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Falling in love with fiction is a favorite LaBute theme; in Nurse Betty, which he directed but didn't write, the heroine convinces herself she is a soap-opera character. In Possession, the literary detectives Roland and Maud are stand-ins for any novel's attentive reader. Turning the pages, we become involved in a vicarious espionage of the heart and then surrender to the spell of fantasy made real through a weaving of words...
Some years ago, I came across a letter from a reader to TIME that appeared after you ran your Oct. 27, 1975, cover story on Bruce Springsteen. As a fan, I have always got a chuckle at the thought of that letter. It read simply, "A year from now we'll be wondering what ever happened to Bruce Springsteen." I hope the writer of that letter is now fully up to speed and has seen your latest story! JEREMY PARKINSON Auckland, New Zealand...
...become an English teacher in Japan. But that was only the beginning. Standard Deviations: Growing Up and Coming Down in the New Asia is a vivid, intimate portrait of a continent--and a young man--in flux. As the Asian economies come of age, Greenfeld takes the reader on a tour of the giddy highs and lurid lows of late 20th century Asian life. "There was a wicked sorcery in Asia," he writes, and in Standard Deviations he deconstructs that magic...
...Palm Reader (www.worldtravelguide.net...
...where you'd play ball on the street and come home when your mom would yellphia. I was one of those kids, with the average boy's life of schoolboy, scrimmager, moviegoer and TV gawker, But I also read the magazines that came through our mail slot, like Time, Reader's Digest, the Saturday Evening Post and, yes, The New Yawker. I enjoyed the humor in these magazines more than any child of my acquaintance, And of all the humorists, Ogden Nash was the one who in my little reliquary acquired patron-saintance. Soon my Nashophilia had so far ripened...