This issue of San Francisco Review contains the wonderful M.F.K. Fisher article "Shelf Life". The title refers to the way that Fisher rotated the books in her kitchen library, which had to fit on a 24 inch shelf. Things that never got taken off the shelf included Joy of Cooking, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and a box of file cards, and an old folder containing "the essence of a lifetime of wonderful food lived by one of my sisters". Also printed in Joan Reardon's anthology A Stew or a Story.