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Volume I, Issue 42
March 23 - March 30, 1998
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Obscenity or Art Photography? 
Local booksellers vow to stock books despite indictments. [2]
Brendan Doherty
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Sexual Congress 
John Casey's novel "The Half-life of Happiness" is packed with details that ring true. [3]
Chris Wright
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Rock This Way 
The Austin Chronicle's semi-annual, whenever-they-feel-like-it rock & roll book-review feature. [4]
Our Brothers' Keepers
In "The Warrior's Honor," Michael Ignatieff makes the case for policing the world's little wars. [5]
Fred Turner
Irish Spirits 
Author James Flannery introduces his readers to traditional Irish music. [6]
Marc Stengel
Now What? 
Love to read? Need some clever ideas? Our library of resources and staff picks are guaranteed to turn on plenty of mental light bulbs via your electrified eye sockets. [8]
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owdy readers. If you enjoyed the News section's articles on the
music-censoring legislation in two states, you'll be no less intrigued
by this piece on a conservative group's attempt to censor books
sold in Barnes & Noble and Borders. Those chains may be nasty
corporate behemoths with an ugly record of purposely trying to
cut into the markets of local, independent bookstores, but I have
to give them credit on this one: unlike Wal-Mart and K-Mart, they
haven't buckled to pressure. Which is especially satisfying since
in this case, one of the primary boycott advocates is conservative
radio-show host Randall Terry. Remember him from Operation Rescue?
Definitely a man with too much time on his hands.
And if you didn't get enough of the "rockin'" articles
in the Music section, either, then don't delay -- stagedive right
into these reviews of rock-n-roll books. There's a book about
dancing, a book about Hamburg rock, a book about L.A. jazz, and
a book called "The Album Cover Art of Soundtracks."
There's even another review of the new Marilyn Manson autobiography,
in case last week's just wasn't enough. Rock-n-read, my friend.
Oh, that's not all of course. I could go into John Casey's novel
about the stirrings of middle-class infidelity and where they
lead; or Michael Ignatieff's well-articulated argument for Western
meddling in the affairs of other, smaller countries; or even the
dual biography/CD set about Celtic music. But you're a reader, you figure it out.
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Speed Reader
"Perfidia" by Judith Rossner; "Cagney" by John McCabe; "A Zuni Life" by Virgil Wyaco; "Seasons in the Desert" by Susan J. Tweit. [7]
Susan Scuurman, Aaron J. Emmel, Todd Gibson and Jessica English
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