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...good thing about this kind of writing is that it creates in the reader that empty feeling which, apparently, many immigrants to the United States feel. No matter how much we like to think of the American existence as an embrace of all types of people, many of those who come here feel isolated, empty, and unsatisfied...
...similar texts. "Teaching has been part of not only my intellectual life, but also my spiritual life," he says. "These distinct viewpoints have taught me a lot about the meaning of any particular novel, that the meaning has to do not only with the novel itself, but also the reader...
...these differences, these variations in interpretations, that deeply interest Coles. "These variations bring together my interests as a teacher and my interests as a reader. They remind me as a reader that there are other readers who may have a different take on the reading I'm doing," he says...
...What makes Sassy special," a teen reader told Lang and the magazine's staff, "is that when I read it, it's like talking to my best friend on the telephone." Dirt will speak to teen boys the same way, says Lang, but in a male voice. That will mean a cool collection of fiction, short takes about school, sports, art and -- yes -- articles about girls. Sample headline: HEY, BABY, WHAT'S YOUR SIGN? AN IDIOT'S GUIDE TO FIRST DATES. Another refreshing notion: Sassy treats male teens as people -- not jerks or hunks -- and that respect for the opposite...
Lungs indeed, the winded reader reflects. But this very good writer can blow softly too, and listen well, and march simple sentences usefully across a flat place. This is not new information to those who read his 1983 best seller, Blue Highways, a marvelously quirky account of a 13,000-mile side-roads motor ramble around the U.S. He is better known by his pen name, William Least Heat- Moon, which comes from the Osage Indian part of his heritage. His father was Heat-Moon, meaning July, the hot month; his older brother Little Heat- % Moon; and he himself last...