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“The Leap”
Janelle Brown
Tom Ashbrook's tale of self-doubt, poverty, marital discord and a $25 million jackpot is just the thing to inspire would-be entrepreneurs to take the start-up plunge.
Data dazed
A.M. Homes
The author of "Music for Torching" recommends five books for the information-addled.
Ghost organ
Jennifer Gilmore
My ileostomy scar has healed, but I still feel like my insides are on display.
My perversion
Carlos Amantea
The love that dare not cluck its name; a few words about dirty words in Mexico; and the prize that is Consuela.
America's Cold War casualties
Robert Alvarez
A former Energy Department official dissects President Clinton's new plan to help the sick workers who built the country's nuclear arsenal.
“Digital Diaries”
David Bowman
Natacha Merritt's photographs of herself giving head are a high-tech display of sexual narcissism.
Sharps and Flats
Joey Sweeney
In an era when everyone is cool, "sadcore" musicians rewrite the pathetic story of tortured soul John Denver.
Dennis Cooper
Daniel Reitz
With his excoriating, hallucinatory, viciously funny vision, he's the most important transgressive literary artist since William S. Burroughs -- but even Burroughs didn't get death threats.
R. Crumb
Steve Burgess
Is the bull-goose legend of underground comix the Brueghel of our time or the purveyor of an arrested juvenile vision?
The number that will outlive my grandfather
Alix Wall
During World War II, this number was meant to track whether or not he was still alive. Now, he wants it to follow him to his grave.
Crossing over
Beth Kephart
In her new novel, Jayne Anne Phillips, the princess of literary darkness, plumbs the emotional netherlands of motherhood.
The sound of Vietnam
Michael Sragow
How wizard Walter Murch created a soundtrack of horror for Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now."
More spilled spaghetti
Laura Miller
Aleksandar Hemon, author of "The Question of Bruno," talks about his favorite spies and the need for messiness in American fiction.
Hell on earth
Albert DiBartolomeo
When a kidney stone taught me the meaning of agony, I also learned the limits of my own weak self.
“Wanderlust: A History of Walking” by Rebecca Solnit
Andrew O'Hehir
A delightful and mind-expanding look at one of the activities that makes us human.
Dubya dines for $18 million
Alicia Montgomery
Gore says no free lunch on GOP spending, Dems plot bucks-boosting barbecue and Giuliani won't enter "Vagina" dialogue.
McCain goes back
Jake Tapper
Of his former captors, he says, "I've been able to go on and have a wonderful life, and they've had to stay in Vietnam."
Painting the eyes of a god
Gary Kamiya
Michael Ondaatje, author of "The English Patient," returns with a shimmering, suspenseful tale of a skeleton with a dreadful secret.
“Left for Dead: My Journey Home From Everest” by Beck Weathers
Jonathan Miles
A member of Jon Krakauer's ill-fated Everest expedition gives his version of the spring '96 mountaintop disaster.
The art of crime
Stephen Lemons
Ex-con and man of letters Edward Bunker discusses his new memoir, "Education of a Felon," and life as an upstanding citizen.
Life and life only
Charles Taylor
At the top of his form, Philip Roth delivers an astounding novel about three issues that make Americans crazy: Race, sex and Monica.
“The Virgin Suicides”
Stephanie Zacharek
Sofia Coppola finds the bare-bones poetry of Jeffrey Eugenides' novel.
“Dreambirds: The Strange History of the Ostrich in Fashion, Food, and Fortune” by Rob Nixon
Andrew O'Hehir
Solitary, plumed, nasty, flightless and weird: Ladies and gentlemen, the world's most peculiar bird.
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