Paperback Plums
McCann, William
Paperback Plums Canadian critic Robert McCormack observes that an appreciable number of highbrow paperbacks are designed to stimulate "cultural twitch." "By cultural twitch," McCormack writes, "I...
...65 cents) Liberalism, by J. Salwyn Shapiro (Anvil...
...University of Pittsburgh Press...
...1.25) Rebellion in the Backlands, by Euclides da Cunha...
...95 cents) Anns and Men, A Study of American Military History, by Walter Millis (Mentor...
...1.25) The Declaration of Independence, by Carl L. Becker (Vintage...
...Matters are probably not that bad...
...1.25) The Fiction and Criticism of Rather ine Anne Porter, by Harry John Mooney, Jr...
...50 cents) The Theater, by Stark Young (Dramabooks...
...1.25) Eugene O'Neill, The Man and His Plays, by Barrett H. Clark (Dover...
...1.25) The Intimate Journal of Charles Baudelaire, translated by Christopher Isherwood, with an introduction by W. H. Auden (Beacon...
...95 cents) The Religious Aspect of Philosophy, by Josiah Royce (Harper Torch-books...
...The victim may buy the book, but he will almost certainly not read it...
...1.75) Understanding History, and Other Essays, by Bertrand Russell (Wisdom Library...
...1.25) Love in the Western World, by Denis de Rougemont (Anchor...
...95 cents) Prejudices: A Selection, by H. L. Mencken...
...Selected by James T. Far-rell (Vintage...
...50 cents) The Theory of Business Enterprise, by Thorstein Veblen (Mentor...
...95 cents) Historic Decisions of the Supreme Court, by Carl Brent Swisher (Anvil...
...1.25...
...Dostoevsky, by Nicholas Berdyaev...
...By cultural twitch," McCormack writes, "I mean the sudden conviction, apt to overwhelm the literary man as he stands before the shelf of new reprints at his bookseller's, that he really must read Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (Anchor...
...1.50) —William McCann...
...Translated by Donald Attwater (Living Age...
...The Fervent Years, The Story of the Group Theatre and the Thirties, by Harold Clurman (Dramabooks...
...Translated by Samuel Putnam (Phoenix...
...1.35) Under Milk Wood, A Play For Voices, by Dylan Thomas (New Directions...
...At any rate, among the following titles there may be a stimulant or two for your "cultural twitch": Flight into Space, The Facts, Fancies and Philosophy, by Jonathan Norton Leonard (Modern Library Paperbacks...
...1.25) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Selected Speeches, Messages, Press Conferences, and Letters, edited by Basil Rauch (Rinehart...
...1.25) America's Coming of Age, Three Essays on America, by Van Wyck Brooks (Anchor...
...1.95) Is Peace Possible?, by Kathleen Lonsdale (Penguin...
Vol. 22 • September 1958 • No. 9
