NOTES
WALTER BENJAMIN,
1892-1940,
a German-Jewish literary critic and
essayist, emigrated to France as a refugee from Hitler's Germany. He
committed suicide when his attempt to leave occupied France for the
United States failed. A critical edition of his collected works is currently
being published in Germany....
EDMUND JEPHCOTT
is a professor at
the School of European Studies, the University of Sussex, England.... A
resident of London ,
RONALD HAYMAN
is the author of
Artaud and After,
Tom Stoppard,
and
How to Read
a
Play.
His critical biography of de Sade
will be published this summer.
DANIEL BELL
is Professor of Sociology at
Harvard . A version of his essay in this issue will appear as the forward to
the paperback edition of
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism ,
which
will be published in the fall by Basic Books....
SIV CEDERING
FOX's
latest collection of poetry,
Color
Poems, is due to be published shortly. . ..
A painter and sculptor,
JULES OLiTSKI
is writing a novel tentatively titled
An Artist of Our Time (or The Horse 's
Ass) . .. .
MARK PERAKH
was born
in Kiev, holds degrees in chemistry and engineering , and has been
teaching at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, after serving a prison
term in Siberia. ...
ART LANGE
edits a poetry magazine in Chicago called
Brilliant Corners.
His most recent book is
Monk
Poems, published by
Frontward Books....
BERNADETTE MAYER
is a co-editor of the maga–
zine
United Artists.
Her latest books are
Memory, Poetry,
and
Erudition Ex
Memoria . ...
CHARLES HASELOFF,
who has had poems published in
many magazines and anthologies, tells us that he has been riding New
York buses, subways, and the Staten Island ferry for twenty-six years....
A Chicago-based magazine writer,
ETHEL GOFEN
has also written chil–
dren's educational shows. This is her first published poem....
ANDREW
ROSENHEIM
is an associate editor of
Politics
magazine. He is currently
studying at Oxford . ... The University of Texas Press has just published
GILBERT SORRENTINO's
book of poems,
The Orangery,
and Grove
Press will publish his novel ,
Synthetic Ink,
in the spring of
1979. . . .
CECIL
BROWN
has been writing for the movies. His most recent project is
Which
Way is Up?,
an adaptation of
The Seduction of Mimi
for Richard Pryor. Mr.
Brown is also writing a novel about Hollywood....
LUIS HARSS
is an
Argentine, born in Chile. He has published novels and essays in English
and Spanish , and he currently teaches at West Virginia University. .. .
LEONARD SCHAPIRO
teaches at the London School of Economics. . . .
DONALD MARSHALL
is an Associate Professor of English at the Univer–
sity of Iowa. His main interests are the history of criticism and Vienna from
1890-1940... .
MARTIN JAY
teaches history at Berkeley. He is the author
of
The Dialectical Imagination ,
and he is currently working on a study of
Western Marxism and the concept of totality.
