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Letterman may be having problems in his home country--his ratings have fallen well behind those of both Jay Leno and Ted Koppel--and he seems as sourly distracted as he's ever been in his 15-year late-night career. (A longtime fan might be excused for thinking that the guy doing Letterman on CBS right now is an impersonator too.) But overseas he has never been hotter. Replicating Letterman for the locals is the most popular gimmick in international television since the invention of Baywatch...
...Wind-up Bird Chronicle is a fairly easy read--little seems to have been lost in Jay Rubin's excellent translation. Each chapter, with such titles as "An Inquiry into the Nature of Pain" and "The Story of the Monkeys of the Shitty Island," has enough comedy and matter-of-fact prose to keep the narrative moving along quickly. However, beneath the deceptive surface-simplicity, the novel is so richly textured that it deserves repeated reading. Filled with brilliant throwaway lines ("her voice like a little broom sweeping off the dust that had piled up on the slates...
Value-for-money Blue Jay Roger Clemens wins the Cy Young. More
Barnum is one of the more honest characters in Jacobs' conflation of fact and fiction. In effect, the legendary showman leads a kind of geek chorus of real and imagined religious zealots, yellow journalists, gangsters and robber barons. The Wall Street rogue Jay Gould actually sells someone a piece of the Brooklyn Bridge. A Jewish peddler leaves the fold to become a dowser for parched anti-Semites. Hull changes the name of a new cigar from Pickaninny to Uncle Tom after hearing that black smokers might be offended...
...looked like someone's father," said Jay M. Dickerson...