THE LARDNERS: MY FAMILY REMEMBERED by RING LARDNER, JR. 371 pages. Harper & Row. $1 2.95.
SOME CHAMPIONS—SKETCHES AND FICTION BY RING LARDNER Edited by MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI and RICHARD LAYMAN 205 pages. Scribner's. $8.95.
Before he died in 1934, at 48, Ring Lardner wore out, but he never wore thin. In recent, self-absorbed decades, he has been more reminisced about than read. The literate young know him fondly (a middle-aged reader supposes) as a hard-drinking character in one of Damon Runyon's baseball stories, or perhaps as the author who invented the hard-drinking...
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