THE
VERY
PRIVATE ,~
~I:ES~
WILDE,
SYMONDS,
BEARDSLEY,
WHITMAN,
SWINBURNE, PATER
and other Victorian
writers whose notori·
ously decadent tastes
influenced not only what
they wrote, but the society
in which they lived.
"One could dine out on a few
of the tales here for months
to
come."-Kirkus Service
FEASTING
WITH
PANTHERS
by RUPERT CROFT·COOKE
$6.50 at bookstores, or from
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
383
Madison
Ave" N,Y,
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white Southe rner and a freelance
writer specializing in social prob–
lems. His most recent book, To
Change a Child, is about early
childhood education.... STEPHAN
THERNSTROM, Associate Professor
of History at Brandeis, is an associ–
ate of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint
Center for Urban Studies, . , . DR.
NATHAN WRIGHT, JR. served as
chairman of the
1967
National Con–
ference on Black Power. His Ready
to Riot came out this year... ,
WILLIAM H. .PRITCHARD's volume
on Wyndham Lewis will be pub–
lished this spring in the Twayne
English Authors Series, . .. ALAN
DUGAN is poet-in-residence at
Sarah Lawrence this year. ... IR·
VING FELDMAN is at Buffalo and
JOHN
A.
WILLIAMS is at Har–
vard. .. . RICHARD GILMAN has
recently become literary editor of
t he New Republic, after many years
as drama critic for Commonweal
and Newsweek. After seei ng some
seven or eight hundred stage works
during that time, he says, he is con–
vinced that the traditional , accepted
theater is no place for a civilized
man to spend his time.. , . SUSAN
SONTAG's essay is an abridged
vers ion of a longer study of Godard
to be included in her new collec–
tion of essays, which will be pub–
lished this fall by Farrar, Straus
&
Giroux.... CALVIN ISRAEL is at
U.C.LA
We 're not running reviews in this
issue, for lack of space. There will
be an expanded BOOKS section in
the Summer number.
