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...with music, sound effects and a cast of 34 readers, including Ed Asner (as George Babbitt), Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving and John Lithgow. Among future projects: Arthur Kopit's play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Momma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad and muckraking novelist Frank Norris' McTeague. Asner, who was paid a mere $2,300 for his work, which stretched over nine months, finds it satisfying nonetheless. Says he: "I grew up with radio, and I don't remember anyone falling asleep before the radio like they do with...
Heat, broadcast nightly from New York City, offers late headlines and single-issue shows intended to mesmerize young news junkies. One recent edition addressed the transformation of the South African theater. The guests included the cast of the play Survival, musician Hugh Masakela and, from Johannesburg, novelist Nadine Gordimer. "We want to erase the artificial line between intellectual and creative expression," says host John Hockenberry. "We want the show to be a place where the left brain and the right brain can unwind together." That's a tall order. Can the live wires at NPR deliver? Stay tuned...
...Atlantic. The Trick of It, his sixth novel, is a swift little breeze of a book that buffets the pretensions of critics who condescend to popular art. Richard is a fussy young teacher at an obscure English university who becomes obsessed with an older, well-known woman novelist -- a figure like Muriel Spark or Anita Brookner. But unlike most of the weedy egotists who make convenient satirical heroes, Richard manages to possess his idol, whom he refers to as JL, and even marry...
...fiery speaker whose high- profile antics wore thin as he ran the Peruvian economy into the ground. When Garcia tried in 1987 to nationalize the banks, Vargas Llosa successfully rallied against the move. He has been in the limelight ever since. In fact, the handsome 54-year-old novelist is openly disdainful of the occupation that engages him. "Politics is intimately related to human mediocrity," Vargas Llosa observes wryly. So far, this attitude has been to his advantage in Peru, where voters seem as cynical about those who govern them...
...previous book The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography, Philip Roth tried, not for the first time, to settle the confusion about how he transforms his unexciting life as a writer into lively fiction. Deception replays the subject yet again in a novel composed entirely of dialogues. The central conversations are between a New Jersey-born, London-based writer named Philip and a married Englishwoman. The setting is the writer's bedless studio, where the talk is about their love affair, family and work. Nonverbal communications apparently take place on desk, chair or floor...