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  1. An Announcement
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  3. A Disappearing Book Genre
  4. Recession Snows Tahoe Under
  5. Forever Young
  6. Opening Soon: Psychic
  7. Bye-Bye LA
  8. Mighty Kingdom Far, Far Away
  9. The Harder They Fall
  10. Maazel Tov

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1. The Arts Litany

2. The New Table of Contents

3. Cyber-Dionysian vs. Cyber-Apollonian

4. A Reading List for the New Architecture

5. Real-Life Architecture

6. Writing a Book

7. The Contemporary Literary Galaxy According to Me

8. The New York Times Book Review Section

9. The Culture of Books

10. Book People Vs. Movie People

11. The Future of Book Publishing:

12. Why Bother With New Books?

13. "Mildred Pierce"

14. Ira Levin

15. Donald Westlake:

16. Psychological Suspense

17. Adolescent Nation

18. Thong World

19. Women and Baked Goods

20. Ode to the Frenchwoman

21. What's Great About the French

22. "The Housekeeper"