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NEWSREAL:
Friday October 18, 1996: No more room for tired, poor. Daily Quote: Hatchet man.
Thursday October 17, 1996: Russia: the plots thicken. Daily Quote: Glad handing in Tokyo.
Wednesday October 16, 1996: Power to other people. Daily Quote: Pardon me?
Tuesday October 15, 1996: Hypocrisy of the fans.
Daily Quote: Fantasy man.
Monday October 14, 1996: Religious right: God's fifth column. Daily Quote: New Yorker to ad buyers: please read.
MEDIA CIRCUS:
Friday October 18, 1996: Manhattan mud wrestling: Murdoch vs. Turner.
Thursday October 17, 1996: Debate II: Dole fails to rise from the dead.
Wednesday October 16, 1996: Cashing in their chips: Death pools on the Internet.
Tuesday October 15, 1996: Stephen King: I want to mess with your life.
Monday October 14, 1996: Floundering Father: Was Jefferson a radical and racist?
SNEAK PEEKS:
This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death By
Harold Brodkey (Nonfiction)
Metropolitan/Holt Books, reviewed by Rob Spillman
This final memoir, by the major literary figure who died of AIDS in January, 1996, offers a glimpse into the conflicted soul of this complex, irascible man.
The Tailor of Panama By John le Carré (Fiction)
Knopf, reviewed by Andrew Ross
The master spy novelist defies the post-Cold War slump with this tragicomic tale of a duplicitous tailor who becomes an operative in Central America.
Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood By bell hooks (Nonfiction)
Henry Holt, reviewed by David Futrelle
The often polemical hooks delivers an unexpectedly poignant and eloquent evocation of the pleasures and the sorrows of her childhood.
Eat Fat By Richard Klein (Nonfiction)
Pantheon Books, reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
With information and incantation, the author of "Cigarettes are Sublime" now encourages readers to embrace our fat.
The Night in Question By Tobias Wolff (Fiction)
Knopf, reviewed by Charles Taylor
Self-knowledge torments the characters in these naturalistic short stories by the author of the memoir "This Boy's Life."
TABLE TALK:
Kill your television?
Posts of the week.
SALON REGULARS:
Swamp Fever By James Carville
How Clinton's rapid response team is flattening Dole.
Servant of the Bones Diary By Anne Rice
As she prepares to return to San Francisco, Anne Rice
reflects on victimhood, whether her writing has improved and astrology.
Plus: Rice answers readers' questions.
Ill Humor By Ian Shoales
Kissing and spitting: our columnist finds that kids these days act too much like adults. And vice-versa.
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Do you find airline travel and aphrodisiac? Take off in the Unzipped discussion in Table Talk.
Verbivore By Richard Lederer
The private lives of famous authors provide the subject for this week's quiz. The first to submit the correct answers wins a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.
BOOKS:
The Salon Interview: William Gibson By Scott Rosenberg
The author of "Neuromancer" on the joys of the Web, artificial celebrities and his new novel, "Idoru."
Lit Chat: Nick Hornby By Cynthia Joyce
Hornby -- whose rock and roll novel, "High Fidelity," nailed down some classic male fears -- talks about England, screenwriting and examining every word.
MODERN LIFE:
Teachers' pets By Cynthia Joyce
A Salon Roundtable: three students open the books on their affairs with professors.
TV:
Waiting for the End of the World By Joyce Millman
Paranoia isn't the only motivation behind TV's new slew of apocalyptic
nightmares -- like "Dark Skies" and "Millennium." There's a weird kind of
faith at work, too.
Text-only version.
ISSUES AND POLITICS:
Memo to Bill By Fred Branfman
In his second term, President Clinton will have the opportunity to make history. Is he up to the task?
MUSIC:
Shocked, shaken and stirred By Cynthia Joyce
Michelle Shocked talks about declaring war and finding peace.
Lasting Impression By Michael Ross
After a tragic accident, Curtis Mayfield returns with a triumphant new R&B album.
Text-only version.
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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