SALON: Issue 15, May 13-17, 1996

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SALON Issue 15
May 17, 1996

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Friday May 17, 1996: George McGovern's family tragedy. Quote of the Day: This monster is no special effect.
Thursday May 16, 1996: Conservative chasm: The GOP's divided ranks. Quote of the Day: Burning all boats
Wednesday May 15, 1996: Can the real Bob Dole now stand up? The perils of playing hurt.
Tuesday May 14, 1996: Hitting back at hate radio. Bill Gates is not amused. Quote of the Day: Live...from the loony bin!
Monday May 13, 1996: Airline safety hits heavy turbulence; A condemned man's final prayer; Quote of the Day: You can never be too rich

MEDIA CIRCUS:

Friday May 17,1996: Physics prof's hoax leaves high-brow journal with mud on face.
Thursday May 16,1996: O.J., Richard Speck, the Cosmo Girl and other indecencies.
Wednesday May 15,1996: Eminent lawyer leads Scientology's war against Net "anarchists".
Tuesday May 14,1996: NY Times Online beats the competition -- itself.
Monday May 13,1996: Rolling Stone's mossy view of the Web.

SNEAK PEEKS:

Friday May 17, 1996: Mona in the Promised Land, by Gish Jen. A comic novel, related in minor chords, about a Chinese-American teenager's search for cultural -- and personal -- identity during the 1960s.
Thursday May 16, 1996: A tough, winsome biography of the charismatic utopian futurist, J. Baldwin, arguing for Fuller's relevance at the fin de siecle.
Wednesday May 15, 1996: Cougar skull soup: Memoir of an Idaho girlhood.
Tuesday May 14, 1996: An ordinary man redeems his life by defying tyranny.
Monday May 13, 1996: Ian Frazier's wily "Coyote v. Acme".

TABLE TALK: An admiral's suicide: Washington devours another.
Posts of the week.

COLUMNS:

The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Our columnist sacks Iceland in a vain quest for Nordic rummage.
Word by Word By Anne Lamott
Sam's not-so-big adventure is saved by the seals.

BOOKS:

The SALON Interview: Julian Barnes By Carl Swanson
The author of "Flaubert's Parrot" and the new story collection "Cross Channel" on fact-fetishists, mad cows, "old fartery" and literary dish.

MODERN LIFE:

Family values lite By Scott Rosenberg
Michael Lerner and the American Left grope for a "politics of meaning" that won't step on anybody's toes.

MOVEABLE FEAST:

Hot links and hyper Tex By Pableaux Johnson
In search of the perfect sausage in the Lone Star State.

MUSIC:

Elvis and his idols By Joyce Millman
Mr. Costello records the songs he wrote for his favorite singers -- because they won't.

Beating a bad rap By Milo Miles
The Fugees, Busta Rhymes and Positive Black Soul take black music back from the gangstas.

MOVIES:

There goes the neighborhood By Mary Elizabeth Williams
In "Original Gangstas," the stars of the first generation of "Blaxploitation" films are back to clean up their old nabe.

SALON REGULARS:

Verbivore By Richard Lederer. Test your mastery of presidential trivia against our word maven, Richard Lederer, and you could win a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.

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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