"The sort of satire that no
one but David Siavitt would
have the audacity to write in
these days of timid and insti–
tutionalized consciences. "
- W. R. ROBINSON ,
University of Florida
" Gold and Roth and Mala–
mud with tongue in cheek?
Friedman without the ice
pick? Or Siavitt playing
games again, but with a real
warmth showing through?"
- MAX STEELE,
Univ. of North Carolina
"A wonderful novel ...
wildly funny and deeply sad.
There is no doubt that Siavitt
is an artist who deserves the
highest praise."
- GEORGE GARRETT,
Hollins
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NOTES
The last volume (number five) of
DORIS LESSING's Children of Vio–
lence will be called The Four-Gated
City. Knopf will bring it out next
spring.. .. PETER CAWS was in
Pa ris last spring reading structural –
ism for a book he's doing for Chi–
cago. . . . LEO WHALEN is the
pen name of a member of the (ex–
panded) Mobilization Steering Com–
mittee the week of the Democratic
Convention.... A Rumanian so–
ciologist and art crit ic, HORIA
BRATU made his first trip to West–
ern Europe last spring.... PETER
BROOKS spent last year in Paris.
Mr. Brooks teaches at Yale; Prince–
ton is publishing his book, The Novel
of Worldliness, this spring. . ..
STEPHEN DONADIO teaches at
Columbia . .. .
A.
D. HOPE has just
retired from the Engl ish Department
of the Australian Nati onal Uni–
versity at Canberra. Viking brought
out his fourth book of poems,
Collected Poems, in 1966. . ..
HAROLD BLOOM teaches English
at Yale. He is currently on leave
and is writing a book on modern
English and American poetry....
ROBERT GARIS is working on a
book on Ibsen.. . . IRWIN WElL
teaches Russian and Russian litera-
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