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...introduction to this sagebrush valedictory, Novelist Thomas McGuane catalogues the hallmarks of the fading West: "The dead windmills lost behind the high wire of a missile range, the stove-up old cowboy at the unemployment of fice, the interstate that plunges through the homesteads . . ." Threatened by land development and automated meat production, folks less durable than cowpunchers would have ridden into the sunset long ago. Yet they hang on, as evidenced by Vanishing Breed (New York Graphic Society; 144 pages; $29.95). More than 100 evocative photographs catch ranch hands and horses in landscapes where the Old West...
...threat of nuclear destruction, publishers all over are hoping fantasy will keep the cash registers ringing. Gnomes is a bit passe, but try The Unicorn, The Unicorn and the Lake or, for a change of pace, The Book of Gryphons. Witches might sound like a straight-laced topic for novelist Erica Jong, but don't despair: Jong has conjured up enough juicy tidbits of witchlore to transform even those cackling hags into erotic subjects...
Marriage wrote Novelist John P. Marquand, "is a damnably serious business, particularly around Boston." And also, these days, around Tokyo. The Japanese are as obsessive about nuptials as any traditional Back Bay clan. Moreover, they have far more opportunities to celebrate weddings...
...poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren summed up the legend of his friend Katherine Anne Porter just before her death in 1980 at the age of 90. Once upon a time there was "a beautiful woman, wanderer in many lands, witty, restless, fanatically devoted to her art, a charming and accomplished conversationalist, and in the end, after all sorts of poverty, rich and famous...
...once heartening and tragic. Almost every story in it is worth rereading, but the book is the last work of its editor, killed in a motorcycle accident 2½ months ago. For the most part shunning pieces that appeared in major periodicals ("all knife-flash, no blood"). Novelist John Gardner also sidelines such contemporary masters as John Updike, Donald Barthelme and Ann Beattie in favor of relative newcomers who display "a new seriousness...