The resident carmen maria machado5/28/2023 ![]() It’s sort of tiresome and regressive and, well, done.” Well, watch out, everyone, because that madwoman is coming roaring towards you at a velocity no ribbon or husband stitch can do a goddam thing about. Writing a story where the female protagonist is utterly batty. In “The Resident,” which takes place at a writing retreat, another female artist demands of our writer protagonist, “Do you ever worry…that you’re the madwoman in the attic?…Do you ever worry about writing the madwoman-in-the-attic story?…You know. This ribbon, if undone, just might unleash the supposedly mad world that’s always in danger of roaring out of all women should we be effectively opened.Īs you might have already guessed, Machado brings the madwoman in the attic trope to the party. This girl is the perfect symbol for this particular story and for the collection as a whole. “The Husband Stitch” reanimates that girl with the ribbon around her neck that we used to whisper about at sleepovers. It would be difficult to maintain throughout the peak Machado reaches at points in this book. ![]() ![]() Although not all the stories in Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties reach the accumulative electricity of its first tale, “The Husband Stitch,” this is not uncommon in a short fiction collection it also has a lot to do with the fact that this particular story is just so darn good. ![]()
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Julius caesar by philip freeman5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() In this splendid biography, Freeman presents Caesar in all his dimensions and contradictions. Caesar's legendary romance with the Egyptian queen Cleopatra still fascinates us today. Caesar's contemporaries included some of Rome's most famous figures, from the generals Marius, Sulla, and Pompey to the orator and legislator Cicero as well as the young politicians Mark Antony and Octavius (later Caesar Augustus). Eventually he was murdered in one of the most famous assassinations in history. He was a spokesman for the ordinary people of Rome, who rallied around him time and again, but he profited enormously from his conquests and lived opulently. He made alliances with his rivals and then discarded them when it suited him. Born into a noble family that had long been in decline, he advanced his career cunningly, beginning as a priest and eventually becoming Rome's leading general. ![]() ![]() He possessed great courage, ambition, honor, and vanity. ![]() Julius Caesar was a complex man, both hero and villain. But, as Philip Freeman describes in this fascinating new biography, Caesar was also a brilliant orator, an accomplished writer, a skilled politician, and much more. He is best known as the general who defeated the Gauls and doubled the size of Rome's territories. He shaped Rome for generations, and his name became a synonym for "emperor" - not only in Rome but as far away as Germany and Russia. More than two thousand years after his death, Julius Caesar remains one of the great figures of history. ![]() Everneath brodi ashton5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The Shades, with their black, fluid forms, had cocooned us so tight for so long. I shook my head, surprised that I could move my head at all. I tried to remember putting it on but came up with nothing. I looked at my arm, from my shoulder down to the elbow, and a little lower, to where it disappeared behind Cole’s back. It was still dark all around us, but as I worked on my eyes, the black forms that had bound me to Cole began to peel away, as if an oil slick were lifting from my skin. After a hundred years they had forgotten how to produce tears. When I did, they stung, like a fresh wound exposed to cool air. The muscles around them had forgotten how to relax, so it was some time before I could pry them open. I’d been squeezing them shut for I don’t know how long. I wanted to answer, but my mouth wasn’t working. ![]() I knew only that the pain inside me-the feeling that I was being drained from the inside out-had subsided, and now everything was numb. I didn’t know where I was or why it was so dark. ![]() I was picturing his face-a boy with floppy brown hair and brown eyes-when the Feed ended.Īt first I didn’t know what had happened. ![]() I hope we choose love kai cheng thom5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() No subject-grief, disability, kink, sexuality, gender politics, violence-is off limits. ![]() Heroes are found in unexpected places, elevated by both large and small gestures of kindness, accountability and acceptance. And whether it's as a film union lighting technician, a hospital bed allocator, a Toronto hot dog vendor, or a performer/player of the musical saw, the work is survival. Fierce, tender, convention re-inventing-Petch works hard. Why I Was Late fuses text with performance, brings a transmasculine wisdom, humour, and experience to bear upon tailgates, spaceships, and wrestling rings. ![]() Winner of the 2022 ReLit Award for Poetry With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch's debut collection of poems offers witness to a decades-long trans/personal coming of age, finding heroes in unexpected places. ![]() Edmund burke on the french revolution5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The Reflections on the Revolution in France was a dire warning of the consequences that would follow the mismanagement of change. Burke was acutely aware of how high the stakes were. They could promise paradise or threaten anarchy. The Industrial Revolution, the American Revolution, and catastrophically, the French Revolution presented challenges of terrible proportions. ![]() Burke's generation was much in need of advice on these matters. He tried to teach lessons about how change should be managed, what limits should not be transgressed, and what should be reverently preserved. His reputation depends less on his role as a practising politician than on his ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context of political theory. Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England. ![]() Scott berg lindbergh5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Berg settled in Los Angeles with his partner Kevin McCormick. His middle name, Scott, was chosen by his mother based on her admiration for author F. He wrote a New York Times bestselling biography of former U.S. He graduated from Princeton University in 1971 after considering dropping out to become an actor. He also worked on the screenplay of Making Love, a controversial film that addresses homosexual themes. Compatible with Snake or Rooster.Īn American author who penned biographies of Katharine Hepburn and Max Perkins, he is best known for his 1998, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Takes comfort in friends and family and is a reliable, protective and strong companion. ![]() Another of the powerful Chinese Zodiac signs, the Ox is steadfast, solid, a goal-oriented leader, detail-oriented, hard-working, stubborn, serious and introverted but can feel lonely and insecure. Sagittarius-born are able to transform their thoughts into concrete actions and they will do anything to achieve their goals.Ī Scott Berg was born in the Year of the Ox. ![]() Sagittarius is extrovert, optimistic and enthusiastic, and likes changes. Their open mind and philosophical view motivates them to wander around the world in search of the meaning of life. According to astrologers, Sagittarius is curious and energetic, it is one of the biggest travelers among all zodiac signs. A Scott Berg’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius. ![]() ![]() With today’s focus on test scores, children are more likely to dislike learning as they become less healthy and more sedentary. For most of human history, children educated themselves as they learned from others. Children love to learn and are natural learners. Schools also might not value a child’s strength as they magnify their weaknesses, and make grades so important that students lose a sense of self. As a parent your worry list includes too much testing, a narrow curriculum, individual attention, learning problems, medication, possible bullying, college costs, and finding a good job.Be sure to get a copy and perhaps some gift copies for parents you know. ![]() If you or anyone you know has children in or approaching school, this is a must-read. You, Your Child, and School: Navigate Your Way to the Best Education by Sir Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica will help parents get the education their children need to live productive, fulfilled lives. ![]() The Secret History by Donna Tartt5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() The Secret History is considered one of the foundational texts of Dark Academia.ĭark Academia, a moody and literate digital subculture that has taken off in recent years, celebrates old fashioned studious style and media. ![]() In honor of the novel’s 30th anniversary in September 2022, here are 10 things you should know about The Secret History. There, he falls in with a strange group of classics scholars and becomes embroiled in a world of rituals, intrigue, and even murder. The Secret History is told from the point-of-view of Richard Papen, a working class college student from California who transfers to an elite college in Vermont. “This is actually a good, even profound novel.” It has since sold more than 5 million copies. “Book publishers, moviemakers, and glossy magazines have already descended upon Tartt in the form of a shower of gold, but don’t be misled by the glitter and clatter,” Entertainment Weekly wrote at the time. Author Donna Tartt’s debut novel, The Secret History, became an instant classic-and an instant success-when it was published in 1992. ![]() Sophia marlowe nasty gal5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() We shouldn’t be surprised that we’ve been served up yet another awful human in a female led comedy. Hannah Horvath from Girls is another character who’s hard to like (Getty) Plus she’s violent, travelling to an online enemy’s home in Reno to hit her round the face for dobbing her in for eBay violations. Sophia spends her days doling out obnoxiously frequent high fives to people, putting on skits to nonplussed strangers, using a fake ghetto accent and dancing on her bed in her pants (does anyone actually do this?). Perhaps the worst thing about her is, however, the fact that she’s the kind of exhibitionist that you might have met at a festival, wearing a sequinned bodysuit and jumping face first into the mud because she’s so quirky and “random”. “Sophia spends episodes doling out obnoxiously frequent high fives to people” While he works as a tour manager, Sophia tells Shane he’s a glorified errand boy and refuses to let him be her official boyfriend, then loses the plot when he gets with someone else. Sophia’s boyfriend, drummer Shane, gets it just as bad. She talks about herself 100% of the time, tells Annie she’s “replaceable” within the business, nothing better than an intern. ![]() There’s the Netflix Sophia’s best friend Annie who throughout the entire 13 episodes serves as nothing more as a cheerleader for her best friend, doing things for her repeatedly while Sophia is relentlessly the worst friend possible. ![]() Saul leiter5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Een uitnodiging van Edward Steichen voor de tentoonstelling The Family of Man (1951) negeerde hij. Leiters vroege zwart-witfotografie toont een buitengewone affiniteit met dit medium. Eugene Smith en Diane Arbus gaf hij de fotografie van de jaren 40 en 50 van de twintigste eeuw mede de vorm die de kunsthistoricus Jane Livingston later als de New York School of Photographers aanduidde - deze had overigens geen enkel direct verband met de gelijknamige kunstenaarsgroep New York School. Eugene Smith interesseerden Leiter voor fotografie hij experimenteerde met een 35-mm- Leica camera. Al vroeg had Leiter een interesse voor schilderkunst ontwikkeld hij trof de schilder Richard Pousette-Dart, een vertegenwoordiger van het abstract-expressionisme. Op de leeftijd van 23 jaar, verliet hij echter de godsdienstopleiding en trok naar New York om kunstenaar te worden. ![]() De vader van Saul Leiter was een bekende Talmud-geleerde en ook Saul studeerde met het doel rabbijn te worden. ![]() AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |