Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STORYTELLER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $17.95). A Peruvian narrator remembers a college classmate and ponders the possibility that his old friend has become a bard to an endangered Amazonian tribe. This ruminative novel about storytelling and its place in society shows a world- class author in splendid form...
History isn't written only in headlines, any more than news is all made by diplomats and politicians. Consider the ETHICS story on the efforts of gays to win legal recognition for their relationships. Or the report in IDEAS on Japanese author Shintaro Ishihara's blunt criticisms of American attitudes. We have exclusive excerpts in WORLD from a private memo Richard Nixon sent to congressional leaders after his recent China visit. By the way, you'll notice that we've moved INTERVIEW to a new position near the front of the magazine, ahead of NATION...
...thunderation, the first of four in a reported $30 million to $40 million publishing deal, the author plays with a twist of the old good-twin, bad-twin theme. Novelist Thad Beaumont, who lives in Maine (as does King), collided with writer's block a few years ago and rescued his career by writing four novels under the pseudonym of George Stark (just as King has written five novels as Richard Bachman). These tales, unlike Beaumont's, were violent, brutal and very successful. Now Beaumont, writing on his own again, wants to bury Stark...
...only high-voltage shocker), comes to life as a cunning psychopath who, somewhat ludicrously, is determined to keep on writing. He slices up Beaumont's agent and editor and several other innocents with a straight razor, in scenes so lovingly detailed they would be called pornographic if the author had given the same attention...
...read Steven J.S. Glick's editorial "C'mon, Change the Sheets," with a great deal of frustration. The author offers excellent suggestions for preserving the world's woodlands, but nevertheless, I am very concerned by the dilemma of those "dirty sheets...