Cover artist: Barbara Westman
Publication Date: October 14, 1985
Page Count: 146 pages
In this issue:Comment by William Shawn. Entire Notes & Comment devoted to an obituary of E. B. White, who died last Tuesday, on the first day of October, at his farm in Maine. He was 86... The Talk of the Town Photographers by George W. S. Trow. Three part Talk story about an exhibit, "Wurts Brothers Photograph New York," at the Museum of the City of New York. The Wurts Brothers, Lionel and Norman, and Lionel's son Richard, were architectural photographers. They began their business in 1895. Richard Wurts, now 80, was at the exhibit. Tells about... The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Sanford Schwartz. Books by Susan Lardner. Musical Events by Andrew Porter. The Theatre by Edith Oliver. Fiction Burial at Sea by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Three Jewish convicts in Poland are playing cards in prison They exchange stories. Koppel, the Thief, tells of an incident in Warsaw. A beautiful young woman named Shifra was loved by two men. One was Mendele, a youth about her age and the other Bundik, a lawyer 15 years her... A Reporter at Large KINDS OF PLACES by Suzannah Lessard. REPORTER AT LARGE about a cross-country bus trip taken by the writer, her husband & their 3-year-old son, Julian. They climbed aboard on a late-August afternoon. The bus was wider & lower than modern buses, with a rounded roof & small windows that opened. It was... Comment by John Updike. Second part of Comment devoted entirely to an obituary of E.B. White, who died on the first of October, at his farm in Maine. He was 86. Writer keeps thinking back to White's version of his own career, transparently fictionalized in a story called "The Hotel of the Total Stranger... Fiction Backer Is Not Going Out by Calvin Trillin. Becker sat behind the wheel of a Chevrolet parked on 48th St. between 5th and 6th, reading the paper. A car with N.J. plates stopped alongside and honked. Becker said nothing. Probably theatregoers hoping to find a spot just as parking became legal at 7:00. The woman in the passenger... Comment by Roger Angell. Last part of Comment devoted entirely to an obituary of E.B. White, who died on the first of October, at his farm in Maine. He was 86. Writer says: Like some other people in my line, I still remember the struggles I endured in my twenties, and even into my... Jazz by Whitney Balliett. Poetry Incident by Eamon Grennan. Mid-October, Massachusetts. We drive... Poetry A Cold In Venice by J. D. McClatchy. Montaigne-for him the body of knowledge... | 
