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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looking at fiction, Josephine Humphreys wrote once, is to look at it as the writer trying to answer a question. Considered in this way. Harry Kondoleon's new novel,Diary of a Lost Boy, makes quite clear from the get-go what its question will be. Can Hector Diaz, his narrator, detach himself from his impending death from AIDS so that he may live for now, so that the marital problems of his best friends, are as important to him as his own death? And on the heels of that, there is another question, one which we may pose...

Author: By Daniel N. Halpern, | Title: Kondoleon's Lost Boy Laughs at Death | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...Hector's character is as funny a modern storyteller as anyone else out there, but despite the comic, light tone of his observation of the disease (thereby seeming to achieve some sort of detachment from the particularly unfunny topic he is addressing), his humor cannot disengage him from his death. It will come whether he is funny...

Author: By Daniel N. Halpern, | Title: Kondoleon's Lost Boy Laughs at Death | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...Hector has two years to live; his friends the Deds are about to lose their marriage. As Hector begins his story, he asks us to forgive him if we've hard it before. And surely we have heard stories of the disease creeping in, at first slowly but soon faster and faster, at first unassuming but soon dominating and disfiguring. Too, we have heard of happy marriages breaking apart...

Author: By Daniel N. Halpern, | Title: Kondoleon's Lost Boy Laughs at Death | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...ranting, nine page put-down which takes the form of a Letter to the Editor, full of zinging male bluster: "And then along came that greasy, flabby small-minded, mealy-mouthed, pasty-faced, and potato-headed daily fishwrap and dog's biffy, The Picayune-Moon, edited by that dildo Hector Timmy. (You.)" This story works because it remains within the realm of possibility, where Keillor's penchant for hyperbole and his expansive, ingenious vocabulary stretch the ordinary into the hilarious...

Author: By Jay C. Shafer, | Title: Why Can't You Guys Just Get It Together? | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

...When J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur praised the "strange religious medley" he observed in late 18th century America, he could hardly have imagined the full orchestral symphony of faiths that resounds in the U.S. two centuries later. The world has never seen a nation as religiously diverse as the U.S., which becomes ever more so each year under the impact of new immigrants. In addition to the various mainstream Judeo-Christian faiths that populated the original colonies, America now encompasses 700 to 800 "nonconventional" denominations, according to J. Gordon Melton, who monitors the proliferation for his Encyclopedia of American Religions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Nation Under Gods | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

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