SALON Invitation #15

Salon Magazine (salon-talk@eweb04.online.apple.com)
Mon, 13 May 1996 14:23:27 +0000

May 13, 1996

Dear SALON reader --

Here's some highlights of what you'll find in Issue #15 of SALON
(http://www.salon1999.com). If you haven't already bookmarked us, remember
that we're now updating SALON daily.

*Tofu Family Values: the American left finds a way to embrace the family
that's undeniably healthy -- and undisguisably bland. Scott Rosenberg
reviews Michael Lerner's "The Politics of Meaning" and Mary Pipher's "The
Shelter of Each Other."

*In the SALON Interview with Julian Barnes, the author of "Flaubert's
Parrot" and the acclaimed new story collection "Cross Channel" discourses
on fact-fetishists, mad cows, "old fartery" and literary dish.

*Elvis Costello writes amazing songs for his idols, but they're not always
eager to sing them -- so on his new album, he sings them himself. Joyce
Millman reviews "All This Useless Beauty."

*In Anne Lamott's latest "Word by Word," Sam's not-so-big adventure is
saved by the seals.

*Pableaux Johnson searches for the perfect sausage in the Lone Star State
in "Hot Links and Hyper Tex."

*Cintra in Iceland: Our columnist tries to sack the mysterious womb of the
Nordic North.

*Taking black music back from the gangstas: Milo Miles on the Fugees, Busta
Rhymes and Positive Black Soul.

*Mary Elizabeth Williams reviews "Original Gangstas," in which the stars of
the first generation of "Blaxploitation" films come back to clean up their
hood.

*And another week of our Daily Clicks, new every weekday, kicks off. In
Monday's Newsreal, Andrew Ross asks whether a "cowboy mentality" lies
behind the crash of ValueJet Flight 592 and other recent air disasters. In
Media Circus, Laura Miller derides the prevailing wisdom in Rolling Stone
and other mossy journals that a bratty attitude is hardwired into the Web.
And Sneak Peeks finds left-field laughs in "Coyote v. Acme," the latest
collection of humor by Ian Frazier.

Top off your reading with a visit to Table Talk, the most stimulating
conversation pit on the Web.

-- The editors of SALON

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