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...Israel on a dangerous journey for escape and fulfillment. This wild young woman is none other than Chernin herself. The author claims that the harrowing events to 1971 transformed her so completely, that, in the book, Kim Chernin must call herself "dhe." Straddling the border between autobiography and fiction is not Chernin's only manipulation of her intriguing title in this rich and multi-layered work...
Ironically, Theroux's nonfiction, notably The Great Railway Bazaar, has excited the public's imagination more than his fiction. Few know he wrote The Mosquito Coast, remembered more for the film version than for the original novel. Too bad, because Theroux is a gifted and versatile tale spinner. He usually writes about outsiders: artists, adventurers and dreamers on the run from conformity. This partly explains the years Theroux lived abroad. Now an ex-expatriate, he is apparently still edgy enough about the U.S. to live near the exits, in Massachusetts and Hawaii. Millroy the Magician (Random House; 437 pages...
Matthew J. Duhan '95, who was mailing electronic messages to fellow members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association when the system went down, said members did not receive his messages for two days...
Nicholson Baker's brand of soft-core porn is better written than is usual for such naughty stuff, and now and again the suggestion is made that what he is writing is mainstream fiction. Or even, in the case of Vox (1992) -- his long transcription of an entirely satisfying anonymous phone-sex relationship -- that he is producing something like satire, driven by something like a point of view. A concept for our times: how safe can sex get, not just from infection but from imperfection, and of course from conception, though not from Baby Bell? His new novel, The Fermata...
...explosion of crime that's really % happening out there," suggests William S. Link, co-creator of Columbo and Murder, She Wrote as well as The Cosby Mysteries. "Today's crime rate is the highest in history. People want to see some sort of control, and you get that with fiction. On TV, the heavies are always caught...