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Naipaul ∙Mirabell: Books of Number, James Merrill ∙Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick Sophie's Choice, William Styron Testimony and Demeanor, John Casey ∙The Living End, Stanley Elkin -Wild Oats, Jacob Epstein NONFICTION: Bay of Pigs, Peter Wyden ∙Billy Graham, Marshall Frady ∙Blood of Spain, Ronald Fraser ∙Confession and Avoidance, Leon Jaworski ∙The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas ∙The Powers That Be, David Halberstam ∙To Set the Record Straight, John J. Sirica
Later this summer she will perform at Jacob's Pillow in Worcester. The Harvard Concert is free...
Similarly, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Drs. John Decker, Jacob Karsh and colleagues treated four patients-including Rachel-with lymphapheresis (removal of only the white blood cells) three times a week for five to six weeks. In all except two Los Angeles patients, the therapy provided startling improvement. Their stiffness and agony was relieved for a period averaging several months. An unexpected observation: some patients seemed to get help from drugs that had not been doing them much good, or were not expected to work...
WILD OATS by Jacob Epstein Little, Brown; 267 pages...
...college-inspired novels this side of Fitzgerald's Paradise have been even B-plus efforts. Wild Oats is a refreshing exception. Recent Yale Graduate Jacob Epstein set his low-key whimsy at fictitious Beacham University, a liberal arts college with a hundred-year tradition of the second-rate. Its off-centerpiece, Billy Williams, literally starts off on the wrong foot by stepping on the college master's dachshund at a cocktail party. He writes a term paper on the Iliad titled "The Shoes of the Greeks," falls for a coed named Zizi Zanzibar and takes Chinese...