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PATTI SMITH: HORSES (Arista; $6.98). The author of two published books of verse, Patti Smith has worked as a musician intermittently over the past year or so, mainly in New York underground night spots. Dylan turned up at a performance recently-an event that confers rock's official blessing...
In Anno's Alphabet (Crowell; $6.95), Artist Mitsumasa Anno exhibits a gifted mind as well as hand. Twenty-six illustrations mount ingenious optical illusions in the shape of letters (see story head above-? 1974 by Fukuinkan-Sho-ten);on the opposite pages are objects beginning with those letters. With...
Reeves seems to enjoy thumping them too much to quit, but his book exudes a pessimism about politicians as sour as the west wind from Jersey City. Like television, McDonald's restaurants and much else in American life, Reeves laments, electoral politics nowadayses geared less toward producing quality than...
Almost from the start, Caldwell was bright, determined and, if not alone, then frequently on her own. "I try not to be a stage mother," says her mother Margaret, A "but she was very gifted, with a great fondness for mu sic and great reading and mathematical abilities at an...
Such formidably gifted writers as Henry James and James Joyce made a stab at writing plays. Both failed. Therefore it is not unduly surprising that another writer of distinctive talent, Isaac Bashevis Singer, has also failed.