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Barbara Kingsolver's reputation achieved something like critical (and commercial) mass with The Poisonwood Bible (1998). Her three earlier novels, The Bean Trees (1988), Animal Dreams (1990) and Pigs in Heaven (1993), built a considerable readership, particularly among women, as offbeat, eco-feminist romances, and Kingsolver could have gone on repeating the elements that made those books popular: independent females vaguely adrift in the U.S. Southwest with strong views on such matters as honoring Native American rights and sheltering Latin American political refugees. But she extended her range dramatically in Poisonwood, a long, incantatory meditation, filtered through the memories...
Barbara Kingsolver's reputation achieved something like critical (and commercial) mass with "The Poisonwood Bible" (1998). Her three earlier novels, "The Bean Trees" (1988), "Animal Dreams" (1990) and "Pigs in Heaven" (1993), built a considerable readership, particularly among women, as offbeat, eco-feminist romances, and Kingsolver could have gone on repeating the elements that made those books popular: independent females vaguely adrift in the U.S. Southwest with strong views on such matters as honoring Native American rights and sheltering Latin American political refugees. But she extended her range dramatically in "Poisonwood," a long, incantatory meditation, filtered through the memories...
...humor makes him a staff favorite (a policy briefing he was asked to give at the Republican National Convention--to Bo Derek--has been a source of jokes ever since). Bush likes to call his policy director "Yosh," and "just loves the weird connection" of the brainy and the offbeat sides of Bolten's personality, says Karl Rove, the campaign's chief strategist...
...Afraid to admit you actually like Saturday Night Live because it's not highbrow enough? Then head over to the Loeb Experimental Theater for Picasso at the Lapin Agile by famous funnyman Steve Martin. The time is 1904, and the place is a more-than-slightly offbeat Parisian tavern called the Lapin Agile. Einstein and Picasso spend their time arguing about who is going to be a greater genuis and whether science or art is superior, as well as interacting with a host of comical characters. Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday...
...other five responses Mamet gave to questions about his cute story were short and offbeat, just like his dialogue in such renowned works as "American Buffalo" (1976) and "Glengarry Glen Ross...