The Talk of the Town Outside the Fold by Guy Trebay. Briefly mentioned in a talk story about actor & playwright Ethyl Eichelberger... His diploma from the Ultissima Beauty Institute hangs on one wall of his quarters. "I needed something more in my line. So I decided to go to beauty school, which turned out to be like jail--you serve...

The Current Cinema FAMILY BUSINESS by Terrence Rafferty.

The Sporting Scene CELEBRATION by Roger Angell. THE SPORTING SCENE about a trip to the Cincinnati Reds/NY Mets game with A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of the National League, who came to the post two years ago, fresh from an eight-year term as president of Yale. A scholar in Renaissance literature, he had served twenty previous...

The Talk of the Town The Rain by Verlyn Klinkenborg. Talk story about visiting the writer's aunt and uncle at their farm in Luverne, MN, which is in the far-southwestern corner of the state. Writer notes that his is the only car he sees that doesn't have air-conditioning. When they arrive at the farm they find a note...

Letter from Rome by William Murray. Writer tells about Andrea d'Angelo and the trattoria he runs with partner Carlo Maggi. It is called Il Grappolo d'Oro and is situated on the Piazza della Cancelleria, in one of the oldest quarters of the "centro storico" in Rome. Andrea drives to work every day from his home in...

A Critic at Large GRAND by Alex Shoumatoff. A CRITIC AT LARGE about the English Amazonian explorer and naturalist Henry Walter Bates. 125 years after its first appearance, his book "The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven...

Fiction Annemarie Singing by Harold Brodkey. Story about a boy, Wiley, his parents, S.L. and Lila, and their servant, Annemarie. Wiley recalls the 2 1/2 or 3 years that Annemarie was with them as perhaps the only happy time for the family, and he still remembers that happiness when he needs to. Wiley is very sick...

The Talk of the Town Riot by Luc Sante. Talk story about a riot in Tomkins Square Park in East Greenwich Village...

Comment by Raymond Bonner. Comment about the civil war in Somalia... By some accounts more than ten thousand people have been killed in 2 1/2 months of fighting & between 4 & 5 thousand people are said to be fleeing northern Somalia every day. In Addis Ababa, the other day, someone employed by the...

Poetry Farce by Nina Cassian. Allow me to rearrange my bones...

Poetry For the Second Millennium by Deborah Digges. If one life were enough or eternity...