![]() In genre-defying vignettes, Jenn Shapland interweaves her own story with Carson McCullers's to create a vital new portrait of one of America's most beloved writers, and shows us how the writers we love and the stories we tell about ourselves make us who we are. The results articulate something entirely new not only about this one remarkable, walleyed life, but about the way we tell queer love stories. As Shapland reckons with the expanding and collapsing distance between her and Carson, she sees the way Carson's story has become a way to articulate something about herself. Shapland recognizes herself in the letters' language―but does not see Carson as history has portrayed her.Īnd so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of Carson's life: She wades through the therapy transcripts she stays at Carson's childhood home, where she lounges in her bathtub and eats delivery pizza she relives Carson's days at her beloved Yaddo. ![]() ![]() While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson and a woman named Annemarie―letters are that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their feelings. This Library of America volume offers a landmark gathering of McCullers’s shorter works, including all her published stories, complete here for the first time, plus plays, essays, poems, and an unfinished autobiography. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Remember this fabulous book? Those are the spreads which adorn this post, as I seem to be incapable of posting without some art. ![]() Good music and the other kind”-I asked Hyperion if I could post some spreads from the swingin’ and most wonderful jazzy treat that is the picture book biography from 1998, Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and his Orchestra by Andrea Davis Pinkney with illustrations by Brian Pinkney. (As a result of my current Duke Ellington obsession-though I’ve always loved me some swing and big band and I’ve always adored him for once saying, “There are two kinds of music. ![]() ![]() But it’s the Duke! My interest was piqued, especially since it’s one of those books that a music teacher or music-appreciation instructor would really dig: It includes twenty-one hands-on activities all in the name of engaging students a bit more. I’ve been way pickier about review copies lately, for different reasons. When someone from the Chicago Review Press emailed to ask if I’d be interested in Duke Ellington: His Life in Jazz with 21 Activities, I wasn’t so sure. If there’s one thing I want my girls to appreciate, as they grow, just about as much as I hope they’ll appreciate art, it’s music. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Williams and Handley score hat-tricks for England in thumping win.We had some really specific goals of what we wanted to achieve today, around a high completion rate, and I thought we executed it really, really well." St Helens winger Leah Burke scored four tries as they continued their unbeaten record against the French.īarrow told Sky Sports: "I'd mark that performance as seven out of 10, with room for improvement, but 10 for application and effort."We've had limited time together and we talked about a process game. ![]() But this time they were far too strong for a disappointing France side who committed too many errors. ![]() ![]() ![]() They completed Siege's classic lineup in 1983, recruiting vocalist and occasional saxophonist Kevin Mahoney from nearby Braintree. Guitarist Kurt Habelt, bassist Hank McNamee, and drummer Rob Williams rehearsed together informally during this time. Then teenagers, the members of what would become Siege began playing together in 1981 in Weymouth. History Formation, early years (1981–1984) Though little known at the time, the band has posthumously become revered by punk and heavy metal fans worldwide and is now regarded as one of the pioneers of the grindcore and powerviolence subgenres. ![]() In its original incarnation, Siege paired extremely fast tempos with vocalist Kevin Mahoney's screeches and growls in their intense style of hardcore. Drummer Rob Williams and guitarist Kurt habelt led a live ensemble for performances between 20. ![]() Formed in 1981, they were active in the Boston hardcore scene from 1984 to 1985, and reunited briefly in 1991. Siege is an American hardcore punk band from Weymouth, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While her reluctance to align her faith and economic ideas might seem surprising to some, this discussion contends that Malet, believing in man’s fallenness, came to regard the idea of a perfect social whole as apocryphal in any terrestrial sense of the term. This article breaks fresh ground in the scholarship on Malet. ![]() However, her conversion to Catholicism made her suspicious of the kind of utopian, cooperative society of which the beehive had become the emblem. Lucas Malet had socialist sympathies and deployed the motif to articulate the inequalities of an exploitative capitalistic system. As a socialist motif, the beehive gained currency the turn of the nineteenth century, associated with principles of altruism, decentralised organisation and cooperative labour. ![]() ![]() ![]() In-depth research is interspersed with charming personal anecdotes from bookstore life, making this a readable, fascinating, essential book for the 2020s. 5. And he spells out a clear path to resistance, in a world where consumers are struggling to get by. How to Resist Amazon and Why : The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future by Caine, Danny. He shows how Amazon's ruthless discount strategies mean authors, publishers, and even Amazon themselves can lose money on every book sold. Well-researched and lively, his tale covers the history of big box stores, the big political drama of delivery, and the perils of warehouse work. We need policies that make it easier for workers to unionize, and policies that allow unions to properly fight for their members. We need stronger enforcement against predatory pricing. ![]() In this book, he lays out the case for shifting our personal money and civic investment away from global corporate behemoths and to small, local, independent businesses. We need policies that make it illegal for companies to act as a platform and competitor on the platform. wouldn't you want to resist? Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas has been an outspoken critic of the seemingly unstoppable Goliath of the bookselling world: Amazon. ![]() ![]() When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is literally the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with impossible quotas. ![]() ![]() ![]() By reframing the young queen’s more questionable decisions as acts of noble self-sacrifice, the novel essentially acquits its villain of villainy. ![]() In seeing things from Kaikeyi’s perspective, we are encouraged to sympathise with her reasoning, even when her choices cause strife and unhappiness. The Ramayana’s main antagonist, the demonic Lord Ravana, is also presented here in a sympathetic light. Vaishnavi Patel’s reworking of this story is a essentially a redemption narrative, and not just for Kaikeyi. Promoting her son’s interests ahead of his half-brother, Rama, who is the true heir to the throne (and an avatar of the Hindu god, Vishnu), she orchestrates the divine hero’s exile, inadvertently setting him on the path to holy destiny. In the Ramayana, Kaikeyi acts as a lesser antagonist. ![]() Though the novel is based on a religious text, the author has taken significant liberties in her characterisation of holy figures, making this more of a fantasy retelling than a faith-based take. Following our narrator and protagonist on her journey, we see Kaikeyi rise from powerless princess to political heavyweight. The author’s debut, Kaikeyi is a loose retelling of the Hindu epic, the Ramayana. ![]() ![]() ![]() Spark is the sixth interconnect standalone book in the new steamy romance Men of Inked: Heatwave series by Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Chelle Bliss. What starts out as a simple favor, takes them down a road they never imagined. And when Nick finds Josephine sleeping in the parking lot of a local store, his protective instincts take over. But when her celebrity boyfriend has an affair while they’re on vacation, she takes off to the middle-of-nowhere Florida, ending up crying in her nachos. Josephine Carmichael lives in the crosshairs of the paparazzi as the child of a Hollywood power-couple. But when he overhears a conversation at a late-night taco stand, he can’t help but insert his two cents, telling the woman she was too good for that kind of hassle. Nick Gallo lives wild and free, avoiding any complications or drama. ![]() ![]() ![]() I found her to be self-centered, selfish and really not very likeable. While I truly enjoyed this book, Damia is not one of my favorite characters until the end. Will Soran be the one to ease her loneliness?This book starts out with Afra Lyon, his childhood and how he came to work in Callisto Tower as the Second in Charge to The Rowan giving us excellent insight into his life. After a lot of training she takes over as Aurigae Prime and lives a lonely life until she senses a brilliant mind light years away. There Damia thrives and grows into a young woman. When The Rowan is pregnant for a fourth time and the pregnancy is not going well and after several shenangians by Damia it is decided that raising Damia on Callisto Station is not a good idea, so she, Jeran and Cera go to live with their paternal grandmother, Isthia, on Deneb VIII. ![]() Unlike her older brother and sister, Damia is a handful. Damia Gwyn-Raven is the third child of Jeff Raven and The Rowan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But shocking truths await Gyalo in the hidden sanctuary of Refuge - and what he learns there of his quest, his land, its leaders, and its faith will cause him to question everything he fervently believes while providing the terrible spark that could ignite the war to end all wars. But decades of cruelty and oppression have left their mark - evidenced not only by the desecrated Âratist temples throughout the holy city of Baushpar but by the widespread mistrust and suspicion that has lately fallen on the Shapers, the powerful mages whose magic is beholden to no religious or government institution.īoth a Shaper and a deeply devout priest, Gyalo Amdo Samchen has embarked on a great mission into the sacred Burning Land to rescue the renegades who, years before, fled into the desert to escape the city’s madness - among them the Dreamer Axane, who dares not reveal her forbidden visions of a world beyond. ![]() In a hidden desert sanctuary, the sorcerer-priest of a reborn faith uncovers dark truths about his world and its masters in the first book of The Way of Ârata.Ī realm long held in the iron grasp of godless tyrants, Arsace is finally free to worship its beloved, once-outlawed deity, Ârata. 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