NOTES
ROBERT JAY LIFTON,
r~earch
professor at Yale, having recently
published History and Human Sur–
vival, and Birds (a book of cartoon
commentary), tells us he is now im–
mersed in the question of Amer–
ican atrocities in Vietnam.... "It's
no mean feat, " says DOTSON
RADER, "to wind up a new novel."
The novel, Government Inspected
Meat, is about a male hustler try–
ing to grow up in Amerieo. . . .
LESLIE FIEDLER's Being Busted
just came out. ., MARK JAY
MIRSKY asks that we mention
"that old chestnut," Thou Worm
Jacob, his first novel. Parts
of his second , Simcha, appear in
the current New Directions Annual.
. . . The two poems by JOSEF
HANZLIK printed here are tran–
slated for Penguin's Modern Euro–
pean Poets series by EWALD
OSERS. Mr. Osers has translated
over thirty books from Czech and
German. . . . YIANNIS RITSOS is
now being detained on Samos....
"Once trapped in the Seventh
Avenue Garment District," says
PHILIP L. GREENE, "I escaped to
become an English professor and
writer." Greene's new novel is
"something of a sexperiment,"
about the female Portnoy.... BUS
is an Italian artist. . . . Because
o~
the gap between the pace of
events and the pace
of
a quarter–
ly, PR plans to run informal re–
marks on current issues in the mag–
azine itself and in a monthly news–
letter. Further
sugg~tions
are in–
vited.
PARKER
TYLER
The N ow Critic Then
The Now Critic Now
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