Salon.com > Laura Miller http://www.salon.com Mon, 28 May 2012 15:05:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Nick Carr inspires new Readability feature http://www.salon.com/2010/06/07/nick_carr_readability/ http://www.salon.com/2010/06/07/nick_carr_readability/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:07:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2010/06/06/nick_carr_readability Nick Carr may be right or wrong about whether the Internet is making us stupid*, but one thing's for sure -- he knows how to get the whole web talking. Carr has published a new book, The Shallows, in which he apparently argues (and, to be fair, cites supporting research) that hyperlinks inhibit reading comprehension. In her review, our critic Laura Miller focused a bit on that aspect, excluded the usual links from the review, grouped them in a very clear and organized fashion at the end of the review, and asked readers to weigh in. Since the book's release and that action by Laura, the staff email here at Salon has been buzzing with debate about the pros (reader service, great for SEO, good way to make a sly joke ...) and cons (distracting, opaque, crutches for lazy writers ...) of embedded links. And we're far from alone. Carr himself has used Laura's review to bolster his argument, and countless others have weighed in.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2010/06/07/nick_carr_readability/feed/ 0 A spy in the house of Narnia http://www.salon.com/2008/12/06/narnia_2/ http://www.salon.com/2008/12/06/narnia_2/#comments Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:05:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/12/06/narnia When I was about 6, my father was in the midst of reading to me about Aslan the lion in C.S. Lewis's "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Aslan had been shorn and strapped to a stone table and killed, and then miraculously come back to life, when my dad stopped mid-chapter to ask, "Does this remind you of any other story?" I had zero religious training from my mixed-marriage parents, but I had had an elderly Slovak baby sitter who had ignited in me a temporary enthusiasm for the Baby Jesus. "Does this remind you of what happened to Jesus?" Yes! It did, as a matter of fact!

I don't know if it is truly possible to recall moments of cognitive growth from 25 years ago. But the memory of this episode is very strong: the creak and crunch of my brain as it struggled to absorb the idea that this was not just a coincidence or similarity, but an intentional melding of two otherwise unrelated stories. Although this moment of revelation lodged deep and hard in my brain, the Christian message of the Narnia books was ultimately unimportant to me. I was in it for the fauns. Narnia remained for me a place into which I could disappear, like so many of the other fantasy and adventure books I began to seek out.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2008/12/06/narnia_2/feed/ 70 Summer reads http://www.salon.com/2008/06/16/summer_reads4/ http://www.salon.com/2008/06/16/summer_reads4/#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:26:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/06/16/summer_reads4 Salon's staff is recommending summer books that will whisk you to another time and place without making you go through airport security. Previous weeks featured thrillers, chick lit and memoirs.

In this fourth and final installment, we focus on historical novels: a gripping fictional portrait of Queen Elizabeth's early years, when she was still just "Lady Elizabeth"; a Victorian thriller featuring a mysterious housemaid and a gentleman obsessed with anthropometry; a juicy girl's-eye view of Louis XIV's court; and an intellectual romance that spans two centuries, partly set in Venice, where novelist George Eliot is on honeymoon.

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"The Lady Elizabeth" by Alison Weir

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This week's focus is thrillers: a suburban family is menaced by shady secrets and unexpected dangers; an art forger gets sucked into a bizarre conspiracy; a Stalin-era communist apparatchik seeks to redeem himself by uncovering a crime; an enigmatic college professor asks his class to unravel a hypothetical (or is it?) murder; and a divorcee becomes a mother-avenger as she searches for her missing teenage daughter.

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"Hold Tight"
By Harlan Coben

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2008/05/26/summer_reads1/feed/ 26 Who killed the literary critic? http://www.salon.com/2008/05/22/critics_2/ http://www.salon.com/2008/05/22/critics_2/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 11:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/05/22/critics Has the role of the professional critic become obsolete in an age of book clubs, celebrity endorsements and blogs? A new book, "The Death of the Critic," says no, and argues that there are still reasons to regard some opinions as better than others. We asked Salon's own book reviewers, Louis Bayard and Laura Miller, to consider its case.

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Louis Bayard: The signs are ominous, Laura. Book reviews are closing shop or drastically scaling back inventory. Film critics at newspapers all over America are getting tossed on their ears. TV reviewers are heard no more in the land. All the indicators suggest that America's critics are becoming an increasingly endangered species.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2008/05/22/critics_2/feed/ 43 What is your literary deal breaker? http://www.salon.com/2008/03/31/literary_dealbreakers/ http://www.salon.com/2008/03/31/literary_dealbreakers/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:33:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet//2008/03/31/literary_dealbreakers I have a female friend who, in the course of online dating, eliminated every potential candidate who listed "The Da Vinci Code" as the last thing he'd read. Apparently, this axed a lot of men. I've never had a literary deal breaker, but plenty women have, as recounted in a story in the New York Times Book Review called "It's Not You, It's Your Books." Salon's own book critic, Laura Miller, is quoted as breaking up with a guy for his love of Ayn Rand: "I just thought Rand was a hilariously bad writer, and past a certain point I couldn’t hide my amusement."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2008/03/31/literary_dealbreakers/feed/ 204 2007 Book Awards: Literary marriages http://www.salon.com/2007/12/12/books_litmarriage/ http://www.salon.com/2007/12/12/books_litmarriage/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:43:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/video_dog/media/2007/12/12/books_litmarriage Salon book critic Laura Miller discusses three works of nonfiction that examine the intimate relationships of writers. Read more about this year's top picks here.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/12/12/books_litmarriage/feed/ 1 The best TV show of all time http://www.salon.com/2007/09/15/best_show/ http://www.salon.com/2007/09/15/best_show/#comments Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2007/09/15/best_show An opera on the turnpike: Rebecca Traister argues for "The Sopranos"

You know how one perfect moment can make a movie? A crafty shot, a wonderful line or an inspired soundtrack choice can cement a great film's place in the pantheon or sear a mediocre flick into our collective gray matter. Sometimes these moments are universal, sometimes personal. For some, it's not the beginning of a beautiful friendship, but La Marseillaise; it's not Alvy sneezing on the cocaine but Annie singing "Seems Like Old Times." Then there are the just plain indisputable moments, where music marries dialogue marries beauty and a baseball hits the light, Lauren Bacall asks if you know how to whistle, John Travolta does the twist or Gloria Swanson says, "We didn't need dialogue. We had faces."

Television has arguably had fewer of these moments: Mary Tyler Moore and her colleagues at Chuckles' funeral, Bob Newhart waking up next to Suzanne Pleshette, Carol Burnett in drapes.

But what about a TV show that had all this?

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2007/09/15/best_show/feed/ 94 Best nonfiction of 2006 http://www.salon.com/2006/12/14/nonfiction/ http://www.salon.com/2006/12/14/nonfiction/#comments Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/awards/2006/12/14/nonfiction Political books -- from Frank Rich's media critique,"The Greatest Story Ever Sold," to Lawrence Wright's 9/11 investigation, "The Looming Tower" -- stole much of the spotlight on nonfiction this year. But the books that captivated us most in 2006 told stories: of family, of food, of a double life. We promise they'll entertain you -- and surprise you, too.

"Sweet and Low: A Family Story" by Rich Cohen

Cohen's maternal grandfather, a former short-order cook, invented the sugar packet and Sweet 'n' Low, the artificial sweetener that made him a millionaire. Cohen's mother was disinherited by her own mother, and his Uncle "Marvelous" Marvin, who took over the company, got into trouble with the FBI -- a little thing they call tax evasion and criminal conspiracy. Then there's Aunt Gladys, who hasn't stepped out of the family home in Midwood, Queens since the Nixon administration, yet still manages to pull all the strings. With this book, Cohen aims to nail down what really happened in his clan's highly mythologized saga. His digressions on the history of, say, Brooklyn or sugar or the Walburg banking dynasty, might strike some as padding, but he describes it all with an economical, pugnacious wit that never falters. The heart of the book, though, is a long, complicated and darkly funny family feud encompassing intrigues, sabotage and widely divergent stories about what really happened and when, and of course, who it can all be blamed on.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2006/12/14/nonfiction/feed/ 5 Best fiction of 2006 http://www.salon.com/2006/12/13/best_fiction_2/ http://www.salon.com/2006/12/13/best_fiction_2/#comments Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/awards/2006/12/13/best_fiction Africa, race and 21st century global paranoia are the prevailing themes in our favorite books this year -- less a reflection of the immediate moment than of the way ideas and events slowly make their way through the imaginations of talented writers and emerge, transfigured, long after the headlines have turned yellow. Literature, as Ezra Pound put it, is news that stays news. We expect that people will be reading these books for many, many years to come.

"What Is the What" by Dave Eggers

The unusual provenance of this novel -- Eggers has written it in the first-person voice of a real man, Valentino Achak Deng, and all of the events in the story are true, although not all of them happened to Deng -- is complicated. The result is sublime simplicity, the ego-less conveyance by Eggers of Deng's plain-spoken, gentle, world-weary but never hopeless voice. One of the Lost Boys of Sudan, Deng saw his village destroyed by Arab militiamen as a little boy and fled alone into a chaotic landscape before joining a troupe of similarly dispossessed boys on an epic journey on foot to a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Hunger, thirst, lions, crocodiles and soldiers on both sides of Sudan's civil war harried all of them and killed some. Deng finally made it to the promised land of America, but we know from the start that it proved to be no paradise. The novel's framing device -- Deng imagines telling his life story to thieves who beat and bind him while robbing his house and to the jaded officials who deal with the crime's aftermath -- is inspired; instead of making him pitiful, this silent appeal emphasizes Deng's remarkable, ineradicable dignity.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2006/12/13/best_fiction_2/feed/ 7 Best debuts of 2006 http://www.salon.com/2006/12/12/debut/ http://www.salon.com/2006/12/12/debut/#comments Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/awards/2006/12/12/debut The fixation on first books often seems misplaced. (And we've fudged the distinction a little ourselves, since our choice for best nonfiction debut has been writing a fiction comic strip for years.) Still, there's nothing like spotting talent in its first white-hot bolt from the gate, which is definitely the case with our fiction selection. The best thing about both of these writers is that we expect them to be moving and delighting us for decades to come.

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"Special Topics in Calamity Physics" by Marisha Pessl

This year, from the sea of debut literary novels, Marisha Pessl's "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" emerged with all the noise its title portends. A sprawling, ambitious and hilarious coming-of-age story, "Calamity Physics" is narrated by 16-year-old Blue van Meer, a prodigious and precocious young woman who rattles off references to books and movies with the speed of a Gilmore Girl and wins us over with the ever-gimlet eye she casts on school, boys and the confused adults that surround her. "Special Topics" follows Blue through her senior year as the new kid at a private school, where she's swept up with a group of glamorous odd-duck students in the thrall of an eccentric and charismatic film teacher. There's teen stuff (romances, jealousy); grown-up stuff (a terrific send-up of the academy); and mystery stuff (murder, secret societies), all of which combined make for a thrilling ride. But Pessl dazzles most at the end, when she weaves every silken thread in her book together for a surprise ending that marks her not only as a clever entertainer, but a genuine, and talented, new novelist.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2006/12/12/debut/feed/ 7 Salon Book Awards http://www.salon.com/2006/12/11/authors_picks_2/ http://www.salon.com/2006/12/11/authors_picks_2/#comments Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/awards/2006/12/11/authors_picks For most of Salon's existence, we've come to you in December bearing a list of our favorite fiction and nonfiction books of the year. We'll do that this year, too, but this time around things are going to be a little different. Instead of one big day devoted to celebrating our favorite titles, there will be five. That's right, a whole week of books, starting today.

Why? Well, it's clear that you love to read about books. Some of the most popular Salon stories of 2006 have been reviews of new books (see Andrew O'Hehir's examination of Nora Vincent's gender-bending memoir "Self-Made Man" and Laura Miller's take on Laura Kipnis' provocative tract "The Female Thing") or interviews with authors (see Steve Paulson's conversations with Richard Dawkins and Karen Armstrong). Douglas Wolk's monthly column on graphic novels always draws a crowd (especially his piece on Alan Moore's racy "Lost Girls"), and the Literary Guide to the World has brought book lovers from all over the globe to Salon.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2006/12/11/authors_picks_2/feed/ 20 Top 10 books of the year http://www.salon.com/2005/12/19/best_of_2/ http://www.salon.com/2005/12/19/best_of_2/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:20:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/12/19/best_of This was the year that Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul, at the urging of the New York Times Book Review, declared that fiction is dead. And we must admit that at the beginning of the eye-blearing process of picking the year's 10 best books we were almost inclined to agree. Late releases and previously overlooked gems renewed our faith, though, and in the end we decided to do something we've never done before: let two short story collections -- one by a young writer with a cult following and the other by an unjustly under-celebrated veteran -- tie for the fifth fiction slot. The two collections struck us as remarkably similar in spirit and impeccable in craft and  well, we just couldn't make up our minds.

We must admit, though, that when we closed the door behind the final 11 titles, there was a lot of great nonfiction left clamoring outside. Our criteria in choosing our five favorite nonfiction titles have always been a little idiosyncratic. Instead of "definitive" doorstops, we prefer to single out the kind of books we can't wait to get back to -- the ones we schlep into the kitchen with us so we can keep reading while we brew that fourth pot of coffee. The titles on our nonfiction lists often deal with weighty historical subjects and urgent issues, but first and foremost they're the books that kept us up all night instead of lulling us to sleep.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2005/12/19/best_of_2/feed/ 11 What to read http://www.salon.com/2005/10/01/wtr_12/ http://www.salon.com/2005/10/01/wtr_12/#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2005 21:14:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/10/01/wtr Finally, autumn is here! Out with the heat and the muggy afternoons, in with the crisp. The leaves haven't quite started to turn, but the air has cooled -- and nights are downright chilly. Soon, we'll be pulling blankets out of closets and comforters up to our chins; pouring hot tea instead of iced. And what better to pair with a steaming mug than a great new novel.

The first crop of fall fiction offers a stunning variety of choices. Whether you're in the mood for an academic comedy hinged on two rival art scholars (Zadie Smith's "On Beauty"), a slightly fantastic, genre-bending collection of short stories (Tim Powers' "Strange Itineraries"), a hypnotic Civil War narrative (E.L. Doctorow's "The March"), or the spare, sad tale of a man's recovery after a dramatic accident (J.M Coetzee's "Slow Man"), there's something for you in this mix. Not to mention pigs (Kelly Fitzgerald's wild and charming "Pigtopia"), the flu (Myla Goldberg's accomplished and daring "Wickett's Remedy"), and trickster gods (Neil Gaiman's wonderful "Anansi Boys").

So, don't despair that summer has come to an end. In fact, look forward to the coming cold, and the excuse to stay inside. We promise, too, that there will be even more inspiring fiction to come in this season -- so get reading! With any of these picks, you're assured a delicious indoor afternoon.

Our first pick: From the author of "White Teeth," an academic comedy, a riff on E.M. Forster and a catalog of human folly

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2005/10/01/wtr_12/feed/ 0 Page turners with a brain http://www.salon.com/2004/05/29/summer_8/ http://www.salon.com/2004/05/29/summer_8/#comments Sat, 29 May 2004 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/05/29/summer Readers of America, you have a choice. Although you wouldn't know it to look at many of the titles jostling for slots on the bestseller lists, there's no law dictating that if you want a book with an irresistible, crackerjack plot you also have to put up with crappy writing and tissue-paper-thin characters. Sure, millions of people proved themselves willing to choke down Dan Brown's clunky prose in order to crack "The Da Vinci Code" (proof positive that everyone loves a good conspiracy theory), but why suffer if you don't have to?

Page turners can be smart, as in really smart, and not just the pseudo-intelligence of the reviewers' current darling, "The Rule of Four," by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. With that novel, we were promised Donna Tartt meets Umberto Eco, and instead we got way too much turgid maundering on undergraduate life at Princeton and way too little of the fascinating real-life Renaissance book supposedly at the story's center. Nowhere is it written that smart books must also be overwritten and difficult to follow, either. The hardest thing, after all, is to make it go down easy.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2004/05/29/summer_8/feed/ 0 Coffee-table cornucopia http://www.salon.com/2003/12/20/gift_6/ http://www.salon.com/2003/12/20/gift_6/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2003 21:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2003/12/20/gift Some nuts are harder to crack than the unshelled Brazils in that mix your mom puts out each December. If you're still frantically searching for the right gift for a certain picky, elusive or simply uncovetous friend or relation, your local bookstore is your best bet. And if you pick something with great pictures, you'll never have to worry about whether or not they'll read it. Here's our list of suggestions for some of the trickiest cases out there.

The Christmas Purist

You know the type: Tried to talk Mom into roasting a greasy goose for Christmas dinner despite a family-wide preference for white meat, and eyes with unwholesome interest the packaged plum-pudding displays in the "gourmet foods" section of Cost Plus Imports. Divert his attention from British cuisine with the exhaustive "The Annotated Christmas Carol," introduced and edited by Michael Patrick Hearn (W.W. Norton, $29.95). It will regale him with countless factoids, such as the revelation that Christmas traditions were fading away in the early 19th century before writers like Dickens revived them. Hearn's copious footnotes elaborate on Dickens' veiled digs at Victorian economists like Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith. (He puts their ideas in Scrooge's mouth.) The little holiday ghost story was an enormous hit, but it cost so much to produce it didn't relieve its author of his crushing debts. Still, the book persuaded the starchy Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle to run out and buy a turkey and invite friends over for dinner, and the owner of the Franklin Scale Co. in St. Johnsburg, Vt., was inspired to close his factory on Christmas Day (not a universal custom at the time) and to hand out turkeys to his staff. Turkeys, not geese.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2003/12/20/gift_6/feed/ 0 An interview with Kelly Link http://www.salon.com/2001/11/19/kelly_link/ http://www.salon.com/2001/11/19/kelly_link/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/audio/col/mill/2001/11/19/kelly_link Kelly Link has lived in Philadelphia, Miami, Boston and Greensboro, N.C., moving every five years or so, settling for the moment in Brooklyn, N.Y. Books have been a constant in her peripatetic life, from studying literature to working in bookstores and for publishers and, of course, writing. Link recently visited Salon's New York offices to talk about "Stranger Things Happen," her new story collection.

"Kelly Link is the exact best and strangest and funniest short story writer on earth that you have never heard of at the exact moment you are reading these words and making them slightly inexact. Now pay for the book." -- Jonathan Lethem, author of "Motherless Brooklyn"

"'Stranger Things Happen' is a tremendously appealing book, and lovers of short fiction should fall over themselves getting out the door to find a copy." -- Washington Post Book World

Listen to an excerpt of the interview below.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2001/11/19/kelly_link/feed/ 0 What to read: March fiction http://www.salon.com/2001/03/15/march_fiction/ http://www.salon.com/2001/03/15/march_fiction/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2001 19:55:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2001/03/15/march_fiction These final dragging days of winter call for hearty fictional fare, something to get the brain cells hopping and the blood pumping. In the pile of new March fiction, amid the usual well-intentioned snoozers, shameless formula rip-offs and flavorless commercial pap, we found a few clear winners. Our picks this month kept us furiously turning pages with their robust combination of brains and storytelling pizazz. There's a comical look at an endearingly frantic religious quester; a suspenseful tale of a child who murders and the psychologist called to testify at his trial; a sexy, rueful novel of middle-aged lovers; and more. So hunker down, cheer up and dig into our late-winter fictional feast.

Paradise Park by Allegra Goodman

Sharon Spiegelman, the prattling narrator of Allegra Goodman's new novel, is a spiritual seeker. If you associate that kind of person with a flighty, credulous, smorgasbord-style approach to religion, you wouldn't be wrong about Sharon, but you wouldn't be entirely right, either. At the book's beginning, in the 1970s, Sharon finds herself in a Honolulu hotel room, bereft of money, purpose and the boyfriend, Gary, she'd traveled with across country from Boston. What she does have, though, are "all these questions and ideas about this higher power and this divine spirit, and maybe I would have been dealing with them if I hadn't been so broke."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2001/03/15/march_fiction/feed/ 0 It’s a plot http://www.salon.com/2001/02/13/books_list/ http://www.salon.com/2001/02/13/books_list/#comments Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/02/13/books_list Paranoia is, of course, a form of desire -- the fantasy of being so important that everyone in the world is out to get you. Writers, who usually feel they're not getting enough attention, are particularly susceptible. Here is an eclectic and far from comprehensive list of our favorites. Can't find your own personal picks? Naturally, it's a plot.

1. "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon Pynchon might just be the quintessential paranoid novelist because his books stoke his readers' obsession with finding significance in even the tiniest detail. In this, his bounciest effort, Oedipa Maas, a California housewife, stumbles across a conspiracy involving what seems to be a vast, underground postal service.

2. "A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K. Dick If Pynchon isn't the paranoid's poet laureate, then Philip K. Dick is. In this classic tale of drugs and deception, an undercover narcotics agent develops a chemically induced split personality and starts narcing on himself.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2001/02/13/books_list/feed/ 0 Family demons http://www.salon.com/2001/02/07/moody_interview/ http://www.salon.com/2001/02/07/moody_interview/#comments Wed, 07 Feb 2001 00:13:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/audio/col/mill/2001/02/06/moody_interview Salon's books editor speaks with author Rick Moody about the making of his new collection of stories, "Demonology."

Laura Miller is New York editorial director for Salon. Her criticism and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post Book World, the Village Voice, the San Francisco Examiner and the New York Observer.

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