CAPSULES

*Any Woman's Blues by Erica Jong (Harper & Row, $18.95) Beyond Codependency and Women Who Love Too Much retooled as fiction. F *The Best of Abbie Hoffman Foreword by Norman Mailer (Four Walls, Eight Windows, $21.95) Sometimes silly but also seminal for students of the '60s. *Easter Weekend by David Bottoms (Houghton Mifflin, $17.95) A tight novel of working-class dreams gone wrong. B+ *Essays in Disguise by Wilfrid Sheed (Knopf, $19.95) Probably the zingiest prose in contemporary journalism. Not for pantywaists. A *For the Sake of All Living Things by John M. Del Vecchio (Bantam, $19.95) Novel of the Cambodian holocaust from the author of The 13th Valley. *Louder Than Words: Twenty-Two Writers Donate New Stories to Benefit Share Our Strength's Fight Against Hunger, Homelessness and Illiteracy Edited by William Shore (Vintage, $8.95) Authors include Madison Smartt Bell, Mona Simpson, Charles Baxter, and Francine Prose. A *Pierre Franey's Low-Calorie Gourmet by Pierre Franey and Richard Flaste (Times Books, $10.95) Fast, fat-free fine French food. Fairly

frugal too. *Sweet Talk by Stephanie Vaughn (Random House, $16.95) An excellent collection of interrelated stories, most about growing up. Fine and sharp; no mush. A remarkable debut. A- *A Tenured Professor by John Kenneth Galbraith (Houghton Mifflin, $18.95) As a novelist, Galbraith is a great economist. C