More than one-half of all college students in the United States and nearly half of all college faculty attend or work at two-year colleges, yet references to them in American fiction are few and far between and usually derogatory. Examples used in an earlier paper on this topic are Bobbie Ann Mason's "Shiloh," Susan Fromberg Schaeffer's "Falling," Joyce Carol Oates's "Them," Gloria Naylor's "The Women of Brewster Place," and T. Glen Coughlin's "The Hero of New York." In all of these works the community college student or teacher is either bored or depressed or, in one case, chooses to attend a community college specifically because it lacks status. Some positive characterizations have appeared recently: a CBS television movie "Nobody's Child"; Lynn Siefert's play "Little Egypt"; and the novels "Oral History" by Lee Smith, "Miami Blues" by Charles Willeford, and "Raney" by Claude Edgerton. But negative depictions continue, Lorrie Moore's "Anagrams" and Jill Eisenstadt's "From Rockaway" being recent examples. Reasons for the near invisibility of two-year college persons in American popular culture are the relative newness of two-year colleges, their lack of glamor due to the low economic status of their membership, and intellectual snobbery toward institutions which must accept every applicant. (A 13-item bibliography is attached.) (MHC)