2: Novelist and short-story writer CHARLES BAXTER. He has a new novel, Shadow Play," (W.W. Norton & Co.) about a Faustian contract a man makes with a former classmate. BAXTER has written several volumes of short stories. His stories have appeared in "The New Yorker," "Harper's Magazine," "The Atlantic Monthly,." One reviewer writes, "Baxter is a master at creating loopy, poetic, and meaningfully unhinged psyches."
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