![]() ![]() ![]() When the US publishers Doubleday and Anchor Books acquired the rights to The Testaments (2019) – Margaret Atwood’s sequel to her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale – they announced that the latter had become “a symbol of the movement against” Donald Trump, “standing for female empowerment and resistance in the face of misogyny and the rolling back of women’s rights around the world.” ![]() 1 Introduction: Female empowerment with a twist ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments Bob mehr replacements![]() ![]() Westerberg and his mates behaved wretchedly: to promoters, club owners, managers. ![]() Besides being a first-rate biography, Trouble Boys imposes order on an unrelenting barrage of grotesque behavior that was leavened by several of the most beautiful, inchoate records of the 80s. A prodigious reporter, Mehr spoke to three-dozen sources, most importantly the crucial nexus of Westerberg and bassist Tommy Stinson. Onetime Reader staff writer Bob Mehr‘s Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements is a well-wrought account of how a band with guitarist and lead singer Paul Westerberg‘s talent disintegrated thanks to substance abuse and, subsequently, Westerberg’s inability to write powerful music after going sober at the beginning of the 90s. “That’s the kind of fan we probably appealed to most: the people that were in that gray area. “They probably didn’t aspire to a whole lot, but also didn’t aspire to doing nothing either,” Tommy Stinson said. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreationįor starters, they didn’t pretend that a whole lot separated them from fans biographical distance was a concept that they slept through in high school.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.Get your Best of Chicago tickets! Ticket prices go up May 15 > Close ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Topdog underdog theatre![]() ![]() It’s a play with nothing to hide, a play whose end is contained perfectly in its beginning, whose sense of a fated tragic destiny is as keen as the Greeks’–and yet we spend it wishing for some other ending than the tragedy we’ve always already seen coming. And the two key elements to the action are displayed in the play’s first moments: a game of three-card monte, and a gun. One central conflict, laid right out in the title–which is the top dog, which the underdog? (This is not a world in which there’s any possibility that they might both come out ahead.) In a dark piece of irony, even the plot is laid out right there in the character names–we all know what connects (Abraham) Lincoln and (John Wilkes) Booth, and what ends they both came to. ![]() The play is exquisitely simple: Two characters, Black brothers Lincoln and Booth (named by their father as a joke). There is no equivalent principle of “Chekhov’s deck of cards,” but Topdog/Underdog, Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer Prize winner, revived on Broadway with all of its power intact twenty years later, uses the same technique: Deal a game of cards in the first act make something consequential come of winning or losing it in the second. Otherwise don’t put it there.” –Anton Chekhov “If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in Topdog/Underdog. ![]() ![]() There is never any indication that their family is bad or wrong, but the book still had those elements of kids having to deal with other children bullying them for having a family that is not like their own. ![]() And more than that, I thought the way that the book dealt with the impact of having two moms was well done. The moms were fabulous and I'm thrilled to see more and more same sex parents in YA and middle grade. ![]() I also loved, loved, loved that this was a family with two moms. There are these little jumps in logic that he makes that felt so authentic in terms of the understanding that kids have and how illogical their assumptions can sometimes be. I appreciated his anger but also his way of processing things the way that kids do. Liv as a character grew and grew on me, and his personality shone through in a lot of really fabulous ways. While initially I had issues with the voice of this novel - the writing wasn't my favorite, sometimes sounding a bit too young or a bit disjointed - I think by the end it really came into its own. Note: I am cis so I cannot comment on how authentic the representation was. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Dust by Kara Swanson![]() ![]() This book was a really nice break from the angsty, seriousness of your typical YA book. The truth behind this fairy tale is about to unravel everything Claire thought she knew about Peter Pan–and herself. The girl who fears her own destiny is on a collision course with the boy who never wanted to grow up. Grounded in London and hunted by his own Lost Boys, Peter searches for the last hope of restoring his crumbling island: a lass with magic in her veins. Peter Pan is having a beastly time getting back to Neverland. Now Claire’s desperate search points to London… and a boy who shouldn’t exist. The truth about Neverland is far more dangerous than a fairy tale.Ĭlaire Kenton believes the world is too dark for magic to be real–since her twin brother was stolen away as a child. Several cardboard-paper-cuts later (those things hurt!) I was able to sit down and read Dust! *cries* I got tired of waiting for things to get unpacked and dove into a pile of boxes, looking for the book. And then the book promptly gathered dust while it sat in a box for a month during my family’s move. ![]() ![]() He prefers his model to have minimal make-up and a simple hairstyle. He is considered to be one of the world's preeminent fashion photographers, particularly in black and white, and is credited with helping create the supermodel phenomenon of the 1990s. A new upcoming project is an advert video shoot for Mariah Carey’s new fragrance, "M". Peter Lindbergh - Images of Women II: 2005-2014 - YouTube 0:00 / 0:59 Peter Lindbergh - Images of Women II: 2005-2014 PhotoBookPoster 11 subscribers Subscribe 3 Share 214 views 3 years ago. He also photographed Céline Dion for her perfume ad. His photographs have been published by Stern, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue magazines. The cover featured portraits by Lindberg. ![]() ![]() Moving to Paris in 1978, to concentrate on high-fashion, he photographed many top models including Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Stephanie Seymour, Isabella Rossellini, Nastassja Kinski and Tatjana Patitz as well as other projects with Karl Lagerfeld, Daryl Hannah, Giorgio Armani and more. In 2019, Lindbergh took a series of portraits for the September edition of Vogue magazine, which was guest-edited by Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex. Peter Lindbergh, currently on view at the Pavillon Populaire in Montpellier, France, writes: This group portrait gave rise to the phenomenon of supermodels, created a new feminine ideal and redefined relations between women in our collective unconscious. ![]() He studied painting in art school, but began photography in 1971 and established himself as an advertising photographer. Lindbergh was born in Poland and grew up in Duisburg. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Christine donougher![]() ![]() Upton Sinclair described the novel as "one of the half-dozen greatest novels of the world", and remarked that Hugo set forth the purpose of Les Misérables in the Preface: ![]() Įxamining the nature of law and grace, the novel elaborates upon the history of France, the architecture and urban design of Paris, politics, moral philosophy, antimonarchism, justice, religion, and the types and nature of romantic and familial love. Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption. However, several alternatives have been used, including The Miserables, The Wretched, The Miserable Ones, The Poor Ones, The Wretched Poor, The Victims, and The Dispossessed. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title. Les Misérables has been popularized through numerous adaptations for film, television and the stage, including a musical. ![]() Les Misérables ( / l eɪ ˌ m ɪ z ə ˈ r ɑː b( əl), - b l ə/, French: ) is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Roderick gordon![]() ![]() ![]() He is a lonely boy whose sole passion in life is all things archaeological and, under his father's influence, he embarks upon extensive excavations. Barry Cunningham of Chicken House signed the co-authors for the first two books in the series, Tunnels and Deeper.The Highfield Mole (Tunnels) is planned to be the first in a young adult series about a fourteen year-old, Will Burrows, who lives with his family in the fictitious London borough of Highfield. It reachied 156th place in the .uk sales rankings. The hardback sold-out in only half a day thanks chiefly to a book review in The Book and Magazine Collector. Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams co-wrote and self-published The Highfield Mole in March 2005. He attended The Slade School of Fine Art and, after graduating, has continued with painting, writing and film-making, which has encompassed both his own films and also working as art director and acting in a number of UK productions. He recently moved with his family from London to north Norfolk.īrian Williams grew up in Zambia until moving to Liverpool with his family in the seventies. He counts a number of writers and poets among his ancestors such RD Blackmore, Philip Doddridge and Matthew Arnold plus two paleontologists and celebrated eccentrics, William and Frank Buckland. ![]() He worked in corporate finance in the City until 2001. Roderick Gordon was born, grew up and went to university in London. Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams biography ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Jem bendell deep adaptation![]() Having read extensively on the topic, I felt I understood the issues reasonably well. ![]() I’ve spent years researching the topic of civilizational collapse, which I cover at length in the final chapter of The Patterning Instinct. On the contrary, when I became aware of his article, I was driven to read it thoroughly. ![]() Jem implies that I may have “misrepresented the concept” of Deep Adaptation by failing to read his original article. Responding to Green Positivity Critiques of Deep Adaptation by Jem Bendell, April 10, 2019 What Will You Say to Your Grandchildren? by Jeremy Lent, April 4, 2019 I hope our public dialogue has so far been of value to those who care passionately about what’s happening to our planet and civilization, and that this article continues to move the conversation forward in a constructive fashion. However, as I read Jem’s refutations, I was concerned that some deeper issues are at stake that need to be brought to the surface, and I’m writing this response accordingly. ![]() ![]() I believe that Jem and I agree on much more than we disagree, and that we share a similar heartbreak at the unfolding catastrophe our world is experiencing. On April 10, Jem Bendell wrote a detailed and thoughtful article in response to my critique of Deep Adaptation, “ What Will You Say to Your Grandchildren.” I appreciate the care he took to ponder my arguments, note where he concurred, and refute what he felt was wrong. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments 172 hours on the moon![]() ![]() This is the reason that NASA stopped sending people to the Moon in the 1970s. The stunt is believed to be a way of increasing both funding and public interest, but the real reason is that NASA intends to study a mystical phenomenon with a sinister edge that was previously discovered during the original Moon landings. Three winners will be selected from all over the world, with the prize being a coveted spot on an upcoming mission to return to the Moon. Plot Īfter a prologue set in 2010, the book begins in 2012, after NASA has announced its intent to hold a contest for teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18. ![]() In 2008 Harstad's work on DARLAH won him a Brage Prize. ![]() Rights to DARLAH have also been sold to sixteen other countries: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, France, the Netherlands, Germany, UK, Turkey, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea, Mexico and Brazil. The book was originally published in Norway on Septemby Cappelen Damm, with an English language translation being published by Little, Brown in New York City on July 10, 2012. Print ( hardcover and electronic book) and audio-CDĭARLAH (English title: 172 Hours on the Moon) is a 2008 young adult science fiction/ horror novel by Norwegian author Johan Harstad. ![]() |