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...studied voice with her future father-in-law, David Nott, and he introduced her to classical song, starting with Schubert and Debussy. "His emphasis was on the words," she says. "I don't think my voice is all that beautiful. If I have any strength, it's connecting the text and the music." That is far too modest: Upshaw's light but penetrating soprano has a purity that is instantly recognizable...
Thomas Keneally, in contrast, happily picked up the tape of his book Schindler's List and was pleased with the four-hour adaptation read by Ben Kingsley. "The text is not an amputee," he says. "I felt that it represented the essence of the thing very well." After refusing to allow audio condensations of his previous novels, E.L. Doctorow permitted his latest, The Waterworks, to be cut to four audio hours. "I have changed my position on this," he says. "It is pretty clear to me that print culture is under enormous assault today. I take the position now that...
...tour to promote this book. The station's managing editor had received a letter from Sedaris which she'd posted over her desk. This missive, a pseudo-business letter thanking the manager fro her hospitality, was crumpled and dirty and Sedaris had scrawled an apology in pencil below the text: "I wrote this months ago but just found it in my drawer yesterday. Waaaa!" The letter described New York City in the summer as a trash dump with boutiques and was signed "Love, David Sedaris." Even though the letter wasn't for me, I was charmed. I resolved to read...
Federal prosecutors are going after a California couple charged with transmitting obscenities through an Internet computer bulletin board -- because the explicit photos and text they sent offended people in Tennessee. The case began this week in Memphis, and many suspect it may reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Why? It's the first serious test of whether obscenity laws based on community standards still make sense when pornography flows through cyberspace. If convicted, Robert and Carleen Thomas, who run the Amateur Action Bulletin Board System from Milpitas, Calif., face 50 years in prison. BTW: It's no surprise the charges arose...
...picture editors and art directors in New York City. All of them performed superbly in dealing with a story fraught with ethical complications -- among them issues of privacy, protection of sources and the presumption of innocence. At the end of the day they produced a combination of pictures and text that was both journalistically responsible and, in terms of reportage, second to none...