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NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ Albert Camus, Herbert R. Lottman American Caesar, William Manchester ∙ American Singers, Whitney Balliett ∙ In Memory Yet Green, Isaac Asimov ∙ Letters of Flannery O'Connor: The Habit of Being, edited by Sally Fitzgerald Thoughts in a Dry Season, Gerald Brenan
...paean. At this "sort of farmhouse-inn that is neither farm nor inn," McPhee wrote, he had downed 20 to 30 of the best meals he had consumed anywhere, including France's most illustrious restaurants. The article, as if written by Brillat-Savarin and annotated by Asimov, recounted in minute and salivating detail Otto's preparation of dozens of dishes from his repertory of 600: coulibiac, the Russian hot fish pie; osso bucco; paella à la marinara; veal cordon bleu; fillet of grouper oursinade (with sea urchin roe); smoked shad-roe pâté mousse; mussels...
...explanation for this disastermania: it is merely a harmless byproduct of popular entertainment. Explains Science Writer Isaac Asimov: "Hollywood just happens to be very good at special effects, primarily destructive effects." Indeed, in a forthcoming book, A Choice of Catastrophes, the polymath popularizer seeks to soothe anxieties about global disaster. Says Asimov: "All the scenarios are either very low in probability, or very distant in the future...
...farseeing; you are a visionary; he's a fuzzy-minded dreamer. [Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor...
Limericks: Too Gross (Norton, $7.95 hardcover). Asimov the poetaster and John Ciardi the poet might seem like an odd couple. But the two, who first met at a writers' conference, are close friends. They are also competitors and over the past several years have tried, with limited success, to top each other at composing limericks. The result of their 1978 Shootout is a book in which each offers 144 of the five-liners. One of Ciardi's milder offerings reads: "Said a voice from the back of the car,/ 'Young man, I don't know...