In Review - March 25, 1998
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If there is a secret, is there love?
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Russian charlatans, businessmen, and politicos
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Gary Krist '79
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The author of two
critically acclaimed short-story collections, The Garden
State and Bone by Bone, Krist is out for bigger game in his
compelling first novel, Bad Chemistry. It's a tale of drugs,
computers, and ecology, from the suburbs of D.C. to the
biochem labs at Johns Hopkins....
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Resurrection by David Remnick '81
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A single long-stemmed rose auctioned nightly at Moscow's ostentatious
new Silver Age club rarely goes for less than $1,000; AK-47s are sold
in Chechnya for about $100, the average monthly salary in Moscow.
David Remnick '81, in his third book, Resurrection: The Struggle for a New
Russia, focuses on the intrigues in Russia's new controlling oligarchies, which
are at the core of this clash of extremes....
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Under construction: Literary highway
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Orchestra on tour
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Christian Crumlish '86
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Coffeehouse: Writings from the
Web (Manning, $24.95) edited by Levi Asher and Christian Crumlish '86, is a
real book, with paper made from trees, that shares with readers the new,
eclectic world of electronic publishing....
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Hobart Earle '83
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The Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Hobart Earle
'83, is on national tour through the end of March....
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