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Edited by Irving Howe and Iiana Wiener Howe...
...story" is the most elastic category in modern literature. "Story" may mean a series of events, a monologue, even a simple description with no characters at all. As for "short," it may signify a narrative of 10,000 words or a terse moral fable. In Short Shorts, Editor Irving Howe (World of Our Fathers) and his wife liana have decided to explore the far end of the genre. None of their selections requires more than eleven pages (D.H. Lawrence's A Sick Collier); some need four (Grace Paley's Wants). But the works are small only in measure...
Engel's own literary projects for the summer include Northrop Frye's The Great Code. Mather's translation of The Thousand Knights and One Knight, Irving Howe's edition of The Portable Kipling. The Letters of Oppenheimer, and a rereading of Andre Gide's The Counterfeiters...
...Howe however, argued that the new procedure will be more efficient and economical because he said the advertising charge covers typesetting and handling, and more information can be squeezed into a smaller space in a newsletter format...
When this was tried two years ago. Howe said, the bill to the College was "horrifying" He added. "I don't think students would tolerate a situation where they were paying for mere postage...