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SALON Issue 14
May 6-10, 1996

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NEWSREAL:

Friday May 10, 1996: The "new South": All that glitters....A letter to my "real" mother. Quote of the Day: An exile returns.
Thursday May 9, 1996: The sickness of health care: Is the Kennedy-Kassebaum bill too little, too late? Quote of the Day: Alfonse D'Amato, the new conscience of the GOP.
Wednesday May 8, 1996: Mayor-for-life battles his demons. New prison syndrome: "Oops, we killed him!" Quote of the Day: Branding sex molesters
Tuesday May 7, 1996: Butchers on trial: The Hague Tribunal opens. Return to Memici: A Bosnian village rebuilds. Quote of the Day: Nancy Drew disappears!
Monday May 6, 1996: The unforgiven: William Colby made nobody happy. Turnabout: Mexicans protest illegal Americanos. Quote of the Day: Sharon Stone's hard time.

MEDIA CIRCUS:

Friday May 10,1996: House calls: Encyclopedia salesman tells all.
Thursday May 9,1996: The fine art of insult: Brits' "Question Time" fires up C-SPAN.
Wednesday May 8,1996: Blood and cardigans: Why I like Benetton's morbid ads.
Tuesday May 7,1996: Better Slate than never: The New Yorker discovers the Web.
Monday May 6,1996: Farewell Adam Rich: Might magazine hoaxes an obit.

SNEAK PEEKS:

Friday May 10, 1996: Milan Kundera's new novel of love, fame and hedonism
Thursday May 9, 1996: Gen. Grant on cocaine: Hidden Civil War history.
Wednesday May 8, 1996: The needs and habits that hold a marriage together.
Tuesday May 7, 1996:Mystery man: Mary Gordon's search for her real father.
Monday May 6, 1996: Rehearsed hipness: Jay McInerney's new novel.

TABLE TALK: Stalled: Will gas prices keep you off the road?
Posts of the week.

COLUMNS:

Ill Humor By Ian Shoales
When technophiles take over the libraries, books need all the help they can get.

BOOKS:

The SALON Interview: Louise Erdrich By Robert Spillman
The novelist talks about her new "Tales of Burning Love," her Native American roots, and how being a mother has made her a more emotionally engaged writer.

Glowing in the Ashes: A Talk with Graham Swift By Scott Rosenberg
"Waterland's" widely praised author rejects pop-culture ephemera in favor of the fundamentals. His new "Last Orders" follows a quartet of old friends on a funeral pilgrimage that brings them flashes of insight.

MODERN LIFE:

Temper tantrum By Laura Miller
Robert Bly wails that we're a nation of spoiled brats.

Having a Ball, Wish You Were Here By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Stale-bun hot dogs. Scowling Lolitas with hairy underarms. Toilet-paper shortages. The Czech Republic didn't exactly greet our correspondent warmly -- until a conga line altered the mood.

TV:

Twister Chasers By Joyce Millman
On The Weather Channel, weather is fierce, weather is strong, weather is severe -- weather has an attitude.

MUSIC:

Pop Pamphleteers By Charles Taylor
On "To the Faithful Departed," the Cranberries' craftsmaship gets buried beneath a wave of socially conscious gruel.

Penthouse View By Cynthia Joyce
Luna's Dean Wareham says he's no "aristorocker."

COMICS:

Tom Tomorrow: This Modern World.
Carol Lay: Story Minute
Keith Knight: The K Chronicles
Ruben Bolling: Tom, The Dancing Bug
 









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