Fiction "Nausea," The Summer Blockbuster by Frank Gannon. The narrator tells how he marketed his movie adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's novel "Nausea." While taking a meeting at the Polo Lounge, planning what was to become the Jerry Lewis "Sartoris" project, he got the idea of making "Nausea" into a movie. Years later, "Nausea: The Picture" became a...

The Talk of the Town Squire by Berton Roueche. Talk story about a visit to Lynchburg, Tennessee, home of Jack Daniel Distillery. Tolley, a great-grandniece of Jack Daniel, operates Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House in Lynchburg, where the writer had dinner...

The Talk of the Town Together by Deborah Garrison. Talk story about Doris Kornish and Philip Hartman, and their double careers as restaurant owners and filmmakers. Along with their partner, John Touhey, they own an Italian /Cajun restaurant called Two Boots, at 37 Avenue A. (Their first restaurant was the famous Great Jones Cafe.) Two Boots serves such dishes...

Comment by Fred Kaplan. In December, 1987, during Mikhail Gorbachev's first visit to Washington, the American and Soviet flags waved side by side across the portico of the Old Executive Office Building; today at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, an American Pershing II and a Soviet SS-20 missile are displayed...

The Current Cinema NO KIND OF STORY by Terrence Rafferty.

Reflections A SUMMER IN THE REVOLUTION: 1987 by Jacobo Timerman. REFLECTIONS about Cuba. The writer had dinner with the Cuban writer Miguel Barnet. His international prestige provides him with protection. This most important Cuban writer is master of a prose that isn't based on socialist realism but relies on rich language & years of historical and anthropological research. Barnet has...

The Talk of the Town Cards by Neil Karlen. Talk story about the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Jefferson R. Burdick collection of paper Americana, which includes virtually every baseball card printed between the 1880s and 1950. Tom Rassieur, curatorial assistant in the department of prints and photographs, is responsible for the three-hundred thousand cards, including a 1910 T206...

Around City Hall Social Notes from the Emerald City by Andy Logan. The Democratic Party will hold its national convention in NYC in 1992. When Cuomo rose to speak at the signing of the agreement to do so, a heckler rose up in the fourth row to denounce him for his position on abortion: that as a Catholic he opposes it but...

Journals II-FROM THE LATE FORTIES AND THE FIFTIES by John Cheever. JOURNALS detailing the writer's experience of living in Rome, Italy, with his wife Mary and their children Susan and Benjamin; the birth there of their son Federico; and their life after returning to Scarborough, N.Y. He records his drinking problem, his deteriorating marriage, and his growing awareness of his homosexuality...

Books by David Cannadine.

Poetry Eclipse Facsimile by Sandra McPherson. It is cheaper than sitting for a portrait...

Poetry Love Song to the World Leaders by Elizabeth Macklin. When I lie back it's as if you said to me...