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NEWSREAL:
Friday November 1, 1996: Agents of influence.
Daily quote: African catastrophe.
Thursday October 31, 1996: Crack, CIA and black paranoia. Daily Quote: Rev. Pod.
Wednesday October 30, 1996: The Dole I knew.
Daily quote: Bananas.
Tuesday October 29, 1996: No more Newt? Daily Quote: President Browne?
Monday October 28, 1996: Atari Democrats, 1996.
Daily quote: Silk purse.
MEDIA CIRCUS:
Friday November 1, 1996: Esquire's cover fraud: The faking of an ingenue.
Thursday October 31, 1996: Big and bouncy: Fat girls flaunt it on the Web.
Wednesday October 30, 1996: Evitamania: The Disney-fication of a dictatress.
Tuesday October 29, 1996: Job porn: Fast Company sexes up corporate culture.
Monday October 28, 1996: Must-Stop TV: When a public access program captured Tom Brokaw's off-the-cuff remarks, NBC brought out the big guns attacks.
SNEAK PEEKS:
What I Really Want to Do is Direct By Billy Frolick (Nonfiction)
Dutton, reviewed by David Futrelle
A brisk and unflinching look at the fate of several recent film school grads in the grotesque, treacherous world of professional filmmaking.
The Bear Went Over the Mountain By William Kotzwinkle (Fiction)
Doubleday, reviewed by Edward Neuert
In this publishing industry satire from the bestselling author of "ET," a
bear finds a manuscript in the woods, and heads for Manhattan.
The Women By Hilton Als (Nonfiction)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, reviewed by Courtney Weaver
A gay man attempts to view the multiple roles society gives black women through the prism of his own experience.
Down With the Old Canoe By Steven Biel (Nonfiction)
Norton, reviewed by Dwight Garner
This cultural history of the Titanic disaster examines the myriad ways the sinking was used as legend and propaganda.
Ten Indians By Madison Smartt Bell (Fiction)
Pantheon, reviewed by David Futrelle
In this novel, by the author of "All Souls Rising," a middle-aged therapist opens a Tae Quon Do school in Baltimore's inner city.
TABLE TALK:
Moral choices vs. consumer convenience.
Posts of the week.
SALON REGULARS:
Swamp Fever By James Carville
The show on the road: Why Dole's advance team isn't giving their candidate a fighting chance.
Ill Humor By Ian Shoales
On the link between creativity and madness -- or is it just plain obnoxious behavior?
Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Does travel make a woman irresistible? Visit the Unzipped topic in Table Talk.
Verbivore By Richard Lederer
Like, not all colloquialisms are cool, says our word quiz maven. The first to submit the correct answers to the Verbivore Challenge wins a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.
The Five-Minute Mystery By Dick Lochte
Blood in the suds: mergers can be murder in the brewery business. The first to solve the mystery wins a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.
BOOKS:
Planet of the apes
By Laura Miller
Two new books prompt the question: Does nature make men brutes and women sluts?
The Salon Interview: Joan Didion
By Dave Eggers
The celebrated novelist and essayist talks about her new novel, "The Last
Thing He Wanted"; writing with a computer; the elections; and the
elusiveness of success.
Text-only version.
MODERN LIFE:
Reefer madness By Gary Kamiya and Andrew Ross
Is marijuana a transformative high or just a slippery slope to decadence? The debate between two Salon editors begins here and continues in Table Talk.
TV:
Pee-wee's big comeback By Joyce Millman
The video re-issue of "Pee-wee's Playhouse" gives a Saturday morning classic its due.
MUSIC:
All over the map By Mark Athitakis
Wilco's new double CD is a woozy and wondrous roots-rock sojourn.
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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