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...originally wanted to write on the effects ofmedia and technology on writing," says Brown, "butit was far too grand. So I switched to essayists,and wanted to write on someone who handn't beeninvestigated. Safire, who considers himself both ajournalist and an essayist, seemed to be aninteresting choice...
...Travel writer andTIME essayist Pico Iyer's first novel portrays a Cuba where, when the sun goes down, principles crumble, loyalties falter and certainties dissolve. The story is of Richard, an American photographer who, over the course of five visits to Cuba starting in 1987, becomes progressively more embroiled in the mysteries and frustrations of the place. Chief among these is a Cuban girl named Lourdes, with whom Richard falls in love, and who is desparate to leave the island. TIME book reviewer William Boyd calls "Cuba and the Night" a "fine, rich and heady first novel...
...Love with Daylight (Simon & Schuster; 252 pages; $23) and Paul West's A Stroke of Genius (Viking; 181 pages; $21.95) are similar medical memoirs, kind of Blue Cross specials in which the writers recount their tussles with diseases and the imperfect professionals who treat them. Sheed is a novelist, essayist and critic with few equals in the styling of buoyant observations on the decline and fall of just about everything. Prolific only begins to describe West, whose 14 novels, nine works of nonfiction and two volumes of poetry exhibit a range of imagination and richness of expression that were greatly...
...shine all the time, but now and then a nonpareil comes along who puts on a good show of inexhaustible radiance. America lost one such rare soul last week when James Merrill died of a heart attack at the age of 68. He was a novelist, an essayist and a playwright, but it's as a poet-the author of 11 volumes of verse, with a 12th forthcoming in March-that he made his ineradicable mark...
...told me, half jokingly, he was tired of seeing his face on television," says Roger Rosenblatt, a NewsHour essayist and editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. At a meeting with NewsHour staff members last * week, MacNeil explained frankly that besides his personal desire to leave daily journalism, financial factors played an important role in his thinking. Though the show, now seen on more than 300 stations, has increased its audience 40% in the past nine years, it has seen its budget fall from $26 million to under $25 million this year, and its corporate funding from $13 million...