* Papa Pops Up One day in 1922, as Ernest Hemingway's wife Hadley was running to catch a train in a smoky, crowded Paris station, she lost a suitcase containing all of her husband's early — and unpublished — short stories. The bag's disappearance became literary legend. Now, in a curious twist, MacDonald Harris has written a novel, Hemingway's Suitcase, about the discovery of the stories. And at the same time, scholars rummaging through the Hemingway papers in Boston's JFK Library have found two unknown Hemingway stories. The novel is out this month, and so are the stories, which are being published, appropriately, in the April issue of The Hemingway Review.
* Blue Blistering Barnacles! Tintin, the comic-book hero, is celebrating a birthday of sorts this month. Although Georges Rémi (Hergé) created his cowlicked young detective in 1929, Tintin came to America only 15 years ago — and Little, Brown is celebrating the anniversary with the publication of The Tintin Games Book.
* Paperback Rights The Norwegian pubbisher Aschehoug has become the first house brave enough to release a paperback edition of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. Despite protests from booksellers, bookstores, and such groups as the Authors' Guild, Viking Penguin — Rushdie's British and American publisher — has yet to issue a paperback version of the novel in either country. The April ''Harper's Index'' calculates that Penguin's profits from The Satanic Verses — an estimated $3.4 million — have been spent on additional security in the London and New York offices.
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