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DIED. DAN FLAVIN, 63, minimalist sculptor who specialized in using fluorescent lights; of complications from diabetes; in Riverhead, New York...
BORN: July 16, 1952, Riverhead EDUCATION: State U of New York at Albany, B.A., 1983 FAMILY: Wife, Barbara; two children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Chamber of Commerce director POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1994- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 505, Farmingville...
...proposition with which young Jennifer Belle cannot argue. The 28-year-old Manhattanite has received a great deal of publicity for her comic first novel, Going Down (Riverhead Books; $12; 254 pages), primarily because of its subject: a year in the life of a young woman who becomes a prostitute to pay her tuition at New York University. Right away we know we are in for humor of the zanily incongruous sort because Belle has given her heroine a some-of-my-best-friends-went-to-Exeter name: Bennington Bloom...
...white marquee, this establishment proudly alerted passersby that it featured live girls working their way through college. Patrons, presumably, found topless women who had taken the SATs to be more tantalizing than those who had not. That's the basis for Jennifer Belle's comic first novel, Going Down (Riverhead Books; $12; 254 pages), which chronicles a year in the life of a young woman who becomes a prostitute to pay her tuition at New York University. Right away we know we are in for humor of the zanily incongruous sort because Belle has given her heroine a some...
...Danny Bonaduce of letters. In the hands of British writer Nick Hornby, though, the affectation is used to excellent effect. Hornby, 38, is worshipped in Britain for his 1992 book, Fever Pitch, a humorous memoir about his life as a soccer fan. In this first novel, High Fidelity (Riverhead Books; $21.95; 323 pages), he demonstrates his enviable talent for lucid, laconic writing...