''That novel, and his second book, ''Traffic & Laughter,'' give one the sense that Mooney reports from a place in the near future,'' reviewer Joseph Olshan wrote in the Tribune in 1990. Ted Mooney`s first novel, ''Easy Travel To Other Planets'' (1981), spoke of a highly communicable disease that spreads rapidly throughout the world`s population. Traffic & Laughter, by Ted Mooney (Vintage, $12). ''Katharine Hepburn writes as she acts: fascinatingly, irritatingly, and, in the end, with absolute singularity.'' ''Shrewd performer that she is, Hepburn saves most of her Tracy stories for the finish of her book, providing a moving account of his death,'' Christiansen wrote. are among its most interesting, filled with a particular sense of place and period and overflowing with love for her family.'' Later chapters cover the start of her career, her marriage and divorce, and her 27-year love affair with Spencer Tracy with whom she starred in nine films. All the way-up-down- all about.'' Reviewer Richard Christiansen wrote in the Tribune last year that the book`s ''early chapters. She blames this trait for the breakup of her marriage to Ludlow ''Luddy'' Ogden Smith, writing, ''The truth had to be that I was a terrible pig. In her autobiography, ''Me,'' Katharine Hepburn readily admits that egocentricity has always been her predominant characteristic. Me: Stories of My Life, by Katharine Hepburn (Ballantine, $5.99).
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