![]() ![]() She holds a PhD in Critical Media Studies, with a minor in Feminist & Critical Sexuality Studies from the University of Minnesota, and has taught in colleges and universities in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Boston. Raechel Anne Jolie is a writer, educator, and media-maker living in Minnesota. Rust Belt Femme is the story of how these twin foundations-rural Ohio poverty and alternative 90s culture-made Raechel into who she is today: a queer femme with PTSD and a deep love of the Midwest. It was the early 90s, full of Nirvana songs and chokers, flannel shirts and cut-off jean shorts, lesbian witches and local coffee shops. Raechel escaped to the progressive suburbs of Cleveland Heights, leaving the tractors and ranch-style homes home in favor of a city with vintage marquees, music clubs, and people who talked about big ideas. ![]() Raechel and her mother struggled for money: they were evicted, went days without utilities, and took their trauma out on one another. After her father came home from his third-shift job, took the garbage out to the curb and was hit by a drunk driver, her life changed. Raechel Anne Jolie's early life in a working-class Cleveland exurb was full of race cars, Budweiser-drinking men covered in car grease, and the women who loved them. This event will be streamed on Women & Children First's Crowdcast Channel. ![]() For this event, Jolie will be in conversation with Iliana Regan. Join us for a virtual reading and conversation for Rust Belt Femme by Raechel Anne Jolie. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Erikson is capable of making sure his giant cast of characters to be filled with unique, distinctive voice. Unlike the main series, we don’t have a lot of POV to follow only two, Temper and Kiska. ![]() ![]() Esslemont focused so much more on the never-ending barrage of action sequences rather than the crucially needed characterizations. It’s just that the prose was incapable of keeping me engaged or invested in the characters. No, it’s not because the prose was simplistic I loved a lot of simplistic prose. It came down to how Esslemont’s prose absolutely didn’t work for me. I was honestly shocked by how bad the experience of reading this book was. I won’t lie, I didn’t enjoy reading this small book it left a bad taste in my mouth. But in this special situation, I must say that the comparison is really well deserved because both of them write canon stories in the same universe which they created together. A lot of people mentioned that Esslemont is not Erikson (these four words must’ve haunted Esslemont for years by now) and usually, I’ll say that it’s really not really fair for everyone to endlessly compare these two it’s obvious that every author has a different style. ![]() Night of Knives is the first book in the Malazan Empire series, a spin-off to the main series that’s written by the other creator of the Malazan universe, Ian Esslemont. Just like the main series, I was determined to finish the Malazan Empire this year but I may have to rethink that decision after my experience of reading this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is both a study of how James Joyce created two of the most iconic characters in literature-Leopold Bloom and Marion Tweedy Bloom-as well as a history of the genesis of Ulysses. ![]() ![]() Joyce's Creative Process and the Construction of Characters in Ulysses ![]() Van Hulle's book offers a fresh perspective on these texts, showing that they are not just preparatory versions of Finnegans Wake but a 'Work in Progress' in their own right. All of these pre-book publications were "alive" in both bibliographic and textual terms, as Joyce continually changed the texts in order to prepare the book publication of Finnegans Wake. Van Hulle highlights the beautifully crafted editions published by fine arts presses and Joyce's encouragement of his daughter's creative talents, even as his own creative process was slowing down in the 1930s. In this publication history, Dirk Van Hulle examines the interaction between the private composition process and the public life of Joyce's 'Work in Progress', from the creation of the separate sections through their publication in periodicals and as separately published sections. And while they are undeniably integrated very skillfully, they also function separately. Several of these sections, which James Joyce confidently claimed would "fuse of themselves", are still recognizable in the text of Finnegans Wake. It grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. The text of Finnegans Wake is not as monolithic as it might seem. ![]() ![]() In the teeming city of medieval Paris lives Quasimodo, a man born with a hunchback who lives in the Notre Dame Cathedral as a bell ringer. The heart of man cannot remain long in one extremity. Excess of grief, like excess of joy is a violent thing which lasts but a short time. The novel made Notre-Dame de Paris a national icon and served as a catalyst for renewed interest in the restoration of Gothic form. The novel sought to preserve values of French culture in a time period of great change, which resulted in the destruction of many French Gothic structures. The novel has been described as a key text in French literature and has been adapted for film over a dozen times, in addition to numerous television and stage adaptations, such as a 1923 silent film with Lon Chaney, a 1939 sound film with Charles Laughton, and a 1996 Disney animated film with Tom Hulce (both as Quasimodo). Synopsis: This extraordinary historical French gothic novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the disabled bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, as he struggles to stand up to his ableist guardian Claude Frollo, who also wants to commit genocide against Paris' Romani population. ![]() Condition: (see pics.) The red book binding is very tight and the book appears unread however, there is the name of a previous owner in ink on the second front endpaper. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first reporting job was in 1989 at The Philadelphia Inquirer. She graduated from Queen Anne School, a former college preparatory school, in Leeland, Maryland in 1983. Leonnig is a native of Upper Marlboro in Prince George's County, Maryland. Leonnig also received Pulitzer Prizes for National Reporting in 20. She has been a staff writer at The Washington Post since 2000, and was part of a team of national security reporters that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporting, which revealed the NSA's expanded spying on Americans. 2015, 2018 Pulitzer Prize for National ReportingĢ014 George Polk Award for investigative reportingĬarol Duhurst Leonnig is an American investigative journalist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My thoughts on the next book in the seriesīeing an Abbi Glines fan, I realized that I have read all her books but this series. Oooh, Ian Somerhalder but younger and even hotter! Brilliant!” Oooh, I could die for an idea right now! Wait! Die! That’s it! I’ll make him Death! But not the black caped creepy skeleton thing but a sexy model like guy. Twilight much? What, vampires are not popular anymore so Abbi Glines said ”What the hell? The formula seems to work so why not Google some creature, make him hot as hell and- oh wait. Who falls in love with an insignificant teenager. ![]() Read on.ĭank is too exaggerated because he freakin’ stands out too much. If you don’t know what I mean then read on my friend. Compared to the rest of the characters his presence is like Lady Gaga attending an award show. Pagan is boring, Leif is super boring and Miranda is a desperate girl drooling over anything that has a penis. I know some than are more immature than a sixteen year old. Not that a thirty year old woman would always be boring. When Pagan speaks I feel like I’m listening to a thirty year old woman and not a teenager. It couldn’t have been better.Įveryone’s boring in this book they have no personality whatsoever. Is this why I have a thing for dark haired men? ▪ Fair hair for the good guy dark hair for the evil one? Typical. ▪ Ugh please don’t let it be a love triangle!! ▪ Of course he’s gorgeous, just look at that damn cover!! What happens when you're stalked by Death? You fall in love with him, of course. ![]() ![]() He most recently teamed with Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans Jr. Hench executive produced Last Man Standing, co-created and executive produced Cristela, and was the creator and executive producer of Mr. He is repped by WME and Hansen Jacobson Teller Hoberman Sklaver co-created and executive produced Prodigal Son, which ran for two seasons on Fox and most recently served as co-executive producer on the first season of Hulu’s Up Here. Hench also worked with Peyton on The Santa Clauses for Disney+, which the veteran showrunner executive produces. This marks the latest collaboration between Manning and Hench who a regular contributor for the Minus Three podcast on the Omaha Audio network. Universal TV, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio. Sklaver and Hench executive produce with Peyton Manning via his Omaha Productions. ![]() It is a workplace comedy that uses the backdrop of gambling to look at all the other bets people make in their lives – choosing friends, jobs and relationships. The series will explore how all of our most meaningful decisions are really just big bets with hugely uncertain outcomes. ![]() Written by Sklaver and Hench, What Are The Odds? is set in a Las Vegas sports book. ![]() ![]() The only way to stop the demon is to find the reincarnations of the five legendary Pandava brothers, protagonists of the Hindu epic poem, the Mahabharata, and journey through the Kingdom of Death. Her classmates and beloved mother are frozen in time, and it’s up to Aru to save them. ![]() ![]() She unwittingly frees the Sleeper, an ancient demon whose duty it is to awaken the God of Destruction. But lighting the lamp has dire consequences. ![]() Then she can get herself out of this mess and never ever fib again. They don’t believe her claim that the museum’s Lamp of Bharata is cursed, and they dare Aru to prove it. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and. ![]() Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru’s doorstep to catch her in a lie. Best-selling author Rick Riordan introduces this adventure by Roshani Chokshi about twelve-year-old Aru Shah, who has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she’ll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Best-selling author Rick Riordan introduces this adventure by Roshani Chokshi about twelve-year-old Aru Shah, who has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. ![]() ![]() Suzuki was being terribly quiet, which just made Watts talk more. Watts, usually so confident, able to improvise lucid spiels on live radio when he couldn’t even walk straight to the mike, had lost his cool and was chattering nervously. ![]() Suzuki sat with him and Jano that night on the back porch of a century-old stone room overlooking the creek. He had ended a long dry period that summer on the drive down to Tassajara. He had interpreted Zen to millions and helped to open the minds of a generation, yet Suzuki’s simple presence could make him feel off balance. Though he loved rituals, Watts had scorned discipline, zazen, and the institutions that “reminded him of the stuffiness of British boarding schools. Several of Zen Centers major donors at the time of the purchase of Tassajara had come through Watts and his East Coast connections. ![]() He had been a great help to Suzuki from the first, sending him students and introducing him to colleagues in the San Francisco Asian studies scene. “ALAN WATTS came to Tassajara for the first time that summer with his wife, Jano. You can easily find the audio version of this biography and Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind on Youtube. ![]() Shunryu is the author of “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind” a Soto Zen monastic and priest in Japan before moving to America to establish a Zen Center and monastic community in San Francisco. I should also mention Shunryu Suzuki (commonly called Suzuki Roshi) is a different person than DT Suzuki. ![]() ![]() ![]() Practice is essential, but “if you feel at all tired while practicing, stop at once.” And as if to underscore the universal nature of these teachings, his American followers organized themselves under the radically nonsectarian and essentially nonreligious rubric “The Community of Mindful Living.” The dharma, he explains, is simply “the way of understanding and love.” The sangha is just “the community that lives in harmony and awareness.” Meditation almost sounds easy, and enlightenment is just a matter of paying closer attention. Buddhism is mentioned in early books like The Miracle of Mindfulness and Being Peace, but it seems a very relaxed, nonthreatening faith that makes few demands on its adherents. ![]() What does Thich Nhat Hanh believe? In many of the early writings that launched his reputation in the West, he comes across as a peace activist first, a sort of ecumenical Buddhist sage second, and a traditional Zen master a distant third. ![]() |