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Show The Salt Lake Tribune OPINION| _ Monday , June 21, AQ 1999 SummerReadingList Is a Treasure-Trove of Fun, Wisdom and Compassion AUSTIN, Texas — Summer Reading List! O, what a treasure-trove of fun and joy and wisdom and knowledge and compassion. in this world. MOLLYIVINS mortality, I recommend: I wasn’t going to mention Annie Proulx’s Close Range: Wyoming Stories, published by Scribner,since it’s already been featured on lots of summerlists. But it’s just so good thatI can’t leaveit out. A new fave, more or less in the — She Came to Live Loud by Myra MacPherson, publishedbyScribner. This one appears at first to be the story of a camefamiliar with the mechanics, as it were, ofdeath andgrief, andshe can write name was Anna Johannessen; she was a mother and the grief and ambivalence Washington, D.C.; and despite the fact both the personal andthe larger view and meshedinto Anna’s story or into teacher and a mother who lived near Fitzhugh, a seriously funny guy from thatit's clear we would have adoredherif Northern California published by Avon. we had known her, Pest Control, which cameoutin ’97, is a Danielle Steele — andpractically none to books of far greater merit that are un- for a professional hit man. His new one, likely to attract so wide an audience.I The Organ Grinders, is hilarious, but it can also make you gasp with horror;it's based on the obvious premisethat rich knowthis is a perennial complaint by authors, but the problem becomes more aggravated and aggravating every year. Wecanfind great shelves full of tripe in the bookstores about “Spirituality” — whatever that means anymore — and “Self-Help” for everyone who wants to straighten out his or her psyche, no mat. ter which way it's bent. If I were in book marketing, I would sure have noticed by nowthat we'relooking at a huge generation of aging baby boomers, and we can Americansin need of various body parts will be buying them from poor people in foreign countries. The environmental stuff is terrific, and the humor is com- pletely off the wall. Next, a trio of wonderful books by three exceptionalfemale writers. As it happens, 1 knowall three, but what makesthis a trio is that noneof these books got the attentionthey so clearly merit. One of the saddest developments in book publishing is the blockbuster mentality: all attention to the new bookby the Brand Name Author — John Grisham or well, weall have our ownfriends who are dead or breast cancer, or someothe FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM droll story about an environmentally correct bug exterminator whogets mistaken ticians and who heads Hospice Founda tion of America. Through working with Dare wecall her the Doyenne of Death? The beloved Jessica Mitford, who died twoyears ago, was theauthorof the classic debunking of the American fu neral industry: The American Way of Death. Before she ked herself — she had a great funeral, and it was really cheap, too — she revised her own bynow-standard work on the funeral industry. Unfortunately, the industry is worse the hospice moyement, MacPherson be- woman whodied of breast cancer. Her murder-mystery category, is Bill effect of her being so honest redeem the reputation of Americanpoli. For intelligent, entertaining, useful andwell-written books on aspects of our they'reall wonderful! people, too. Wedon' t need to weep over the death of some stranger, lovely human though she may havebeen. about them like any smart reporter. But she also had to confront thedeath of her that came with it. All of this is shared what is really thestoryof those who loved than ever.It’s been taken over by this Anna. Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, published by Pantheon. For those of multinational conglomerate called SCI (Service Corporation International I ask you!). It’s practically impossibleto die you who have an in a Western country without paying SCI unfortunate visceral reaction when now someonesays the word “Christian” (a But the book turns into much more than a memorial to a good but mercifully imperfect woman. It's really about the hole that wasleft by her death the vac- uumin thelives of the people wl.o loved her and whattheylearnedto doa sout it MacPhersonisfirst and alw: ,’s a reporter with a grasp of what wecall “the universal third.” That's the third para- graph of a newspaperstory about a small specific event that turns it into a consid. bet the farm that they'll all be facing death, loss, grief and a struggle for the eration of a muchlarger phenomenon. spiritual resources to cope with same. Prozac and Viagra will get us only so far formerstate Sen. Jack Gordon ofFlorida, who isall by himself practically enough to MacPherson happensto be married to Mitford, who was thedroll misfit of the commonsideeffect among those whosuf. famousBrit Mitfordsisters, will prove to fered severe early exposure to the more primitive reaches of Southern Baptist), Lamott is the answer. Mostly because she doesn’t have that many answers have made the most enduring contribu: tion, I think. She was anaristocratic she's just funny. And honest. Andif you've forgotten that being honest is the root of being fun ry Anne Lamott. Remember thestory of the Emperor Who WoreNo Clothes? One of the funniest things in civilization today is the numberof pretentious people walking around buck naked. Lamott is not out to expose them or to point out what fools they are that just happens a side commie and not the mostlikely of inves tigative reporters, but she was good atit. Andshe so thoroughly and ruthlessly and wittily exposed the vultures who feed on the grief and guilt of survivors that we shall be ever grateful. An entire generation has come to maturity since Mitford first wrote her definitive exposeof the funeral industry; how lovely to have it updated forall of us. Just in time,asit were. Retail Politics in a Media State: Bradley Tries One-on-One Approach in California LOS ANGELES — On his 10-daypresidential campaign swing through California, former New JerseySen. Bill Bradley JACK GERMOND JULES WITCOVER deliberately confronted the conventional wisdom about running statewidein this started out little known but used their want to introduce myself to Californians time. But bothlost, and Bradley does not have the kind of personal wealth to emu: latetheirefforts. Paul Maslin, a veteran Democratic pollster who is working for Gore here, “California is more important than everbefore,” Bradley saidat one stop. “I by meeting them wheretheyare. It’s my wayof telling them howI relate to people Ultimatelyin Californiait will betelevision. The pundits say you can’t compete in person, face to face, in California. I disagree with that.” megastate — that one-on-oneretail poli- tics can’t work. From San Diego and LosAngelesin the southto Sacramento and SanFranciscoin the north, Bradley campaignedasif he were in lowa or New Hampshire, small states where seeking out voters one at a timeorin small groupshas long been the mainstay. But in the nation’s most populous state, statewide campaigns are usually liscussed and conducted in termsoftelevision media markets, of which there are more than a dozen in California. It is ac- Democratic presidential nominee. Both. and nineother states so far, will hold their primaries on March 7, on theheels of the Iowa caucuses and the New Hamp: andthat it takes a mountain of shire primary. California will have 20 bucks to get the job done. Bradley was confronted more than percent of all delegates to the Democratic nominating convention and could anoint the nominee, assuming oneof the con tenders, front-running Vice President Al once withthis conventional wisdom as he toured the state that could, along with NewYork, decide the identity of the next Gore or underdog Bradley, emerges Beyondhis fameasa sports star, his personal fortunes to drive their voter recognition way up in a short period of gangling height andeasy smile are helpful accompanimentsto theone-on-onestrategy, in which he concentrates on issue discussion albeit in generalities so far andeschewspolitical sniping, seldom mentioning Gore and never attacking him. says of Bradley's early one-on-one cam: paigning in this traditional mass-media The veryfact that he has been challenging conventional wisdomherehasit: Casting doubt onthat approach arepoll numbers indicatingthat Bradley, despite celebrity status as a star college and pro basketball player and 18 years in the U.S. state: “More power to him. But this is not a retail political state.” The outcomeof self brought mass-mediaattention to him, at both the local andnetwork levels. And fornians. A recent Field Poll had Gore sion here. What he does here now will be largely forgotten by then. I'm not saying he has one campaigning advantage over Gore: He is not trailed by Secret Service agents anda hordeofstaff aides who make it harder for Gore to do much retail campaigning himself. That may not be a Senate, remains little knownto most Ca TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES cepted here that television advertising gives candidate much morebangfor a buck stronglyfrom the two smaller-state tests. favoredby39 percent of thosesurveyed, to only 9 for Bradley. But 43 percent were undecided,indicating plenty of roomfor Bradley support to grow Thelatest Los Angeles Times poll found that 61 percent hadno opinion of Bradley, a measure of the work he has to do. Mark DiCamillo, directorof the Field Poll, notes that two other recent statewide candi dates, Michael Huffington running for the Senate and Al Checchi for governor, the Democratic primary here, he says, “will be driven by what happens in lowa and New Hampshireand thenbytelevihe's wrongdoingit. If it’s part of his plan OK” FromBradley’s past history, it’s clear that he has carefully calculated his early retail campaigning. Stockpiling money from an impressive fund-raising effort, problemin California, though, as it might bein smaller states. Gore also visited California last week on his kickoff campaign swing as a declared candidate and has the support of most of the Democratic establishment, while no match for the Gore mone: chine, Bradley is generating considerable including Gov. Gray Davis. 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