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...Stanley Bing does a hilarious send-up of what will happen to today's couch potatoes. (Hint: think mashed.) David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale, argues that despite the way our lives are being turned into data streams, we will have as much privacy as we need. Novelist Mark Leyner predicts, tongue slightly in cheek, that no longer will we have to go to sporting events to experience the thrill in person; blessed with technology, "you'll hop around your living room like a maniac as you actually experience the excruciating pain of Mike Tyson's incisors...
...lies and manipulations of a "heroically selfish" man and yet somehow makes him plausibly sympathetic. To understand is to forgive, they say in France, and by poring through the unpublished notebooks of both Chatwin and his friends, by talking to seemingly everyone who knew him and by training his novelist's urbanity on all this, Shakespeare shows how the dandified collector of odd treasures could honestly mooch off duchesses while maintaining that one should live like a Mauritanian nomad...
...scarcely 11 years after his death, he has already inspired two indelible biographies. Susannah Clapp's With Chatwin, of two years ago, was as sleek and elliptical and unorthodox as its subject, and gave us the man as he looked from across an editor's desk. Shakespeare, a stylish novelist with a gift for exotic locales (in the Acknowledgments he cites sources in 22 countries, from Benin to Nepal), provides every other face. The figure who emerges was a deeply solitary soul, hiding behind his exaggerated performances but genuinely driven by a vision, and elusive, perhaps, even to himself...
Mark Leyner is a novelist and screenwriter. His most recent novel is The Tetherballs of Bougainville
...added the source of the mix-up was more likely the Lampoon's May 6 presentation of its Wrestler of the Century award to novelist John Irving, known for such books as The World According to Garp and A Prayer for Owen Meany...