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...uncertainty of my future." The plodder here is one Dominick Pindle, a Massachusetts teen who makes the big, cinematic oopsy of falling for his father's other woman. Imagine the consequences, the confrontations! Sadly, you would probably do a better job than John Searles has in Boy Still Missing (Morrow; 292 pages; $25), a back-to-the-early-'70s drama of family misery and social devolution. It's an action-packed tale but light in every other way, although its tone can be very, very heavy. Abortion figures in, and much is made of changing mores in the era just...
...news comes in on the full tide. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, a lovely writer, the widow of Charles Lindbergh, dies in her house in Vermont. She slips off and away, having lingered some years already in the kingdom adjacent to death, the region of intermittent blankness where Ronald Reagan passes his 90th birthday. She was 94. Uncoaxed, the lives of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Ronald Reagan come flashing before my eyes - a cascade of images, quick-cut and all out of sequence, the celebrity American Century tumbling through the mind. It must be the moon...
...There's no reason to pair Ronald Reagan and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, except that they were born four years apart, long ago, in a different America, before the flood, and both came over with us into a new millennium, though they were enveloped in fog as we crossed the line. They make me think of Woodie Guthrie's '30s ballad based on "The Grapes of Wrath": "We buried Grandpa Joad on the Oklahoma Road,/ and Grandma on the California side...
...written his first novel, Boy Still Missing (Morrow), due in bookstores in February, and it's getting the kind of buzz a former factory worker can only dream of. The story of a teenage boy who gets into a sexually charged relationship with his father's mistress, leading to an accidental death, it has been championed by such big-name writers as Wally Lamb and Frank McCourt. The birth of a new literary star? "I'm so busy writing my next book," says Searles, "I haven't had a chance to process any of this...
...package: a photo album of private scenes from this campaign, a reconstruction of its key moments, a forum of fascinating folks (ranging from Jesse Ventura to Doris Kearns Goodwin to Garry Trudeau) assessing what we'll someday make of President Clinton, plus analysis from Margaret Carlson, Lance Morrow, Roger Rosenblatt and Charles Krauthammer, and some humor from Christopher Buckley and Joel Stein. Pulling it all together were our national-affairs team led by Steve Koepp, Priscilla Painton, Michael Duffy, Nancy Gibbs and Ratu Kamlani...