Books by L. E. Sissman.

Fiction Castling by Renata Adler. The writer tells of her life in disconnected fragments and also gives her thoughts and opinions. She lives in New York; she works part-time for a tabloid & part-time for a foundation. Will is her lover; he's married to his work - a kind of legal evangelism. He's hardly...

The Talk of the Town by Mary Gray. Overheard at Lord & Taylor, an elaborately turned-out matron to her shopping companion: "It's not that I'm angry, really. It's just that they had exactly what I wanted, so I had no choice...

A Reporter at Large CLOSED by Richard Harris. REPORTER AT LARGE about the closing of the Lobster, a restaurant on W. 45th St., between Sixth & Seventh Avenues, which was established in 1919. Writer, in trying to find out why the restaurant closed, talked to the owners, Stanley Fuchs & Myron Linz, some of the employees, & the...

Fiction A Man by Donald Barthelme. Harvey Samaras, a fireman, wakes up one morning and discovers his left hand is missing. At first he is angry and curses for a while. Then he notices that the stump is really not bad looking. He has some problems taking a shower and putting on socks. Shaving presents no...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. As the peace talks end, and the bombing of the North starts up again, and hope fades, the whole national scene darkens. The headlines make us feel that our mind is slipping. "U.S. RESUMES ALL-OUT AIR WAR". "KISSINGER SAYS TALKS HAVE NOT REACHED 'JUST AND FAIR' AGREEMENT: BLAMES HANOI...

Musical Events by Whitney Balliett.

U. S. Journal U.S. JOURNAL: NEWARK KAWAIDA by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL about the controversy over the construction of an apt. bldg. for blacks called Kavaida Towers, in the North Ward of Newark, which is 3/4 Italian. Imamu Amiri Baraka (formerly poet & playwright LeRoi Jones) is a Newark black nationalist whose Temple of Kawaida is sponsoring the bldg. According...

The Talk of the Town Launch by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about watching the launch of Apollo 17 from a ship, the Holland-America liner Statendam, anchored in the Atlantic off Cape Kennedy. Describes waiting before lift-off, watching & feeling the lift-off, colors, shock wave, etc. The ship was 7 miles away...

The Theatre OFF BROADWAY by Edith Oliver. Review of Geoff Robertson's "The Trials of OZ", which is based on an actual trial that took place last year in London. In 1971, the editors of an underground magazine called OZ turned one issue over to a team of schoolboys, the oldest of whom was 18. When the issue...

Books by L. E. Sissman.

The Talk of the Town Popov by Lillian Ross. Talk story about an interview with Oleg Popov, the clown and star of the Moscow Circus, now at Madison Square Garden. He comes on, in the one-ring, one-clown circus in between other acts. He juggles, performs some beautiful footwork on the slack wire, & dances around. Writer went...

The Current Cinema STAR MUTATIONS by Pauline Kael.

Poetry Oreads by Kathleen Raine. No, our kind cannot live with these...

Poetry The Cars in Caracas by John Updike. The cars in Caracas...