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Salon Issue 26
July 29-August 2, 1996

NEWSREAL:

Friday August 2, 1996: NRA to Congress: Don't trace that bomb! Daily Quote: The almighty Olympian dollar.
Thursday August 1, 1996: Is the welfare bill a war on the poor?
Wednesday July 31, 1996: Burundi calling: A radio link to sanity and truth. Daily Quote: Pravda and Richard Nixon.
Tuesday July 30, 1996: Olympic Memorial: Melissa Fay Greene reports from Atlanta. Daily Quote: Dole has it both ways.
Monday July 29, 1996: Let the apologies begin: Terrorism's misguided defenders.

MEDIA CIRCUS:

Friday August 2,1996: The media coverup: Drugs are fun!
Thursday August 1,1996: Diabolical billboard campaign buzzes L.A.
Wednesday July 31,1996: The hottest - and soppiest - new Olympic event: The Cryathalon.
Tuesday July 30,1996: Romance! Angst! Horoscopes! Condé Nast descends on the Web.
Monday July 29,1996: With friends like these: Why the liberal media bashes Clinton.

SNEAK PEEKS:

Friday August 2, 1996: Kinski Uncut By Klaus Kinski (Nonfiction)
Viking, reviewed by Dwight Garner
A raw and misanthropic memoir of compulsive sexual conquest, by the German star of "Fitzcarraldo" and "Nosferatu."
Thursday August 1, 1996: Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn By David Hajdu (Nonfiction)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, reviewed by Bart Schneider
A biography of the composer and pianist who was Duke Ellington's long-time collaborator and one of the first uncloseted gay jazz musicians.
Wednesday July 31, 1996: On With the Story By John Barth (Fiction)
Little, Brown & Co., reviewed by Michael Ross
In this nested series of stories within stories, a pair of vacationing "late-afternoon late-life lovers" regale each other with bedtime tales.
Tuesday July 30, 1996: Horizontal Woman: The Story of a Body in Exile By Suzanne Berger (Nonfiction)
Houghton Mifflin, reviewed by James Marcus
Ruminations on the connection between body and soul, from a poet was was forced to spend 6 years on her back after a freak accident.
Monday July 29, 1996: Exquisite Corpse By Poppy Z. Brite (Fiction)
Simon and Schuster, reviewed by James Marcus
Adventures in cannibalism, throat-slitting and disembowelment, from the popular 29-year-old horror novelist Poppy Z. Brite.

TABLE TALK:

What's your secret phobia?
Posts of the week.

SALON REGULARS:

The Awful Truth By Cintra Wilson
Girl gymnastics: The tiny tot horror show.

Ill Humor By Ian Shoales
Dazzled by Michael Kinsley's trout, our columnist contemplates an image change.

Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
San Francisco nights aren't as wild as they used to be. Bring your one-night stand memories to the Unzipped discussion in Table Talk.

The Listress By Amy Wallace
Celebrity jailbirds and exotic phobias in the latest quiz from our trivia mistress. Be the first to submit the correct answers and win a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.

"Servant of the Bones" Diary By Anne Rice
The best-selling author launches a weekly online diary on the eve of a nationwide bus tour for her new book, "Servant of the Bones." Plus: submit your e-mail questions to Anne Rice.

Swamp Fever By James Carville
The former Clinton campaign strategist and author of "We're Right, They're Wrong" unleashes his raging new election column. Join him in Table Talk.

MODERN LIFE:

Straight Fairies By Carol Lloyd
This new breed of breeders is the gay world's gift to the het women of America.

BOOKS:

Lust in the Dust Jackets By Gary Kamiya
The history of Maurice Girodias and Olympia Press recalls the Golden Age of Smut .

The Secret Life of Anais Nin By Cynthia Joyce
Biographer Deirdre Bair talks about discovering the famous diarist's incestuous past and the perils of memoir.

The Prince of Paperback Porn By Dwight Garner
Talking business with America's foremost erotica publisher.

TV:

Yes, Xena does rule By Joyce Millman
A dog-day expedition into the lush world of TV's trashiest delights.

X-istential Crisis By Lisa Crovo
At Portland's "X-Files" convention the merchandise is out there.
Plus: an interview with "Cancer Man" William B. Davis.

MUSIC:

Unsung hero By Charles Taylor
Although out with the in-crowd, Marshall Crenshaw is a master of pop song-craft.

Never mind the Sex Pistols, here's the Jam By Gavin McNett
Two stunning re-issues dust off one of the punk era's most heroic bands.
Plus: The Undertones' irresistible teenage kicks.

MOVIES:

Virtue's Hack By Laura Miller
Why John Sayles should be stopped before he directs again.

COMICS:

Tom Tomorrow: This Modern World.
Carol Lay: Story Minute
Keith Knight: The K Chronicles
Ruben Bolling: Tom, The Dancing Bug

 








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