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'Tabloid Dreams'

Robert Olen Butler; Henry Holt; $22.50

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Auction." "Titanic Survivors Bradshaw who falls in love
Found in Bermuda Triangle." with a cordial alien named
"Boy Born with Tattoo of Elvis." Desi in a Wal-Mart parking
Sensationalist headlines such lot.
as these vie for our attention
"How could I love a space-
every day, but it's rare when we man?' she asks herself. "How
respond with much more than could I be happy in a distant
a shake of the head.
galaxy?" Sensible
With this his second
questions in a world
REVIEW
short story collection,
gone mad. There is
Tabloid Dreams, Robert
the jealous husband
Olen Butler — author of the reincarnated as a parrot and
Pulitzer Prize-winning Good purchased by his widow, re-
Scent from a Strange Mountain united but forced to watch as
— takes readers on a funny, her life goes on without him.
lyrical and moving journey be- Each of Butler's stories, told
hind the headlines, revealing in the sad, desperate, hu-
a surprising amount of human- morous or resigned voices of
ity in the patently absurd.
their narrators, packs an
I ROBERT OLEN BUTLER::
Tabloid Dreams resonates emotional punch.
with the frustration of charac-
Butler's style is distinctive
ters trapped in bizarre worlds, and acrobatic, as he success- Pulitzer Prize-winning Robert Olen Butler's
unable to escape and unsure of fully balances a dry, rich hu- second book of short stories, Tabloid
what to do even if they could. mor with an empathy and Dreams.
Loves lost, regained and never affection for these unfortu-
question of "So what?"
found are running themes nate characteis. Occasionally,
Happily, though, missteps
throughout the collection. There however, he does falter, as with like these are infrequent in
is the court reporter who watch- "Nine Year Old Boy is World's Tabloid Dreams,
a fast funny
es in horror from miles away as Youngest Hit Man." The char- and ultimately fulfilling look at
her glass eye witnesses her acterization misfires, rendering the ridiculous.
cheating husband's infidelity. the story emotionally hollow. All
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style and no substance leaves
Liz Lent is an ardent reader,
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lingering
— Liz Lent
writer and moviegoer.

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FICTION

R. Slavitt; Oxford University
Press; $18.95.

In the tradition of Ezra
Pound's Versions and Robert
Lowell's Imitations, poet Slavitt
faithfully translates the Psalms,
yet with a contemporary spin.

THE HOUSE OF MOSES
ALL-STARS

By Charley Rosen; Seven
Stories Press; $24.95.

A Jewish basketball team
in 1936 competes against lo-
cal teams for cash; at the
same times, the novel, says
the New York Times, "is a
book about guilt and re-
demption, about the loss of
innocence, about racism and
bigotry, about class differ-
ences."

INSIDE OUT: A MEMOIR OF
THE BLACKLIST

By Walter Bernstein; Knopf; $24.

SELECTED AND TRANSLATED BY

DAVI [) R. SLAVITT

NONFICTION

HOlUDINI!!! THE
CAREER OF ENRICH
WEISS

Film and television writer
Bernstein — who wrote Woody
Allen's The Front — tells of his,
and others', experiences during
Sen. Joseph McCarthy's House
Committee on Un-American Ac-
tivities investigations.

HALF A LIFE

Sixty-One Psalms of David is newly translated

by poet David R. Slavitt.

By Kenneth Silverman; Harper-
Collins; $35.

This new biography of the
great magician chronicles the life
of the son of an unsuccessful rab-
bi up to his death in Detroit. Not
just a documentation of facts and

anecdotes, Silverman uncovers
many previously undisclosed "se-
crets."

SIXTY-ONE PSALMS OF
DAVID

Selected and translated by David

By Jill Ciment; Crown; $23.

In her first book of nonfiction
prose, Ciment tells of her "un-
stable" childhood amidst the
backdrop of a Canadian family
seeking other Jewish families in

California.

— Compiled by
Lynne Konstantin