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Books: Editors’ Choice: Mar. 2, 1981

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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 RobinsonItalian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino

∙Other People’s Worlds, William Trevor

NONFICTION:

∙Ambition, Joseph Epstein American Dreams, Studs Terkel Gjon Mili: Photographs & Recollections

∙The Magazine Maze, Herbert R. Mayes

∙Paper Money, Adam Smith

∙Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan

∙Ways of Escape, Graham Greene

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