NOTES
ISAIAH BERLIN's
piece on nationalism was published by the Hogarth
Press in England as part of
Against the Current,
the third volume of Sir
Isaiah's
Selected Writings,
which will be published in this country by
Viking.. . .
IRVING HOWE's
latest book is
Celebrations and Attacks. ...
A
writer and television interviewer,
BARBARALEE DIAMONSTEIN
has
served as a White House Assistant and Director of Cultural Affairs from
New York City. Her most recent book is
Buildings Reborn: New Uses, Old
Places. ...
CYNTHIA OZICK
is the author of
Trust,
a novel ,
The Pagan
Rabbi and Other Stories, Bloodshed and Three Novellas,
and numerous
critical and reflective essays... .
RICHARD SENNETT
is Director of the
New York Institute for the Humanities and author of
The Fall of Public
Man . ...
ELIZABETH FENTON's
first book,
Public Testimony,
was pub–
lished by Alicejamesbooks in Cambridge, Massachusetts.. . .
CAROLE
GLASSER
teaches English at Polytechnic Institute of New York and New
York City Community College....
SUSAN ASTOR's
poems have appeared
in
The Paris Review
and other magazines and in the poetry anthology,
Shaping,
and will appear in the forthcoming anthology,
Silent Voices. . ..
PHILIP FRIED's
poems have appeared recently in
Poetry Northwest
and
The Paris Review.
He lives in New York City.. . .
CELIA GILBERT's
first
book of poems,
Queen of Darkness,
was published by Viking Press in
1977. She is working on a new book and short fiction . . . .
ALAN NADEL's
poetry and articles on poets have appeared in a number of small journals.
He teaches English at Douglass College of Rutgers University.... Last
year
ALFRED CORN's
second book of poems, A
Call in the Midst of the
Crowd,
came out with Viking Penguin.. ..
KEITH WALDROP
teaches at
Brown University. He is the author of A
Windmill Near Calvary, Wind
Scales,
and other books, and is an editor of Burning Deck Press....
MARILYN HACKER
is the author of
Separations
and
Presentation Piece,
which received the 1975 National Book Award in poetry. She lives in New
York with her daughter, Iva. .. .
MORRIS DICKSTEIN
is the author of
Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties.
He teaches English at
Queens College. ...
PETER BROOKS
teaches French and Comparative
Literature at Yale University. His most recent book is
The Melodramatic
Imagination . .. .
NEIL SCHMITZ
has just completed a long essay on
Gertrude Stein's novel,
Ida . . . .
Literary critic of
The New Leader,
DAPHNE
MERKIN
has contributed fiction and nonfiction to
Commentary, The New
Republic, Midstream,
and
Encounter. .. .
LAWRENCE GRAVER
is Kenan
Professor of English at Williams College. He has recently edited (with
Raymond Federman) the Critical Heritage volume on Beckett. . ..
PETER
LOEWENBERG
teaches European cultural history and German history at
UCLA. He has written on psychohistory, political leadership, and anti–
Semitism. ...
IRA HAUPTMAN
teaches at Cornell, which he would like to
take with him to another climate. ... Assistant professor of English at
Columbia University,
WERNER SOLLORS
is the author of
Amiri Baraka/
LeRoi Jones: The Quest for
a
"Populist Modernism".
He is currently
working on a study of "Ethnicity in American Literature and Culture"....
ROBERT ALTER
teaches comparative literature at the University of
California at Berkeley. He is the author, most recently, of
Partial Magic,
Defenses of the Imagination ,
and a critical biography of Stendhal. ...
JAMES ATLAS
is an editor of
The New York Times Book Review
and
author of
Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet.