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48 Black Writers Protest By Praising Morrison (Published 1988)
Jan. 19, 1988 Credit...The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from January 19, 1988, Section C, Page 15Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
WAVE OF TRANSLATIONS SPURS IN READING OF JAPANESE BOOKS IN U.S.; Second of two articles (Published 1982)
Credit...The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from August 8, 1982, Section 1, Page 46Buy Reprints New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. *Does not include Games-only or Cooking-only subscribers. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.
A NOTED 'HISPANIC' NOVELIST PROVES TO BE SOMEONE ELSE
July 22, 1984 See the article in its original context from July 22, 1984, Section 1, Page 1Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
Vintage Buys Violent Book Dropped by Simon & Schuster
Nov. 17, 1990 See the article in its original context from November 17, 1990, Section 1, Page 13Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
Reviving High Life, 67 Floors Up; Chrysler Building Redoes the Cloud Club's Old Space
It has been 21 years since the last meal was served here and the last ice-filled glasses clinked to good fortune. Since then, the Cloud Club in the Chrysler Building, the onetime playroom of Walter P. Chrysler and his fellow moguls, has been ravaged by time, neglect, water and vandalism. But the wide bronze-and-marble staircase is still there. And the view through the arch of the two-story-high window, 67 floors up, still gazes south over a bustling, energetic city.
SPELLMAN BOOK DELETES HOMOSEXUAL ASSERTIONS
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SUBSTANTIATION IS ASKED OF SPELLMAN BIOGRAPHER
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International Terminals To Drop Airport Cart Fee
After endless complaints from airline passengers, self-service luggage carts will soon be available without charge in the international arrival terminals at the three major area airports. Passengers on domestic flights, however, will still have to pay $1.50 for a cart. The changeover is expected this spring, after the Port Authority initiates a system for operating and maintaining baggage cart dispensing machines and for returning carts to Federal inspection areas.
PUBLISHING: 'CLOCKWORK ORANGE' REGAINS CHAPTER 21
Most books that become best sellers are those for which publishers pay the most money and promote the heaviest, but there are enough exceptions to that rule for hope to spring eternal in the breast of many authors. The latest exception is ''A Season on the Brink: A Year With Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers'' by John Feinstein.
Nat Wartels, 88, the Chairman Of the Crown Publishing Empire
Nat Wartels, who built the Crown publishing empire and then sold it to Random House in 1988, died of pneumonia yesterday at Beth Israel Hospital. He was 88 years old and lived in Manhattan. Even before the Random House purchase, he was widely believed to be the richest person in book publishing.
Commercial Real Estate - Project Picks Up Where It Left Off a Decade Ago - NYTimes.com
Soon after architectural plans were drawn up a decade ago for a 55-story limestone tower at 745 Seventh Avenue, between 49th and 50th Streets, the economy went into a tailspin. The owners of the site eventually had to settle for a parking lot instead of a skyscraper. But with office space in Manhattan at a premium, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and the Rockefeller Group Development Corporation are using the site to develop a 32-story building.
Lufthansa's Arizona Flying School
GOODYEAR, Ariz.— Barring a cloudburst or a violent sandstorm known locally as a devil duster, skies over the Sonoran desert here are dotted with planes. This is where pilots train to fly jumbo jets -- using single- and twin-engine propeller planes for practice. And while they talk with the control tower in English, they converse after-hours in German, Japanese, Spanish and Chinese.
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Highlights from the Archives By RON POWERS An unfinished novel by Richard Wright concerns a police officer who suspects his son may be a killer. February 24, 2008 booksReview By MICHAEL ANDERSON Richard Wright was the grandson of four former slaves, the son of a Mississippi sharecropper; he did not complete a full year of schooling until he was 12 years old, and his formal education ended five years later with his graduation from the eighth grade.
Howard Moss, 65, Poetry Editor Of The New Yorker 40 Years
Howard Moss, a poet who for almost 40 years was the poetry editor of The New Yorker, died of cardiac arrest yesterday at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York. Mr. Moss was 65 years old. ''He was a tremendous force for poetry in this country,'' said Galway Kinnell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. ''He was often accused of publishing 'The New Yorker poem,' but as a matter of fact the variety and quality of poems he published was astonishing.
Gottlieb Reign Alters The New Yorker
Nine months after taking over as editor of The New Yorker, following a tumultuous outcry by authors and editors protesting the ouster of his predecessor, Robert Gottlieb is beginning to put his stamp on one of the nation's best-known magazines. Change is most apparent in the less formal atmosphere at the magazine, typified by Mr. Gottlieb's casual hobnobbing with the staff and his sneakers and open-neck shirts - a marked sartorial contrast to William Shawn, who was rarely without coat and tie.
A Contract for "The Ayatollah, the Novelist and the West" is Canceled
When the furor over The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie was at its peak in February, publishers predicted that houses would think twice before publishing other books that might be construed as critical of Islam. Now a Middle East scholar says, despite a publisher's denial, that he wonders if such caution led to the recent cancellation of his contract for a book about the Rushdie affair.
A Sad Joyce Carol Oates Forswears Pseudonyms
February 10, 1987 A Sad Joyce Carol Oates Forswears Pseudonyms By EDWIN McDOWELL ronouncing herself surprised and very disappointed that her literary cover had been blown, Joyce Carol Oates said she would never again try to write a book under a pseudonym.
New Hemingway Novel To Be Published in May
December 17, 1985 New Hemingway Novel To Be Published in May By EDWIN McDOWELL n unpublished novel that Ernest Hemingway worked on over the course of 15 years will be published next May by Charles Scribner's Sons. Titled "The Garden of Eden," the book deals with a young American writer and his wife of three weeks, both of whom are attracted to the same woman. The novel's bisexual theme is a stark departure from the masculine themes popularly associated with Hemingway.
FROM TWAIN, A LETTER ON DEBT TO BLACKS (Published 1985)
Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. Credit...The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from March 14, 1985, Section A, Page 1Buy Reprints New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. *Does not include Crossword-only or Cooking-only subscribers.
NONFICTION TECHNIQUES DEBATED ANEW (Published 1984)
June 20, 1984 Credit...The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from June 20, 1984, Section B, Page 4Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS; BOOK FAIR BARKERS (Published 1984)
CHILDREN'S BOOKS April 15, 1984 Credit...The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from April 15, 1984, Section 7, Page 32Buy Reprints TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.
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