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THE LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. "Our lives have come crashing down around us like a pile of trays," Fitzgerald wrote to his friend Edmund Wilson. It is during these last sad years that most of the letters were written, and they show courage and humor in the face of every kind of adversity.
THE FABULOUS LIFE OF DIEGO RIVERA, by Bertram Wolfe. The artist's life was like his murals: colorful, complicated and done on a grand scale. Though he was a loudly enthusiastic Communist for most of his life, his work was espoused by critics and capitalists rather than the masses, and Wolfe records every fierce conflict with both.
A SINGULAR MAN, by J. P. Donleavy. By capitalizing on his gift for fantasy and his necrophilic imagination, Donleavy (The Ginger Man) has written another wild and funny novel.
THE HAT ON THE BED, by John O'Hara. Twenty-four more masterly short stories of ever-widening range by the most accomplished as well as the most prolific practitioner of the art.
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