NOTES
ROBERT JAY LIFTON is research professor of psychiatry at Yale and
has spent much time in the Far East. His Death in Life: Survivors of
Hiroshima was published by Random House on January 29.... DARYL
HINE teaches at Chicago. Atheneum is bringing out a book of his poems,
Minutes, next fall. . . . MARK STRAND teaches English at Mount
Holyoke College.... MARTIN DUBERMAN says that he has become
interested in "unstructured" education, which has led him to Black Moun–
tain College (1933-56). He is considering a full-scale history of Black
Mountain, or possibly a fictionalized version-a novel or play.... LEO
BERSANl's essay in this issue is from the book he is writing during his
year on a Guggenheim.... ANTHONY BURGESS lives in London and
Sussex, and is now, he says, writing a fugue for orchestra, a novel and a
study of Bohemianism. and compiling a dictionary of British slang. He
tells us about himself. "I am hirsute and six feet tall and very gloomy.
I drink gin." ... PETER CAWS has just finished a stint as a vice-president
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is
currently directing Ph.D. studies in Philosophy at the City University of
New York. In 1967 he published Science and the Theory of Value and
this spring will teach aesthetics, he says, "to try and find out if such a
discipline really exists." ... RICHARD KOSTELANETZ is a young writer
living in New York. Dial is publishing his Theatre of Mixed Means, of
which this interview is a part, this winter.... THOMAS R. EDWARDS
is living in California this year. working on a new book about poetry and
politics. . . . BEny FALKENBERG lives in Germany and writes about
the German scene.... ROBERT COLES is working on Volume Two of
Children of Crisis, to be subtitled "Mig rants. Sharecroppers. and Moun–
taineers." ... REUBEN
A.
BROWER was recently elected a Senior Fel–
low of the Society of Fellows at Harvard.... MAUREEN HOWARD is
a Fellow of the Institute for Independent Studies at Radcliffe and is on a
Guggenheim this year. Her latest novel is Bridgeport Bus. . . . LEE
BAXANDALL's translation of Peter Weiss's Song of the Lusitanian Bogey
opened early in January. and his own rock musical. Move. opens in
April. He was an editor of Studies on the Left until it stopped publication
this fall.
