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...what few knew until her revelation this year is that Jamison has suffered from manic depression for more than 30 years. Now Jamison is publishing a memoir that chronicles her odyssey from painful mental chaos to an uneasy psychic peace. Written with poetic and moving sensitivity, An Unquiet Mind (Knopf; $22) is a rare and insight ful view of mental illness from inside the mind of a trained specialist...
...there be anything more tiresome than hearing--or reading--about someone else's quest for spiritual enlightenment? Such accounts always tend toward the deeply sincere and the totally humorless. Anita Desai is therefore an intrepid novelist indeed; her Journey to Ithaca (Knopf; 312 pages; $23) traces the pilgrimages of not one but three seekers after truth, spelled with a capital...
...sometimes heard to say that what the nation needs for its spiritual and environmental health is another Ice Age, a mile-thick, continent-wide ice sheet, heading south. In Florida they do not say this. Florida has hurricanes, and when satirist Carl Hiaasen dedicates his new thriller, Stormy Weather (Knopf; 336 pages; $24), to "Donna, Camille, Hugo and Andrew," he is not referring to cute little nieces and nephews...
Independence Day (Knopf; 451 pages; $24) picks up Frank's story about six years later. It is July 1988, Frank is 44, and he has given up sportswriting, which he says "is at best offering a harmless way to burn up a few unpromising brain cells while someone eats breakfast cereal." He now sells houses in Haddam, a leafy New Jersey exurb that bears more than a passing resemblance to Princeton, where he and his wife were once happy. She has remarried and moved to Connecticut with the two surviving children. And the elder one, Paul, 15, has entered...
...from choosing which songs or programs they will or will not promote. Five years ago, Simon & Schuster canceled plans to publish American Psycho, the sado-chic novel by Bret Easton Ellis, after advance complaints about passages detailing the sexual torture and mutilation of women. (It was subsequently published by Knopf, a division of Random House.) "It's our responsibility,'' says Martin Davis, then chairman of Simon & Schuster's corporate parent Paramount. "You have to stand for something.'' This is just the sort of thing that Dole says he has in mind: self-restraint on the part of producers and distributors...