Vol 95 Issue 25 - Published April 29, 2005
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Light Before Day — Christopher Rice

From the son of acclaimed author Anne Rice, one would expect nothing more than apocolyptic endings, heart-stopping surprises and irresistable intrigue.

Meet Chris Rice. The aspect of his novels for which he has received the most attention is the fact that, like himself, his protagonists are gay. His first work, "A Density of Souls," follows a set of friends from high school to college. Se ...

Surrealist inspires
I waited in line at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, $20 worth of a torn ticket stub in hand, and looked up at three screens flashing a slideshow of a man with wide eyes, scraggly brows and the looniest looking mustache in the history of facial hair ... more
'Prozac' adaptation depresses
Elizabeth Wurtzel, writer of the autobiography "Prozac Nation," is many things to many people. She's a pretentious and opinionated nihilist, a Harvad snob, an irritating cunt, a writer and a hopeless junkie (coke is her drug of choice). She's intimid ... more

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