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...BOXER SHORTS: Kirkus is rhapsodic about "The Shadow Boxer," a debut novel by Steven Heighton (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin; February 25), giving it a starred review. "The ghosts of Jack London, Thomas Wolfe, and Jack Kerouac all hover approvingly over a terrific first novel by Heighton, an Ontario poet and story writer...One of the finest coming of age tales in recent years, and a splendid novelistic debut by a writer who seems to be just now entering a most impressive maturity." Author tour...
...CANADA: Something must be going on north of the border. Kirkus salutes another Canadian first novel: "Crow Lake" by Mary Lawson (Dial; March 5), giving it a starred review. "A finely crafted debut looks back to a young woman's harshly beautiful childhood in rural Canada...A simple and heartfelt account that conveys an astonishing intensity of emotion, almost Proustian in its sense of loss and regret...
...SHOW ME THE MONEY: Kirkus cracks up over "Money Wanders" by Eric Dezenhall (Dunne/St. Martin's; February), giving it a starred review. "Money may wander but attention never strays in this comic debut. Dezenhall nimbly skewers the Internet, journalists, politicians, and public relations spinmeisters and their power to dupe huge numbers of people...Thoughtful, unpretentious, filled with laugh-out-loud funny scenes and delightfully realized characters. Place your bets on this winner...
Though UConn is making its debut season in the ECAC, its coach, Heather Linstad, is by no means a neophyte. She led Harvard’s Beanpot rival Northeastern to the ECAC championships in 1997 and several more successful seasons before leaving for UConn two years ago. Of the four new ECAC teams, hers has been by far the most successful...
Every week, TIME writers and editors chat on AOL about the news. This week we look at homeland security, the collapse of energy giant Enron, and the highly anticipated debut of the top-secret invention Ginger. Go to AOL, Keyword: Live...