Salon Invitation #20

Salon Magazine (salon-talk@eweb04.online.apple.com)
Mon, 17 Jun 1996 14:34:26 +0000

Dear Salon reader:

This week's issue of Salon (http://www.salon1999.com) is hot off the press.
Here are some of the feature highlights:

*Personal Best. What are the best pop music albums of all time? Salon's
critics offer their personal choices, from Liz Phair to Prince to the Clash
to Hendrix to Moon Mullican. After reading our picks, give us your own
selections in Table Talk.

* The Salon Interview. A.S. Byatt ("Possession") talks about her new novel,
"Babel Tower," the dark side of '60s utopianism, the chains of literary
feminism and the albatross of sex.

* Jim Carrey, prince of fools. Critics sneer at him, but the rubbery
comedian keeps bouncing back, even from disasters like "The Cable Guy."
Stephanie Zacharek pays tribute to the reigning master of physical comedy.

* Unzipped. She was inviting, and he was definitely willing...but then
something happened. Why didn't Andy sleep with Monica? After reading
Courtney Weaver's latest column, join her in Table Talk.

* Ill Humor. Every gold rush has its scam artists, observes the
ever-observant Ian Shoales, and the digital bonanza has more than its
share.

And remember -- every afternoon, Monday through Friday, Salon also
publishes a Daily Clicks package of behind-the-headlines news reports,
media commentary and book reviews.

* In Monday's Newsreal, Russia expert Martin Malia reveals why a former Red
Army general will ensure victory for Boris Yeltsin in the upcoming
presidential runoff.

* In Media Circus, Laura Miller and Dwight Garner file a disgruntled
dispatch from the Bataan Book March -- the Chicago gathering of the
American Booksellers Association, where they run an endless gauntlet of
celebrity gladhanders and New Age screwballs in pursuit of an actual book.

* In Sneak Peeks, Katherine Whittamore praises a newly published American
masterwork, the late Henry Roth's "From Bondage."

--the editors of Salon

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