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Fiction Chronicle

Progress of Stories, by Laura Riding Jackson

by George Kearns

The Hudson Review, Autumn 1982, pp. 499-511

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    Spring 1982 Issue = 22 Articles
    1. To Our Readers, pp. 4-5
    2. Letter from Canada by J.E. Chamberlin, pp. 6-18
    3. In Praise of Gossip by Patricia Meyer Spacks, pp. 19-38
    4. Kashikojima: The Grave Rubbings by Laurence Lieberman, pp. 39-46
    5. The Count and the Princess (story) by Joseph Epstein, pp. 47-68
    6. The Ohio Poem; At the Ruins by William Virgil Davis, pp. 69-70
    7. Galerie Orphee; In the Light of October by Emily Grosholz, pp. 71-72
    8. Ezra Pound in Heaven by Andrew J. Kappel, pp. 73-86
    9. "Graces, Secrets, Mysteries..." by Charles Martin, pp. 87-88
    10. Venetian Blinds by Martha Hollander, p. 89
    11. None of Us; The Same by Robert Louthan, pp. 90-91
    12. Theatre Chronicle: Nicholas Nickleby by Robert Asahina, pp. 92-98
    13. Vanguard Meets the Mainstream by Marcia B. Siegel, pp. 99-104
    14. Arshile Gorky by Charles W. Millard, pp. 105-111
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      Recovering the past by Monroe K. Spears, pp. 112-122 - 1 Review
      1. The Lisle Letters by Muriel St. Clare Byrne
    16. [+]
      In That Awful Civil War by Guy Davenport, pp. 123-128 - 3 Reviews
      1. Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward and Mary Chesnut
      2. Grant: A Biography by William S. McFeely
      3. The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted by Charles E. Beveridge and Frederick Law Olmsted, ...
    17. Notes on Contributors, p. 129
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      The Muslims Are Coming! The Muslims Are Coming! by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 130-138 - 1 Review
      1. Among the Believers by V.S. Naipaul
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      Poetry Chronicle: The Experts by Vernon Young, pp. 139-150 - 8 Reviews
      1. The Dream Below the Sun by Antonio Machado
      2. The Silence of Love by Peter H. Lee
      3. Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts by Wislawa Szymborska
      4. Rumor Verified: Poems, 1979-1980 by Robert Penn Warren
      5. Rhyme's Reason by John Hollander
      6. Introducing Eavan Boland by Eavan Boland
      7. The Dollmaker's Ghost by Larry Levis
      8. Dog Light by William Clipman
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      Two Poets by G.E. Murray, pp. 151-153 - 2 Reviews
      1. Running on Empty by Robert S. Phillips
      2. The Ruined Motel by Reginald Gibbons
    21. [+]
      Embarrassed with Riches by Richmond Lattimore, pp. 154-158 - 1 Review
      1. The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation by Charles Tomlinson
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      Novel Discomforts and Delights by William H. Pritchard, pp. 159-178 - 17 Reviews
      1. The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
      2. The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas
      3. Souvenirs by W.D. Wetherell
      4. The Polygamist by B.H. Friedman
      5. The Temptation of Eileen Hughes by Brian Moore
      6. The Country by David Plante
      7. Bed Rest by Rita Kashner
      8. Crystal Vision by Gilbert Sorrentino
      9. On the Stroll by Alix Kates Shulman
      10. Fish by Monroe Engel
      11. A Private Life by Cynthia Propper Seton
      12. Her Side of It by Thomas Savage
      13. Take This Man by Frederick Busch
      14. The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
      15. A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
      16. Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell, Jr.
      17. Mr. Bridge by Evan S. Connell, Jr.
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    Summer 1982 Issue = 26 Articles
    1. To Our Readers, pp. 180-181
    2. Letter to the Editors, pp. 182-184
    3. They That Mourn (memoir) by Richard Hoffman, pp. 185-217
    4. A Poem at Fifty-One; Of This Evening; The Hour Before Dawn by Jayanta Mahapatra, pp. 218-220
    5. Daily Horoscope by Dana Gioia, pp. 221-224
    6. He Imagines His Wife Dead: Sidney Lanier, 1878; The Yellow Steeple; Sindey Lanier: His ... by Andrew Hudgins, pp. 225-227
    7. Crab in the Hole, Crab in the Hand; Hunting Agates at Big Creek by William Hathaway, pp. 228-230
    8. Notes on Failure by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 231-245
    9. The Great Loves; Summer; The First Hot Night by Elizabeth Knies, pp. 246-247
    10. Poem for the Broken Cup; Fall by Kate Jennings, pp. 248-250
    11. How to Live; A Lighthouse in Maine by Derek Mahon, pp. 251-252
    12. Obervations of the Tower Block by Ruth Fainlight, p. 253
    13. Trajectory by Sydney Lea, pp. 254-255
    14. Procession; A Two Inch Wave by Philip Booth, pp. 256-258
    15. Film Chronicle: Some Day in Tahiti by Vernon Young, pp. 259-264
    16. Notes on Contributors, p. 265
    17. Between Art and Life by Gilberto Perez, pp. 266-273
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      Fiction Chronicle by Dean Flower, pp. 274-289 - 10 Reviews
      1. Oh What a Paradise It Seems! by John Cheever
      2. Poppa John by Larry Woiwode
      3. Sauce for the Goose by Peter De Vries
      4. In the Garden of the North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolff
      5. Breaking and Entering by Peter Makuck
      6. Heading West by Doris Betts
      7. The Age of Wonders by Aharon Appelfeld
      8. The Dean's December by Saul Bellow
      9. The Safety Net by Heinrich Boll
      10. Bodily Harm by Margaret Atwood
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      Prophet and Loss by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 290-297 - 1 Review
      1. Some Sort of Epic Grandeur by Matthew J. Bruccoli
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      Time to Read Proust by Alfred Corn, pp. 298-305 - 1 Review
      1. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
    21. [+]
      Diving Dante by James Finn Cotter, pp. 306-313 - 8 Reviews
      1. Dante the Maker by William Anderson
      2. The Figure of Dante by Jerome Mazzaro
      3. A Reading of Dante's Inferno by Wallace Fowlie
      4. Dante's Inferno by Mark Musa and Dante Alighieri
      5. Dante's Purgatorio by Mark Musa and Dante
      6. Dante: Inferno by Allen Mandelbaum and Dante Alighieri
      7. Purgatorio by Allen Mandelbaum and Dante Alighieri
      8. Dante: Divine Comedy by C.H. Sisson and Dante Alighieri
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      The Peony Pavilion by Dore J. Levy, pp. 314-318 - 1 Review
      1. The Peony Pavilion by Tang Xianzu
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      Poetry Chronicle by Emily Grosholz, pp. 319-333 - 9 Reviews
      1. The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
      2. The Farewells by Julia Randall
      3. A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far by Adrienne Rich
      4. After the Digging by Alan Shapiro
      5. Portraits and Elegies by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
      6. The Glacier's Daughters by David Brendan Hopes
      7. Vivaldi in Early Fall by John Engels
      8. Relationship by Jayanta Mahapatra
      9. One for the Rose by Philip Levine
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      Wystan Hugh Auden by Hayden Carruth, pp. 334-340 - 3 Reviews
      1. Early Auden by Edward Mendelson
      2. W.H. Auden: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
      3. The Prolific and the Devourer by W.H. Auden
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      On the Prose of Wendell Berry by Richard Pevear, pp. 341-347 - 2 Reviews
      1. Recollected Essays, 1965-1980 by Wendell Berry
      2. The Gift of Good Land by Wendell Berry
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      Angry Englishmen by Jefferson Hunter, pp. 348-354 - 3 Reviews
      1. Samuel Butler Revalued by Thomas L. Jeffers
      2. George Orwell by Bernard Crick
      3. In Anger by Robert Hewison
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    Autumn 1982 Issue = 17 Articles
    1. The Bennett Award 1982, pp. 353-355
    2. To Our Readers, pp. 356-362
    3. Corneille's Le Cid, Act One by Alfred Corn, pp. 363-376
    4. Sailing (story) by Susan Kenney, pp. 377-392
    5. For People with Problems About How To Believe; Little Rooms; School Play; Deciding; Get... by William Stafford, pp. 393-399
    6. Poem for Adrienne Rich; Going and Staying by Eric Torgersen, pp. 400-404
    7. Complementary Portraits by Cushing Strout, pp. 405-415
    8. In a Time of Peace by Louis Simpson, pp. 416-418
    9. Angels, Language and the Imagination by Emily Grosholz, pp. 419-438
    10. Theatre Chronicle by Robert Asahina, pp. 439-446
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      Film Chronicle by Vernon Young, pp. 447-452 - 3 Reviews
      1. Personal Best (1982 Film) by Robert Towne
      2. Das Boot (1981 Film) by Wolfgang Petersen
      3. Mephisto (1981 Film) by Istvan Szabo
    12. [+]
      A Little Man Who Was a Writer by Monroe K. Spears, pp. 453-459 - 1 Review
      1. A Mingled Yarn by Russell A. Fraser
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      Tales of Waste and Woe by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 460-470 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Ted Hughes, Frances Monson McCullough, and Sylvia Plath, ...
      2. Poets in Their Youth by Eileen Simpson
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      Poetry of Opposites by James Finn Cotter, pp. 471-482 - 12 Reviews
      1. The Feel of the Sun by Mark Perlberg
      2. Exchanges by Richard Pevear
      3. The Times Between by Wyatt Prunty
      4. Her Name by James Baker Hall
      5. The Country Between Us by Carolyn Forche
      6. The Rote Walker by Mark Jarman
      7. The False Start by Jayanta Mahapatra
      8. We Have Lost Our Fathers, and Other Poems by Nicholas Rinaldi
      9. Holding Patterns by Leonard Nathan
      10. Hundreds of Fireflies by Brad Leithauser
      11. Empires by Richard Moore
      12. Anthracite Country by Jay Parini
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      Poetry and the Fine Presses by Dana Gioia, pp. 483-498 - 8 Reviews
      1. The Wolf Last Seen by John Quinn
      2. Games of Chance by Thom Gunn
      3. If Birds Build with Your Hair by W.D. Snodgrass
      4. There Are Things I Tell to No One by Galway Kinnell
      5. The Quiet of the Land by William Stafford
      6. Witnesses by Edgar Bowers
      7. The Defense of the Sugar Islands by Turner Cassity
      8. Many Houses by Charles Gullans
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      Fiction Chronicle by George Kearns, pp. 499-511 - 7 Reviews
      1. Progress of Stories by Laura Riding Jackson
      2. The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot by Junichiro Tanizaki
      3. The Complete Stories of lu Xun by Lu Xun
      4. Camel Xiangzi by Lao She
      5. Only Shorter by Ross Feld
      6. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
      7. Water Music by T. Coraghessan Boyle
    17. Notes on Contributors, pp. 512-514
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    Winter 1982 Issue = 27 Articles
    1. To Our Readers, pp. 516-517
    2. Bennett Award Acceptance Speech, 1982 by Seamus Heaney, pp. 518-520
    3. Impulse and Virtue in Jane Austen by Edward Joseph Shoben, Jr., pp. 521-539
    4. Coming of Age on the Harlem by Joan Murray, pp. 540-545
    5. Sushi/Sashimi; Departing Buffalo; Sunlight by Jerome Mazzaro, pp. 546-548
    6. Pictures of My Father (memoir) by John O'Brien, pp. 549-571
    7. Sleeping and Waking; Sunbathing Talk; Singing Is Believing by John Holloway, pp. 572-574
    8. Poem in Search of Its Subject; In the Garden at Midnight; Local Color by Barry Spacks, pp. 575-577
    9. Looking at a Painting of Constantinople by Paul Signac by Robert Swanson, pp. 578-579
    10. The Cricket by Krassin Himmirsky, p. 580
    11. The Contents of Case No. 794 by Marvin Mudrick, pp. 581-594
    12. Practical Gardner by Anne S. Perlman, pp. 595-596
    13. Hunting; A Christian Childhood by Prescott Evarts, Jr., pp. 597-598
    14. Schilfgraben by James Reiss, p. 599
    15. After Cendrars by Arnold Klein, p. 600
    16. Helen in Bed by Olivia Holmes, p. 601
    17. Music in Its Time and Place by Robert S. Clark, pp. 602-606
    18. Tales of Love and Sake by Marcia B. Siegel, pp. 607-612
    19. Adolph Gottlieb by Charles W. Millard, pp. 613-618
    20. [+]
      Sage Lives by William H. Pritchard, pp. 619-627 - 2 Reviews
      1. Waldo Emerson: A Biography by Gay Wilson Allen
      2. John Ruskin: The Passionate Moralist by Joan Abse
    21. [+]
      H.D. and D.H. by Jeffrey Meyers, pp. 628-632 - 1 Review
      1. H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet~Hilda Doolittle by Janice S. Robinson
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      The Happy Genius of His Household by Jay Parini, pp. 633-639 - 2 Reviews
      1. William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked by Paul Mariani
      2. William Carlos Williams: The Poet and His Critics by Paul Mariani
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      Poetry Chronicle by Dana Gioia, pp. 640-653 - 6 Reviews
      1. Quarterly Review of Literature: Poetry Series III by Renee Karol Weiss and Theodore Russell Weiss
      2. Antarctic Traveller by Katha Pollitt
      3. Globe by Elizabeth Spires
      4. New and Selected Poems by Tony Connor
      5. Manhattan Carnival by Frederick Feirstein
      6. Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief by Maxine Kumin
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      Them or Us by Clara Claiborne Park, pp. 654-659 - 1 Review
      1. The Adolescent Idea by Patricia A. Meyer Spacks
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      Fearful Adventures and Painful Peregrinations by Vernon Young, pp. 660-667 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Road to Kabul by Gerald de Gaury and H.V.F. Winstone
      2. Ladies on the Loose by Leo Hamalian
    26. Index to Volume XXXV, pp. 668-671
    27. Notes on Contributors, pp. 672-674
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