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These names, to be sure, do not constitute anyone's idea of a celebrity A-list. It would be comforting to assume that the Collins--Random House imbroglio arose because the publisher finally felt shame at the prospect of putting out more bad prose under a big name. But it is equally possible, as Collins claims, that Random House decided the market for brand-label fiction was collapsing (or at least the market for the Joan Collins brand, once Dynasty left the air in 1989) and that the publisher could never earn back the $4 million it had promised...
Happily, no hard feelings remained. With this issue, Trillin's deadpan humor and lucid prose return to the pages of TIME as a regular feature. He will be writing a weekly column on a characteristically far-reaching range of subjects. "Sometimes it'll be about Washington," he says. "Sometimes it'll be about what's in my basement." Whatever he turns his attention to is usually just fine with his readers. "Trillin is one of the great delights of American journalism," says managing editor Walter Isaacson. "He has the eyes and ears of a great reporter...
...David Foster Wallace's send-up is worth the effort, says TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "There is generous intelligence and authentic passion on every page, even the overwritten ones where the author seems to have had a fit of graphomania. Characters and events are propelled by a distinctive prose that frequently mixes teenage trash talk and intellectual abstraction, a Bevis-and-Egghead style that should set older folk aback and college kids abuzz." Set in a not-so-distant future where New England has been declared a toxic waste dump, the novel is a sprawling examination of annihilating diversions...
...book's striking central figure, apparently a fictional portrait of Kincaid's mother, aborts her only pregnancy at age 15 and is in fact childless--making a logical contradiction of the title. The reward here, as always with Kincaid's work, is the reading of her clear, bitter prose...
...unlikely to jump-start a Bradley steamroller. Ever the gentleman, he writes about his Senate colleagues so blandly that even North Carolina's Jesse Helms, a bitter ideological foe, gets praised for being "courtly." Bradley is fiercely proud of his German and Scotch-Irish forebears, but in his tepid prose they come across as proto-suburbanites rather than daring pioneers...