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-- Michael Stern
Emily Dickinson is a stern, maybe even a harsh poet.
The brutally funny Steve Stern ( Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven , Harry Kaplan's Adventures Underground , A Plague of Dreamers ) does this by inventing a shtetl that out-Singers Singer in its weirdness and filth and then putting it in pre-World War II Memphis, Tenn.
My last word on the Backstreet Boys is that Howard Stern has a magnificent parody of "I Want It That Way" called "Get KY."
That story also runs on the Los Angeles Times front--where the lead is a California election story--but below the paper's survey of Monica Lewinsky's possible career moves (samples from various PR mavens: Go on Oprah, go on Barbara Walters, don't go on Howard Stern).