Fiction From 100 Elvis Stories by Lisa Walker. Welcome to Graceland City. Graceland City is located in Tennessee several hundred miles from Memphis... All roads & highways extending from these city landmarks merge to form the shape of a guitar. You can see this clearly on our aerial view postcards of Graceland City... Tells about the founding of...

Books by Judith Thurman.

The Current Cinema CONS by Pauline Kael.

Reflections UNDER THE DICTATOR by Jacobo Timerman. REFLECTIONS about Chile under the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who has held office for 14 years. He uses state terrorism to impose his power and plans to continue as President until 1997. Between 1983 & 1986, when the economy collapsed the misery of the people led to mass street...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Theatre BRECHT STRIKES AGAIN by Mimi Kramer.

Comment by Richard Preston. Between the end of August & the 3rd week of October., the stock-market value of American corporations dropped by about a trillion dollars--an amount equal to 1/4 of the gross national product of the US. The money vanished in a whoosh of electrons & a typhoon of sell...

The Talk of the Town Home Team by Garrison Keillor. Talk story about the 45-year-old writer who with his wife moved from St. Paul, Minnesota, where he'd lived all his life, to New York City. They drove out of St. Paul on Monday, September 28th, and arrived in N.Y. on Friday evening. Tells about the various games the...

The Talk of the Town Archive by Adam Gopnik. Talk story in the form of a grant of papers from a reporter; his notes for a talk story about the 10th anniversary celebration of the Program in Archival Management, Department of History, N.Y.U.... Hey! One NYU archvst looks after Geoffrey Hellman papers--G. Hellman wndrfl old Talk writer. Talk...

Letter from Washington by Elizabeth Drew. Not long ago, some Iranians sent a signal that they wanted direct talks with American officials, but our officials sent back word, Not just yet. If they do talk to the Iranians one official told writer, they will quietly inform Congress this time. The decision, made in March, to reflag...

Fiction The Ship Ahoy by Ursula K. Le Guin. The Tuckets took over the Ship Ahoy in the mid '80s when it was pretty badly run down. It had never amounted to much; a double row of jerry-built cabins with a carport between each pair... But then the Tuckets seemed a little run down too. He had been...

Poetry Crabbing for Blue-Claws by James Ulmer. We row along the shore on the bay side...

Poetry All Hallows' Eve by Czeslaw Milosz. In the great silence of my favorite month...