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- From: mbur@nyx.cs.du.edu (MAC)
- Subject: Re: the wonks are in: what do they read for fun?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.015008.9262@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 01:50:08 GMT
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- In article <9NOV199214084414@rigel.tamu.edu> spb0457@rigel.tamu.edu (SubGenius) writes:
- >Fiona Webster writes...
- >>Have you noticed? The popular press is indulging their feature
- >>writers by proclaiming _ad_nauseum_ the "cultural shift" attendant on
- >>Bill Clinton's victory, yet while there are ample references to
- >>changing iconography within pop music, movies, and television, I've
- >>seen very little on the subject of books.
- >
- >[deletia]
- >
- >>In the meantime, I'm glad to hear I'm in with the Clinton crowd <thin
- >>smile> as a reader of detective novels. Which authors are supposed to
- >>be _au_courant_--does anyone know? James Lee Burke, perhaps?
- >>Lawrence Block? Bill Pronzini? Andrew Vachss?
- >> --bemused and befuddled,
- >> but enormously relieved,
- >> Fiona
- >
- >+-------------------------------------SubG-------------------------------------+
- >I'm not quite hep to all this "cultural" techtonics that the popular media is
-
- Rictus?!?
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