WITTY SPOOFS OF ARTISTS’ LIVES
INSTANT LIVES & MORE By Howard Moss; Drawings by Edward Gorey The Ecco Press, 97 pages, $11 Emily Dickinson secretly distills witch hazel, Claude Debussy gets seasick in a rowboat...
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AN ACCOUNT OF LIFE ON AN UNUSUAL FARM
ON GOOD LAND By Michael Abelman Chronicle Books, $18.95 Even city folks will find something to savor in this "Autobiography of an Urban Farm," Michael Abelman's poetic account of his...
A TROUBLING LOOK AT YOUNG AMERICANS
COLD NEW WORLD: GROWING UP IN A HARDER COUNTRY By William Finnegan Random House, $26 Journalist William Finnegan offers four vivid portraits of young, impoverished Americans, including a drug dealer...
HAUNTING VERSE AND ANCESTRAL VOICES
ALL SAINTS By Brenda Marie Osbey Louisiana State University Press, 128 pages, $22.95 cloth, $15.95 paper Brenda Marie Osbey's Afro-New Orleans ancestors and cultural forebears speak to her in these...
V.S. NAIPAUL REVISITS A MATTER OF FAITH
BEYOND BELIEF By V.S. Naipaul Random House, 408 pages, $27.95 `Everyone not an Arab who is a Muslim is a convert," says novelist and reporter V.S. Naipaul, who in 1981...
THE BUSINESS OF BEAUTIFICATION
HOPE IN A JAR By Kathy Peiss Metropolitan Books, 334 pages, $25 You don't have to wear mascara to enjoy this fascinating account of the cosmetics industry and the women...
SOUNDS OF THE CITY
FREEDOMLAND By Richard Price, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, 6 hours, abridged, $25. Read by Joe Morton. Cymbals and synthesizer provide unnecessary background music in this tense, urban drama by...
MIDLIFE ESCAPE
LONDON HOLIDAY By Richard Peck Viking, 272 pages, $23.95 After a Chicago-area teacher is shot by the deranged mother of a student, her two childhood friends whisk her (and her...
REMEMBERING A LIFE AND A MOVEMENT
WALKING WITH THE WIND: A Memoir of the Movement By John Lewis with Michael D'Orso Simon & Schuster, 496 pages, $26O On Sunday, March 7, 1965, future Georgia Congressman John...
A LIGHTHEARTED LOOK AT A FADING INSTITUTION
DO PHARMACISTS SELL FARMS? By Vince Staten Simon & Schuster, 240 pages, $22 Before the proliferation of Wal-Marts and strip malls, the corner drugstore--often featuring a soda fountain--served as a...