http://dir.salon.com/topics/excerpts/?source=rss&aim=excerpts en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT By Jennifer Finney Boylan Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/excerpt/2009/07/02/jenny_boylan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/excerpt/2009/07/02/jenny_boylan/index.html?source=rss I kept hoping love would transform me. But, secretly, I longed to be female By Eric Boehlert Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2009/05/19/eric_boehlert/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2009/05/19/eric_boehlert/index.html?source=rss With no traditional-media allies or lobbying money, the netroots was able to alter the debate about wiretapping in the 2008 campaign. Leading the charge: Salon's Glenn Greenwald. By Michelle Goldberg Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/excerpt/2009/04/10/means_reproduction/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/excerpt/2009/04/10/means_reproduction/index.html?source=rss From a sketchy underground doctor to the American fight against communism, a look at the unlikely forces that helped spread global family planning. By Rachel Sarah Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/excerpt/2009/03/02/rachel_sarah/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/excerpt/2009/03/02/rachel_sarah/index.html?source=rss How I went from nursing my daughter to breast-feeding my date. By Mary Elizabeth Williams Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/02/28/gimme_shelter/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/02/28/gimme_shelter/index.html?source=rss At the height of the real estate bubble, I was desperate to buy a home. I had no idea what kind of trouble I was borrowing. By Marisa Belger Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/01/10/secret_currency/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/01/10/secret_currency/index.html?source=rss I never thought money mattered in my relationship. But when my husband lost his job, I considered leaving him. By Paul Alexander Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2008/06/06/rove_katrina/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/excerpt/2008/06/06/rove_katrina/index.html?source=rss Hurricane Katrina posed a huge test to Bush's administration. But instead of bailing out Louisiana, Karl Rove played Blame the Democrats. By Farhad Manjoo Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/machinist/feature/2008/03/17/true_enough_excerpt_one/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/machinist/feature/2008/03/17/true_enough_excerpt_one/index.html?source=rss Why do 9/11 deniers see an alternative story in pictures of the attacks? Because we all interpret images according to our biases. By Bill Katovsky Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2006/04/17/ellsberg/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2006/04/17/ellsberg/index.html?source=rss The legendary activist who leaked the Pentagon Papers says officials need to speak out against administration lies now. By Ayelet Waldman Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2006/01/24/waldman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2006/01/24/waldman/index.html?source=rss In an excerpt from Ayelet Waldman's new novel, sparks fly between heroine Emilia Greenleaf and her older, married lover. By Camille Paglia Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/04/07/paglia_excerpt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/04/07/paglia_excerpt/index.html?source=rss In an excerpt from her new book, "Break, Blow, Burn," Camille Paglia takes on Wanda Coleman's poem "Wanda Why Aren't You Dead." By Russell Banks Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/10/12/banks/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/10/12/banks/index.html?source=rss A white American woman involved with the Weather Underground flees the country and finds refuge -- and an unlikely romance -- in 1970s Liberia. By Steve Kettmann Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/09/24/kettmann/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/09/24/kettmann/index.html?source=rss The Red Sox may finally be on the verge of ending The Curse and beating the Yankees. But even if they don't, their fans have been blessed with that rarest of gifts -- passion. An exclusive excerpt from Steve Kettmann's "One Day at Fenway." Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/06/25/seligman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/06/25/seligman/index.html?source=rss How did America's leading film critic, who was fearlessly opposed to cant and dogma of all stripes, come to be seen as a homophobe? By Steven Johnson Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2004/02/18/mind_wide_open_excerpt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2004/02/18/mind_wide_open_excerpt/index.html?source=rss In an excerpt from "Mind Wide Open" Steven Johnson details his attempt to catch his own mind in the act of thinking. By Paul Waldman Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/02/10/fraud_excerpt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/02/10/fraud_excerpt/index.html?source=rss How an Andover-Yale preppy, scion of one of our nation's most powerful families, was reinvented as a straight-shootin' Texan with "regular guy" values. An excerpt from "Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and Why the Media Didn't Tell You." By Kevin Phillips Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/01/27/phillips_excerpt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/01/27/phillips_excerpt/index.html?source=rss How generations of high finance and Ivy League breeding led to a presidency handed from father to son. An excerpt from "American Dynasty." By Chalmers Johnson Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/01/15/johnson_excerpt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/01/15/johnson_excerpt/index.html?source=rss How the military's new recruiting tools lure kids unprepared for the real dangers of war -- an excerpt from "The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic." By Suzi Parker Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/09/11/parker/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/09/11/parker/index.html?source=rss The author of "Sex in the South" whoops it up at a sex-toy sales meeting in Arkansas. By Ellen Ullman Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2003/05/16/ullman_excerpt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2003/05/16/ullman_excerpt/index.html?source=rss Ethan Levin wasn't worried. Programming mistakes were inevitable. He'd fix it, and move on. An excerpt from Ellen Ullman's new novel, "The Bug." By Carina Chocano Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/01/28/chocano_excerpt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/01/28/chocano_excerpt/index.html?source=rss The thinking girl's guide to serial monogamy. By Peter Kurth Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/11/12/excerpt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/11/12/excerpt/index.html?source=rss An excerpt from the new biography of dancer Isadora Duncan. By Susan Straight Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/08/09/tourmaline/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/08/09/tourmaline/index.html?source=rss If she slept in the heat long enough, maybe she could melt away the baby. If there was a baby. By Robin Shamburg Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2001/05/02/ruby/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2001/05/02/ruby/index.html?source=rss Dominatrix Mistress Ruby makes the case that the best kinds of brazen women take their pleasure as men do -- with no apologies. By Anthony Giardina Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2001/04/02/history/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2001/04/02/history/index.html?source=rss I hope it's true that every marriage, sometime in its existence, knows a moment like this. An excerpt from a novel about a man's evolving sexuality.