The New Yorker Magazine March 16, 1981 Rural Farmhouses Gretchen Dow Simpson Cover

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE TALK OF THE TOWN ............................................... 33

"A PAINFUL AFFAIR" ................................. Mavis Gallant ............ 39

"THE PRODIGAL SON" (POEM) ......................... Lois Moyles .............. 42

"TO SEE YOU AGAIN" ................................ Alice Adams .............. 44

"MURMUR" (POEM) ................................... Anthony Hecht ............ 46

PROFILES (MEL TORMÉ) ............................... Whitney Balliett ......... 49

THE THEATRE ........................................ Brendan Gill ............. 61

    OFF BROADWAY ...................................... Edith Oliver ............. 62

"THE BAT" (POEM) ................................... Ellen Bryant Voigt ....... 66

MUSICAL EVENTS ..................................... Nicholas Kenyon .......... 71

A REPORTER AT LARGE (REAGAN ADMINISTRATION) ........ Elizabeth Drew ........... 84

"UNCLES" ........................................... Thomas Glynn ............. 102

BOOKS .............................................. Helen Vendler ............ 108

    BRIEFLY NOTED .................................................. 136

COVER: Gretchen Dow Simpson

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