A Reporter at Large INVISIBLE GOLD by John Seabrook. REPORTER AT LARGE about gold mining around the town of Battle Mountain, Nevada, where, during the last 8 years, over 40 million ounces of gold has been found, more than came out of any of the past U.S. bonanzas...

The Talk of the Town Stats by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about the "County and City Data Book, 1988" & about another Census Bureau volume entitled "Statistical Abstract of the United States". The C&CDB, 1988 describes its 964 page self as "a statistical journey across America". It deals with 3,139 counties, 952 cities of 25,000 or more...

Concert Records / Popular Music by Mark Moses.

The Talk of the Town Jocks and Nerds by Holly Brubach. Talk Story about the Fashion Institute of Technology's latest exhibition called "Jocks and Nerds: Men's Style in the Twentieth Century." The curators of the exhibition, Richard Martin & Harold Korda, had organized its contents according to 12 types: the Cowboy, Hunter Sportsman, Man About Town, Businessman, Rebel, Dandy, Worker, Joe...

The Theatre CLUBBED by Mimi Kramer.

Books by Naomi Bliven.

Fiction With Ray and Judy by Frederick Barthelme. Heidi invites her estranged husband George to a party she's giving for her boss. George & Heidi have been separated for 2 months. George thinks how they've settled quickly into living apart--to the point of shedding some intimacy. At the party George finds her boss & his friends too...

Fiction A Day Out by Edna O'Brien. Meg & her mother & father are going on an outing to visit her brother at the monastery & to bring home her older sister Nancy from the convent school because she's suffering from some undisclosed illness. To Meg, the best part of the day is that the doctor's wife...

The Talk of the Town Bayonne by Adam Gopnik. Talk Story about Alex Melamid, a conceptual artist, who, with his partner Vitaly Komar, has been working in a studio in Bayonne, New Jersey. Bayonne, NJ is the subject of Melamid & Komar's new show at the Ronald Feldman Gallery in SoHo. Melamid believes that Bayonne is the capital of...

Letter from Los Angeles by Joan Didion. Tells about a political memo regarding the Jewish population of W. Los Angeles, and how they could be relied on to vote for City Councilmember Zev Yaroslavsky over Mayor Tom Bradley, for Mayor... The memo, which was reprinted in the L.A. "Times" added, "Bradley can and will excite black voters...

In Fashion by Holly Brubach.

Comment by Suzannah Lessard. Comment about abortion, and about attending a pro-choice abortion rally in Washington, D.C. Writer states that she had an illegal abortion in Elizabeth, New Jersey, which she drove through on her way to the rally. On Sunday morning she walked to the Washington Monument, where the rally before the...

Poetry Nothing Stays Put by Amy Clampitt. The strange and wonderful are too much with us...

Poetry In Another Time by John Ashbery. Actually it was because you stopped...

Poetry Afterglow by Raymond Carver. The dusk of evening comes on. Earlier a little rain...