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...view in his new novel. Pretty Boy Floyd (Simon & Schuster; 444 pages; $24), written with McMurtry's screenwriting partner, Diana Ossana, is a lesser story, loosely tethered to the life and death of the renowned badman Charles Arthur Floyd (1904-34). But like Lonesome Dove, it beguiles the reader with a golden haze of lovely lies...
This is also the only column that will ever actually respond to reader mail. In other words, if you have any topics of your own, any questions, any comments, send them in. I won't promise that they'll get printed, or even get read, but if they do appear, you'll receive some fabulous free gift. Of course, you will receive full credit in the column, unless your letter is really clever, in which case I will incorporate it in full into the column and take all the credit...
Halfway through her powerfully affecting novel One True Thing (Random House; 289 pages; $22), Anna Quindlen pauses, swabs her forehead with a bandanna (so the wrung-out reader imagines) and sums up: "Our parents are never people to us, never, they're always character traits, Achilles' heels, dim nightmares, vocal tics, bad noses, hot tears, all handed down and us stuck with them...
Unfortunately, many may find much of it reader-proof as well. With so much going on -- premise piling upon premise, coincidence upon coincidence -- the point of it all begins to grow muzzy. As the edifice of Irving's invention rears ever upward, the people who inhabit it all begin to look as small as Dr. Daruwalla's dwarfs...
...generation of publishers who are making fat, unglossy magazines radical again. Many of these "zines," as they are more generally called, are produced with desktop computers, but that is as sophisticated as they get. The majority make a point of their crude appearance and unhurried voyage to the reader; most are collated by hand, distributed by the mailman and cost $3 to $6. If they are printed at all, the runs typically remain at fewer than 2,000 copies. And the goal, of course, is not to make money, build circulation or get noticed. Instead some zines refuse to carry...