Word: bernard
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Villa I Tatti, Harvard's center for Renaissance studies outside Florence, Italy, is best known for its exquisite art collection and library, formerly the property of the art historian Bernard Berenson...
Reported by Bernard Diederich/Port-au-Prince
...STORIES OF BERNARD MALAMUD...
...Bernard Malamud; Farrar Straus Giroux; 350 pages...
Under such difficult conditions, Author Bernard Malamud, 69, has been racing himself for a long time. In 31 years he has published seven novels, including The Natural (1952) and The Fixer (1966), interspersed with four volumes of short fiction. The Stories of Bernard Malamud includes 23 pieces selected by the author from these past assemblages, plus two previously uncollected stories. The book not only offers substantial evidence that Malamud's stories are better than his novels; it makes the distinction seem irrelevant. In sufficient concentration, small objects achieve critical mass, enough fast victories add up to a triumphant long...