In Memoriam by Joseph Brodsky. The thought of you is receding like a chambermaid given...

The Talk of the Town Friends by Lisa Walker. Talk story about meeting Kenny Rogers and his friends to help them celebrate the publication of his second book of photographs, "Your Friends and Mine." (The first, "Kenny Rogers' America," came out in 1986.) The celebration took place at Central Falls Restaurant & Gallery, in SoHo. The owner, Bruce Goldstein...

Books by Naomi Bliven.

The Sky Line ON THE BRINK by Brendan Gill.

Dance Abundance by Charles Dickinson. Cars full of men, women, and children come to Baker's for the annual tomato war, and everyone's getting hit. Baker greets everyone--including his brother, Mack, Mack's beautiful wife, Felice, and their 2 children. Lathrop, who works for Baker, and Lathrop's son, are also there. The construction of a shopping...

Letter from Rome by Andrea Lee. Tells about the excitement stirred up by last summer's election of Radical Party candidate Ilona Staller to the Italian parliament... She is the country's most notorious pornography star... The Radical Party reacted to the election of its most unlikely parliamentary candidate with a rather scattered and muted enthusiasm. The deluge...

Comment by Lawrence Weschler. Of the 270 sailors who set out westward from Seville on 5 ships under the leadership of Ferdinand Magellan in 1519, only 18 managed to return, 3 years later, on 1 worm-eaten, barely-floating vessel & Magellan himself was not among them.... As if in compensation for their grueling...

The Theatre HE WAS HER MAN by Edith Oliver.

Annals of Finance THE PRICE OF MONEY I-TEMPLE SECRETS by William Greider. ANNALS OF FINANCE about Federal Reserve, America's central bank. Tells about its founding, the way it operates and the effect it has had on the economy. The period when Paul Volcker was chairman-1979-1987-is especially examined and the results of his actions along with those of Pres. Reagan are...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Charles Trenet by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about the French singer and songwriter Charles Trenet, who recently gave a concert at Avery Fisher Hall. At 74, M. Trenet has again become a French institution. During the '30's and '40's he was the idol of Paris. Trenet has been performing steadily in night clubs...

The Talk of the Town Of Time and the Railroad by Adam Gopnik. Talk story about the naming of a Metro-North Commuter Rail railroad car after Thomas Wolfe... What the people at Metro North hadn't really emphasized to the members of the NY chapter of the Thomas Wolfe Society was that, while the railroad was going to be naming a car after...

Poetry Journey by W. S. Merwin. Some time after the roofs fall in...