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Volume I, Issue 45
April 13 - April 20, 1998
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Signal to Noise 
An interview with Netchick Carla Sinclair. [2]
Jon Lebkowsky
5:45 P.M.
An excerpt from Marion Winik's new book, "The Lunch-Box Chronicles." [3]
Marion Winik
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What's for Lunch?
"The Lunch-Box Chronicles" review by Ric Williams. [4]
Mod, Mod World 
Toby Miller's deceptive study of "The Avengers" is one of the best and clearest books on the confluence of postmodern academic theorizing and popular culture. [5]
James DiGiovanna
Notorious 
Elizabeth Wurtzel's "Bitch" can't decide whether uppity women should be considered role models, or cautionary tales, or both. [6]
Megan Harlan
Rough-Riding Romantic
A new biography amply illustrates Theodore Roosevelt's uncompromising morality -- something we could use more of in our presidents these days. [7]
Emil Franzi
Up at Bat 
Memphian and baseball mainstay Tim McCarver takes a swing at writing. [8]
Frank Murtaugh
Rites And Wrongs
It was no accident that the perpetrators of the Boston Tea Party donned Indian headdresses before sending British cargo into the drink. [9]
Gregory McNamee
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Speed Reader 
"Paths and Walkways" by Hazel White; "The Bad Daughter" by Julie Hilden; "When Memory Speaks" by Jill Ker Conway; "Big Blondes" by Jean Echenoz. [12]
Julie Birnbaum, Todd Gibson, Valerie Yarberry, Nicolle Toth
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think I'm in wuv. No, it isn't because I just finished reading
Marion Winik's "The Lunch-Box Chronicles" excerpt. Yeah,
it's a good read (check out this review while you're at it) and
the "Vincie La Voo! Poo-poo!" song is very catchy. But not that catchy.
And no, I am not in wuv with Elizabeth Wurtzel, even if her book
"Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women" explains how bitchiness
can be seen as a kind of virtue, and examines the bitchy assumptions
behind the word from many bitchy angles.
And no, I am not in wuv with Deborah Garrison, despite the fact that
her book "A Working Girl Can't Win and Other Poems"
contains a terrific poem which begins, "Sometimes you have
to say it: Fuck them all." Rock on, Debbie.
No, I am in wuv with Carla Sinclair: netchick extraordinaire,
cyberbabe from heaven, a chat-room dream woman and the first
person to make me think sideways smileys might be cool. Check
out these peripherals: Carla's an editor of the net-'zine bOING
bOING, she's married to a Wired editor, she's the sister of porn
star Christy Canyon (not sure if that's good or not), she writes
non-fiction books, she writes articles, and she writes Chandler-esque
mystery novels. What's more, Carla enjoys staying in all day sitting
in front of a computer, she hates parties, and she prefers typing
to talking. Oh, Carla! Carla, Carla,
Carla!
Read her interview (complete with zowie photograph) and you'll be smitten too. By the way, you might want
to squirm over to Arts and examine the "E-bonics" glossary
beforehand. I did, and I have only one thing to say: GMTA. : *
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Identity Poetics
Poet Deborah Garrison's "A Working Girl Can't Win" follows modern girls into the big city. [10]
Elizabeth Manus
The Last Beat
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "A Far Rockaway of the Heart". [11]
Blake de Pastino
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. [13]
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