Books Raymond Chandler Speaking by Whitney Balliett.

Anniversary Group by Judy Mellecker. Talk story about the 40th-anniversary meeting of the American Group Psychotheraphy Association, told in form of a group theraphy session. One of the group's participants, Fred, has been at the meeting, as has the doctor, Dr. Feldspar, and the group discusses what Fred saw there. Dialogue presented in play...

U. S. Journal FRIED-CHICKEN WAR by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: CRAWFORD COUNTY, KANSAS, about a dispute between two fried-chicken restaurants, Chicken Annie's and Chicken Mary's. The fried-chicken war ensued after Chicken Annie's tried to have the county road that runs in front of both establishments named Chicken Annie's Road. Chicken Annie is Anne Pichler, a bouncy...

Fiction The Bachelor by Edna O'Brien. Narrator remembers an old bachelor who lived in her home town in Ireland. His name was Jack and when narrator was a little girl he was in love with her mother. Narrator would find him in the fields writing poems to her mother. Narrator's father was a drinker and once...

Musical Events A Magnificent Epic by Andrew Porter.

Profiles I-TAKING ART TO POINT ZERO by Lawrence Weschler. PROFILE of Robert Irwin, a leading Southern Calif. artist. He was born in 1928, in Long Beach, into a lower-middle-class family with no artistic pretensions. He had an easy facility in drawing which allowed him to skim effortlessly through art school. He didn't face any serious questions until...

Fiction The Bun in His Basket by David Saul Schwartz. You will see that Charles set his sights high. Intelligent idlers always have, in order to justify their idleness to their intelligence. He had, in short, all the Byronic ennui with neither of the Byronic outlets: genius and adultery. "The French Lieutenant's Woman," by John Fowles. Piece written in the...

Comment by Jeremy Bernstein. We have heard once more from our scientifically oriented friend. He says the last time he wrote he had just begun working on Rubik's Cube and had bought a UFO Solar Saucer that goes around and around when the sun shines on it. He has not yet beaten the cube...

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town Turn of the Wheel Alastair Reid by Alastair Reid. Double talk story about Steven Titcomb and his new bicycle, called the CM-1000. First writer went to a breakfast at the Tavern-on-the-Green and later to the International Cycle Show at the Coliseum. The breakfast was held by a group called Creative Motion Industries which incorporated itself...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael. Review of "Missing", a Costa Gavras film, set in Chile in 1973. It's a didactic melodrama, based on the actual case of Charles Horman, a young American living in Santiago who disappeared a few days after Gen. Pinochet and his junta took power...

Poetry Au Club by Robert Mazzocco. There's always a last room...

Poetry Catfish by Roberta Spear. By 6 A.M. the catfish...

Poetry Neighbors by Matthew Flamm. Somewhere the phone company's...