The Books That Take Revenge, Centuries Later
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Who Came Up With That?
Contrary to what we think of as intellectual property, most ideas are difficult to trace back to one human mind.
The Questionable Triumph of the ‘Baling Wire Hippies’
Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog was seen as a countercultural milestone, but his new book reveals his alliances with the powerful.
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Eight of the Most Fascinating Biographies to Read
Each is animated by the author’s love—for their subject, for language, and for pushing the boundaries of what the genre can do.
Six Books That Simply Must Be Talked About
These six books demand discussion—with a pal, a date, or a book club.
Nine Books to Reset Your View of the World
Each of these titles will widen your perspective, offering you original insight and vision.
Seven Books to Read When You Have No Time to Read
These titles are worth picking up, even if you have only a moment to spare.
In Europe We Don't Kiss Them Good Night
The wife of a foreign diplomat, MIRA MICHAL,who writes under a nom de plume, will hare her first volume of reminiscences, NOBODY TOLD ME HOW,published in this country by Lippincott in the early autumn.
A Head for Monsieur Dimanche
An English novelist who is at present a research fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, ANDREW SINCLAIR first visited America to study the prohibition movement under the direction of Oscar Handlin of Harvard and Richard Hofstadter of Columbia. His latest book, PROHIBITION, THE ERA OF EXCESS, WOS published in February under the AtlanticLittle, Brown imprint.
What, Exactly, Do You Mean by "Cheese"? A Story
Born in New York in 1932, JOHN ANTHONY WEST attended Lehigh University and spent two years with the army in Europe. After the publication of his first story, in 1958 he returned to Europe, where he has been working on a novel for the past four years. _A collection of his stories, printed in England and in Holland last year, will be published in early winter by Dutton.
The Girl Friend
Dublin burn, PETER LENNON worked for the IRISH TIMES before going to Paris in 1955 as a teacher of English in a French school. For fhe past two years he has been Cultural Correspondent in Paris for the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN.
The Sound of Young Laughter
A Vassar graduate and the mother of three children, MAY DIKEMANmade her first appearance in the ATLANTIC in May of last year with her short story “ The Tender Mercies,” which won second prize among the Atlantic “Firsts.” Miss Dikeman lives in New York City and is finishing work on her novel.
The Pures
WILLIAM J. J. GORDON is a lecturer in the Engineering Department of Applied Physics at Harvard. He is also President of Synectics, Inc., a consulting firm primarily concerned with augmenting the creative output of industrial research organizations. The following story is clearly the outgrowth of his own immediate experience.
The Empty Night
In 1955, Alfred A. Knopf published a book of short stories, THE BLACK PRINCE, which introduced a writer of original talent, SHIRLEY ANN GRAU. Since that time, Miss Grau has written two novels, THE: HARD BLUE: SKY and THE HOUSE ON COLISEUM STREET,and her stories have been reprinted in the O. Henry and Martha Foley collections.
If I Lived Through It
AMES ROWE QUENTIN iS a pseudonym for a California writer who says: “Once, when I had to write some autobiography, I said I was an unsuccessful tomato farmer with fire children, and both these statements are correct, though there were only six tomato plants to begin with, and fire of them failed.”
Out With the Old
Author of the widely acclaimed first novel REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, RICHARDYATES appeared in the ATLANTIC in 1953, when he won the top prize for his Atlantic “First" “Jody Rolled the Bones.” The story which follows is from his new hook, ELEVEN KINDS OF LONELINESS, to he published this month under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint.
Gaston
Author of MY NAME IS ARAM, MY HEART’S IN THE HIGHLANDS, THE HUMAN COMEDY, and THE YULE RIDER IN BEVERLY HILLS, WILLIAM SAROYAN has been tenting since he teas thirteen years old and has published almost forty books and plays, He refused the Pulitzer Prize for THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE but accepted the Drama Critics Circle Award for the same play ‟because there was no money invoiced