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...without having read them to make room for incoming books," complains a bookstore owner in central Paris who asked not to be named. "In the end, you tend to offer readers what's most likely to sell." So what's on offer this season? Hype is building for two debut novels, Stories to Take You to the Moon by Maëva Poupard, 16, and Prophecy of the Stones by Flavia Bujor, 14. Cynics say their presence in the rentrée littéraire typefies the popular appeal of youth - a craze that's paying handsomely for 19-year...
...confused and chaotic place. Caught between childhood and adolescence, he's flooded by new impulses, teased by an itch he can't quite scratch. So wordless lust is confined in wordless thoughts that resound in his tormented head. The 12-year-old narrator of Ed Lin's edgy debut novel Waylaid is the only child of Chinese immigrants. He spends all his spare time working at his family's ramshackle hotel on the New Jersey shore. The summer guests are "Bennys"?crude young Italians from New York City who vomit in the hallways and copulate in the pool...
...Rattle promises that his iconoclasm will flavor the orchestra. His debut program last weekend featured a characteristically diverse selection: Mahler's Fifth Symphony and Asyla, a work by 29-year-old British composer Thomas Adès that Rattle commissioned while in Birmingham...
...Sopranos' debut date also launches the show into the publicity wake of the bout of national scab-ripping that is the Sept. 11 anniversary. Ironically, Chase has told the story of how, when he shopped around The Sopranos to the networks in the '90s, executives would ask if Tony could do an occasional good deed--like, one suggested, help the FBI catch a terrorist. And after Sept. 11, the question arose whether the terrorists might have done in Tony Soprano--whether Americans were now less willing to accept dark dramas about morally suspect characters...
...London and Paris. To start, the company will focus on just half of Lauren's many offerings, including the top-of-the-line collections for men and women, children's wear, men's sportswear and Ralph Lauren Blue Label, a new women's casual line that will make its debut this September. What won't be coming are the lowest of the Lauren lines--Chaps and Lauren--those produced by licensees...