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NEGRO POETS: U.S.A., edited by Langston Hughes. These 37 young Negro poets seem to have read their Wallace Stevens and Lowell along with everyone else. The result is highly personal verse, much of it good, more of it promising.
A MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. The Nobel-prizewinning author wrote this memoir of his lean years in the Paris of the '20s when he was in his 50s, rich, famous but passé. Feast reveals Hemingway's deadly, deadpan sense of humor, his lingering romanticism, but most of all, the degree to which he fooled himself.
CORDELL HULL, by Julius W. Pratt. Though he was Secretary of State for nearly twelve years, Hull learned curiously little about either statesmanship or psychology. Pratt's is a straightforward biography that shies away from judgments.
THE INCONGRUOUS SPY, by John Le Carré. The first two thrillers by the author of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold have been reissued in one volume. The best one is about British intelligence, has some of the same characters as The Spy, and both are fine whodunits.
EPISODE-REPORT ON THE ACCIDENT INSIDE MY SKULL, by Eric Hodgins. The author of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House recounts his partial recovery from a "cerebrovascular accident" (in layman's terms, a stroke). His wit and skill with words are totally unimpaired.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carré (1 last week)
2. Convention, Knebel and Bailey (2)
3. The Group, McCarthy (3)
4. The Night in Lisbon, Remarque (5)
5. The Spire, Golding (4)
6. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer (7)
7. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (10)
8. The Wapshot Scandal, Cheever (6)
9. The Martyred, Kim (9)
10. The Venetian Affair, MacInnes
NONFICTION
1. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (2)
2. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (3)
3. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (4)
4. A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Bishop (1)
5. The Naked Society, Packard (5)
6. The Green Felt Jungle, Reid and Demaris (6)
7. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (7)
8. My Years with General Motors, Sloan (8)
9. In His Own Write, Lennon (9)
10. When the Cheering Stopped, Smith (10)
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