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THE TOP 30 STORIES
Salon Interview: David Foster Wallace
By Laura Miller. March 9, 1996.
The author of "Infinite Jest" on AA, tennis and the spiritual sadness of America.
"Honeymoon in Inner Mongolia"
By Carol Lloyd. June 24, 1996.
Mongolia may have been nice for Genghis Khan and his hordes, but as a honeymoon locale, it sucks.
"Sir, you are an unmitigated cad!"
By Gary Kamiya. Feb. 10, 1996.
Recalling George Sanders, the most elegant sleazebag of all time.
"The hounds of spring"
By Sallie Tisdale. July 1, 1997.
A writing teacher discovers that boys dream big -- and girls don't.
"The Betty Notebooks"
By Anonymous. Feb. 10, 1996.
Tales of real-life lust and anomie, by three young women.
"Molested"
By Anonymous. Feb. 28, 1997.
Her sons played doctor -- and her family was shattered. A therapeutic
nightmare of our time.
"Love thine enemy"
By Anne Lamott. Oct. 21, 1996.
Learning to love someone who inspires thoughts so evil they would make Jesus drink gin out of a cat dish.
"Bikers for Jesus"
By Denis Johnson. March 23, 1996.
The novelist reports on a convention of born-again hell-raisers.
"The Kiss-up"
By David Rakoff. March 17, 1997.
Inspired by Kathryn Harrison's "The Kiss," an ambitious author uses his mom in an unseemly fashion to hit the bestseller lists.
"Women's ways of bullying"
By Laura Miller. Jan. 13, 1997.
It seemed like an ideal job -- working for an idealistic business run by women. Then the "processing" began.
"The Heart of the Night"
By Anne Rice. Sept. 23, 1996.
Alone in her ornate mansion, the novelist falls prey to Gothic imaginings ...
"A night at SqueezeBox"
By Cintra Wilson. April 29, 1996.
When a horny friend drags La Cintra to a low-rent bacchanalia, weird stuff happens.
"Smashing the state"
By Gary Kamiya. Jan. 20-24, 1997.
Are libertarians freedom fighters -- or selfish geeks? Examining the Web's dominant ideology.
"Going off half-cocked"
By Courtney Weaver. Sept. 16, 1996.
To talk dirty in bed, or not? That is the foul-mouthed question.
"In the land of the war criminals"
By Gordon Weiss. Jan. 6, 1997.
Drinking and doping with men without souls.
The Salon Interview: James Ellroy
By Laura Miller. Dec, 9, 1996.
The king of hard-boiled lit. on noir, writing and his mother's murder.
"After the gold rush"
By Scott Rosenberg. Nov. 4, 1996.
Why reports of the Web's death are greatly exaggerated.
"I love you both unequally"
By Kate Moses. June 18, 1997.
When your second child pushes your first one out of the nest of your heart.
"Jungle Love"
By Stephanie Zacharek. June 6, 1997.
Modern homo saps could learn a thing or two from Tarzan, the jungle's hippest ape-man.
"Don't get off the elephant"
By Karl Taro Greenfield. July 22, 1997.
A walking tour of opium country -- all deadly snakes and evil warlords included!
"The fall of the house of Mobutu"
By Peter Rosenblum. May 5, 1997.
Zaire's tragicomic ordeal, told by a human rights worker who lived it.
"Stupid is good"
By Joyce Millman. Oct. 21, 1996.
"3rd Rock from the Sun" carries on the Brilliantly Dumb Tradition of great TV comedy.
"Mississippi churning"
By Dwight Garner. March 12, 1997.
It's Faulkner vs. Grisham in a genteel brawl over the soul of the South's most bookish city.
"Can you hold for Producer Satan?"
By Catherine Seipp. July 3, 1997.
The hellish life of the Hollywood assistant.
The Salon Interview: John le Carré
By Andrew Ross. Oct. 21, 1996.
The cloak-and-dagger king on deception, American hubris and knowing when to stop writing.
"Ali, Oui!"
By Charles Taylor. Feb. 14, 1997.
"When We Were Kings" captures a glorious athlete at his moment of supreme glory.
"Being alone"
By D.J. Waldie. Nov. 25-29, 1996.
Why would a grown man choose to live alone in his boyhood home, haunted by his parents' ghosts?
"Welcome to the fast growing field of 'fast growing fields'"
By Ian Shoales. Dec 16, 1995.
When the marketing slogan becomes the PRODUCT, we must be in ... America.
"Pond scum or green gold?"
By Andrew Leonard. July 24, 1997.
Is blue-green algae a cure for everything that ails you -- or a scam? Our reporter searched the Web -- but found the truth was out there.
"Frank's Final Number"
By Sarah Vowell. Feb. 7, 1997.
Urgent memo to DJs: When 'Ol Blue Eyes dies, "My Way" must not be played.
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