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- ALAN ABEL, now 75, has been fooling America since the 1950s. He's the prankster behind such nonexistent organizations as Omar's School for Panhandlers, the International Sex Bowl Olympics, the Institute for a Healthy America, and the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals ("A nude horse is a rude horse"), which...
- Research articles 2006-04-01
- Oprah's success forces rethink at the Book-of-the-Month Club
- IN THE glory days, literary giants such as Mordechai Richler and Wilfred Sheed would meet for lunch every month in New York to select which new novels should be offered to America's readers. In this thoroughly bookish way, the Book-of-the-Month-Club became the trendsetter and taste-maker for generations....
- Research articles 2005-01-13
- T. H. White
- T. H. White A pioneering political journalist, T. H. White (1915-1986) gained prominence for his indepth coverage of American political campaigns. His book The Making of the President—1960 helped to alter the style and character of presidential campaigns as well as the way reporters cover them. Born May...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Book club gives a choice by genre
- NEW YORK -- The Book-of-the-Month Club, which used to call itself America's Bookstore before the rise of online bookselling and the spread of chain superstores, hopes to reinvent itself. Faced with dwindling membership and growing competition, the club is embarking on what executives say is the most radical change...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- Money and marriage: Hemingway's self-censorship in For Whom the Bell Tolls
- For most of his career as a professional writer, Ernest Hemingway fought a war against what he called "genteel writing." An examination of his career from the 1925 publication of In Our Time to the 1938 publication of The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories reveals that Hemingway enjoyed...
- Research articles 2003-03-22
- T. H. White
- T. H. White A pioneering political journalist, T. H. White (1915-1986) gained prominence for his indepth coverage of American political campaigns. His book The Making of the President—1960 helped to alter the style and character of presidential campaigns as well as the way reporters cover them. Born May...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- Jewish Book Of The Month
- Josephs, Susan The Jewish Week 03-23-2001 Jewish Book Of The Month The people responsible for the Book-of-the-Month Club have a new target: the People of the Book. Called "Traditions," the latest club launched by Bookspan will offer a ...
- Research articles 2001-03-23
- Jewish Book Of The Month
- Jewish Book Of The Month The people responsible for the Book-of-the-Month Club have a new target: the People of the Book. Called "Traditions," the latest club launched by Bookspan will offer a selection of Jewish books that aim to "surprise." "What this club will do is sell Judaica that no...
- Research articles 2001-03-23
- Book-of-the-Month Club Offers Rare Stephen King Anthology
- Business and Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 28, 2000 Book-of-the-Month ClubR, a BOOKPSANR book club, introduces SECRET WINDOWS: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing by Stephen King, an exclusive Book-of-the-Month Club anthology of unpublished stories, hard-to-find nonfiction pieces, and little-known interviews, and articles. The book, a...
- Research articles 2000-09-28
- New book club targets teenagers
- NEW YORK -- Last month Teen People and Book-of-the-Month Club Inc. announced the launch of the Teen People Book Club TPBC, offering more than 100 titles each month selected by a group of teenagers throughout the country known as the Review Crew and the TPBC editors. A monthly catalog...
- Research articles 2000-02-28
- New York-Based Book Clubs Form Partnership to Compete with Rivals.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 15 -- Book-of-the-Month Club and Doubleday Direct, the nation's two largest book clubs, will form a partnership to compete more effectively against online and discount book sellers. The agreement would allow Time Inc.'s Book-of-the-Month Club, based...
- Research articles 1999-12-14
- The business of reading : The Birth of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
- The history of the Book-of-the-Month Club, started in 1926 by Harry Scherman, is discussed. Topics include the club's beginnings, the emphasis on functionality and middle-class appeal of its selections, the reply-card method, criticisms, the economic impact on bookstores, and the club's legacy. Shawn Crawford is a freelance writer from...
- Research articles 1999-09-01
- OBITUARIES.(Obituary)
- CLIFTON FADIMAN Clifton Fadiman, editor, essayist, critic, a founder of the Book-of-the-Month Club and host of the popular 1930s radio show "Information Please," died June 20 at his son's home on Sanibel Island, Fla., of pancreatic cancer. He was 95. ...
- Research articles 1999-06-28
- Cultural authority and the use of new technology in the book trade.
- In 1920, a journal serving the dry goods industry profiled Miss L. Duzan, the manager of a highly regarded book department in a Richmond, Virginia, department store. Explaining her bookselling philosophy, Miss Duzan remarked, My sales are built up along staple and...
- Research articles 1999-01-01
- London firm opens local art-book distribution center
- A London publisher is moving to the Harrisburg area, and has rented a 25,000-square-foot warehouse in Swatara Township to accommodate its first-ever U.S. distribution center. The English company, Phaidon Press Inc., had been distributing books through San-Francisco-based Chronicle Books but decided it was time to strike out on its own,...
- Research articles 1998-06-12
- London firm opens local art-book distribution center
- A London publisher is moving to the Harrisburg area, and has rented a 25,000-square-foot warehouse in Swatara Township to accommodate its first-ever U.S. distribution center. The English company, Phaidon Press Inc., had been distributing books through San-Francisco-based Chronicle Books but decided it was time to strike out on its own,...
- Research articles 1998-06-12
- A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire. (book reviews)
- In the summer of 1985, Janice Radway, then a professor of American studies at the University of Pennsylvania, began sitting in on the Thursday morning editorial meetings at the Manhattan headquarters of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Normally, the editors would have been suspicious of an academic in...
- Research articles 1997-11-03
- Book-of-the-Month Club to expand in Mechanicsburg, Pa
- MECHANICSBURG, Pa.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 30, 1997-- Lieutenant Governor Schweiker to speak at Groundbreaking on Jan. 30 at 10 a.m. Book-of-the Month Club Inc....
- Research articles 1997-01-30
- Le Directeur du Musee des Cadeaux des Chefs d'Etat de l'Etranger
- The Pelican Brief this isn't. But then, it isn't supposed to be. Though the French enjoy murder mysteries a l'americaine (John Grisham is carried in translation by the French Book-of-the Month Club), their own literature is noteworthy for its lack of blood-and-guts, private-investigator, corrupt-cops-and-lawyers whodunits. As the clerk at the...
- Research articles 1994-09-22
- Gizmoz, Inc And I-Traffic Align To Deliver "Smart Envelope" Technology To Desktops, Email Boxes And Web Sites
- Gizmoz, Inc., developer of the leading rich media messaging platform, and i-traffic, a premier interactive marketing and advertising firm, have announced a relationship whereby they will provide Gizmoz's "Smart Envelope" technology to select i-traffic clients. i-traffic is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AGENCY.COM, Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACOM).Their first joint effort launched...
- Research articles 1970-01-01
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