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...EGADS, EGAN: "I know that everyone is talking about Jonathan Franzen this fall, but don?t you need a female voice as a counterpoint?" asks a publicist at Doubleday. The female voice she has in mind is that of novelist and short story writer Jennifer Egan, whose second novel, "Look at Me," will be published by Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday on September 18. Egan has a lot going for her: superagent Binky Urban, a 15-city reading tour, and confirmed coverage in Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, O, Mademoiselle, Marie Claire, Talk, Paper, Vanity Fair and the NYT Book Review...
...weave their hair in cornrows, dress like Destiny's Child?all the better to attract the prime catch, the black military man. The phenomenon has already become a pop-culture staple, propelling hip-hop acts like Dragon Ash to Japanese platinum success and launching the career of best-selling novelist Amy Yamada, whose memoirish Bedroom Eyes detailed a Japanese woman's sexual exploits with black servicemen...
...fixture of the '60s folk scene, Farina founded Bread & Roses, an organization that enlisted well-known artists to perform in prisons, psychiatric facilities, senior centers and homes for abused children. A talented guitar player who began singing with her sister at age 14, she married Richard Farina at 18 (novelist Thomas Pynchon was best man at their wedding) and recorded two albums with him before Richard died in a motorcycle accident in 1966. Their lives are chronicled in David Hajdu's recently published book, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina...
...rupee note she had been carrying as a deposit for a school picnic. While her relatives make funeral arrangements, Vajpayee hosts Musharraf at a glittering banquet lunch in New Delhi surrounded by 165 of India's best and brightest, including Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar and novelist Vikram Seth...
...household name for her sex novelty shops; in Frankfurt. An air force captain who delivered planes to the front, Uhse later liberated Germany's attitude towards sex with her "orderly" approach to selling everything from pornographic videos to flavored condoms and leather masks. SENTENCED. JEFFREY ARCHER, 61, British novelist and politician, to four years in prison for perjury; in London. Archer, the best-selling author of Kane and Abel, had diaries forged to support his 1987 libel suit against the Star newspaper, which reported that he had sex with a prostitute. NATURALIZED. VICTOR ARITOMI, 64, former Peruvian envoy to Japan...