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...easiest to see the consequences of this attitude when it is applied to fiction. In a chapter called "My Three Stooges," Wolfe recounts the reception of his long-anticipated 1998 novel, A Man In Full. Not only was the novel a terrific commercial success, but it provoked strong reactions from a trio of highly respected novelists: John H. Updike''54, Norman K. Mailer '43, and John Irving. As Wolfe explains, these are his three stooges. The chapter is hilarious, self-serving, and provocative; Wolfe uses his three stooges to make his case for the future of the American novel...
...scenery at the end of one so-called American century and the beginning of another, pointing out society's ironies and flaws and triumphs. The title of the title essay comes from Wolfe's discussion of how young people go about hooking up today, but the book also has chapters discussing the implications of neurobiology and ("Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died") the fallacies of American intellectuals ("In the Land of the Rococo Marxists") and the rise of Silicon Valley ("Two Young Men Who Went West"). A sample of Wolfe's short fiction, the novella "Ambush at Fort Bragg," appears...
...first] 16 words [of the First Amendment] encompass the foundation of religious liberty in the United States," said Roberts, who has been executive director of the Mass. Chapter of the ACLU for the past 30 years...
...investigate Davis' allegations, the sorority's national office sent a team that included Atlanta civil rights lawyer Mason Barge. He says the team found no hint of racism: "There was no evidence other than one girl's statement." The local sorority chapter agreed last month to offer racial sensitivity training to its members in exchange for not being disciplined by the university. The sorority still has no black members and is not required to accept any. Out of about 1,000 applicants this year, Barge says, the freshman was the only black. Because the sorority uses campus facilities...
...from a shuttered existence. Others live in apartment complexes and work in boardrooms, indistinguishable from their secular counterparts. All seem inclined toward frank discussion of their faith - from describing morning prayers as "spiritual Drano" to accepting the likely demise of their vocation as part of God's plan. A chapter on sex and celibacy depicts enough furtive sexual encounters to satisfy salacious readers. But Kaylin presses beyond the prurient, and one nun's view of celibacy as deliverance (from gender stereotypes, makeup and shopping) is far more provocative...