![]() ![]() Stories about empire move us because they’re echoes of the memories that reside deep in our collective consciousness. ![]() When we see the empire defeated, we feel strong, liberated, and renewed. We sit in a darkened theater, or with our faces covered in the bluish glow of our private screens, and we watch heroes who are small and weak and isolated fight back against power. The empire of fantasy and cosplay is steel and stone perfection, and it is savagery. We watch and read narratives of powerful elites living inside stone towers and walled cities, protected by death rays and roiling fires and all-seeing eyes. I took them to movies and bought them books that transported them into fictional realms and into alternate pasts, or deep into the future, or into a galaxy that is “far, far away.” This is a rite of passage of a United States childhood. My children grew up devouring stories of empire and injustice, fantasies set in worlds that are not our own. Host Deepa Fernandes speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Héctor Tobar about his new book, " Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of 'Latino." In it, Tobar tells the stories he's heard as well as his own to explore what it means to be called Latino. The cover of "Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of 'Latino." (Courtesy) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny and sincere look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better. The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture. I once live-tweeted the September issue.' In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of colour (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. She talks a lot about the fact that there is an idea that one has to be a perfect feminist in order to have a say in the feminism movement. ![]() I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. In the TED Talk, 'Confessions of a Bad Feminist,' Roxane Gay highlights many of these points. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() and one in Dakar, Senegal, “to understand how each reckons with its relationship to the history of American slavery.” The result is a devastating portrait with unforgettable details. For this book, the author traveled to nine sites, eight in the U.S. is “at an inflection point, in which there is a willingness to more fully grapple with the legacy of slavery and how it shaped the world we live in today.” However, while “some places have attempted to tell the truth about their proximity to slavery and its aftermath,” others have refused. ![]() “The story our country tells about the Civil War often flattens some of its otherwise complex realities,” writes New Orleans native Smith, a staff writer for the Atlantic. A Black journalist and poet calls for a reconsideration of the way America teaches its history of slavery. ![]() ![]() Hallee is a member of the Published Author Network (PAN) of the Romance Writers of America (RWA) where she serves as a long time board member in the Faith, Hope, & Love chapter. In addition to nutritious, Biblically grounded recipes, readers will find that each cookbook also confronts some controversial aspect of secular pop culture. Her passion for cooking spurred her to launch a whole food, real food “Parody” cookbook series. She enjoys the roller-coaster ride thrills that life with a National Guard husband, a teenaged daughter, and two elementary aged sons delivers.Ī prolific writer, when she’s not penning novels, you will find her in the kitchen, which she considers the ‘heart of the home’. ![]() ![]() Her work has been described as everything from refreshing to heart-stopping exciting and edgy.Īn Army brat turned Floridian, Hallee finally settled in central Kentucky with her family so that she could enjoy the beautiful changing of the seasons. ![]() Hallee Bridgeman is a best-selling Christian author who writes action-packed romantic suspense focusing on realistic characters who face real world problems. ![]() ![]() ![]() The four stories in The Door in the Hedge follow that same pattern, though two of the stories are touted as original creations, versus re-imaginings. ![]() This was Robin McKinley’s second published work, after her very well-received first novel, Beauty (1978), which was a creative retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale. And this re-reading proved me right on that count, though I was pleasantly surprised to find that the two stories Jenny liked the most, The Princess and the Frog, and The Twelve Dancing Princesses, were really pretty darned good, and my own favourites of the collection, too. I knew I’d read this collection of four short fantasy-fairy tale retellings before, but I honestly could not drag up any strong memories regarding it, just that I had mentally filed it in the “wordy” category of McKinley’s writings. Nudged on by a comment from Jenny (of the former Jenny’s Books, now all spiffed up and better than ever at Reading the End) on my yesterday’s post about Robin McKinley’s later book of short stories, A Knot in the Grain(1994), I temporarily sidelined (again!) the Agatha Christie ( The Murder on the Links) that I was sporadically reading and settled down to a power read of The Door in the Hedge instead. The Door in the Hedge by Robin McKinley ~ 1981. ![]() ![]() But when feuds turn to fatalities, and madness begins to blur the distinction between what’s real and what’s imagined, the girls must attempt to put a stop to the chilling series of events they’ve accidentally set in motion. Together, Maria and Lily harness the dark power long rumored to be present on the former plantation that houses their school. After all, it would lock in Maria’s attendance at Stanford-and assure her and Lily four more years in a shared dorm room. ![]() But Delilah doesn’t know that Lily and Maria are willing to do anything-absolutely anything-to unseat Delilah for the scholarship. ![]() Golden child Delilah is a legend at exclusive Acheron Academy, and the presumptive winner of the distinguished Cawdor Kingsley Prize. ![]() Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school’s ultimate power couple-but one thing stands between them and their perfect future: campus superstar Delilah Dufrey. ![]() Amnesty Honour winner Robin Talley is back with a Shakespeare-inspired story of revenge and redemption, where fair is foul, and foul is fair.įrom the acclaimed author of Lies We Tell Ourselves, Robin Talley, comes a Shakespeare-inspired story of revenge and redemption, where fair is foul, and foul is fair. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Billionaires, all of us." "The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader glance up, searching for an available ear with which to share them." - Melissa Febos, New York Times Book Review "Witty. The collected best of Ursula's blog, No Time to Spare presents perfectly crystallized dispatches on what mattered to her late in life, her concerns with the world, and her wonder at it: "How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. ![]() In the last great frontier of life, old age, she explored a new literary territory: the blog, a forum where she shined. Le Guin took readers to imaginary worlds for decades. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?" On breakfast: "Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime." Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: "If I'm ninety and believe I'm forty-five, I'm headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub." On cultural perceptions of fantasy: "The direction of escape is toward freedom. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts-always adroit, often acerbic-on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rivers was a significant romantic and creative presence in O'Hara's life, and while their most fruitful collaborative years were the 1950s and early 1960s, they were lifelong friends and lovers. The Rivers jacket is based on his painting O'Hara Nude with Boots (1954), which has been described as "an American classic: a homoerotic Statue of Liberty in combat boots, witty without being silly, tough without being heavy" (Cotter). Message us if you have books to sell!.įirst edition, first printing, in the first state suppressed dust jacket, featuring a nude design of the author by Larry Rivers dated 10/71, swiftly replaced with a green typographical design dated 11/71. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. A very good copy of this collection of poems by Frank O'Hara. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear with some nicks along edges. ![]() Date written on bottom of first blank page (1976). A few spots to bottom of boards and light spotting to top of page ends. White cloth boards stamped in gold with illustrated endpapers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After hosting the Subaru rally car simulated service, which saw the car come tearing round a corner, engine at full chat and the car decidedly sideways before pulling up to the garage setup for a gearbox change, he was then off to do the same on the other side of the park with the Aston Le Mans squad! This was of course much more up my alley. Easier said than done, as Ben was hosting all manner of events all day and all over the very large facility. I was told by Ben that he may be able to squeeze two minutes with him at some point and to find him later to arrange it. ![]() As the gates were opened to allow the huge crowds in, I made contact straight away with Michelle England and Ben Sayer to see if I could get my eagerly anticipated interview with “The Man”. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not just the birthing story of any given woman - although that was a good thing to keep in mind - but the whole history Mama called this "the history of the body," as there were a lot of folks, family and otherwise, who had gone before this person, and remembering those people was nearly as important to a midwife as anything we might do with our hands. Mama always said that most of being a good midwife was in knowing the family history. For generations, the women of her family have attended the births of most children in Kettle Valley, West Virginia - lovingly, grimly serving as midwives and, sometimes when the births go bad or the child is unwanted, acting as merciful murderers. Unlike Prissy in Gone With the Wind, Elizabeth Whitely knows somethin' 'bout birthin' babies. ![]() Review | The Midwife's Tale by Gretchen Moran Laskas ![]() |