SALON Invitation #14

Salon Magazine (salon-talk@eweb04.online.apple.com)
Mon, 6 May 1996 13:44:01 +0000

May 6, 1996

Dear SALON reader --

We've just put up our Issue #14 here at SALON (http://www.salon1999.com),
with these new articles:

*In his new "The Sibling Society," Robert Bly says Americans need to grow
up and stop whining. Too bad, writes Laura Miller, that his own plaint is
so incoherent and peevish.

*In the SALON Interview with Louise Erdrich, the novelist talks about her
new novel "Tales of Burning Love," her Native American roots, and how
becoming a mother has changed her writing.

*Twister Chasers: Weather is fierce, weather is strong, weather is severe
-- weather has an attitude. Joyce Millman analyzes the Weather Channel's
blustery appeal.

*Novelist Graham Swift, "Waterland's" acclaimed author, rejects pop-culture
ephemera in favor of the fundamentals in his new novel, "Last Orders."
Swift discusses the state of the literary art with Scott Rosenberg.

*Having a Ball, Wish You Were Here: Stale-bun hot dogs. Toilet-paper
shortages. Scowling Lolitas with hairy underarms. The Czech Republic didn't
exactly greet our correspondent, Mary Elizabeth Williams, warmly -- until a
conga line in a Pilsen dance hall changed the mood.

*Charles Taylor deflates the posturing of the Cranberries' new "To the
Faithful Departed," and Cynthia Joyce talks with Luna's Dean Wareham, who
vehemently denies he's an "aristorocker."

*Ian Shoales finds that when technophiles take over the libraries, books
need all the help they can get.

*Don't forget that SALON now publishes Daily Clicks every weekday -- a
lively offering of news, media commentary and reviews. In Monday's
Newsreal, David Talbot reflects on the cold demise of ex-CIA director
William Colby, a former company man condemned as a traitor by his own firm;
in Media Circus, Dave Eggers tells how Might Magazine faked the celebrity
death of child TV star Adam Rich; and in Sneak Peeks, Stephanie Zacharek
tells Jay McInerney, author of the new novel "The Last of the Savages,"
that he's no Scott Fitzgerald.

While you're visiting take our reader survey, Two Cents. This week's
question: Should the U.S., as Congress has proposed, build a $12 million
fence across the Mexican border to keep out "illegal aliens"?

And don't forget to drop in on Table Talk, the most stimulating
conversation pit on the Web. Which literary classics do you loathe? Is
Clinton too feminine for the masses? Share your thoughts on these and
hundreds of other topics.

--the editors of SALON

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