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...Norman Podhoretz (Atheneum; $12.50), a selection of some of the magazine's best articles written by some of the era's shrewdest minds: Sidney Hook, Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, George Lichtheim, Daniel Bell. The book also contains a sampling of Commentary short stories (Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Wallace Markfield), which invariably carry a social message...
...Bernard Malamud, noted novelist and a member of the language and literature division of Bennington College has been appointed visiting professor for next year, Dean Ford announced yesterday...
...Malamud will teach a Freshman seminar; it is not yet known whether he will take on any other academic commitments...
Since 1952, Malamud has write five books. His most recent novel, Idiots First, was first published in 1963. Two years before he wrote A New Life, a story about a New Yorker teaching in the West. In 1958, Malamud's Magic Barrel, a book of short stories about Jews searching for a lost past, won the National Book Award. The Natural, a book about a baseball player, appeared in 1952, and was followed in 1957 by The Assistant, a novel about a shoemaker...
Hello, Dolly! The pressure also stems from the closeness of the girls to one of the liveliest faculties of any small U.S. college. There is one teacher for every seven students; they include Novelist Bernard Malamud, Poet Howard Nemerov, Composer Lionel Nowak, and, formerly, Erich Fromm, Jose Limon, W. H. Auden and Theodore Roethke. Academic rankings are banished-teachers are "Mr.," "Miss" or "Mrs." and department chairmanships are rotated. Girls are especially close to their counselors, whom they meet weekly for "encounters" on every subject from existentialist philosophy to their love life. Graduates often fetch up in the arts; among...