John Carey seems to allude to the category in this biography’s subtitle (even though Carey eventually disputes the implication). Salinger, Ralph Ellison, Joseph Heller - to cite only the 20th-century American exemplars - but such one-book writers are legion in all literatures. What is it like to owe virtually your entire reputation as a writer to a single book? One thinks of J. Golding was drinking heavily at the time (he had a lifelong struggle with alcoholism) and one may have to take his bitterness advisedly, but these remarks reveal an interesting artistic conundrum. In the late 1960s, some 15 years after the publication of “Lord of the Flies,” William Golding confessed to a friend that he resented the novel because it meant that he owed his reputation to what he thought of as a minor book, a book that had made him a classic in his lifetime, which was “a joke,” and that the money he had gained from it was “Monopoly money” because he hadn’t really earned it.
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Not even at the worldwide demonstration March for Our Lives. She was hopeless at times, feeling as if no one was listening. Every time Kindra took a step toward peace and wholeness, a new mass shooting devastated her again. This empathetic and ultimately hopeful graphic memoir recounts Kindra's journey forward from those few minutes that changed everything. Over the span of a few minutes, on October 1, 2015, eight students and a professor lost their lives. And then, one day, it happend: a mass shooting shattered her college campus. But now she lived in Oregon, where she spent her time swimming in rivers with friends or attending classes at the bucolic Umpqua Community College. Sure, she'd sometimes been close to gun violence, like when the house down the street from her childhood home in Texas was targeted in a drive-by shooting. Kindra Neely never expected it to happen to her. Her book “Bright Dead Things” (2015) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was nominated for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Raised in Sonoma, California, of Mexican and European ancestry, Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including her most recent, “The Hurting Kind” (2022), and “The Carrying” (2018), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, was held at the Emory Conference Center, the first opportunity since the pandemic for revelers to do what they do best: read from well-thumbed works of favorite poets or try out original poems they have written. The 12th Night Revel, a fundraiser for the Stuart A. During her time at Emory, she also met with students to discuss poetry and writing. poet laureate and first Latina to be so named, on the evening of Feb. Poetry lovers of all ages reveled in the company of Ada Limón, the U.S. That unshakeable, complicated love is one of the only things that doesn’t change on prom night. Complicated by problems like jealousy, or insecurity, or lust. Their secret is what brought them together, and their love for each other is unshakeable-even when that love is complicated. Being in love with your best friend is harder.Īlexis has always been able to rely on two things: her best friends, and the magic powers they all share. Keep reading this book review to find out my full thoughts! Summary BUT I can report that I thoroughly enjoyed When We Were Magic – a queer story about friendship and found family. Yes I may be a year late, but that’s the good thing about books: they always wait for you. I’ve been looking forward to When We Were Magic since it was released. In his Temptation of St Anthony triptych, for example, the artist shows a messenger devil wearing ice skates, evoking the popular expression that the world was “skating on ice”―meaning it had gone astray. Many subsidiary scenes illustrate proverbs and figures of speech in common use in Bosch’s day. Alongside traditional hybrids of man and beast, such as centaurs, and mythological creatures such as unicorns, devils, dragons, and griffins, we also encounter countless mixed creatures freely invented by the artist. One of his greatest inventions was to take the figural and scenic representations known as drolleries, which use the monstrous and the grotesque to illustrate sin and evil, and to transfer them from the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts into large-format panel paintings. Bosch’s paintings are populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy, and angst. In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. I don’t feel like it really had any point to the story. I don’t always read the description of blurb for books before I read, but I had read this one and knew right away I probably wouldn’t be into it. I got through it but mostly because it was short and once I’d started, I thought I may as well give it a go. So, I have to be brutal, I didn’t like this book. However things don’t end up going quite to plan. She soon gets introduced to an exclusive and underground farmers market that is attempting to combine food and technology which on the surface of it, seems like a perfect fit for Lois. Lois takes it upon herself to take care of the starter and starts to use it to bake her own Sourdough which becomes rather popular at the company she works for. They abruptly shut shop and gift her the demanding sourdough starter. She discovers a local sandwich take away that she falls in love with and ends up ordering their amazing Sourdough and spicy soup from them every evening. Lois Clary is a robotics programmer in San Francisco who works tirelessly. This wasn’t a huge book and I don’t have an awful lot to say on it. This review will probably be a little short. Sourdough by Robin Sloan was the April book of the month, that I’ve only just read in October. Therefore, I’m on a little bit of a mission to catch up before the end of the year. I’ve been a rather awful book club member this year and haven’t managed to keep up with the book of the month reads, never mind the side reads since the beginning of the year. The 12th Planet brings to life the Sumerian civilization, presenting millennia-old evidence of the existence of Nibiru, the home planet of the Anunnaki and of the landings of the Anunnaki on Earth every 3,600 years, and reveals a complete history of the solar system as told by these early visitors from another planet. Travelers from the stars, they arrived eons ago, and planted the genetic seed that would ultimately blossom into a remarkable species.called Man. The product of thirty years of intensive research, The 12th Planet is the first book in Zecharia Sitchin's prophetic Earth Chronicles series-a revolutionary body of work that offers indisputable documentary proof of humanity's extraterrestrial forefathers. Over the years, startling evidence has been unearthed, challenging established notions of the origins of Earth and life on it and suggesting the existence of a superior race of beings who once inhabited our world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. This Centennial edition, specially designed to commemorate one hundred years of Steinbeck, features french flaps and deckle-edged pages.For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. This classic novella from Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck examines the fallacy of the American dream, and illustrates the fall from innocence experienced by people who believe that wealth erases all problems. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife Juana cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. Annotation: “There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.” One of Steinbeck’s most taught works, The Pearl is the story of the Mexican diver Kino, whose discovery of a magnificent pearl from the Gulf beds means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. Indecent was supported, in part, at the 2013 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at the Sundance Resort with continuing Post-Lab Support through its initiative with the Andrew W. The creative team includes musical director Andrew Resnick and stage manager Amanda Spooner. Alive with popular songs of the era, this deeply moving play charts the history of an incendiary work, the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it, and the evolving identity of the culturally rich community that inspired its creation. Co-created by director Rebecca Taichman and the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel, Indecent is inspired by the true events surrounding the controversial 1922 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance – a play considered by many to be a seminal work of Jewish culture, by others, an act of traitorous libel. The playwright, director and cast will be in residence at BRIC House from November 18–24, culminating in a work-in-progress public reading on Monday, November 24 at 7pm.Ĭast: Judith Blazer, Adam Chanler-Berat, Ned Eisenberg, Jessica Hecht, Max Gordon Moore, Steven Rattazzi, Sarah SokolovicīRIC and the Sundance Institute Theatre Program, in partnership with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Yale Repertory Theatre, are pleased to host a work-in-progress reading of Indecent. His clients included a roll-call of popes, kings, and princes across Europe who wished to burnish their reputations by founding magnificent libraries. Besides repositories of ancient wisdom by the likes of Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero, his books were works of art in their own right, copied by talented scribes and illuminated by the finest miniaturists. At a time when all books were made by hand, over four decades Vespasiano produced and sold many hundreds of volumes from his bookshop, which also became a gathering spot for discussion and debate. Born in 1422, he became what a friend called "the king of the world's booksellers". But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened world.Īt the heart of this activity was a remarkable man: Vespasiano da Bisticci. The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. The best-selling author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling captures the excitement and spirit of the Renaissance in this chronicle of the life and work of "the king of the world's booksellers" and the technological disruption that forever changed the ways knowledge spread. |