Books by Naomi Bliven.

Fiction A Story In An Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey. Harold Brodkey reminisces about his dying mother & his state of mind when he was 13. The family was Jewish. It was 1943, in St. Louis, & Doris Brodkey, his adoptive mother, was suffering from cancer. Both her breasts had been removed, her chest was covered with radium burns, &...

Comment by William Shawn. Henry Kissinger is a prodigiously intelligent, articulate, talented witty, captivating & imposing man...he is not mean-spirited, he seems drawn to telling the truth, & he wants to serve his country well. He also appears to have a historical vision, shared by the Pres.: that by maintaining our military...

The Race Track Big Show by G. F. T. Ryall. Angel Penna, trainer for Countess Margit Batthyany, whose San San won the Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp last year, has opened a public stable and has taken over the horses of Daniel Wildenstein...

The Talk of the Town Read 'n' Weep by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about visit to the National Hardware Show. The show took up four hundred thousand square feet of the New York Coliseum, plus all available public space at the Americana Hotel. More than one hundred thousand articles were on display. Show was open only to trade members and the...

The Current Cinema Miscarried Projects by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of the third film of Alain Tanner, "Le Retour d'Afrique". (The other two are "La Salmandre" and "Charles Dead or Alive...

The Talk of the Town Demonstration by Ved Mehta. Talk story about a demonstration of Indian cooking by a young Indian woman, Madhur Jaffrey, at Bloomingdale's in Hackensack. She is a professional actress, who now lives in N.Y., is married to the violinist Sanford Allen, and is the mother of 3 girls. She said she learned to cook in...

Fiction Fables by J. B. Handelsman. Two dogs, unable to agree which had the right to use the...

The Sporting Scene THREE FOR THE TIGERS by Roger Angell. THE SPORTING SCENE about three Detroit Tigers' fans--Gordon, Max Lapides, & Don Shapiro. Tells how they met & how their lives are affected by their love & extensive knowledge of baseball & its history, & especially of the Tigers. Gordon has a real-estate agency that specializes in finding...

The Talk of the Town Collection by Wallace White. Talk story about visit to the Institute of the American Musical, which is directed by author, editor, record producer Miles Kreuger. Last year, he turned his private collection of books, records, films, etc. into a nonprofit organization which is open to scholars and interested parties, by appointment. The Institute is...

Our Far-Flung Correspondents PEAS by Susan Sheehan. OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about peas canned by the Green Giant Company, the world's largest packer of peas The peas which are most costly are packed under the LeSueur label. They are traced from their planting on Apr. 11, 1973, to their consumption in July, by a Brooklyn couple. The...

Poetry The Labors of Thor by David Wagoner. Stiff as the icicles in their beards, the Ice Kings...