cover image Ultimate Hollywood Tour Book

Ultimate Hollywood Tour Book

William A. Gordon. North Ridge Books, $16.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-937813-00-3

Editor Gordon has arranged an assemblage of quotations about writing and publishing and grouped them according to subject matter. Topics run the gamut from advice on getting published to famous insults (""That's not writing, that's typing,'' is what Truman Capote had to say about Jack Kerouac's work). Besides being useful to writers, as intended, it also makes for interestingif lightreading. One does question Gordon's descriptions of his sources: Oscar Wilde, for example, was far more than just an ``English wit.'' (September)