6/26/2023 0 Comments Charles portisWe also premiered a film adaptation of his short story “ I Don’t Talk Service No More” along with an interview with filmmaker Katrina Whelan. His two original pieces for the magazine include “ Motel Life, Lower Reaches” and “ The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth.” In addition, the OA published an excerpt from his one play, Delray’s New Moon, in 2012. The Oxford American honored Portis with an award for Lifetime Achievement in Southern Literature in 2010. He was a longtime contributor to the Oxford American, sometimes personally handing over a manuscript, typed on his trusty manual Olivetti-Underwood, to OA founder and then-editor Marc Smirnoff. Portis, who is best known as the author of True Grit (though perhaps best loved as the author of cult favorite The Dog of the South), grew up in Hamburg, Arkansas, and lived in Little Rock for more than four decades. He Oxford American joins the literary world in mourning the writer Charles Portis, who died on Monday morning at age eighty-six.
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6/26/2023 0 Comments Vulnerable by April WilsonAnd so far, most of his primary opponents have been unable, or unwilling, to use his most egregious behavior against him for fear that such attacks could alienate the same conservative voters they hope to win over.Īlmost none of the GOP’s 2024 class has seized on Trump’s many legal entanglements, even after a jury this week found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation in a civil case brought by advice columnist E. But early public polling suggests Trump is the overwhelming frontrunner. The first votes of the GOP primary won’t be cast until early next year and the nomination itself won’t be formally decided until next summer. It’s scary, but important we face it and do everything we can to keep him from becoming president again.” “I think it was an important wakeup call that Trump is still the likeliest GOP nominee. “GOP voters want what Trump gave them last night - the lies, the personal attacks… and the confrontation with the media,” said Sarah Longwell, founder of the anti-Trump Republican Accountability Project. On Thursday, a day after the town hall, Trump’s Republican critics conceded they don’t know how to stop him. The magnitude of the challenge ahead for Trump’s Republican rivals was clear as the former president repeatedly turned his greatest political liabilities into jokes and applause lines for the GOP base. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Intisar khanani booksIntisar Khanani’s trademark as a writer is “good girls trying their best.” I felt such affection for Rae almost immediately - she’s spent much of her life being told that she’s not good enough because of her clubfoot, and she is fiercely protective of her sister, who can do magic. Determined to recover the lost children, or at least find answers for their families, Rae faces the dangers and intrigues the city has to offer - and the confusing, irritating charms of a thief called Bren. There she begins to learn how to navigate the treacherous world of the monarchy and aristocracy, all while trying to discover who or what is behind the epidemic of child-snatching that has been plaguing Menaiya. It follows Rae, a country girl who comes to the royal court and becomes handmaiden to the new queen, Alyrra (Thorn from Thorn!). The Theft of Sunlight is a companion novel to Thorn that doesn’t (in my opinion) require prior knowledge of Thorn in order to read it. Intisar Khanani has a new book! And it’s out today! Can you believe our good fortune? The Theft of Sunlight is the first wholly new Intisar Khanani book I’ve read in what feels like a thousand years, and it felt like coming home. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Steven pinker enlightenmentAdmittedly, these material gains are so ubiquitous today that many people have difficulty imagining a time when they did not exist - but few can deny with a straight face that they are real, or that human beings on a whole live a better life today than ever before.Īccording to Harvard psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker, however, this may not be the case. The fruits of modernity are self-evident, and modern men and women experience these fruits in their everyday lives - when they go to the pharmacy to pick up antibiotics, when they fly halfway around the world on a jet aircraft, when they turn up the heat in their home during the winter and so on. Though human beings have a tendency to romanticize the past, only true reactionaries - for instance, religious fundamentalists - fail to acknowledge or completely reject the obvious benefits of progress. Most people would agree that progress is a good thing, and few would deny that there has been extraordinary progress over the course of human history, or that human existence has improved in innumerable ways during the modern era. 6/25/2023 0 Comments The drowned worldEchoing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness-complete with a mad white hunter and his hordes of native soldiers-this "powerful and beautifully clear" (Brian Aldiss) work becomes a thrilling adventure and a haunting examination of the effects of environmental collapse on the human mind. Nature has swallowed all but a few remnants of human civilization, and, slowly, Kerans and his companions are transformed-both physically and psychologically-by this prehistoric environment. Robert Kerans and his team of scientists as they confront a surreal cityscape populated by giant iguanas, albino alligators, and endless swarms of malarial insects. Set during the year 2145, the novel follows biologist Dr. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming have melted the polar ice caps and Triassic-era jungles have overrun a submerged and tropical London. Ballard novel for Harry Potter series producer David Heyman. Ma&bullet Intentions to make the movie early in development Warner Bros has optioned the 1962 J.G. Book is like new and unread.įirst published in 1962, J.G. The Drowned World movie production status is currently Announced. Ballards mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terrifying future in which solar radiation and global warming have melted the ice caps and Triassic-era jungles have overrun a submerged and tropical Londo. Ballard 50th ANNIVERSARY TRADE PAPERBACK LIVERIGHT PUBLISHING Buy a copy of The Drowned World book by Martin Amis, J. 6/25/2023 0 Comments Falling kingdoms 5One of the strengths from the very outset was Morgan Rhodes’ ability to balance all the storylines and the kingdoms each kingdom had its own distinct “personality” and culture and, very quickly, it’s easy to differentiate between the different peoples and their different motivations within the larger story. KINGDOMS WILL FALL.” ( Synopsis from the publisher)Īs the title suggests, Falling Kingdoms is the first book in a series which tells of multiple kingdoms at various stages of destruction and, as the synopsis suggests, each kingdom is introduced and focalised through characters from those kingdoms – princess, rebel, and sorceress alike. A Sorceress discovers the truth about the supernatural legacy she is destined to wield. A rebel becomes the leader of a bloody revolution. Three kingdoms battle for power… A princess must journey into enemy territory in search of a magic long-thought extinct. “In a land where magic has been forgotten and peace has reigned for centuries, unrest is simmering. 6/25/2023 0 Comments The four series becca steeleOkay, so in a game of MFK, I am all about K-ing Caiden Cavendish. I enjoy her personality and her dynamic with The Four. She tends toward dramatic, and that isn’t very pleasant, but her ability to go with the flow is a plus. She’s a complex character who I could understand. A Wealthy mother who couldn’t care less for Winter her Cinderella story is askew because it’s her bio mom who is the witch.īut her stepbrothers are no better than Cinderella’s because Cade is a colossal dick. The one thing she is sure of is that something shady happened to him, and it’s connected to her estranged mother. Love is so complicated.Īfter a life of modest living with her adoring father, Winter is adrift after his death. That Caiden hates Winter, but Winter has the hots for Cade’s hate is far more troubling than any piggly-wiggly familial relations. The premise of The Lies We Tell is the Step-Sib Trope of forbidden desires, which ultimately isn’t half as icky as the taboo implies. Caiden Cavendish stubbornly chooses distrust in the face of facts that the thing he thinks is suspicious is the least subject him about which to worry. There is nothing like being the last to know how very you are about someone else. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Summary of the stone angelCritics regard the series as one of the finest achievements in contemporary Canadian fiction. Laurence went on to write four more books set in the same region, and these, together with The Stone Angel, are collectively known as the Manawaka series. The Stone Angel is also a realistic portrayal of life in the prairie towns of western Canada from the late nineteenth century to the Depression of the 1930s and beyond. The novel suggests there is hope that even those most set in their ways can find the inspiration to change for the better, and that change, even at the last stage of life, is never wasted. Laurence also movingly depicts the sudden dawning of realization in Hagar's mind of where she has gone wrong in life, and what has been the cause of her unhappiness. In ninety-year-old Hagar Shipley, the restless, crotchety, and proud protagonist, Laurence creates a memorable character who reveals what it is like to be very old, physically frail, dependent on others, and tormented by memories of the past. Although Margaret Laurence had been publishing fiction for a decade before The Stone Angel was published in 1964, it was this novel that first won her a wide and appreciative audience. The volume includes discussions of a wide variety of painters, including Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Stefano di Giovanni, Sandro Botticelli, Masaccio, Luca Signorelli, Boccaccio, and countless others. Renaissance painting, for example, mirrors the experience of such activities as preaching, dancing, and gauging barrels. Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period, this new edition to Baxandall's pre-eminent scholarly volume examines early Renaissance painting, and explains how the style of painting in any society reflects the visual skills and habits that evolve out of daily life. 6/24/2023 0 Comments Xkcd what if bookWith awesome humor and a simple and interesting explanation of the most complex phenomena of the universe using caricature, sometimes I close the book and browse what he published on his page (XKCD) and Laugh about his genius in caricature That's why I will write some of these questions that each answer is an interesting article in the fields of science, mathematics, physics, quantum mechanics, genetics, geology, evolution.etc. It is difficult to tell about the strangeness of some of the questions and about Monroe's ability and professionalism to answer them. The author of this book received thousands of strange questions from humans and scientifically answered them. In addition to publishing a book of the webcomic's strips, he has written three books: What If?, Thing Explainer, and How-To. Munroe has worked full-time on the comic since late 2006 and also worked as a contract programmer and roboticist for NASA at the Langley Research Center. Randall Patrick Munroe (born 1984) is an American cartoonist, author, and engineer best known as the creator of the webcomic XKCD. This book answers this question and dozens of other questions. If two immortals were placed on opposite sides of an uninhabited Earth-like planet, how much would pass before they found each other? |