SALON Invitation #13

Salon Magazine (salon-talk@eweb04.online.apple.com)
Mon, 29 Apr 1996 18:08:42 +0000

April 29, 1996

Dear SALON reader:

We've just put up our Issue #13 here at SALON (http://www.salon1999.com),
with the following feature highlights:

*Poetry that will get under your skin. Yes, National Poetry Month is almost
over and you're still leading a prosaic life. But before you close the book
on meter and metaphor, check out SALON's lineup of nine poets. They make up
a Live Poets Society that even non-poetry lovers will read passionately.

*In a companion piece, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney talks about love,
Ireland and the art of poetry. Literature is not a grand palace, Heaney
tells SALON, but "a scruffy, fighting place."

*Hapless in Hollywood. David Schwimmer, sex symbol...hel-lo? The hang dog
star of "Friends" and the new movie, "The Pallbearer," has made a career of
being the safe and schleppy love interest. But Charles Taylor writes that
men would be better off following anti-Schwimmer role models like Ben
Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., John Cusack and Ethan Hawke...Then Dog Boy
himself speaks -- Schwimmer talks with SALON's Ron Dicker and the rest of
the New York media pack.

*Manhunt. "Dude, I'm incredibly horny, we need to go out," her girlfriend
informs her. Thus begins columnist Cintra Wilson's wild night out with her
boy-chasing sidekick, "S." But SqueezeBox might not have been the best
place to snare the opposite sex.

*Don Johnson (TM) -- he's more than an actor, he's a way of life! Johnson's
on the rise, again, as the star of the new CBS series, "Nash Bridges." And
like Nash's two ex-wives, viewers keep letting him in. Joyce Millman
explores the TV star's unflagging appeal.

*Word by Word. In her online diary, Anne Lamott offers further proof that
the writing life is a mental affliction.

*Kinko's Hell. "Justice exacts two tolls on freelancers in return for
letting us work in our pajamas and chain-smoke at our desks," writes Carina
Chocano in a mordant essay on Gen X life. "Double the Social Security tax
and frequent excursions into the fiery pit of Kinko's."

*Also, check out Stephanie Zacharek's review of former Replacement Paul
Westerberg's heartfelt new CD, "Eventually," and Michael Ross' appreciation
of young jazz Turks James Carter, Joshua Redman and Gonzalo Rubalcaba.

*And don't forget that SALON now publishes Daily Clicks every week day --
a lively package of news, media commentary and reviews. On Monday Andrew
Ross interviews child psyciatrist Herb Schreier on the rising incidence of
homicidal violence among the nation's children and Gary Kamiya reviews the
new "60 Minutes" lineup of battling pundits: Molly Ivins, Stanley Crouch
and P.J. O'Rourke.

While you're visiting take our reader survey, Two Cents. This week's
question: Would you rather have Madonna or Courtney Love as your mother?

And jump into the verbal fray of Table Talk, the most stimulating
conversation pit on the Web.

--the editors of SALON

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