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Salon Issue 30
September 3-6, 1996
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Thursday September 5, 1996: Richard Rodriguez: Closing our borders closes our future. Wednesday September 4, 1996: Don't count Dick Morris out. Quote: Wisdom teeth. Tuesday September 3, 1996: Iraq quagmire: U.S. missiles may not be enough. Daily quote: The crying game. Thursday September 5,1996: Smokescreen: Media falls for Clinton's tobacco ploy. Wednesday September 4,1996: Ex-junkie: Just say no to new anti-heroin ads. Tuesday September 3,1996: No-risk offal: The unbearable lameness of magazine covers. Delacorte Press, reviewed by Charles Taylor The acclaimed crime novelist returns with a shaggy-dog romantic comedy about a female U.S. Marshall who falls for a bank robber. Thursday September 5, 1996: Drown by Junot Diaz (Fiction) Riverhead Books, reviewed by Robert Spillman Tough tales from the Domenican barrio from the touted next young gun of American fiction. Wednesday September 4, 1996: Hello, He Lied -- and Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches by Lynda Obst (Nonfiction) Little, Brown, reviewed by David Futrelle A former New York Times reporter turned Hollywood producer, offers an insider's account of the film industry. Tuesday September 3, 1996: Tolstoy's Dictaphone Edited by Sven Birkerts (Nonfiction) Graywolf Press, reviewed by Bruce Barcott Essays -- from Birkerts, Jonathan Franzen, and Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- about high technology and the literary arts. TABLE TALK: Posts of the week. SALON REGULARS: The Dick Morris bombshell didn't stop the Democratic convention from being the best party of the year. Servant of the Bones diary By Anne Rice Ill Humor By Ian Shoales Unzipped By Courtney Weaver The Listress By Amy Wallace MODERN LIFE: It can't get no literary respect. So what? Compared to lemonade pastimes like baseball, pro football is a hit of crack cocaine. Plus: Ex-NFL player Tim Green's "The Dark Side of the Game" offers an unvarnished look at the reality of life in the NFL. Barbarians at the gates of culture By Richard Covington DIGITAL CULTURE: What happened to the rest of the world? How the Web is failing to live up to its international potential. BOOKS: The reclusive author of "The Great Railway Bazaar" and the controversial new novel "My Other Life" discusses lies, danger, the horrors of travel and why he hates to be interviewed. Nostalgia for Gay Sex By Scott Baldinger MUSIC: On his new "William Bloke," Billy Bragg, the loveable socialist folksinger, finally merges his political and personal sides. Text-only version. Mixing it up By Lisa Crovo MOVIES: France's master dissecter of romance, Eric Rohmer, offers three gossamer vignettes in "Rendezvouz in Paris". Text-only version. COMICS:
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