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(04/16/02 6:00am)
Luis Rodriguez tells parables from a livelier land in \The
Republic of East L.A."" He takes us to the barren places on the
edge of the City of Angels to bring this short story collection to
its fleshed-out completion. From the dozen stories emerges a place
of low-riding Cadillacs, women dancing with watermelons and enough
honesty to make East L.A. as real as the book's pages.
(04/09/02 6:00am)
\I wore white gloves. I lived with my mother and father. I was
not a child. I was thirty-seven years old.""
(03/19/02 6:00am)
Like a breezy Saturday afternoon, Mona Simpson's new novella
\Off Keck Road"" seems to go right on by without the reader
noticing. It passes with nothing but the light rays of some
decorative language bringing together a collection of friends and
relatives to laugh the day away. There doesn't seem to be any end
to the novel, nor should there be. Time goes by within its pages
but doesn't really seem to pass.
(03/05/02 6:00am)
\The Keepers of Truth"" begins ominously enough. Michael Collins
posts the warning of a plague on the first page and warns all wary
readers to keep out lest they catch the epidemic of the place they
are about to enter. Fortunately, the story is engaging and honest
enough to get you past the first warnings and into the rest of the
novel.
(02/19/02 6:00am)
\Daily Afflictions"" is a slim pamplet that boasts of being 'God
for the godless, religion for the postreligious and bootleg
entertainment for the rest.' Taking the book of psalms and applying
them to the postmodern, industrialized, alienated and generally
toxic 21st century, Andrew Boyd gives the world instruction printed
in the darkest ink. It is a twisted set of theses for those who
recognize the Reformation.
(02/12/02 6:00am)
Susan Minot's novel, \Rapture,"" begins and ends rather
abruptly. A couple lies in bed together in the middle of the day.
Their bodies are attached and basking in the pleasures of the
flesh. It is a moment of connection that has brought the two into
each other's embrace.
(02/05/02 6:00am)
A tale of a forbidden romance, religious fanaticism and
political conspiracies converge in Nega Mezlekia's novel, \The God
Who Begat a Jackal."" In 17th-century Africa the feudal system
erupts as slaves rise up and a nation withers away. From the
turmoil rises Gudu, the jester in Duke Ashenafi's court. Aster,
Ashenafi's daugher, is drawn to Gudu and they hold a forbidden
love. Their love is in violation of all they know; a slave holds
the heart of royalty.
(01/29/02 6:00am)
It starts with loaded guns. A child, answering nature's call,
stumbles into her parents' room and is met with a harsh voice that
tells her she might get shot. The child grabs her older sister's
hand and they go outside into the blank landscape to pee in the
loo. It continues to reveal children with ticks and worms,
terrorists under the bed, some colonialism, alcoholism and a memoir
strong enough to scour one's sense of the world.
(12/04/01 6:00am)
Almost any discussion of the psychedelic culture is blurred by
the illegal and impure aspects attached to it. Its very existence
is a crime to some and the focus of an intense showdown across our
nation. Even within the communities of psychedelic users there are
always the typical exaggerations and dishonest portrayals of
experiences with mind-altering substances.
(11/20/01 6:00am)
A chicken coop with a rooster crowing at dawn stands next to a
garden with vegetables to cover acres. A house filled with
functional antiques relaxes by a hand-pumped well. A farm for
various functions seems like living nostalgia stretches across the
landscape. Six ponies in a ring pace around the farm all day.
(11/13/01 6:00am)
Familiar locations are the comfort of those people who occupy
them. When tragic losses of life invade familiar places, they turn
family members into strangers and reveal how strange friends can be
to one another.
(10/16/01 6:00am)
The stories of tragedies are never told by the victims, only by
the survivors. While the events of Sept. 11, 2001 can attest to
this, they also speak of the need to understand the reasons behind
tragedies. Recent events, while still somewhat unexplainable, can
be more fully understood in comparison with past losses.
(10/09/01 6:00am)
It used to be that maps showed the way to treasure. Their
twisting, dotted lines quietly guided the adventurers, buccaneers
and wayward thrill-seekers to an oversized X somewhere on a remote
land. Now those treasures have been found and the gold doubloons or
priceless jewels have been carted away. All that's left behind is
the map, growing gray and silently aging.
(09/21/01 6:00am)