New literary twist added to laundry cycle
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Doing the laundry has  taken on a new meaning for New Yorkers who can now watch their  wash and spin cycles while listening to poetry and prose.
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By MARY-LIZ SHAW  ON THE SHELVES  How to Cheat at Cleaning. By Jeff Bredenberg. Taunton Press. $12.95.
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The surreal and the subtle intrigue South African writer Mary Watson. In exploring those qualities in her fiction, she gives a fresh perspective on the brutality of apartheid.
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By Weiss, Peter  Bubbling gases tighten, then loosen, the grip of novel molecules on grime  Imagine if detergent could not only pick up grease from your clothes but also let it go on command. You might then prevent the detergent from going clown the drain with the dirt.
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A mystery chemical isolated from the  sweat of young women seems to act as a romance booster for  their older counterparts.
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Now and then a story comes along that is so outrageous a ' for good or for bad a ' that it captures the popular imagination and enters into the realm of contemporary folklore.
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Nanotechnology is reshaping the world of textiles.
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Undergraduate loins do a lot of stirring in Tom Wolfe's overwritten, uninspiring campus novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons. Wolfe writes of one student athlete, emphasis on athlete: "His loins stirred so, he could feel the tumescence against the fly of his jeans."
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It's not only a tongue-twister, but an interesting twist in the base metals story.
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Sorting a story that's all about growth from a tall tale.
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Writing the book was one thing; turning it into a play was quite another.
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For this month's Color of Money Book Club selection, I'm doing something a little different.
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The book retailing superstore has new stories worth telling.
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The formerly outrÃ©, freaky and unthinkable now constitute business as usual in popular culture. And these have become outright selling points for books that eagerly capitalize on their kinks.
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By JENNIFER C. YATES PITTSBURGH - A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books.
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New York label revolutionised the wardrobe of the working woman.
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Denis Johnsonâs wildly ambitious new novel reads like a whacked-out, hallucinogenic variation on a Vietnam classic, and yet he manages to turn it into something original and potent.