Coincidentally, Sayre also wrote about “The Joy of Sex” for The Times, including it in a round-up of sex manuals (which was headlined “Ahh!”).
Here, though, she was most definitely interested in the graphics.
‘I understand,’ she said, ‘that you have “The Joy of Sex” — unillustrated.’” There was no such thing, of course; the art in “The Joy of Sex,” as the Book Review noted, “may have had just a little to do with its phenomenal sales.”That wasn’t true of “Breakfast of Champions,” which soared onto the best-seller lists on its literary merits alone.
It’s just an agreeable thing to do, and I recommend it to everybody.
I always say to people, practice an art, no matter how well or badly, because then you have the experience of becoming, and it makes your soul grow.”
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Organizations:
The Times, U.S . Airways
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