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June 26, 1995 Issue - 32 Articles- Comment: The Obsessives
Bill Buford
, pp. 10-15 Fiction writers are not normal people
- In the Mail, pp. 16-21
- Goings On About Town, pp. 22-54
- The Talk of the Town, pp. 55-59
Book bars; Fay Weldon; Gettysburg addressed; etc.
- Annals of Popularity: Warring Fictions
Anthony Lane
, pp. 60-73 What did America read fifty years ago?
- Journals: The Shadow in the Garden
James Atlas
, pp. 74-85 - Journals: Not Half as Bright as Hamlet
Leonard Michaels
, pp. 86-91 - Journals: My Life as Harold
Nicholson Baker
, pp. 92-95 - The Publishing World: Buy My Book, Please
Martin Amis
, pp. 96-99 The author takes "The Information" on the road
- Fiction: "Maths Class"
Seamus Deane
, pp. 100-103 An American debut
- Journals: A Diamond to Cut New York
Dawn Powell
, pp. 104-113 - Fiction: "The Ultimatum"
Philip Roth
, pp. 114-115 - "My Son the Man"
Sharon Olds
, pp. 116-120 - Journals: What Happened Next
Richard Ford
, pp. 121-127 - Fiction: "Jim and the Dead Man"
Mark Twain
, pp. 128-129 A newly discovered episode from "Huckleberry Finn"
Commentaries: Twain and his novel
- The language
Bobbie Ann Mason
, p. 130 - The river
Roger Angell
, pp. 130-131 - The ending
E.L. Doctorow
, p. 132 - That word
William Styron
, p. 132 - But was he a racist?
David Bradley
, p. 133 - Journals: Delirium and Detachment
Joyce Carol Oates
, pp. 134-136 - "Recollection, In Tranquillity"
Joyce Carol Oates
, p. 137 - Fiction: "In the Beginning"
Ian McEwan
, pp. 138-143 - Letters: To a Young Writer
V.S. Naipaul
, pp. 144-152 Lessons of a noble calling for the young Paul Theroux
- Fiction: "Poetry Lessons"
Paul Theroux
, pp. 153-155 And what did he learn?
- "The Error"
Ted Hughes
, pp. 156-165 - Fiction: "The Green Man"
Jeanette Winterson
, pp. 166-169 - Fiction: "Achates McNeil"
T. Coraghessan Boyle
, pp. 170-181 -
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Books: The Man Within (2 Reviews) John Updike
, pp. 182-185 Graham Greene: Three Lives, by Anthony Mockler
- Graham Greene: Three Lives by Anthony Mockler
- Graham Greene: The Man Within by Michael Shelden
- "Crustacean Island"
Kay Ryan
, pp. 186-187
- Shouts & Murmurs
Ian Frazier
, pp. 188-190 In the Stacks
- Cover: Paperback Riders
Owen Smith
