NOTES
Last May and June, PETER BROOKS was in Paris, not as a participant
in the revolution, he tells us, "but as an impassioned and distinctly non–
objective observer, and the article, drafted in the peace of the Norman
countryside after I had left the Paris of Thermidor, represents an at-
tempt to make some immediate sense of history." ... FREDERICK
SEIDEL is completing a second book of poems.... LEO BERSANI
teaches French at Rutgers.... Going Places, LEONARD MICHAELS'
first book, is being published in March '69 by Farrar, Straus
&
Giroux.... JACK NEWFIELD is the assistant editor of the Village
Voice, the author of a biography of Robert Kennedy, to be pub–
lished by Random House in September, and, he adds, "a member of
the Old New Left." .. . Viking has just published a new volume of
LEONARD COHEN's poems. . . . hans magnus enzensberger latest
book is Poems for People who Don't Read Poems, published last yea r
by Atheneum.... A graduate student at Columbia University, RICHARD
BURGIN writes novels and stories. His book of interviews with Jorge
Luis Borges will be published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston this
spring.... The author of A Short History of Ethics, and of Seculariza–
tion and Moral Change, ALASDAIR MaciNTYRE is a Professor of So–
ciology at the University of Essex and Professor of the History of Ideas
at Brandeis.... ELIZABETH DALTON teaches English at Barnard....
IRVING HOWE is spending the year in California.... Among PAUL
FUSSELL's books is Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. • . . JOSEPH
PEQUIGNEY teaches English at Stony Brook and is working on a book on
Paradise Lost.•.• MORRIS DICKSTEIN tells us that he "spent the sum–
mer working on the restructuring of Columbia University," where he
teaches courses on Blake and Romantic poe+ry.... The author of
Children of Crisis, ROBERT COLES is publishing a children's book, The
Grass Pipe, this spring. He prepared the text of Still Hungry in America
which is also coming out this spring.
