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Five of the short stories to appear in Goodman's book were published in Commentary, a magazine published by the American Jewish Committee. Two plays by Goodman, "Oral History" and "The Wave," were performed at Leverett House last semester. She has also published poetry in the New England Sampler and the Honolulu Quarterly...
...baseball fans seeking spiritual sustenance to carry them through to spring training, the off-season's brightest offering is Diamonds Are Forever (Chronicle; 166 pages; $35, $18.95 paper), a beguiling sampler of photos, artworks and writings about the game. The prose excerpts are literary as well as journalistic (Roger Angell, Wilfrid Sheed, John Updike). The illustrations are less familiar: a haunting photo of a sandlot game by Joel Meyerowitz; the charming primitive canvases of Ralph Fasanella; more sophisticated images by such artists as Robert Gwathmey and Claes Oldenburg. At the heart of them all is that enduring diamond, evoked...
Further evidence that Hite is on to something can be found in the nation's bookstores. A brief sampler of some of the titles that have lined the shelves in the past five years: Men Who Can't Love (Evans; 1987); How to Love a Difficult Man (St. Martin's Press; 1987); Women Men Love, Women Men Leave (Clarkson Potter; 1987); Successful Women, Angry Men (Random House; 1987); Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them (Bantam; 1986); and the bluntest title of the lot, No Good Men (Simon & Schuster; 1983). Most are how- to books that advise...
From death in Detroit to the supernatural in an English cathedral, a sampler of mysteries. -- The tragic odyssey of a Harlem youth...
INMAN SQUARE IS RAPIDLY becoming an ethnic roto-sampler, with restaurant offerings ranging from the queasy combination of "Pizza and Seafood" to more fashionably exotic offerings like Thai and Korean. The recent Southbound yuppie trend has also swept through Inman Square, depositing yet another Cajun place in its spicy wake. But amidst these rising ethnic stars is a less media-glutted food group. The savory and homey seafood smorgasbord of Portuguese food, which is not the sub-division of Spanish or Mexican many people assume it is, can be found at the Casa Portugal...