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Lorenzo, however, learns he has a secret--a previously unknown love child--and, being a hip novelist, is tempted both by self-destruction and by indeterminate narrative. These traits are shared by Spanish writer-director Julio Medem, and you can read his movie tragically or happily. But these people are fools for heedless love and, perhaps, needless complication, and you can't help responding to the heat of their passion...
...rooting for the downfall of [Senator Joseph] McCarthy," he writes to the once radical and by then notoriously reactionary John Dos Passos). While his familial relations, highlighted here, can sometimes be off-putting (one wonders if the letters included from Wilson to his third wife, the much-younger novelist Mary McCarthy, are really the meatiest part of the correspondence inspired by that legendary m?salliance), these letters are filled with wonderfully caustic appraisals of everything from Robert Frost ("partly a dreadful old fraud and one of the most relentless self-promoters in the history of American literature") to the Metropolitan Opera...
...also drafted a corps, made up of contributors who have a longtime affinity for the story. Novelist Walter Kirn, who lives near the Yellowstone River, which Clark traveled on his homeward trip, writes for us about the tale's creation of a kind of utopian ideal for America's journey through history. Author Landon Jones, a former Time Inc. magazine editor who is making a second career out of his fascination with the explorers (he also serves as a director of the National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial), gives us a profile of the co-captains, showing...
...Lahaye is many things--influential theologian, founder of a Christian school system, co-author of a sex manual with 2.5 million copies in print--but he isn't a novelist. Which is a bit strange, since he enjoys top billing on the Left Behind novels, the wildly popular books that make the end of the world fun. When LaHaye first conceived the series--entirely written by author Jerry Jenkins--he hoped to sell maybe 250,000 copies. Last year's installment alone sold 3 million, and for the first time since 1994, the author of the best-selling novel...
...apiece, and LaHaye recently signed a separate $42 million deal with Bantam Dell for a new series about an evangelical Indiana Jones. LaHaye neglected to tell Jenkins about the new deal in advance, leading some in the publishing business to call him greedy. (As with Left Behind, a working novelist will hammer LaHaye's thoughts into prose, though the new compatriot, Davis Bunn, won't take as big a cut--50%--as Jenkins did.) But LaHaye doesn't seem like a man motivated by money. Aside from driving a white Cadillac SUV the size of a tank...