Books: Editors' Choice: Feb. 2, 1981

FICTION: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera -A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now, edited by Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone -The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty - Crackers, Roy Blount Jr.

Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino -Prize Stories of the Seventies: From the O. Henry Awards, selected by William Abrahams

NONFICTION: Ambition, Joseph Epstein American Dreams, Studs Terkel The Magazine Maze, Herbert R.Mayes -Naming Names, Victor Navasky -Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan -"Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" Orville Schell Ways of Escape, Graham...

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