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SALON Issue 16
May 24, 1996
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Sign up today for our weekly newsletter with the latest SALON headlines. Thursday May 23, 1996: AK-47s: Probing the China connection. Quote of the Day: Netaholics Anonymous./ Wednesday May 22, 1996: Richard Rodriguez on Justice Scalia's homophobic hissy fit. Quote of the Day: Chris Darden's 15 minutes of fame. Tuesday May 21, 1996: Big tobacco's big gambit; Quote of the Day: The latest lawyer joke. Monday May 20, 1996: The Supreme Court hands gay rights a big victory. Thursday May 23,1996: Hotwired to Wired: You suck. Wednesday May 22,1996: Kitty porn! TV's weird wave of animal snuff specials. Tuesday May 21,1996: Don't worry, be hacy: In defense of CD-ROM serfdom. Monday May 20,1996: Why corny Consumer Reports is the coolest mag around. Two trials -- for divorce and obscenity -- are the center of this ambitious, passionate novel, set in the 1960s, by the author of "Possession." Thursday May 23, 1996: Go Cat Go! The Life and Times of Carl Perkins, The King of Rockabilly by Carl Perkins and David McGee An autobiography of the singer/songwriter -- best known for "Blue Suede Shoes" -- from his dirt-poor Memphis beginnings through his struggles with alcoholism and cancer. Wednesday May 22, 1996: The Art Fair by David Lipsky An engaging send-up of Manhattan's downtown art scene, from a young writer whose mother is a noted abstract painter. Tuesday May 21, 1996: Ain't You Glad You Joined the Republicans? by John Calvin Batchelor An enthusiastic history of the Republican party, from a novelist with an eye for telling detail. Monday May 20, 1996: The Flaming Corsage by William Kennedy The sixth book in the Pulitzer-Prize winning author's Albany Cycle is an intricate -- and passionate -- look at Albany's lower class Irish immigrants at the turn of the century. TABLE TALK: COLUMNS: A modest proposal for a new genre of children's books: Kid Noir. BOOKS: The author of "Gorky Park" found the iconclastic, pants-wearing "pit girls" of North England's coal mines an irresistible subject for his new historical novel, "Rose." TV: Heart attacks, strokes, homicides and marital strife. . . tragedy was the big viewer turn-on as the season expired. DIGITAL CULTURE: Does the new Web programming language amount to more than a hill of beans? ISSUES AND POLITICS: A veteran politico lists the four ways that politics rots the soul -- and points the way to redemption. MOVIES: "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and "I Shot Andy Warhol" put two ugly ducklings in the spotlight. MUSIC: An up close and personal encounter with rock legend Ray Davies. The heartbeat of America By James Marcus Man in a minor key By Michael E. Ross COMICS: Tom Tomorrow: This Modern World. |