http://labs.daylife.com/journalist/francesca_mariArticles by FRANCESCA MARI, aggregated by daylife.comen-usTue, 24 Nov 2009 15:36:38 GMTTue, 24 Nov 2009 15:36:38 GMTDaylife Betaken@daylife.comken@daylife.comhttp://feeds.sfgate.com/click.phdo?i=0b7ee82eb54d507ccd53a3b41b48b9c8In fiction as in life, the fundamental difference between the mainstream and the marginalized - between, say, "The Best American Short Stories" and "The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses" series - is that the indies have more sex. And not just ...Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMThttp://feeds.sfgate.com/click.phdo?i=0b7ee82eb54d507ccd53a3b41b48b9c8Victoria's SecretDerek WalcottJohn Barthhttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/books/review/Mari-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rssOf all the service providers ever evaluated by Consumer Reports, doctors receive among the highest ratings. People, the magazine concluded, actually like going to the doctor: they like the bestowal of paper robes and the perfunctory poking! In a survey ...Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:17:01 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/books/review/Mari-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rssConsumer ReportsThe New Republichttp://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/29/arts/idbriefs29B.phpOf all the service providers ever evaluated by Consumer Reports, doctors receive among the highest ratings. People, the magazine concluded, actually like going to the doctor: they like the bestowal of paper robes and the perfunctory poking! In a survey ...Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:35:42 GMThttp://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/29/arts/idbriefs29B.phpConsumer Reportshttp://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/entertainment/~3/407023759/article.cgiWhich first sentence is most gripping? A) "There was a time, hard to imagine now, when the Japanese fell in love with China." B) "We all knew the rules back then, in the summer of 1946: NFWIP, No Fraternization with Indigenous Personnel." C) "The one ...Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:34:36 GMThttp://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/entertainment/~3/407023759/article.cgiIan BurumaTruman Capotehttp://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=a34221bf-5286-498e-b3eb-3984de48f9cfThe Game, that infamous black-imitation-leather-bound book about the seduction community, is a novel of sorts. There is a narrative. But really the writer, Neil Strauss, produced a guidebook with a glossary. I remember--the book appeared in 2005--how ...Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:19:00 GMThttp://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=a34221bf-5286-498e-b3eb-3984de48f9cfNeil StraussHarvard UniversityRaymond Carverhttp://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/books/~3/302234465/article.cgiAt some point growing up I had an epiphany: The lies I told were always better, safer, if I added an odd detail or two. If I was going to lie about spending the night at Katie's, I might as well add that their calico climbed up into the microwave in ...Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:37:03 GMThttp://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/books/~3/302234465/article.cgiZulfikar Ali BhuttoBenazir BhuttoRonald ReaganOsama bin Ladenhttp://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=7de212c9-ce76-4013-9be5-6dfa831bc268Words have become too self-conscious, too anxious, to sit still on the page. In a world blaring with YouTube videos and buzzing with blog posts, there is, especially in fiction, an apparent need to justify the extended use of text. Why write a story ...Mon, 12 May 2008 05:09:10 GMThttp://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=7de212c9-ce76-4013-9be5-6dfa831bc268Marilynne RobinsonJohn BanvilleSusan Minothttp://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=4b4e82e4-3a8f-41e7-b8a2-259fd6aaa1a3In Philip Roth's latest book, Exit Ghost, Amy Bellette has to be hauled out of the New York Public Library kicking and screaming. Her lover, the fictional writer E.I. Lonoff, isn't represented among a display of America's best authors, and Bellette is ...Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:11:17 GMThttp://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=4b4e82e4-3a8f-41e7-b8a2-259fd6aaa1a3Philip RothToni MorrisonRalph EllisonFidel CastroCentral Intelligence Agencyhttp://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=4b4e82e4-3a8f-41e7-b8a2-259fd6aaa1a3In many ways this issue is central to Lewis Lapham, the legendary former editor of Harper's. In 2006, Lapham carped to a newspaper interviewer that in American universities, if a text doesn't reach "a politically correct standard on one or more of [the ...Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:15:24 GMThttp://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=4b4e82e4-3a8f-41e7-b8a2-259fd6aaa1a3Central Intelligence AgencyFidel CastroHenry V of EnglandWhite HouseTim Collinshttp://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/02/12/hillary-endorses.aspxYou must be logged-in to comment. Not a subscriber? Click here to get a digital or print and digital subscription to The New Republic! Ugh, I'm going to smack you.  In some kind of virtual sense.   Am I taking crazy pills, or is that is the most ...Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:47:00 GMThttp://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/02/12/hillary-endorses.aspxBarack Obama