The Theatre WHERE THE BOYS ARE by Mimi Kramer.

Fiction Getaway Weekend by James Stevenson. Drawing of a map with illustrations, accompanied by footnotes below, which explain the illustrations. Among the footnotes are things like: Lute & Zither Festival; Toxic-Waste Overlook; Interminable Delays; Overcrowded Beach; Cranberry-Bog Theme Park...

Television The Mayor and the Pig by Adam Gopnik. Talk story about filming a movie for public television with Piggy-Wiggy (a 450 lb. sow who lives in N.J. but often works in Manhattan) and Mayor Koch. Ron Blumer is the movie's scriptwriter. He was commissioned by the Bar Association of N.Y. to write a film about the struggle...

The Talk of the Town Crystal Cruise by Susan Orlean. Talk story about going on a Circle Line boat with a group of people who planned to scatter magic crystals in the waters around Manhattan. Crystals are the hot cosmic commodity of the moment because they combine the spiritual healing, and data-processing power of top shamans, the staff of...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Philip Hamburger.

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael.

Comment by Richard Preston. Comment about going to the cottage in Maine that the writer's grandparents built in 1957, when he was 3 years old. His grandmother named it Merrymeeting and decorated it in a 1950's color scheme that combined aqua with peach. She and his grandfather lived there every summer after that...

The Talk of the Town Greek Village by Mary Norris. Talk story about the "Festival of Festivals," at the Greek Village in the Queens Botanical Garden. The Festival will be on through August 23rd, and offers authentic Greek novelties, food, music and entertainment. Transportation to the festival is free via a school bus that leaves from the Neptune Diner (Astoria...

Fiction Cooker by Frederick Barthelme. Roger, the narrator, is married to Lily, and they have 2 children: Christine, 8, and Charles, II. Roger tells Lily he's tired of complaining about things, about the way things are at home with her, about the kids & the way they don't seem to be coming along, about the...

Books by John Updike.

The Art World by Philip Hamburger. The co-curator of an exhibit at the National Gallery in Washington, called "Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice 1916-1930", was Dominique Fourcade, of Paris. He visited the writer at his home in New York. Writer served him croissants. M. Fourcade thought they were so good that they must...

Annals of Law I-THE TENTH JUSTICE by Lincoln Caplan. ANNALS OF LAW about a little-known figure in the Justice Dept. called the Solicitor General. To lawyers in the highest reaches of the profession, he once represented this country's dedication to the rule of law. The Reagan Administration has stripped the Solicitor General of that distinction & eliminated his...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Poetry Ginestra by Judith Baumel. From a distance of reading...