NEW WORLD WRITING (315 pp.)/Vev/ American Library (50^).
Ever since paperback reprints began to flood the drugstores a decade ago, critics have solemnly speculated on what they would do to Literature. Would they spread a cloud of trash over the country? Or bring good reading to millions who rarely buy a book with hard covers?
They have done both. New American Library, probably the largest of the reprint houses, has published 11 million copies of Mickey Spillane's sexy driveland also reprinted, in more modest editions, the Odyssey and Crime and Punishment.
Last year, in a...
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