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...novel centers on Rosalie Preston, herself a twenty-six year old Harvard alum, who lives in Manhattan and works as an advice columnist at a teen magazine called GirlTalk. Rosalie’s real passion, though, is acting. And while she enjoys advising young teens on the tribulations of their first menstrual cycles, the cutthroat world of theater in New York City demands most of her energy...
Printed as cheap, multivolume paperbacks and sold at major bookstores, manga have ignited graphic-novel sales around the world. In the U.S. last year manga racked up some $100 million, almost double 2002's sales, according to ICv2, a pop-culture trade publication. The two dominant U.S. publishers of manga, TOKYOPOP and VIZ, will ramp up their 2004 title count to more than 300 between them. Later this year DC Comics plans to launch a manga imprint called...
DIED. M.M. KAYE, 95, author whose 1978 historical novel, The Far Pavilions, was sometimes likened to Gone With the Wind; in Lavenham, England. Born Mary Margaret Kaye to British parents in preindependence India, she dabbled in amateur theater, but her passion was writing. Her richly detailed tale of a British orphan who is raised as a Hindu and falls in love with an Indian princess became an international best seller and a high-profile hbo miniseries...
...should it be? He's a man in his 60s, entitled to a certain ambivalence about, say, Chairman Mao and his Little Red Book. Or, for that matter, movie madness and sexual triads. That standoffishness (or objectivity) intermittently marks The Dreamers, which is adapted by Gilbert Adair from his novel The Holy Innocents. But it also renders the film dispassionate, curiously lifeless, lacking the energy of either youthful commitment or a deeply engaged re-examination of the past. --By Richard Schickel
Which Suzanne assuredly is--state-of-the-art, all-flags-flying crazy, a condition that Fisher lays before us with the panache of a true insider. The Best Awful is not so much a novel as a hypomanic soliloquy unleashed by a woman who is "an avalanche ever gathering force." If a pinwheel could talk, it would sound like her. Fisher's penchant for endless wordplay can get wearisome. Make that very wearisome. All the same, who would have thought it could be so much fun to be trapped inside the head of the type of person who so radically...