Publishers Weekly articles from July 1992

Publishers Weekly archives from July 1992

Canadians, after tough year, look to the fall. (Canadian Booksellers Association)
July 27, 1992... Bookseller convention reflects retailer resilience,publisher anxiety over return levels At the Canadian Booksellers Association annual convention July 3-6 there were a few glimmers of hope that the country's book industry, hit with the...

New Ingram software points to changes in book ordering.
July 27, 1992... In a move that will make it easier for Ingram customers to order electronically (and receive immediate order confirmation) from Ingram and other wholesalers, the company will roll out Flashback III, the newest version of its ordering...

'Fatherland' to Harper in third big reprint auction. (the reprint rights to Robert Harris' 'Fatherland' were sold to HarperPaperbacks for $1.75 million) (Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... The third reprint auction this month in which the winning bid hit seven figures has seen HarperPaperbaks acquire Robert Harris's first novel, Fatherland, for $1.8 million. Four other houses competed: Dell, St. Martin's, Avon and...

Clarkson Potter's Carol Southern gets her own Crown imprint.
July 27, 1992... Following in the footsteps of Joni Evans and Linda Grey, Carol Southern, editor-in-chief and associate publisher of Clarkson Potter Publishers, is relinquishing her corporate and administrative duties in favor of developing and launching her...

Bookazine is moving to bigger warehouse in N.J. (book distributor Bookazine Company Inc. will be relocating to a larger and more modern warehouse in Bayonne, New Jersey) (Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Bookazine Book Distributor has announced plans to relocate to a larger, more efficient, state-of-the-art warehouse in Bayonne, N.J., where it will open for business on September 8. Bookazine will continue to maintain an office in New York...

Scholastic consolidation in SoHo move. (Scholastic Inc. moving to 555 Broadway, New York, New York in mid-1993) (Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Scholastic Inc. is consolidating its operations, at present divided between four Manhattan locations, into one building on lower Broadway in Soho, and will move there in mid-1993. Cynthia Harrison, v-p for communications at Scholastic,...

Van Duyn is first female U.S. poet laureate. (Mona Van Duyn will become poet laureate of the United States in October, 1992) (Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Mona Van Duyn, a St. Louis poet, will be the first woman to become poet laureate of the United States when she takes up her duties in October. Born and educated in Iowa, Van Duyn is author of two books to be published early next year,...

Philippines committed to copyright law enforcement, but still reprinting.
July 27, 1992... In a letter written to U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills in April and only recently made public, the government of the Philippines has expressed a willingness to enforce its copyright laws and regulations more strictly and to address the...

New children's publisher launched in Switzerland. (Caligram to publish children's literature in French, English, German and Italian) (Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Tiny Switzerland will soon have a world-class children's book publisher, Caligram, producing books in English, German, Italian and possibly other languages, as well as French, with regular co-publishing partners for still more. Its...

Drugan is NEBA executive director. (Wayne Drugan named executive director of the New England Booksellers Association) (Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Wayne (Rusty) Drugan, former vice-president of Reading International Bookstores in Belmont and Cambridge, Mass., has been named the executive director of the New England Booksellers Association. He succeeds Sharon Kirby, who resigned in May...

Tobin leaves Bantam to run Quality Paperback Book Club. (Greg Tobin named editorial director of Quality Paperback Book Club) (Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Greg Tobin, former associate publisher of the Domain imprint at Bantam Books, has been named editorial director of Quality Paperback Book Club. The appointment, announced last week by George Artandi, president and CEO of Book-of-the-Month...

Study on school buying patterns for grades 7-12. (Lois Eskin Associates and Hagen Research survey 2,000 social studies and 2,000 science department heads) (Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... In an effort to provide accurate data on a significant part of the educational market for the first time, Lois Eskin Associates and Hagen Research have collaborated on separate surveys of 2000 social studies and 2000 science department heads...

Behind the bestsellers. (includes related tabular information on best selling hardcover and paperback books for July 27, 1992) (Column)
July 27, 1992... CONVENTIONAL WISDOM A LA CRAMER Richard Ben Cramer's What It Takes: Running for President, was published on July 4 and to date has 45,000 copies in print. It real surge in sales began during the week of the Democratic National...

Selling books on Japan. (includes related information on booksellers' suggested books and on JACP Inc. best sellers)
July 27, 1992... Retailers recommend front and backlist titles useful for bridging the cultural gap In January, Knopf rushed Michael Crichton's Rising Sun to press a month early in order to capitalize on the timely topic of tense U.S.-Japan relations....

ARL annual statistics 1990-91: remembrance of things past, present ... and future? (Association of Research Libraries)
July 27, 1992... The library is a living, breathing repository of what Alain Resnais, in his film about the French Bibliotheque Nationale, called Toute la Memoire du Monde. Connecting time past, present and future is the mission of the 119 North American...

Widening the pool: reaching out to multicultural talent.
July 27, 1992... HarperCollins Children's Books and ScottForesman recently announced the formation of the Center for Multicultural Children's Literature. The Center will provide a mentoring service for writers and illustrators of color who wish to have their...

New dates for Bologna fair. (the 1993 Bologna Children's Book Fair is scheduled for April 15th-18th) (Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Next year's Bologna Children's Book Fair will be held from Thursday, April 15th-Sunday, April 18th. Fair management has announced that, contrary to statements that the fair would be held in the future from Wednesday to Saturday (with Sunday...

Binsztok moves to Editions du Seuil. (Jacques Binsztok will start a children's literature list at Editions du Seuil) (Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... One of France's best-known children's publishers, Jacques Binsztok, has left his job as the head of Albin Michel's children's department to start a new children's list at Editions du Seuil, a major literary and social science imprint which...

'Reading Rainbow' wins directing Emmy. (public television program wins 1992 Daytime Emmy award) (Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Reading Rainbow, the public television series created to encourage children to read, won a 1992 Daytime Emmy Award for best directing in a children's series at the annual Emmy ceremonies last month. The award went to Larry Lancit (president...

International focus. (book markets in central and eastern Europe) (Column)
July 27, 1992... Go East The oceans clearly put us at a disadvantage; Americans tend to think our continent is all. And when a whole new market opens up, as one is now in the former Soviet bloc, all too many book traders fail to sit up and take notice. Yet it...

Soho revives a '30s bestseller - and a China that is no more. (The House of Exile)
July 27, 1992... Where are the bestsellers of yesteryear? Many, of course, disappear, never to see the light of publishing day again, done in by their connections to passing fads, to changing tastes, to authors whose fashionable names cease to have any...

ESOP is no fable at Worzalla. (employee stock option plan)(Worzalla Publishing Co.)
July 27, 1992... Employee ownership and hard work combine to help this Wisconsin printer live happily ever after Worzalla Publishing, a printing company in Stevens Point, Wis., almost didn't reach its centennial this year. Back on Thanksgiving Day in...

Ventana offers 'tour guide' to America online: the market for books that introduce users to the many online options is small but solid. (Ventana Press Inc.)
July 27, 1992... The market for books that introduce users to the many online options is small but solid Computer publisher Ventana Press has formed an alliance with American Online Inc. to produce a retail package combining a handbook and a software...

New business series from Random House.
July 27, 1992... Following up on its charter to stretch the boundaries of the computer book category, Random House Electronic Publishing has joined forces with MECA Software to produce a series of small-business and personal-finance books packaged with...

Sams launches a new imprint.
July 27, 1992... Sams, an imprint of Prentice Hall Computer Publishing, has launched a new line of books called Alpha Books, targeted at the home computer market. In addition to new titles to be released over the next few months, several lines from the...

Networking the scholars: AAUP in Chicago. (Association of American University Presses)(includes related information on Ferdinand Mount, on definitions by David Bartlett and on design winners)
July 27, 1992... AAUP IN CHICAGO University presses are leading the way in electronic cooperation--but still concentrating on the basics The 1992 annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses, held June 21-24 in Chicago, paid...

SSP meeting: information encounters. (Society for Scholarly Publishing)
July 27, 1992... "Information Encounters of the Scholarly Kind" was the stated theme of the 14th annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, held in Chicago just before the AAUP meeting, but the attendees' actual focus was on emerging alternatives...

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: despite her difficult childhood, this writer's work and life convey an infectious joie de vivre. (PW Interviews)
July 27, 1992... Despite her difficult childhood, this writer's work and life convey an infectious joie de vivre Barbara Grizzuti Harrison sits in her compact, 25th-floor Park Avenue apartment, which affords dizzying vistas of sun, sky and East River,...

The Hurricane Season.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... (*) THE HURRICANE SEASON Rosemary Daniell. Morrow, $20 ISBN 0-688-08860-0 In a dense narrative studded with vivid imagery, Easter O'Brian looks back on her life from the vantage point of late middle age and some renown as a...

Yoruba Girl Dancing.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... YORUBA GIRL DANCING Simi Bedford. Viking, $19 ISBN 0-670-84045-9 A semiautobiographical first novel about a Nigerian girl's adjustment to life at an English boarding school, this is an affecting and mordant appraisal of British...

Driving Force.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... DRIVING FORCE Dick Francis. Putnam, $21.95 ISBN 0-399-19170-4 Archetypal Francis hero Freddie Croft is a 35-year-old former champion steeplechase jockey, knowledgeable about the British racing milieu and tolerant of its denizens,...

The Last Studebaker.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... THE LASTTT STUDEBAKER Robin Hemley. Graywolf, $20 ISBN 1-55597-167-9 This affecting, nostalgic drama of family dysfunction and reunion takes place in present-day South Bend, Ind., where the Studebaker plant, shut down in 1963,...

Voodoo, Ltd.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... (*) VOODOO, LTD. Ross Thomas. Mysterious, $19.95 ISBN 0-89296-451-0 In his 24th book, counting the five he has written as Oliver Beech, Thomas (Twilight at Mac's Place; The Fourth Durango) is in top form; this thriller is stuffed...

The Trespassers.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... THE TRESPASSERS Robert Roper. Ticknor & Fields, $19.95 ISBN 0-89919-987-9 Set in California's Santa Cruz Mountains, this draggy tale of adultery in the woods recalls Lady Chatterley's Lover with a lush, realistic, sensitive...

Pacific Nightmare: How Japan Started World War III - A Future History.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... PACIFIC NIGHTMARE: How Japan Started World War III--A Future History Simon Winchester. Birch Lane, $18.95 ISBN 1-55972-136-7 The catalyst for this novel by a Hong Kong-based correspondent for the British newspaper the Guardian is...

Witness to the Truth.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... WITNESS TO THE TRUTH Paul Lindsay. Random, $20 ISBN 0-679-41198-4 In this debut novel, FBI agent Lindsay puts the heat on the agency's bosses in a no-holds-barred romp through highcrime Detroit. Special agent Mike Devlin sidesteps...

Across the Street.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... ACROSS THE STREET Georges Simenon, translated by John Petrie. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/ Wolff, $18.95 ISBN 0-15-103266-1 First published in French in 1945, the late Simenon's small gem of a novel is the claustrophobic tale of a...

Arcadia.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... (*) ARCADIA Jim Crace. Atheneum, $20 ISBN 0-689-12158-X British novelist Crace again proves himself an assured storyteller and master craftsman in his third novel, a sardonic, witty morality tale. Moreover, he seems a brilliant...

Revelations.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Sophy Burnham. Ballantine, $20 ISBN 0-345-37233-6 Having explored heavenly visitations in her nonfiction bestsellers A Book of Angels and Angel Letters, Burnham again turns to religious themes in this well-crafted, highly absorbing novel....

Blood Knot.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... BLOOD KNOT Sam Llewellyn. Pocket, $20 ISBN 0-671-67046-8 Extensive nautical lore, a taut plot and copious helpings of dirty politics help distinguish this adventure. English journalist Bill Tyrrell gives up the writing game when...

Hand in Hand.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... HAND IN HAND Tauno Yliruusi, translated with an introduction by Richard Impola. Eriksson, $17.95 ISBN 0-8397-3156-6 An aging couple, happily married for 43 years, decide to end their lives together rather than face separation in...

What a Piece of Work: Stories.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... WHAT A PIECE OF WORK: Stories Will Baker. Univ. of Missouri, $19.95 ISBN 0-8262-0853-3 With these eight stories, a quietly lethal satirist of popular culture sends up self-help fads, corporate conformism, commercialized modern art,...

The Spy.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... THE SPY Marc Eden. Evans, $19.95 ISBN 0-87131-703-6 Screenwriter/producer Eden bases his stylish, intriguing first novel on the memoirs of a genuine spy, Englishwoman Valerie Sinclair, who trained for a dangerous WW II mission...

The Long-Legged Fly.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... THE LONG-LEGGED FLY James Sallis. Carroll & Graf, $17.95 ISBN 0-88184-810-7 Poet and short story writer Sallis creates a lyrical, unconventional suspense novel that reads like variations on a blues riff. In four sections, set in...

The Killing Winds.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... THE KILLING WINDS Clare Francis. Simon & Schuster, $23 ISBN 0-671-76939-1 Francis's latest thriller (after Night Sky) invokes the specter of environmental pollution. In a leisurely plot that takes some time to catch fire but...

Lady of Spain.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... LADY OF SPAIN Robert Love Taylor. Algonquin, $16.95 ISBN 0-945575-79-3 Set in Oklahoma City, this lyrical, often witty novel explores a somewhat mundane 1950s boyhood. Vaguely interrelated episodes in protagonist Bill Haynes's...

Till the Fat Lady Sings.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... TILL THE FAT LADY SINGS Alisa Kwitney. HarperCollins/Asher, $19 ISBN 0-06-019021-3 This hip debut ruminates on the concept of food as a substitute for love. In satirical, pseudo-profound prose Kwitney skewers her characters, all...

The Lawyer's Tale.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... THE LAWYER'S TALE D. Kincaid. Turtle Bay, $20 ISBN 0-679-40772-3 Legal brinkmanship and cunning courtroom strategy animate this uneven tale of a famous litigator working the glittery turf of contemporary Los Angeles. Harry Cain...

The Ships.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... THE SHIPS Roberto Quesada. Four Walls Eight Windows, $17.95 ISBN 0-941423-65-4 Guillermo, a pineapple harvester on a Honduran plantation owned by the U.S. Standard Fruit company, is the narrator of this unsatisfying coming-of-age...

The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... MYSTERIES THE SNAKE, THE CROCODILE AND THE DOG Elizabeth Peters. Warner, $19.95 ISBN 0-446-51585-X Indomitable Amelia Peabody is nearly undone in the latest romantic thriller to feature this strong-minded Victorian...

Showcase.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... SHOWCASE Alison Glen. Simon & Schuster, $19 ISBN 0-671-74573-5 Although it gives a rare starring role to Columbus, Ohio, this debut by a pseudonymous pair of first novelists otherwise sticks doggedly to crime formulas and seldom...

Defend and Betray.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... DEFEND AND BETRAY Anne Perry. Fawcett Columbine, $18 ISBN 0-449-90755-4 In Perry's third mystery set in Victorian London, military hero Thaddeus Carlyon falls from the top of a staircase and is impaled on a suit of armor below--an...

The Keeper.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Meg O'Brien. Doubleday/Perfect Crime, $18.50 ISBN 0-385-42482-5 The author of four mysteries starring reporter Jesse James (The Daphne Decisions, etc.) takes a break from her series to offer a simplistic plucky-heroine-in-a-tough-spot...

Love Cools.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... (*) LOVE COOLS W. Edward Bain. Putnam, $19.95 ISBN 0-399-13779-3 Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains again serve as the stage for duplicity and murder in this wonderful whodunit by the author of the Edgar-nominated Passion Play. Six...

Out of the Darkness.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... (*) OUT OF THE DARKNESS Susan Kelly. Villard, $18 ISBN 0-679-41131-3 Kelly's protagonist, Boston crime writer Liz Connors, joins forces with bestselling crime author Griffin Marcus in her latest thought-provoking appearance...

Mistress of Justice.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Jeffrey Wilds Deaver. Doubleday/Perfect Crime, $18.50 ISBN 0-385-42377-2 A plethora of generally interesting asides make this lethargically paced mystery an easy, yet ultimately a somewhat frustrating read. As we follow the paralegal...

Maggody in Manhattan.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... MAGGODY IN MANHATTAN Joan Hess. Dutton, $19 ISBN 0-525-93519-3 Some of the hardier citizens of Maggody, Ark., take on Manhattan and triumph. Ruby Bee Hanks visits New York for the finals of the Krazy KoKoNut cook-off, but ends up...

Skin Deep.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... SKIN DEEP Hugh Miller. St. Martin's, $16.95 ISBN 0-312-08293-2 In his second DI Mike Fletcher mystery, Miller (An Echo of Justice) straddles several genres to produce a tale of deft effect and dark narrative angles. In urban...

Live to Regret.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... LIVE TO REGRET Terence Faherty. St. Martin's/Dunne, $17.95 ISBN 0-312-08255-X In this weak follow-up to his Edgar-nominated debut Deadstick, Faherty features one real and one fake suicide attempt and lots of tortured...

Hellburner.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... SCIENCE FICTION HELLBURNER C.J. Cherryh. Warner/Questar, $21.95 ISBN 0-446-51617-1 SF veteran Cherryh's view of the future is unrelentingly cynical, and her protagonists are often ordinary people caught between corrupt...

Will the Last Person to Leave the Planet Please Shut Off the Sun?(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Mike Resnick. Tor, $18.95 ISBN 0-312-85276-2 This first collection of short fiction from Resnick (Second Contact) features several of his most popular stories and an array of less distinguished work. Standouts include "Kirinyaga" and...

Animal Minds.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... NONFICTION (*) ANIMAL MINDS Donald R. Griffin. Univ. of Chicago, $24.95 ISBN 0-226-30863-4 Vervet monkeys use special calls to mislead their neighbors. Beavers plug up leaks in dams, cutting pieces of wood to fit a...

Extremes: Reflections on Human Behavior.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... EXTREMES: Reflections on Human Behavior A. J Dunning, translated by Johan Theron. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich/ Wolff, $19.95 ISBN 0-15-129476-3 In 14 highly entertaining, often provocative essays, Dutch cardiologist Dunning probes...

Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... MGIC LANDS: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940 John M. Findlay. Univ. of Calif., $35 ISBN 0-520-07703-2 The four planned cityscapes examined in Findlay's arresting study had an impact on urban design and...

Juggernaut: The German Way of Business; Why It Is Transforming Europe - and the World.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... JUGGERNAUT: The German Way of Business: Why It Is Transforming Europe--and the World Philip Glouchevitch. Simon & Schuster, $21 ISBN 0-671-74410-0 German business is poised to lead the West into the 21st century, according to this...

Light of the Feather: Pathways Through Contemporary Indian America.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... LIGHT OF THE FEATHER: Pathways Through Contemporary Indian America Mick Fedullo. Morrow, $22 ISBN 0-688-11559-4 Much to his surprise, the author, an Anglo born and reared near Philadelphia, went West in the late 1970s and soon...

Adhocracy: The Power to Change.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... ADHOCRACY: The Power to Change Robert H. Waterman Jr. Norton, $15.95 ISBN 0-393-03414-3 Waterman (The Renewal Factor, etc.) defines adhocracy as an "organizational form that challenges the bureaucracy in order to embrace the new."...

American Folk Masters: The National Heritage Fellows.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... AMERICAN FOLK MASTERS: The National Heritage Fellows Steve Siporin, color photography by Michel Monteaux. Abrams, $49.50 ISBN 0-8109-1917-6 The melting-pot image of America belies the crazy-quilt ethnic diversity that continues to...

Lions Don't Need to Roar: Using the Leadership Power of Professional Presence to Stand Out, Fit In and Move Ahead.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... LIONS DON'T NEED TTO ROAR: Using the Leadership Power of Professional Presence to Stand Out, Fit In and Move Ahead D. A. Benton. Warner, $19.95 ISBN 0-446-51667-8 As in society at large, reflecting the priority of packaging over content...

Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Sport and the American Jewish Experience Peter Levine. Oxford Univ., $24.95 ISBN 0-19-505129-9 Levine, a professor of history at Michigan State, here composes a valuable footnote to American sports history. He begins by pointing out that...

When You Can't Come Back.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Dave and Jan Dravecky with Ken Gire. Harper San Francisco, $18.95 ISBN 0-310-58560-0 Dravecky, a southpaw pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, gave fans a horrible scare when he broke his left arm on the mound during a game. Playing...

Rising in the West: The True Story of an 'Okie' Family from the Great Depression Through the Reagan Years.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... RISING IN THE WEST: The True Story of an "Okie" Family from the Great Depression Through the Reagan Years Dan Morgan. Knopf, $25 ISBN 0-394-57453-2 This deft, often spellbinding true story of the westward migration and upward mobility of...

Love, Janis.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Laura Joplin. Villard, $22.50 ISBN 0-679-41605-6 Blues singer Janis Joplin, who died of a heroin overdose in 1970 at the age of 27, is recalled here by her sister, who seems as square as Janis was hip. Although the portrait opens...

Art in the Age of Aquarius: 1955-1970.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... William C Seitz, compiled and edited by Marla Price, foreword by Ron Rosenblum. Smithsonian, $49.95 ISBN 0-87474-868-2 This passionate, scholarly review of art of the 1960s by a curator/art historian who was instrumentally involved in the...

Confessions of a Fast Woman.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Lesley Hazleton. Addison-Wesley, $15 ISBN 0-201-63204-7 Eager to write the car column for Lear's magazine from an immediate, concrete viewpoint, Hazleton (Where Mountains Roar) undertook to become a racing driver. She did so with great...

The New Leaders: Guidelines on Leadership Diversity in America.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Ann M. Morrison. Jossey-Bass (Macmillan,dist.), $25.95 ISBN 0-55542-459-7 Reflecting Morrison's views on how to improve business practices, her third book offers advice possibly more helpful than Breaking the Glass Ceiling (about...

All God's Mistakes: Genetic Counselling in a Pediatric Hospital.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Charles L. Bosk. Univ. of Chicago, $24.95 ISBN 0-226-06681-9 According to University of Pennsylvania sociology professor Bosk Forgive and Remembere), the kind of applied genetic science which he observed during three years as a "guest"...

The Twilight of Sovereignty: How the Information Revolution is Transforming Our World.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Walter B. Wriston. Scribners, $25 ISBN 0-684-19454-6 In a thoughtful essay, the chairman emeritus of Citibank offers shrewd observations of how the information revolution has affected the U.S. economy, manufacturing, international trade,...

City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1820-1920.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Timothy J. Gilfoyle. Norton, $24.95 ISBN 0-393-02800-3 This scholarly yet ribald history of New York City's "whorearchy" (as early wags termed the ladies of the night) also sheds light on present mores. Gilfoyle, who teaches at Chicago's...

Flying the Hump: Memories of an Air War.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Otha C. Spencer. Texas A & M Univ., $24.50 ISBN -89096-513-7 When the occupying Japanese cut off China from outside contact during WW II, the Americans quickly established "the Hump," an airlift of troops and supplies over the Himalayas...

Hot and Bothered: Sex and Love in the Nineties.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Wendy Dennis. Viking, $21 ISBN 0-670-84502-7 Men are totally confused, women needlessly exasperated, and many of both genders have given up on sex and romance, according to this funny, racy appraisal of sexually revolutionized,...

Wednesday's Children: Adult Survivors of Abuse Speak Out.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Suzanne Somers. Putnam/Healing Vision, $22.95 ISBN 0-399-13743-2 Celebrities who reveal that their parents abused them shouldn't be criticized, states TV actress Somers, who chronicled her own unhappy childhood in Keeping Secrets. If...

Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Phillips Verner Bradford and Harvey Blume. St. Martin's, $22.95 ISBN 0-312-08716-2 This amazing and deftly told adventure explores the life of a Congolese pygmy exhibited at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 and the Bronx Zoo in 1906....

Community of Learning: The American College and the Liberal Arts Tradition.(Brief Article)
July 27, 1992... Francis Oakley. Oxford Univ., $22.50 ISBN 0-19-505199-8 In his affirmation of the liberal arts tradition, Williams College president Oakley (Creation) stands out refreshingly from the many recent critics of the quality of undergraduate...