A Notorious Life
Dwight Garner interviews Doris Lessing, author of 'The Golden Notebook,' and the new memoir, 'Walking in the Shade.'
Tuesday, Nov 11, 1997 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment Communism, Books
Dwight Garner interviews Doris Lessing, author of 'The Golden Notebook,' and the new memoir, 'Walking in the Shade.'
Tuesday, Nov 11, 1997 8:00 PM UTCThe triumph of the Soup Nazi and a revised version of "The Joy of Cooking" have foodies asking: Is home cooking finished?
Tuesday, Nov 11, 1997 8:00 PM UTCStylish 'L.A. Confidential' kicks in too late.
Sunday, Oct 19, 1997 7:00 PM UTCBrad Pitt follows the E-Z path to enlightenment in the earnest but sentimental "Seven Years in Tibet."
Friday, Oct 10, 1997 7:00 PM UTCDwight Garner interviews Caleb Carr, the author of 'The Alienist' and 'The Angel of Darkness.'
Saturday, Oct 4, 1997 7:00 PM UTCA new exhibition shows how paparazzi photographs simultaneously create celebrity and desecrate it.
Monday, Sep 15, 1997 7:00 PM UTCAmerican men crave manly advice from dudely savants. Dwight Garner straps on his reading jock and tries to find out why.
Wednesday, Aug 20, 1997 7:00 PM UTC"Ambush at Fort Bragg" is the first novella-length work by a major author ever to be published exclusively on audio. It's pretty damn good, too.
Thursday, Aug 14, 1997 7:00 PM UTCHas Tina Brown rescued the New Yorker -- or ruined it?
Thursday, Jun 26, 1997 3:16 PM UTCA map to the online homes of the literary stars.
Friday, May 23, 1997 7:00 PM UTCSalon magazine: An interview with Mary Karr, author of The Liars' Club about memoirs, Texas, childhood, Kathryn Harrison, The Kiss, child abuse, writing, literature, autobiography. By Dwight Garner
Wednesday, May 21, 1997 7:00 PM UTCThe First Annual Counter-Clio (Schmio?) Awards give the worst TV ads their day in the sun
Thursday, May 15, 1997 7:00 PM UTCTrash Lit 101: It's easy to fire spitballs at books that are embossed with the phrase No. 1 New York Times Bestseller. But the lines between bestselling trash and high-quality literature are a lot more fluid -- and self-determined -- than we usually think, Dwight Garner suggests.
Monday, May 12, 1997 7:00 PM UTCThe Salon Interview: Robert Stone. The author who has been called "the apostle of the strung-out" talks about his new story collection, "Bear and His Daughter," and why he is drawn to men and women in extremis.
Monday, Apr 14, 1997 7:00 PM UTCSharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
Friday, Apr 11, 1997 7:00 PM UTCWhen a panel of famous writers, including black-clad incest poster child Kathryn Harrison, gathered in New York to brood publicly over the rising tide of literary memoirs, the ensuing "debate" was about as exciting as smooching your sister.
Thursday, Apr 10, 1997 7:00 PM UTCDwight Garner writes about "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" for Salon's Personal Best Movies.
Friday, Mar 21, 1997 8:17 PM UTCA Personal Best review by Dwight Garner.
Friday, Mar 21, 1997 8:00 PM UTCWilliam Faulkner and John Grisham battle it out for the soul of the South's most bookish city.
Wednesday, Mar 12, 1997 8:00 PM UTCThe strange hero of "Sling Blade" is Forrest Gump with a murderous past.
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