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...about guys in funny-looking knickers, the first- base box seats have been full of writers. To cite a few, W.P. Kinsella wrote Shoeless Joe (Field of Dreams, in its film version), and George Plimpton came up with the sly and flaky The Curious Case of Sidd Finch. New Yorker sage Roger Angell wrote about spring training over and over, decade after decade, in words so fine that people who would rather have their teeth fixed than go to an actual game can quote paragraphs of Angell to each other. Even George Will, the frowning dominie of conservative political columnists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Misty About Baseball | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

...West Indian writer, 43, is the author of such acclaimed works as the 1983 novel Annie John and a well-known story collection, At the Bottom of the River. She is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and has written for Rolling Stone, among other publications...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Kincaid May Return As Visiting Lecturer | 3/6/1993 | See Source »

...bleeds, it leads" is the dictum of local television news. By now the public has grown numb to acts of savagery, and only a handful of journalists can still arouse feelings of shock or pity. New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson is one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Close Range | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

READERS ACCUSTOMED TO THE ARTFUL BLEND of whimsy and genteel humor in the New Yorker for 68 years are in for a shock. This week's cover features a painting of a Hasidic man and a black woman engaged in a loving kiss. New Yorker art editor Lee Lorenz and editor Tina Brown, four months on the job since she arrived from sassy Vanity Fair, faced intense opposition to the cover from the magazine's senior staff. Several objected to the painting -- not for its blunt representation of interracial harmony but in the "fear that we were being glib about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk of The Town | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

...Muryo, or Without Boundaries -- seems inspired. For what other Zen-minded patriarch can claim to be a founding editor of the Paris Review? How many other American novelists have written whole books in Caribbean patois that were influenced by the principles of classical Japanese art? How many other New Yorker writers have taken part-Cheyenne mercenaries for their alter egos? And which other scion of America's Eastern ruling class has devoted 628 pages and seven years of libel suits to defending the name of a young Native American charged with murder? While others pursue careers, Matthiessen has forged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laureate of The Wild: PETER MATTHIESSEN | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

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