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A Long Drink Of Porter

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter. (Cape, 35s.) DYLAN THOMAS, at one of those devastating and eventually devastated parties in his American honour, picked up Dr.......

Crack-up

Dare Call it Treason. By Richard M. Watt. (Chatto and Windus, 30s.) TRE,year 1917 was one of revolutions—or, if you like, the true Year One of this century. It was the year of......

. The Last Bohemian The Life Of Riley. By Anthony

Cronin. (Seeker and Warburg, I8s.) Where the Sun Never Sets. By Jerome Weidman. (Heinemann*, 21s.) AN unadventurous week for fiction: five for- gettables neatly trussed for the......