Books: Editors' Choice: Mar. 16, 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 Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth Bowen - The Company of Women, Mary Gordon -Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson -The Lone Pilgrim, Laurie Colwin -Other People's Worlds, William Trevor

NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel -Faces in My Time, Anthony Powell -Gjon Mili: Photographs & Recollections -The Hour of Our Death, Philippe Aries -Paper Money, Adam Smith -The Terrible Secret, Walter Laqueur -Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan

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