The Talk of the Town Horizons by William McKibben. Talk story about the New York Walkers Club which began 6 years ago with 12 people. The club has grown&600 people joined last year. "I'm not knocking running"Howard Jacobson, the club's president, said several times to the crowd that gathered one recent morning for a Central Park...

The Talk of the Town That Word by William McKibben. Talk story about two press conferences, the first given by the Frozen Food Action Communications Team at the Helmsley Palace&the second for computerized Puma sneakers given at the University Club. At the 2nd press conference. writer spoke with Dr. Peter Cavanagh about 200 dollar Puma sneakers that have...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Fiction Construction by Donald Barthelme. Writer went to Los Angeles and, in due course, returned, having finished the relatively important matter of business which had taken him there, something to do with a contract that he signed. He met an attractive woman named Helen at his West Coast lawyers' office. He didn't know exactly what...

Books by George Steiner.

A Reporter at Large II-RETURN TO VIETNAM by Robert Shaplen. REPORTER AT LARGE about Vietnam. The 1978 Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and the break with China that followed, put an end to all Western and Japanese assistance for the country. The consequence has been forced ties with the Eastern European trade bloc, and overdependence on Soviet military and economic aid...

Fiction Allowance by Susan Minot. Of the 6 Vincent children trapped inside Colonus Cottage at the Pearl Bay Hotel in Bermuda, 10 year old Gus was displaying the most extreme signs of cabin fever. Gus was the first boy after 3 girls, Delilah, Sophie&Caitlin, who was 14& the oldest child. Sherman&...

The Talk of the Town Hang Nine by William McKibben. Talk story about Mike Parker, an artist who does paintings about surfing. Writer met Parker at ABC No Rio, a community arts-and-education space and gallery on Rivington Street, on the lower East Side. Parker had nine paintings hung on the walls. Parker told the writer that the paintings...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. An atmosphere of unreality has hung over the news of recent days. For instance, the Nazis have kept springing up in unexpected settings. Their most notable appearance has been in the debate over Pres. Reagan's plan to visit a cemetery of German war dead during his forthcoming visit to Germany...

Fiction Gardeners by Charles Saxon. Six captioned cartoons about home gardeners. Some of the captions are: "Julian, I'm including a packet of Golden Cross Bantam just for you in my order to Burpee." "This year, we're just going to have a riot of color!" "But what are we going to do with thirty bushels of...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Comment Comment-Part 2 by Lawrence Weschler. It's many years now since we first came upon "Eye and Tooth' a poem in Robert Lowell's 1964 collection "For the Union Dead. "The poem ends" Everyone's tired of my turmoil. "The writer noticed that this turmoil fatigue was beginning to set in for us around the subject of Poland...

Annals of Finance FUNNY MONEY by Mark Singer. ANNALS OF FINANCE about the rise and fall of the Penn Square Bank in Oklahoma City of which Bill P. Jennings was the chairman & chief executive officer & William G. Patterson was the head of the oil-and-gas lending department. On July 5, 1982 the bank was declared...

Poetry Leaving Town: A Short Story by Nicholas Christopher. The trumpeter in the mariachi band...

Poetry First Day of the Future by Galway Kinnell. They always seem to come up...