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Nowell's last gift to everyone else is this outstanding album. The first song on it, Garden Grove, features a scratchy, staccato guitar riff, characteristic of ska, along with sampled snatches of sound and music. The result is a feeling of restful introspection coupled with an underlying sense of urgency. On April 29, 1992 (Miami), the band combines an itchy ska beat with a kind of enlightened gangsta-rap attitude to capture the incendiary, anarchic mood on the streets during the nationwide Rodney King uprisings. Nowell is not just channel-surfing through these emotions and genres...
...success of Leaving Las Vegas has now led to the posthumous publication of O'Brien's fourth novel, The Assault on Tony's (Grove Press; 215 pages; $21; the author's third novel, Stripper Lessons, is due from Grove next year). Here again, O'Brien immerses himself in the world of aggressively nonfunctioning alcoholics who live without meaningful allegiances to work or family...
...while the embers were still warm quickly determined that both fires were indeed the result of arson. (They also confirmed a failed arson attempt at an all-white church nearby.) They ruled out an insurance scam by church personnel. And since no outsider would have known the tiny Central Grove church existed, the culprit was probably a local...
...arsons in their backyard forced the people of Kossuth to question whether their confidence in local harmony had been misplaced--and to reconsider their own behavior. "It's scary to think of people doing something so mean so near," says Pauline Morton, who lives close to the Central Grove church. Her neighbor, James Wilbanks, a white man, says sadly of its congregation, "I hate now that we weren't more friendly with them...
...Lamberts' phone rang: Mount Pleasant was ablaze. Lambert's husband Steve, who is not only the mayor but also chief of the Kossuth volunteer fire department, rushed to the local fire barn and discovered to his astonishment that the engines were already gone, to another black church, Central Grove Missionary Baptist, which was burning a few miles away. Finally, the county fire department arrived, but by then, Mount Pleasant was lost. As the roof caved in and the steeple crashed to the ground, Linda Lambert glanced over at Sheriff's Deputy Billy Dilworth, a big, quiet man who serves...