The Talk of the Town by William McKibben. Talk story about going along with two officers of the city's auxiliary police, Jeff and Jim, on a tour of duty. The auxiliary police force is a volunteer adjunct of the NYPD. They don't carry guns but do tote nightsticks and radios and wear regular uniforms with a special auxiliary...

The Talk of the Town Nothing Doing by William McKibben. Talk story about a Saturday afternoon last month, where a crowd of about 40 people came to Brooklyn's Marine Park to watch horseshoe crabs mate. Municipal Urban Park Rangers Jeremiah Murphy and Lisa Breslof explained about horseshoe crabs and how they mate, though mating horseshoe crabs could not be found...

Comment by Thomas Zito. Comment about radio. A few weeks ago the writer was in a small coffee house near the corner of Bleeker and Sullivan Streets, in Greenwich Village. A family-mom, dad, a teenage girl and a boy about 11-were seated at a table. They were all wearing headphones, which were...

The Current Cinema TIME-WARP MOVIES by Pauline Kael.

Books Between Pinget's Ears by John Updike.

Comment by William McKibben. Comment about two types of consumers. Writer tells about a consumer study released by the Whirlpool Corp. Then he tells about another study issued by the Community Service Society titled "Revisiting the Default Debtor". It followed the tribulations of more than 250 debtors who had been sued in Brooklyn Civil...

The Talk of the Town Tolerance by William McKibben. Talk story about a party at Elaine's in honor of Huckleberry Fox and Henry Thomas, two child actors who are starring in "Misunderstood," a film that is due out this fall. Huckleberry Fox is eight years old. His real name is George Fox. He has starred since infancy in commercials...

Musical Events Harmony and Grace by Andrew Porter.

Our Far-Flung Correspondents QUILTS by Andrea Lee. OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about writer's search for patchwork quilts in Ahoskie, North Carolina. She stayed with her Aunt Lucy, who was in her early 70s and showed the writer 2 of her appliqued quilts. They were quilts in which a cutout design is sewn to a cloth ground. Tells...

Fiction The Current Crisis in Remorse by Garrison Keillor. Remorse is a new area in social work. Narrator worked as professional remorse officer in Dept. of Human Services Remorse followers believe that people who have done bad things should feel sorry for what they did and stop doing it. Narrator cites examples of remorselessness, including criminals as well as...

Fiction Out Here by David Leavitt. Three sisters, Gretchen, Carola, and Jill, gather at the Connecticut house of their deceased father. It is the house he shared with Eleanor Manley, his second wife, whom he married two months after his first wife, the sisters' mother, died of cancer. Leonard, the eldest sister's husband, and Donna Lee...

Poetry Bee Balm by Gerald Stern. Today I'm sticking a shovel in the ground...

Poetry The Swimming Pool by Howard Moss. Once in, this expensive rectangle...