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...MEMOIR CAN BE A DANGEROUS literary form, especially when it is the work of a gifted writer embarked on a voyage to discover some elusive personal truth. In Heart: A Memoir (Warner Books; 323 pages; $22.95), Lance Morrow, a writer and essayist for TIME since 1965, does not shrink from the realization that the surest path toward self-discovery is self-disclosure. In an effort to heal body and spirit following a second coronary-bypass operation at the relatively young age of 52, he was determined to seek out the sources of the internalized anger that had twice threatened...
...Morrow's memories draw the reader in from the start. "A heart attack feels like this," he writes. "A sickness suddenly surrounds the lungs, a sort of toxic interior glow--fleeting at first, lightly slithering, but returning a moment later, more insistent...Something dangerous has come inside and will not leave." As he lies in a coronary-care unit awaiting his bypass operation, Morrow begins to relate his own medical predicament to events in the outside world: "My mind went wandering about, working as a kind of journalist of memory and anger. I sought to connect my inner world...
...Latin American poetry. At least Sharon Stone does. The actress is such a big fan of Octavio Paz's work, she offered to fly the Mexican poet -- in Atlanta for a gathering of Nobel Prize laureates -- to Savannah, Georgia, near where she's filming Last Dance with Rob Morrow, for lunch and a discussion of verse. After the poet's wife explained to him who Stone was, Paz told the Washington Post he was "amazed and delighted" that she knew him, but couldn't make it. He already had a lunch date...
...controversial new book by Michael Gross, Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women (William Morrow; $25), is notable not so much for its revelations of drug use and other wild behavior by supermodels in the past as for the amount of knowledge the book assumes we have about models-their rocker boyfriends, their rich contracts, their past traumas. "The media have blown up models massively,'' says fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti. "They have been made more special than they ever were...
SENIOR WRITERS: Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Elizabeth Gleick, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, Robert Hughes, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Eugene Linden, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Jill Smolowe, David Van Biema, Steve Wulf, Richard Zoglin...