NOTES
... "The New is Unknown" is the first of REINHARD LETIAU's
work to appear in translation in America. Mr. Lettau is a young German
writer who teaches Humanities and 18th- and 20th-century literature at
Smith. At the age of 14, he writes us, he was leading an anti-tank group,
none of whom were older than himself. "There was a big air raid, n'One of
us was hurt, I sent my men home, went home myself. My mother disarmed
me. But printing that would distract readers perhaps." . . . LESLIE
FIEDLER describes his new novel as a "historical romance." At the mo–
ment it's called Back to China. Mr. Fiedler is ,at Buffal'O this year... .
HAROLD ROSENBERG's latest book is The Anxious Object: Art and its
Audience (Horizon).... FRANK KERMODE returned this fall to the Uni–
versity of Manchester from a year at Wesleyan.... JACK LUDWIG
is Chairman of the English Department at Stony Brook. His novel, Con–
fusions, came cut last ye'ar.. .. "JASON THATCHER" is the pseudonym
of a young American who is living at present in Paris completing a novel.
He lived and worked in Ghana last year.... GORE VIDAL is going back
to Italy for
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yeor to work on a novel about Washington.... WILLIAM
YOUNGREN, wllo teaches Humanities at M.I.T., has played jazz piano
and collected records for a number of years. He started playing in high
sch'Ool around Chicago, was in a band at Amherst, and played his way to
Europe a couple of times.... B. H. HAGGIN is a music critic who writes
regularly for several magazines and has just published a collection 'Of his
pieces, Music Observed (Oxford).... G. S. FRASER is just back in Eng–
land from an academic year in the U.S. during which, he says, he "traveled
widely and met many writers and poets." He is working on a new book,
tentatively titled The American Voice in Poetry.... Yale has just put out
GEOFFREY H. HARTMAN's Wordsworth's Poetry, 1787·1814 and Ox–
ford PETER STANSKY's Ambitions and Strategies. Mr. Hartman teaches
at Iowa and Mr. Stansky at Harvard.... MARTIN DUBERMAN is living
in New York this year on a fellowship from Princeton, editing a collection
of new essays revaluating the antislavery movement, which Princeton is
bringing out this spring. In White America opened in London this fall and
got excellent reviews.... RICHARD HOWARD is working on a new
book but we ore sorry to hear he is giving up translating.
Our apologies to John Simon. We left him out of the index for 1964.
He reviewed J.I.M. Stewart's Eight Modern Writers in the Fall issue
(XXXI,4).
