THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON (282 pp.)—Vern Snelder— Putnam ($3). Captain Jeff Fisby, an ex-pharmacist from Ohio, neither looked, felt nor behaved like a professional soldier. He was chubby and ...

THE BRIGHT SANDS (254 pp.)—Robert Lewis Taylor—Doubleday ($3.50). For a nation that enjoys humor, the U.S. gets mighty little in its fiction, and things are apt to get worse before they get better.

Search your memory — if you’re really, really old, you’ll remember him as Ensign Parker, bumbling his way through McHale’s Navy opposite Ernie Borgnine. But if you’re simply old, you know Tim Conway ...

Good Clean Fun has promoted Nick Lee to president and appointed five new executive members, the production company announced Monday. An original member of Good Clean Fun, Lee was previously the ...