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Every struggling "serious" novelist fills with indignation (and more than little jealously) when he sees Jimmy Stewart's poetry and Shirley MacLaine's philosophy of life outselling his own profound book. Well, if you can't beat em, join 'em: become a celebrity yourself...
Long before the U.S. lost its trade balance, it was lopsided with intellectual goods from Europe. Marx, Freud, Sartre and Levi-Strauss were required cribbing. Books translated from the French and German were best sellers and their authors culture heroes. So were their interpreters. As a critic and novelist, Susan Sontag handled European ideas and forms with brilliance and style. The camera loved her dark good looks, and she became an American knockoff of the Continental intellectual as gravely seductive celebrity. The brain, she said on at least one occasion, is an erogenous zone...
Even as De Klerk impressed the world with his reforms, some in South Africa feared that the process of change might one day run up against the unwillingness of whites to cede power to blacks. Reform, says Cape Town novelist Andre Brink, went against De Klerk's grain but was forced upon him by circumstances -- black uprisings, international isolation, economic rot. "Now, at the first sign of things not going his way," says Brink, "his real colors are beginning to show -- his conservatism and belief in force as the only way of getting out of a dilemma...
...dreams of independence and reconciliation both come true? Such is the seductive, fairy-tale feminism of the novelist Elizabeth von Arnim. She wrote Enchanted April nearly 70 years ago, around the time Virginia Woolf was lobbying for a room of her own. Von Arnim thought bigger: Why not a villa? Bring four restless Englishwomen to a castle near Portofino to shake off London's damp climate and dim proprieties...
...dead or dying or emotionally depleted by the struggle. Some organizations just a few years old are in their third or fourth generation of leadership. While the heterosexual community has shown recurrent compassion, it is unlikely to feel the same sense of desperate necessity that gay men do. Says novelist and playwright Larry Kramer, who was a founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis and ACT- UP: "AIDS is just one of many things. If I were a straight married man, I'd be worried about the quality of education in the schools. That's one reason...