the first full year Routledge operated under Its new owner, the Cinven investment group (News, April 14, 1997)....

Doubleday Book Clubs on the Web.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Doubleday Direct, BDD's direct mail and book club unit, has launched a suite of Web sites featuring its many specialty book clubs. Doubleday Book Club (www. doubledaybookclub.com); Doubleday Large Print (www.doubledaylargeprint. com); the...

Behind the bestsellers.(items includes information about 'Fear Nothing' the new book by Dean Koontz, and information on other best sellers)(Brief Article)(Column)
January 26, 1998... BANTAM'S CROWING ABOUT KOONTZ' Dean Koontz is a familiar name on our national bestseller charts, and why not, with more than 200 million copies of his 33 novels sold worldwide. Even so, this successful, prolific writer is enjoying a...

FSG's 'Slaves' catches fire: portrait of plantation family and the descendants of its human chattel gets large print run, paperback offer.('Slaves in the Family' by Edward Ball, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
January 26, 1998... Unlike the sporadic start of the national dialogue on race that President Clinton began urging last year, Farrar, Straus & Giroux has had no problem getting its leading nonfiction title for spring, Edward Ball's Slaves in the Family, off the...

Bookbytes.(items include rumors that Stanley Kubrick's film 'Eyes Wide Shut' is based on Arthur Schnitzler's 'Traumnovelle')(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... RIGHTS WIDE SHUT? Expect an interesting movie tie-in battle in the next few months as eccentric director Stanley Kubrick reportedly wraps on his Eyes Wide Shut, his two-years-in-the-making Warner Bros. thriller starring Tom Cruise and...

Hush-hush collection rushed to stores.(Farrar, Straus and Giroux sends Ted Hughes' poetry collection, 'Birthday Letters,' to bookstores)(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Last monday, FSG could finally tell bookstore accounts what was so special about the Ted Hughes poetry collection that will be on sale starting February 17. In the collection, titled Birthday Letters, the 67-year-old British Poet Laureate...

Banking on a promise.(Hollywood and book contracts to Iris Rainer Dart for an as-yet-unwritten story, 'All the Rage')(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Getting first crack at story material is arguably Hollywood's leading competitive sport. The latest players to score are Mike Lobell and Andrew Bergman. Also benefiting by their coup is Iris Rainer Dart. Dart, the author of Beaches,...

Doing their own thing.(book-to-film contracts negotiated for Lindsay Maracotta, Robert Ward, Jill Climent)(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Three more book-to-film contracts negotiated by Bernstein likewise call for the authors to adapt their own works. Dead Hollywood Moms' Club, first in a series of novels by Lindsay Maracotta featuring a housewife sleuth (Morrow), has been tapped...

Latest Sundance hits.(two of the most popular films at the Sundance film festival were based on books by Cathleen Schine and Christopher Bram)(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Incidentally, the two films said to be responsible for the biggest buzz at the latest Sundance festival this month evolved from books by clients of one New York agency, Donadio & Ashworth. No Coast agents or studios were involved, the...

Up a tree.(Kiran Desai's 'Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard' will be published in paperback by Anchor, and by publishers in other countries)(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Prior to publication, scheduled for May, Grove Atlantic has just accepted a six-figure preempt from Anchor for paperback rights to Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai. Represented by Watkins Loomis, the title has already been sold by...

Durable goods.(Warner Bros has optioned the Ellery Queen stories for possible television production)(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... If you thought Ellery Queen had had it on television, chances are you will be proved wrong. Warner Bros. TV has optioned the series of novels, some 40 in all, penned by Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee under the Queen pseudonym. 1999...

Short subjects.(Book of the Month Club will offer Joanna Higgins' 'A Soldier's Book')(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... BOMC will be offering A Soldier's Book by Joanna Higgins. Cahill Stevens is a young Union soldier taken captive by Confederates in the novel scheduled by The Permanent Press for August.... After Dark, a 1986 bestseller by Phillip Margolin...

Independents trace title shortages to Internet booksellers: paralleling the growth of major online players, favorably reviewed titles are more difficult to reorder, indies say.(includes related article on customer relations in the publishing industry)
January 26, 1998... Paralleling the growth of the major online players, favorably reviewed titles are more difficult to reorder, indies say With sales through Internet bookstores steadily growing, independents are having a more difficult time getting reorders...

After Marin closing, A Clean Well-Lighted Place to focus on S.F.(A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books closes in Marin County, California, but the San Francisco, California, store will remain open)(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... On February 28, A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books at Larkspur Landing, Calif., will close its doors after almost 20 years of business. "Sales dropped in a way that we could no longer conduct business in a break-even manner," said owner Neal...

Happy holidays: sidelines made a strong showing; calendars were sterling in all stores.(holiday season 1997 at bookstores)
January 26, 1998... Around the country bookstore sidelines customers seemed generally cheery' albeit some were more cautious than others, depending on local economies. Sidelines sales were strong, and the perennial holiday staple, the calendar, performed with...

Time for customer-designed publishing.(boundaries in the consumer publishing field are beginning to blur, as there are fewer major and more minor players in the industry)(Column)
January 26, 1998... The post-holiday book returns season is upon us, stirring debate over the trade publishing industry's health. As a strategist and a practitioner who has been part of the industry for years, I challenge that concern. I believe the industry is...

O come all ye shoppers.(children's best sellers appearing during the 1997 holiday season)
January 26, 1998... The decorations and special displays have been put away and the throngs of shoppers have thinned. Now comes the time to assess the successes of the holiday book-buying season. Retailers and publishers alike routinely cross their fingers and...

Dazed and confused: the pace of change leaves publishers, printers and vendors gasping for air in the new year.(changes in publishing technology, and their possible effects on the industry)
January 26, 1998... Publishing Technology witnessed a landmark year in 1997, one that is likely to be remembered as the year that digital technology took hold in a big way. Several factors contributed to this effect: new printing production and editorial...

Up, up & away: as tourism steams ahead, publishers are expanding their horizons.(tourism is expected to expand rapidly during the first part of the 21st century, bringing a boom to the travel book industry)(Category Closeup: Travel)
January 26, 1998... Last month, the New York Times cited a World Tourism Organization study that predicted an expansion so rapid in worldwide travel that by 2020 "it will not only be the world's biggest industry, it will be the largest by far the world has ever...

All hands on deck: publishers and retailers talk about new projects, current business and prospects down the road.(Category Closeup: Travel)(includes related article on Israel's 50th anniversary)
January 26, 1998... Stuart Dolgins: Maps Will Always Be a Necessity It's a family operation, but it's certainly no small potatoes. "Langenscheidt was founded in 1856, and it's now being run by the fourth generation," says Stuart Dolgins, executive v-p and...

All aboard! A guide to the 1998 guides.(Category Closeup: Travel)(includes related information)(Bibliography)
January 26, 1998... ABBEVILLE Popular European settings are on view in Romantic Irish Landscapes (Apr., $27.50) by Iaian Zaczek and in Venice and the Veneto (Apr., $45) with photos by Sonja Bullaty and Angelo Lomeo and text by Sylvie Durastanti. ...

Jo-Ann Mapson: love, grief and horse sense.(author Jo-Ann Mapson and her latest novel, 'Loving Chloe')(PW Interview)
January 26, 1998... Jo-ann Mapson's great-grandfather founded California's first lemon-packing plant, but it's hard today to imagine citrus groves flowering anyplace near the nondescript one-story tract houses that fill block after block of Costa Mesa. The...

The Baker.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Paul Hond. Random, $23 (368p) ISBN 0-679-45673-2 First-novelist Hond turns potentially melodramatic material into a disturbing study of contemporary racial tensions and a moving portrait of a man in mourning. Baltimore baker Mickey Lerner is...

The Long Falling.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Keith Ridgway. Houghton Mifflin, $22 (208p) ISBN 0-395-90530-3 Set in Ireland, this grim debut follows a middle-aged woman on her doomed escape from her abusive, alcoholic husband. Grace Quinn's husband (a deliberate symbol of male brutality...

Nosferatu.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Jim Shepard. Knopf, $22 (208p) ISBN 679-44667-2 The versatility of imagination, range of subjects and variety of voices that Shepard has demonstrated in such fine novels as Kiss of the Wolf and the short-story collection Batting Against...

Dead Simple.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Jon Land. Forge/Doherty, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-312-86489-2 After Land's fiercely intelligent Middle Eastern thriller, The Walls of Jericho, this anti-terrorist thriller is a let-down. The start is promising: lack Tyrell, "Jackie Terror" of the...

Girlfriend in a Coma.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Douglas Coupland. ReganBooks, $24 (284p) ISBN 0-06-039178-2 Having long ago defined the grungy disaffection of Generation X hipsters, Coupland (Microserfs; Polaroids from the Dead) now turns to the subgenre du jour--the Apocalyptic...

The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Richard Teleky. Steerforth, $24 (224p) ISBN 1-883642-96-5 Teleky's first novel is a sensitive but somewhat listless look into the life of a 40-year-old woman whose mother, a Holocaust survivor, committed suicide when her daughter was in...

The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Richard Zimler. Overlook, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-87951-834-0 A young manuscript illuminator, fruitseller and secretly practicing Jew and Kabbalist searches for the murderer of his uncle in this ingenious debut set during the horrific 1506...

Journey of the Dead.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Loren D. Estleman. Forge, $21.95 (256p) ISBN 0-312-85999-6 Estleman follows Billy Gashade's rousing ride through the Old West with a dark, moody tale of Billy the Kid's infamous killer, Sheriff Pat Garrett, a man lost at the end of his...

Roverandom.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... J.R.R. Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin, $17 (128p) ISBN 0-395-89871-4 This juvenile adventure story is remarkable only for its authorship. A copious introduction and notes by editors and Tolkien scholars Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond detail...

Homeport.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Nora Roberts. Putnam, $23.95 (464p) ISBN 0-399-14387-4 When a bronze figure that might be a lost Michelangelo is unearthed in Florence, art historian Miranda Jones is summoned from Jonesport, Maine, by her imperious mother, Elizabeth...

Whistle.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Janice Daugharty. HarperFlamingo, $22 (224p) ISBN 0-06-017551-6 In much the same way that Shirley Ann Grau's 1964 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Keepers of the House defined the rural South of its time, Daugharty's fourth novel (after Earl in the...

Tell Me Lies.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Jennifer Crusie. St. Martin's, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 0-312-17940-5 It isn't easy to keep a secret in the claustrophobically small town of Frog Point, Ohio, where high-school passions and grudges are as fresh 20 years later as last week's...

The Cockfighter.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Frank Manley. Coffee House, $19.95 (224p) ISBN 1-56689-073-X Manley captures the volatile thoughts and feelings of a 12-year-old boy as the young hero of this spare, suspenseful debut steps outside of the shelter of his mother's care and into...

Teeth.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Hugh Gallagher. Pocket, $22 (290p) ISBN 0-671-55166-3 A single metaphor isn't much to hang an entire novel on, much less an earnest picaresque of callow youth, but that's what pop-journalist Gallagher has done in his first book. At 22, Neil...

Making History.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Stephen Fry. Random, $23 (400p) ISBN 0-679-45955-3 What if Hitler hadn't been born? That's the question behind transatlantic actor and comedian Fry's engaging satire about a Cambridge history student and a German physics professor who presume...

Rover's Tales.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Michael Z. Lewin, illus. by Karen Wallis. St. Martin's/Dunne, $21.95 (256p) ISBN 0-312-18169-8 Novels about anthropomorphized animal characters come with many potential pitfalls, but veteran mystery writer Lewin (Hard Line) deftly skirts...

The Fifth Mountain.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Paulo Coelho, trans. by Clifford E. Landers. HarperFlamingo, $23 (256p) ISBN 0-06-017544-3 Coelho, wildly popular in his native Brazil and author of the bestselling The Alchemist, has only mixed success with his quiet retelling of the story...

Head Case.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Jay Bonansinga. Simon & Schuster, $23 (304p) ISBN 0-684-82514-7 After a head injury, John McNally, the amnesiac hero of this formulaic but enjoyable psychological thriller, awakens in a Chicago clinic to find himself threatened by a man who...

The Dower House.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Annabel Davis-Goff. St. Martin's, $22.95 (304p) ISBN 0-312-17028-9 Postwar Ireland and London, where two world wars and the exorbitant costs of modernization have decimated the upper classes and their extravagant lifestyle, is the backdrop...

The Best of Cemetery Dance.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Edited by Richard Chizmar. Cemetery Dance Publications (P.O. Box 943, Abingdon, Md., 21009; 410-569-5683) $35 (800p) ISBN 1-881475-24-7 This hefty and satisfying anthology is superbly representative of the state of contemporary horror and...

Bed of Roses.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Katherine Stone. Warner, $22 (464p) ISBN 0-446-52179-5 What begins as an intriguing tale about a mysterious waif-turned-actress and her love affair with the adopted heir of a Napa Valley vineyard slides into a haphazard mishmash of abuse,...

Homestead.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Rosina Lippi. Delphinium (HarperCollins, dist.), $21 (224p) ISBN 1-883285-14-3 Each of the 12 keenly observed, interconnected stories in this absorbing debut collection focuses on an epochal moment in the life of one of three generations of...

Possessions.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Julia Kristeva. Columbia Univ., $27.50 (256p) ISBN 0-231-10998-9 "There's no more art, no more crime; we live in the age of artificial intelligence: the computer knows everything... it's the creator now," So says sleuth (and authorial alter...

In the House of Blue Lights.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Susan Neville. Univ. of Notre Dame, $25 (200p) ISBN 0-268-01183-4; paper $14 -01184-2 Winner of Notre Dame's 1998 Richard Sullivan Prize for Short Fiction, this collection features characters who keep distance between themselves and their...

Death in Paradise.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Carolyn Hart. Avon, $20 (288p) ISBN 0-380-97414-2 Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, better known as just Henrie O, proves that toughness is more a mental attitude than a physical attribute in her fourth outing (following Death in Lover's Lane,...

Death by Accident.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Bill Crider. St. Martin's/Dunne, $22-95 (288p) ISBN 0-312-18080-2 The three dead men shared a taste for drinking in a roadhouse. They die nastily--burned up in a field, face down in a pond and behind the wheel of a car. Texas cop Dan Rhodes,...

Brush Back.
January 26, 1998... K.C. Constantine. Mysterious, $22 (288p) ISBN 0-89296-646-7 He who lives by the bat dies by the bat in this latest case for "Rugs" Carlucci, the acting police chief in Rocksburg, Penn., that nondescript spot made famous by his predecessor,...

The Stalking Horse.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Miriam Grace Monfredo. Berkley Prime Crime, $21.95 (352p) ISBN 0425-15783-0 Monfredo delivers yet another lively historical mystery featuring Glynis Tryon (Through a Gold Eagle, 1996). But this time, Glynis's headstrong niece, Bronwen Llyr,...

A Corpse by Any Other Name.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Neil McGaughey. Scribner, $22 (208p) ISBN 0-684-19762-6 With nary a plausible event and domestic repartee sweet enough to choke Martha Stewart, why is this confection so enjoyable? Largely because McCaughey knows the ins and outs of the...

Strangler.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Larry Maness. Presidio/Lyford, $19.95 (192p) ISBN 0-89141-568-8 True crime, mystery and conspiracy theory blend in Cambridge, Mass., PI Jake Eaton's third outing (following A Once Perfect Place, 1996). Jake, his dog Watson and his girlfriend,...

Once Too Often.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Dorothy Simpson. Scribner, $21 (288p) ISBN 0-684-84578-4 In his 14th appearance, England's Inspector Luke Thanet (A Day for Dying, 1996, etc.) faces the dreaded task of giving a speech at his daughter's wedding and the less immediately...

Kirinyaga.
January 26, 1998... Mike Resnick. Del Rey, $25 (304p) ISBN 0-345-41701-1 Mount Kenya in East Africa, or Kirinyaga as it is traditionally known, is holy to the Kikuyu people. In the year 2123, Koriba, a highly educated Kenyan disgusted by what his nation has...

Between the Rivers.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Harry Turtledove. Tor, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 0-312-86202-4 In a fantasy world resembling ancient Mesopotamia, the gods are not only real but frequently present, constantly dictating human actions. Naturally, they are not happy with the city of...

Ship of Magic: Live Ship Traders, Book 1.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Robin Hobb. Bantam Spectra, $23.95 (704p) ISBN 0-553-10324-5 The thriving port city of Bingtown is home to powerful Trader families legendary for their use of "liveships"--fine, near-indestructible ships built of wizardwood that absorb the...

Outpost.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Scott Mackay. Tor, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 0-312-86467-1 Known in the U.S. for his short stories and a WWII thriller, A Friend in Barcelona, Mackay, who's Canadian, now presents a moving but oddly sparse SF novel. Time travel and interplanetary...

Someplace to Be Flying.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Charles De Lint. Tor, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 0-312-85849-3 De Lint's latest, disappointing foray into the magic of the fantastic city of Newford (Trader, 1997, etc.) deals primarily with the denizens of the city's slummy underbelly as they...

For the Time Being: A Science Fiction Fantasy.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Marie DesJardin. Write Way, $15-95 paper (436p) ISBN 1-885173-46-6 Ten superintelligent college students are kidnapped by aliens and taken to a distant planet. The aliens, dubbed "Hairies" by the kids, claim the snatch was necessary in order...

Chopin in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Tad Szulc. Scribner, $30 (426p) ISBN 0-684-82458-2 It seems odd to find Szulc, a former New York Times reporter who has written biographies of Fidel Castro and Pope John Paul 11, engaged in a biography of a major composer; but his Polish...

Tecumseh: A Life.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... John Sugden. Holt/Macrae, $30 (416p) ISBN 0-8050-4138-9 In a magnificent biography of the Shawnee chief Tecumseh, Sugden (Sir Francis Drake) sifts fact from legend to fashion a convincing portrait of a figure previously shrouded in...

The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Derek Sayer. Princeton Univ., $29.95 (413p) ISBN 0-691-05760-5 Sayer's previous books have carried such fearsome rifles as The Violence of Abstraction: The Analytical Foundations of Historical Materialism, so one can be forgiven for facing...

Irish Rebel: John Devoy and American's Fight for Ireland's Freedom.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Terry Golway. St. Martin's, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 0-312-18118-3 Much has been made of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, but had there been no John Devoy there probably wouldn't have been a Michael Collins. Devoy was the prototype for...

Nobody Knows the Truffles I've Seen: A Memoir.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... George Lang. Knopf, $30 (416p) ISBN 0-679-45094-7 Born in 1924 of Hungarian-Jewish parents who later died in the Holocaust, Lang (The Cuisine of Hungary) arrived in postwar New York City as a budding concert violinist who turned to the...

Do They Hear You When You Cry.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Fauziya Kassindja and Layli Miller Bashir. Delacorte, $24.95 (544p) ISBN 0-385-31832-4 In 1996, after spending 16 months in prison in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Kassindja--an 18-year-old who had fled Togo in West Africa--was granted legal...

From the Holy Mountain: Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... William Dalrymple. Holt, $27.50 (496p) ISBN 0-8050-5873-7 In a serendipitous voyage of discovery, British travel writer Dalrymple mingles with diverse Christian groups as he journeys from the Holy Mountain, a self-governing Orthodox monastic...

Texas Music.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Rick Koster. St. Martin's, $29.95 (352p) ISBN 0-312-18193-0 Freelance writer Koster claims that "Texas has perhaps the most diverse and colorful tradition in American musical history." True to the Texas image, he thinks big. This rollicking...

Notes of a Moscow Pianist.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Dmitry Paperno. Amadeus, $27.95 (240p) ISBN 1-57467-034-4 Paperno was one of a highly talented crop of Russian musicians (his contemporaries included Richter, Ashkenazy, Rostropovich, Oistrakh, Berman, Kogan and Gilels) who grew up, and were...

The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less.
January 26, 1998... Richard Koch. Doubleday Currency, $25 (288p) ISBN 0-385-49170-0 The "80/20 Principle" is the popular expression of a rule of economics that describes the typical imbalance existing between causes and effects, inputs and outputs, efforts and...

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Edward 0. Wilson. Knopf, $26 (352p) ISBN 0-679-45077-7 In 1975's foundational Sociobiology, Wilson suggested that human behavior might be linked to genetics. Two Pulitzer Prizes later (for On Human Nature and The Ants), Wilson calls on...

Sacred Space: Stories from a Life in Medicine.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Clif Cleaveland, M.D. American College of Physicians (Independence Mall West, Sixth St. at Race, Philadelphia, Pa. 19106-1572; 215-351-2642), $21.95 (210p) ISBN 0-943126-64-9 Every patient deserves a physician as compassionate as Cleaveland...

Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Peter Drucker, edited by Nan Stone. Harvard Business School, $29.95 (212p) ISBN 0-87584-836-2 This collection of Drucker's articles from the Harvard Business Review over the past 30 years is designed to show how the respected management guru...

The Soviet World of American Communism.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes and Kiril Mikhailovich Anderson. Yale, $35 (400p) ISBN 0-300-07150-7 In the 1995 entry in Yale's Annals of Communism series, The Secret World of American Communism, Klehr, Haynes and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov...

Altered Destinies: Making Life Better for Schoolchildren in Need.(Brief Article)
January 26, 1998... Gene I. Maeroff. St. Martin's, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 0-312-17543-4 Maeroff, director of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Teachers College, Columbia University, offers his readers a four-part theory and plan for improving the...