Books by John Updike.

Fiction Turbotome by Polly Frost. TURBOTOME is a software program designed especially for the Professional Writer. It enables user to bypass the rough draft, the first & second drafts, the galleys, even those test time & get on with the business of writing. It tells user: All you have to do to start is think...

Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

The Talk of the Town Encampment by William McKibben. Talk story about the annual week-long encampment of the Wally Byam Caravan Club International. Wally Byam invented the Airstream trailer&last month, 3,965 of them rolled into what are usually the Lake Placid Airport&the Lake Placid Horseshow Grounds. A number of the Airstreamers will go to...

Fiction Fairfields by Elizabeth Jolley. Vera Wright has an illegitimate daughter. It is in England, right after the war, and she is bringing Helena with her to a school in Hertfordshire, where she has gotten a job. As her father sees her off at the train station, she remembers the time she met her friend...

The Talk of the Town Art Around Boston by William McKibben. Two part Talk story about two artists in Boston. Writer talked to Corita Kent, who recently drew a stamp for the Post Office. It says "Love" beneath six bright swipes of her brush in rainbow colors. When the Post Office decided to unveiltthe stamp in Hollywood, on the set of...

Comment by Susan Stevenson. Comment from a young friend who used to shuck scallops for a living in Cape Cod. She went to Orleans one day&heard that a big freighter had run aground in a storm on Nauset Beach&she &her dog Wolf went for a look. Tells about the...

The Diplomatic Round TEST by John Newhouse. THE DIPLOMATIC ROUND about Europe's negative reaction to Star Wars. Writer visited Bonn, Paris&London to find out the responses to American pressure to endorse the project&take on part of the research in the largest spending this or any other country has ever proposed. Germany has to...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Calvin Tomkins.

Books by John Updike.

The Sporting Scene AN ALMOST HISTORIC OCCASION by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about the annual United States Open Championship, conducted by the United States Golf Association. The Open has been played 5 times at the Oakland Hills Country Club in Birmingham Michigan. Andy North won the Open this year. Tze-chung Chen of Taiwan, Denis Watson of South Africa...

The Talk of the Town Fish-Market Art by William McKibben. Talk story about a midnight tour around downtown New York, and about an artist who has a studio in the afternoon in what is a fish store in the morning. Tells about the tour the writer went on, which started shortly after midnight at the South Street Seaport, and which...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Letter from Rome by William Murray. Last year a major revolt against drugs and drug pushers was started in Italy in the Don Bosco quarter of Rome's Tuscolano area. It started with a handful of local residents, who were inspired to protest by the news of a death, of hepatitis, of a young man named Giuliano...

Poetry Raccoon Journal by Stanley Kunitz. rac-coon', n. from the American Indian...