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...optical illusions and wishful thinking, Lowell had counted and named hundreds of canals, which he believed were part of a large network conveying water from the polar ice caps to the parched cities of an arid and dying planet. Lowell's observations and musings, in turn, inspired British novelist H.G. Wells to write The War of the Worlds, a dramatic account of an invasion of the earth by octopus-like Martians. In 1938 a radio adaptation of that novel by another man named Welles -- Orson, that is -- panicked many Americans who believed that a real Martian invasion was under...
Monette, a poet and novelist, gushes awkwardly about this brief golden age: "Roger and I were busy getting ready for a four-day trip to Big Sur, something we'd done almost yearly since moving to California in 1977. We were putting the blizzard of daily life on hold, looking forward to a dose of raw sublime that coincided with our anniversary." Monette comes across as a trendy Southern California transplant. There is lots of eating out in fashionable restaurants, foreign travel and a Jaguar whose transmission frequently does not work. While conscientiously caring for the dying Roger, Monette works...
...nation's Latino theaters perform in English only. "I don't want to be a good Hispanic theater," says Max Ferra, Artistic Director of Manhattan's predominantly English INTAR Hispanic American Arts Center. "I want to be a very good American theater." After writing two books in Spanish, Novelist Roberto Fernandez has just published his first in English, Raining Backwards, a comic account of Cuban life in Miami. "I did it for the same reason that Miami Sound Machine sings in English," he explains. "I wanted to reach a wider audience...
OSCAR AND LUCINDA by Peter Carey (Harper & Row; $18.95). An Australian novelist turns in a shimmering fantasy of gambling and glassmaking, held together by the struts of 19th century history and the mullions of painstaking detail...
...next orders" as a result of its publication, convinced that the period of openness was about to end. Others, unhappy with glasnost, criticized the Soviet press for carrying the campaign too far with its newfound appetite for muckraking. Calling those who produce such fare "princes of extremism," conservative Novelist Yuri Bondarev declared, "Not all newspaper and magazine editors have realized that the immorality of the press cannot teach morality...