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HERE IS THE UNLIKELIEST GOOD NOVEL of the year. The wambling hero of Walter Kirn's SHE NEEDED ME (Pocket Books; $20) is a pale young fellow named Weaver % Walquist, who, becalmed and lacking direction, joins the antiabortion protest squad of an evangelical church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He collides with a pregnant young woman named Kim during a protest at an abortion clinic, and at first is attracted to the idea of saving her fetus and her soul. Then, faintly -- a puff of wind ruffles the calm -- he is attracted to her. Kirn, author of a 1990 story collection...
...life friends and family into characters. In the case of writers like Kerouac, novels are memoirs with the names changed. I have romantic images of the "research" that drives fine writing--images of the writer ambling down a narrow city street with a well-worn notebook in his back pocket. But I've upset friends before by referring to them in print. Ironically, to be honest about my life in print requires a certain callousness about the people I am closest...
...life friends and family into characters. In the case of writers like kerouac, novels are memoirs with the names changed. I have romantic images of the "research" that drives fine writing--images of the writer ambling down a narrow city street with a well-worn notebook in his back pocket. But I've upset friends before by referring to them in print. Ironically, to be honest about my life in print requires a certain callousness about the people I am closest...
...deeper significance for the California-based company: with profit margins steadily shrinking in the personal-computer business, CEO John Sculley has set out to expand Apple's business into advanced consumer electronics like CD-ROM players and personal digital assistants (PDAs), far more powerful versions of the electronic pocket diaries developed by Japan's Casio and Sharp. Sculley believes Apple has a key advantage because it pioneered software that makes computers simple...
...folk singer to venture beyond the safety of her acoustic guitar. Her latest album, 99.9 F degrees, is a bold experiment in both verse and technology, with Vega's haunting images now pegged to electronic percussion and warped-sounding keyboards. Two of the more raucous songs, Rock in This Pocket and Fat Man and Dancing Girl, are even hot enough to hit the dance circuit. But unvarnished Vega fans need not fret: the album still sports tunes like Blood Sings, in which she breaks from technopop and delivers straight folk with Dylanesque force...