NOTES
ALEXANDER MITSCHERLICH is Directorof the Sigmund Freud Institute
in Frankfurt. Dr. Mitscherlich's newest book , The Inability to Mourn will
be published by Grove Press early this summer . ... Assistant Chairman
of the English Department at Wright State University in Dayton , LAURA
ADAMS is the author of the forthcom ing Existential Battles: The Growth
of Norman Mailer. ... JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM , a professor of computer
science at M.I.T., gained considerable fame when he wrote a program
that made it possible for a computer to imitate a psychiatrist conducting
an interview. His thoughts turned to the social implications of science
and technology when he discovered that certain sections of the psychi–
atric community considered his program a serious and welcome step
toward " automating psychotherapy ." His book, Computer Power and
Human Reason, will be published next winter.... TERRENCE DES
PRES's study of survival in the concentration camps , The Survivors , will
be published by Oxford University Press... . RAYMOND FEDERMAN
tells us he is " still trying to break through the space of the white page. "
The Fiction Collective is publishing his new novel, Take
It
or Leave
It,
next year.. . . STUART MITCHNER is at work on a book about old
movies . His autobiographical novel, Indian Action will be published in
the Fall. ... PHILIP LEVINE's latest book is 1933. He is reading this
summer in Rotterdam at the International Poetry Festival. ... FRANK
MANLEY teaches at Emory University and is the editor of a forthcoming
edition of St. Thomas More's Dialogue of Comfort, part of the Yale
edition of More's Complete Works . . .. JUDSON JEROME retired from
Antioch College in 1972 to live in a rural commune and devote himself to
writing . One of Mr. Jerome's recently published books is Families of
Eden: Communes and The New Anarchism . . .. NAOMI LAZARD lives
in New York and gives poetry workshops at the 92nd Street Y, at Queens
College , and at SUNY at Purchase... . LEONARD KRIEGEL just re–
ceived a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship to work on a book about the
ideal of American manhood and its relation to American literature....
GEORGE LEVINE spent this past year at Stanford. He's putting together
volumes on Thomas Fynchon and Frankenstein .... HERBERT GANS is
at the Center for Policy Research in New York. His most recent book is
Popular Culture and High Culture.... JONATHAN BAUMBACH's latest
novel, Reruns , was recently published by the Fiction Collective....
NEIL SCHMITZ writes us that " having spent a year in England , I am
returning this fall to the dubious beauty of Buffalo , New York ." His piece
on Pynchon appeared in the #1 , 1975 issue of Partisan Review .
