ALEX KATZ edited by Bill Berkson and Irving Sandler. Praeger. $12.50 / Very little book for the price, unless you are passionately interested in the work of Alex Katz — or, rather, the gossip that seems to flow endlessly out of, within and around Katz’s close circle of admirers, many of whom are contributors to this prehumous eulogy.

He stood regardant for a moment.

he was not obliged to repeat what he had received, in solution of a just debt

Their faces are long and graceful and missing the pudge of the others.