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...profit corporation that receives reliable revenues, employs sharp-penciled "gatekeepers" who only grudgingly dole out "care" and cannot be sued may be an investor's dream, but it is a patient's worst nightmare. EDWARD K. GARRISON Chicago...
...been unprofitable pretty much since Newhouse bought it in 1985, still loses money despite the increase in readership and media attention Brown had brought it. "I can't imagine a more abysmal failure than to sell the soul of a magazine and then lose money in the process," says Garrison Keillor, a former contributor who famously left as soon as Brown took over. "A couple of years of meetings at Miramax will be good penance...
...most fussed-about young poet of the moment is Deborah Garrison, whose new collection, A Working Girl Can't Win, revolves around a quintessentially self-absorbed postfeminist. Again we get a picture of a career woman in her 20s who doesn't feel pretty enough and who fantasizes about life as a sexpot. "I'm never going to sleep/ with Martin Amis/ or anyone famous./ At twenty-one I scotched/my chance to be/one of the seductresses/of the century,/ a vamp on the rise through the ranks/ of literary Gods and military men,/ who wouldn't stop at the President...
...devoted cult of readers who will still be on deck reciting favorite lines should the poetic Titanic ever go down. But there's good news: the lifeboats have been launched. This publishing season brings three books--J.D. McClatchy's Ten Commandments, Yusef Komunyakaa's Thieves of Paradise and Deborah Garrison's A Working Girl Can't Win--with room for passengers of every class...
...Deborah Garrison's A Working Girl Can't Win (Random House; 61 pages; $15) is an airy, appealing first book, much of which has already been published in the New Yorker, where Garrison, 33, is an editor. It follows a young urban professional in her confusing emotional commute from home to office, heart to head, the world of feeling to the world of work. Sweet and refreshing, though at times so light the lines dissolve on the page--"I'm never going to sleep/ with Martin Amis/ or anyone famous."--the verses go down easy, like frosty cocktails. Some...