Fiction Ave. A by Richard Cline. Nine drawings of scenes in this East Village neighborhood. The captions are: Entrepreneurs, Denizens, Hanging Out, Art Bar, La Vie de Boheme, Divertissement, Curator, Bus Tour, Fashion Shoot...

Comment Comment, Pt. II by Lawrence Weschler. Writer, who works in a widely respected human-rights monitoring agency, received a call from an assistant producer for a t.v. news program. His show was running a series on the theme, "Liberty's Children"--portraits of the vast sweep of American immigration. Immigrants were invited to describe the tyranny, squalor...

The Talk of the Town Eduardo Galeano by Lawrence Weschler. Talk story abou t Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano. Ever since writer read the first volume of the remarkable "Memory of Fire" trilogy, entitled "Genesis," he'd been eager to meet its author. Galeano was in town researching entries for the final volume of his trilogy. In this work he is attempting...

Letter from Washington by Elizabeth Drew. Tells about President Reagan's stance on South Africa, which writer says is not contingent on the public mood. ... In the case of South Africa, the State Department was once again faced with the challenge of trying to get the President to change his approach & in this case it was...

A Reporter at Large II-THE CASTRO by Frances FitzGerald. REPORTER AT LARGE about the gay community of San Francisco, centered in the Castrol. Writer tells about the angry reaction and riot in the gay community in 1979 after the verdict in the Dan White case was announced. She then tells about a 1984 and then a 1985 visit to...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Current Cinema PIG HEAVEN by Pauline Kael.

Fiction White Dump by Alice Munro. Story takes place in Canada, at the family's summer home, where Laurence and his second wife, Magda, are staying. Isabel, his first wife, lives in British Columbia, with a commercial fisherman. Isabel and Laurence had 2 children: Denise and Peter. Denise is visiting. Sophie is Laurence's mother, and she bore...

Comment by Berton Roueche. A friend who lives in the country writes: I took a walk the other afternoon along the hedgerow that bounds the southern edge of my place, and came upon a seedling maple tree--a scion, clearly, of the big Norway maple up in the dooryard. It was maybe 18" high...

The Talk of the Town Attractions by William McKibben. Three-part talk story about visiting Coney Is., going to a sideshow there & visiting the Guinness Hall of Records in the basement of the Empire State building for an eating contest... The Urban Park Rangers led a tour of the boardwalk & the beach & said a number of...

Poetry Kate Smith in the Grandstand by Cynthia Zarin. Try to think now what she sang...