Hard to find complete quarterly issue of the Yale Review for Winter 1987 is in very good condition. Special "Encounter Issue, Part I."
See photo #2 for complete contents.
All the so-called "encounters" provided here are the fruit of actual meetings or friendships.
Some highlights include:
Isaiah Berlin on Edmund Wilson.
Sidney Lovett on William James.
Kenneth MacKenzie on Casey Stengel.
Hortense Calisher on Christina Stead.
Peter Blume on Hart Crane.
Nat Hentoff on Malcolm X.
Konrad Kellen on Thomas Mann.
Other fiction and poems. See photo #2 for more.