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...reputations tend to come with big egos, not to mention the truth that any three writers, of whatever fame, will find it hard to agree on where to | have lunch. Add to this mix a $500,000 award that authors are instructed to hand out to someone else and the recipe for dissension is complete...
...magic summer in quest of the heart of America, minor-league baseball. Writing in the spirit of Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, Lamb forsakes dramatic narrative for an endearing travelogue filled with small piquant details. His odyssey is oddly humbling. He encounters a boyhood hero, Hall of Fame slugger Eddie Matthews, now a sixtyish minor-league batting coach nursing a fearsome hangover and brooding that his young disciples "don't know who I am, what stats I put on the board." Lamb himself, used to sparking conversations with tales of his globe-trotting adventures, quickly discovers that baseball...
Shedroff understands that the curtain will soon close on his long juggling act, the four years he has spent keeping his fanciful dream and his academic pursuits up in the air. Graduation will demand from him a choice. Behind door A may lie fame, success and an even older sax, or only disappointment. Door B hides fewer surprises: a career in the law with an emphasis, he predicts, on public service...
That could not have been very difficult in Eveleth, Minn. In yet another non-coincidence, Eveleth--a small town of about 5000--is the home of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. Among the collection of stars in the Hall is present Harvard Athletic Director Bill Cleary, inducted in 1977 in recognition of his collegiate and Olympic play...
...stories that mixed memoirs about the author's San Francisco girlhood with mystical tales of female warriors and monkey kings, Asian Americans were the invisible men and women in American literature. Even after Kingston's success, a dozen years passed before another Asian-American fiction writer achieved fortune and fame. First-time novelist Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, a loosely connected series of stories about Chinese-American mothers and daughters, sold an astonishing 275,000 hard-cover copies. Publishers took note, and this spring brings not only Tan's second novel, The Kitchen God's Wife, but also...