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...adage about too much of a good thing can be applied to Talk Stories. It is best to read them separately, savoring their gem-like quality. Read all at once, they smother the reader in "we's" and miles of details. But since they appeared over the last five years, the individual stories paint entertaining and vivid sketches of urban life in the '60's with Miss Ross setting the mood...
Identity Press, Robinson said, will attempt to open channels of commutation between reader and publisher. He explained that he hoped to make subscribers feel they are part of the publishing venture by soliciting ideas and criticisms about the works being published...
...after hour. "To take something as inherently interesting as criminology and make it dull is a crime?he really had to work at it," recalls Senior Andrew Malcolm. At U.C.L.A., Senior Sharon Jones protests that "if I want to complain about a test, first I have to see the reader, then the teaching assistant; then...
Calisher plots, obviously, do not readily synopsize-like boiled water, they leave no residue. But the reader can enjoy a Calisher journey even though, like her trolley line, it ends up nowhere. The Calisher ear for words is poetical, and sometimes the click of wheel on track forms recognizable rhythms: "The spirit of picnics and cemetery visits is always feminine...
That may be enough to prevent the reader from getting off before the last stop. But when he does stay on to the end, there are the same questions that nagged him all along the route: "Where are we going? When do we get there...