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November 1990
Eight Months on a Picket Line
Closed mid-October 1990 · On stands late October 1990
The Front
Field Notes
A rotating column on the small print of September — a broadcast, a publication date, a network's fall-premiere ad rates
The Essay
Autumn Reading, Assigned
The essay desk's roundup of the season's serious nonfiction
The Foreign File
Dispatch, Held
A stringer's piece bumped a cycle by the well's crowding
The Feature Well
What a Famous Name Now Costs
A feature on the seven-figure celebrity-memoir advance and the publishing economics behind it, keyed to the season's biggest book deals
The City
The Crossing
The Family Red Apple boycott as a Dinkins-coalition political story — the mayor's eight-month paralysis and the September crossing
The Back
Nine Hours, Thirty-Nine Million
Ken Burns's The Civil War draws 39 million viewers to PBS, September 23
The Personae, Published
Yale University Press publishes Sexual Personae