Best Sellers: Surreptitious Sonneteer

SOUVENIRS AND PROPHECIES by HOLLY STEVENS 288 pages. Knopf. $12.50.

"He would tell me, with the deadpan rattle of a secret agent... what Wallace Stevens said ... before disappearing forever into the disguise of a Hartford Insurance executive." —John Updike, Museums and Women

Until now, John Updike's speculation...

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