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...AUTHOR: BARBARA KINGSOLVER...
Heaven in the title of Barbara Kingsolver's new novel is not paradise but a small town in Oklahoma, probably not far from where the Cherokee infant girl was abandoned in Taylor Greer's car in Kingsolver's first novel, The Bean Trees...
...live-and-let-live attitude toward the famous is one reason Martha's Vineyard won out over a number of other possibilities, like Jackson Hole, Wyoming (too isolated); Florida, where Hillary's brother Hugh lives (too hot); California (too shallow, although Hillary and Chelsea vacationed in Santa Barbara for a few days on the way back from the Tokyo summit); and Telluride, Colorado (too small). Not that the decision came easily, or could have been carried out if seven-day-advance-purchase airline tickets were a factor. Unlike most Presidents, Clinton is a man without a country house -- no + Kennebunkport...
CONTRIBUTORS: Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Richard Schickel, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Hannah Bloch, Ketanji O. Brown, Barbara Burke, Tresa Chambers, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Daniel S. Levy, Michael Quinn, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen...