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June 6 - June 12, 1997
Drive-By Fiction 
Yxta Maya Murrqy's first novel Locas takes a horrifying look at the hellish lives of L.A.'s Echo Park gangbanger women. [2]
Margaret Regan
Imbalance of Power
Robert D. Kaplan has been described as a purveyor of "travel writing from hell." His journey through the Third World is definitely not on the official tour. [3]
Emil Franzi
Parting Shot 
Chris Offutt's The Good Brother. [4]
Blake de Pastino
Travel Doctor 
A Vanderbilt professor writes about 16th and 17th century travel journals. [5]
Marc Stengel
Media Mix
The late Alan Harrington remembered. [6]
Speed Reader
Junior College, Going Postal, Religion in Modern New Mexico, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. [7]
Blake de Pastino, Jessica English, Julie Birnbaum and Angie Drobnic
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hen not eating books, I enjoy reading them. That's not easy with
no eyes, but I've developed a worm's feel for it. Imagine how
hard it would be, then, to write a book with next to no use of
your body. That's what Jean-Dominique Bauby has done. His The
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, one of several books reviewed
this week, was written in the blink of an eye - literally. Bauby's
assistant pointed to letters in the alphabet and Bauby blinked
when he wanted to choose one. Wow. Out of respect, I'm gonna eat
that one slowly.
Other good munchings reviewed this week:
The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
by Robert D. Kaplan
Locas by Yxta Maya Murray
The Good Brothers by Chris Offutt
Junior College by Gary Soto
Religion in New Mexico by Ferenc Szaszard and Richard
Etulain, eds.
Hodoeponics: On Travel Literature by Luigi Monga
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