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Martin Amis' Heavy Water and Other Stories (Harmony Books; 208 pages; $21) is a collection of nine short fictions, wildly diverse but related by a gleeful misanthropy that has made the British author one of the most unlikable satirists of his generation. And one of the funniest...
...Franken, star of NBC's Lateline and the author of two best-selling books on politics, will address the ARCO Forum on March 11, according to a schedule released yesterday by the Kennedy School press office...
Other events include a March 18 panel discussion entitled "Gay Rights and the Republican Party," featuring ABC News analyst and Weekly Standard editor William Kristol and author Andrew Sullivan...
...author of 18 books and the focus of several television specials, Graham has been criticized by groups of other faiths for his aggressive attitude on conversion, especially in foreign countries...
Everything works except plot in the author's third book of short stories, which is to say, everything is believable except what happens. The stories are good anyway. Offutt knows his people--Kentucky men, drinkers, loners unsurprised at being kicked out by wives or girlfriends. He dreams in their language: "The next time I visited Tarvis, I drank the neck and shoulders out of a fifth while he talked." But Tarvis commits suicide in an elaborate, pop-novel way. Another man, a trucker, picks up a woman in a bar, is later arrested for dynamiting a dam, still later learns...