The Book of the Month: Sixty Years of Books in American Life

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This collection of essays and reviews from the Book-of-the-Month Club offers a unique literary history of American readership in the twentieth century.

From The Sun Also Rises to The Accidental Tourist, the judges, editors, and reviewers of the Book-of-the-Month Club help readers all across America find their next favorite book.
 
In this comprehensive anthology compiled from the Club’s monthly News, astute reviewers praise and critique a diverse array of authors including Dashiell Hammett, Barbara Tuchman, Sinclair Lewis, Saul Bellow, Margaret Mitchell, James Baldwin, Willa Cather, and Evelyn Waugh. Harper Lee affectionately profiles Truman Capote, poet laureate Robert Penn Warren praises his friend Bill Styron, and Gore Vidal interviews himself. John le Carré shares why it was particularly hard to write A Perfect Spy, and E. L. Doctorow reveals the intentions of his masterpiece, Ragtime.
 
A celebration of the life-affirming power of the written word and a treasure trove of reviews, essays, and author portraits related to classic books we all know and love and less famous titles well-deserving of rediscovery, The Book of the Month is a must-read for bibliophiles everywhere.

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Al Silverman (1926–2019) was the author of ten books, including The Time of Their Lives, My Life Is Baseball (cowritten with Frank Robinson), and I Am Third (cowritten with Gale Sayers), which was adapted into the acclaimed television movie Brian’s Song. Over the course of his forty-year career in publishing, Silverman served as chief editor of Sport magazine, president of the Book-of-the-Month Club, and publisher of Viking Press, where he edited works by Saul Bellow, T. C. Boyle, William Kennedy, and Robertson Davies. He lived with his wife, Rosa, in New York City.

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