Salon Invitation #18

Salon Magazine (salon-talk@eweb04.online.apple.com)
Mon, 3 Jun 1996 13:35:02 +0000

Dear Salon reader --

Here's some highlights of what you'll find in Issue #18 of Salon
<http://www.salon1999.com>. If you haven't already bookmarked us, remember
that we're now updating Salon daily.

* The Dilbert Decade: Scott Adams' mouthless comic strip creation speaks
for a generation of cubicled drones. Scott Rosenberg reviews Adams'
blistering new satire of management manuals, "The Dilbert Principle," and
interviews the author -- who talks about how his strip became a "Scud
missile" aimed at buffoonish bosses everywhere.

* Dudes vs. Nature: Joyce Millman plunges into the world of extreme sports
and finds that its "punk" attitude is only skin deep.

* The Salon Interview: Jerry Brown. Once the man of the hour, the former
California governor now issues jeremiads from the political wilderness. Yet
in many ways, "Governor Moonbeam" is making more sense than ever.

* Redneck Gays: They drive trucks, shoot guns and swill beer -- and don't
you dare call them sissies. Jeff Stein reveals the lusty Deep South
subculture that the Christian Right would rather not know about.

* Unzipped. In our new interactive feature, mating etiquette maven Courtney
Weaver asks: Should an amorous lady offer her card to a gentleman? She'll
be fielding your answers in the Unzipped discussion in Table Talk.

* One Righteous Babe: Singer/songwriter/guitarist Ani DiFranco is doing it
the hard way -- on her own. Lori Leibovich reviews her new album, "Dilate."

* Ill Humor. Columnist Ian Shoales puts the eeeeeeee back in ValuJet.

* The Listress -- our trivia quiz by "Book of Lists" co-author Amy Wallace
-- returns, to contemplate the, um, size of things.

Don't forget that Salon now offers Daily Clicks that change every weekday.
Here's the Monday lineup --

Newsreal: China expert Orville Schell (author of "Discos and Democracy") on
the seventh anniversary of Tiananmen Square. Can the Communists continue to
repress the country's memory?

Media Circus: Five years after Jacob Weisberg wrote a famously scathing
article about the decline of the book industry ("Houses of Ill Repute"), he
has published a book with the very house he lambasted most harshly. Does
this mean the book biz has cleaned up its act?

Sneak Peeks: "Generation X" author Douglas Coupland's new book of essays,
"Polaroids from the Dead," moves Charles Taylor to conclude that every
generation gets the fraud it deserves.

Once you've read your fill, be sure to drop in to Table Talk, the Web's
most stimulating conversation pit.

-- The editors of Salon

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