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...OuLiPoian inventions are equally astonishing. Poet Jean Lescure's N (or V) +7 formula takes the noun or verb of a given text and replaces it with the seventh of the following nouns (or verbs) in any given dictionary. In the February issue of Scientific American, Columnist Martin Gardner, an OuLiPo fan converts the opening two lines of Moby Dick into: "Call me islander. Some yeggs ago-never mind how long precisely-having little or no Mongol in my purulence, and nothing particular to interest me on shortbread, I thought I would sail about a little...
...Linowitz report is certain to get the President-elect's attention. Not only does the 20-member commission include such Carter intimates as W. Michael Blumenthal, the future Secretary of the Treasury, and Columbia Professor of Law and International Organization Richard N. Gardner, but its findings were delivered to the President elect by Linowitz's friend Cyrus Vance...
OCTOBER LIGHT by John Gardner. In his best novel yet, the prolific Gardner sets a spoof of pulp fiction inside a philosophical monologue on good and evil-all touched off by the family squabbles of two cranky old Vermonters...
...Jeffrey Gardner Haff...
...falls short of his ultimate ambition, Gardner succeeds at many points along the line. He is funny, highly intelligent and touching. How many novelists are any of the three? He has resources, and he uses all of them in pursuit of goals most novelists would not dare attempt. He has had his novel illustrated by not one but two artists. If he could stick an LP by a Vermont fiddler to the jacket and impregnate the binding with the smell of hay and apples-and maybe marijuana-he would do that too. He wants it all. There are writers today...