![]() Ranging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives’ novellas and stories draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. With his new fiction collection, Counternarratives(New Directions) , Whiting Writer’s Award winner and long-time member of The Dark Room Collective, John Keene provides illuminating alternative narratives to the standard North American mythos: ![]() J“The stories in Counternarratives trouble contemporary narrative conventions in American fiction, in part through an emphasis on storytelling in itself through a play with structure, genre and voice and through the queerness of the characters themselves.” ![]() John Keene: On Hidden Histories and Why Writing Against Official Narratives is Queer ![]()
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![]() ![]() Though he's turned his drunken rages on his girlfriend, Josie, and her children many times before, the police code of silence has always shielded him.īut one night he goes too far, leaving Josie for dead on the floor before passing out. ![]() suspenseful' - New York Timesĭeputy Stuart Kofer is a protected man. It gives the book an emotional core that burns with a white heat' - Daily Mail There is a lot of Grisham in Brigance - they were both street lawyers on the side of the people, not big corporations. 'A new Grisham legal thriller is always an event, but this one is exceptional as the author is returning to Jake Brigance, the hero of his very first book, A Time To Kill. Jake Brigance, lawyer hero of A Time to Kill and Sycamore Row, is back, in his toughest case ever. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** ![]() ![]() ![]() After dinner, as everyone sits in silence, Marian narrates how Clara was always fragile, thin, and blonde, a girl who was an embodiment of “translucent perfume-advertisement femininity.” Clara got pregnant in the middle of college with her husband, Joe, and put aside her education. Ainsley asks Joe who Len Slank is and he explains that Len is one of Clara’s college friends who is “unethical,” which Marian disagrees with. Marian, Ainsley, Clara, and Clara’s husband, Joe, all sit down for dinner together. As the three women talk, Arthur runs around them and causes continuous disruptions. Clara mentions that Len Slank, one of their college friends, is in town, and Marian feels hurt that he hasn’t called her, even though he called Clara. Marian assumed that Clara had called her over for dinner so that Marian could help with the children, but while Marian is at Clara’s, she feels that she doesn’t know what to do or what Clara wants from her. ![]() She is also pregnant, which Marian explains is especially noticeable because Clara is so thin. Clara has two children: a baby and a young son named Arthur. ![]() Marian and Ainsley arrive at Clara’s for dinner. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jule is clearly on the run from something for some reason, but we don’t know why, and it isn’t revealed until later in the book. That might sound kind of weird, and at first I thought it was too, but in the first chapter (or chapter 18 in this case), we are first introduced to the main character of the book, Jule. Genuine Fraud starts at chapter 18 and works its way backwards to chapter 1. ![]() But once I started reading, I found myself completely engrossed in the story and desperate to find out what happened next (or before, I guess is more accurate?). Lockhart, I wasn’t really sure that I was going to be able to get into the book – mostly because I didn’t have as great of a relationship with We Were Liars as so many others, and partly because I thought the way that it went backwards in the book’s timeline instead of forward was kind of weird. When I first started reading Genuine Fraud by E. This review is going to be shorter than a lot of others that I write, but it’s not because I didn’t like the book – in fact, because I loved it so much, I’m not going to spoil anything, so it’s as much of a surprise for you when you read it as it was for me. ![]() ![]() By 1801, Louverture was general and governor of the colony, now called Haiti. What followed was a decade of unprecedented bloodletting: about 200,000 people in the colony of Saint-Domingue were killed in battle or murdered. Working as a coachman for his wealthy, white owners, Louverture traveled across Saint-Domingue, building a network among slaves and free blacks that would form the basis of the slave revolt he engineered in 1791. In Toussaint Louverture, Philippe Girard tells the incredible tale of how Louverture transformed himself from lowly freedman to revolutionary hero. ![]() ![]() Yet he managed to earn his freedom and establish himself as a small-scale planter. Saint-Domingue, the richest colony in the Western Hemisphere, where he witnessed first-hand the torture of the enslaved population. ![]() "Toussaint Louverture's life was one of hardship, triumph, and contradiction. ![]() ![]() Published by Flame Tree Publishing, 2009. ![]() Dragon Art: Inspiration, Impact & Technique in Fantasy Art (Inspirations & Techniques) Aymer, Graeme. "Dragon Art" is an inspiration and a feast for the eyes. : Dragon Art: Inspiration, Impact & Technique in Fantasy Art (Inspirations & Techniques): new. A fascinating discussion of dragons and fantasy art runs throughout the book, alongside a large selection of the best work out there at the moment, which is interspersed with features presenting artists' works-in-progress, providing invaluable insight on technique. The 'Masters of Dragon Art' section includes such favourites as Don Maitz and Bob Eggleton. ![]() The inspirational foreword is by fantasy legend and Lord of the Ringsfilm concept artist John Howe. "Dragon Art" is a stunning survey of amazing contemporary fantasy artwork, specifically of dragons - that most popular of fantasy creatures. ![]() The pages are clean, free of underlining, highlighting or notes. ![]() A fascinating discussion of dragons and fantasy art runs throughout the book, alongside a large selection of the best work out there at the moment, which is interspersed with features presenting. Title : Dragon Art: Inspiration, Impact & Technique in Fantasy Art (Inspirations & Techniques). ![]() ![]() ![]() For that, there’s the 20th-anniversary Broadway revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog. Although these two plays are canonical studies of our nation’s vexing ideal, even they don’t quite capture the frenzied desperation of our calamitous present. At the Public Theater in New York, Robert O’Hara directs Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, a work that examines the American Dream with a shrewd dubiousness, looking past the glamour to the festering sores. On Broadway, Miranda Cromwell, director of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, reintroduces the Lomans as a Black family - a change that complicates Willy (played by Wendell Pierce) and layers his tragic end. The mythical, unwieldy concept - marked by relentless striving and repeated heartbreak - is inherently Sisyphean, resembling our senseless approach to these times. ![]() With a recession on the horizon, a year of racial protests in the rearview and a pandemic still rippling and raging, it makes sense that this season’s theater revivals lurk and pace around the American Dream. ![]() ![]() But what starts out as a one-night stand, quickly turns into something more. ![]() In what can only be considered a complete lapse in judgment, Violet finds out just how good Alex is with the hockey stick in his pants. But when Alex inadvertently obliterates Violet’s previous misapprehension regarding the inferior intellect of hockey players, he becomes more than just a hot body with a face to match. Violet isn’t interested in his pretty, beat-up face, or his rock-hard six-pack abs. That is until she meets the legendary team captain-Alex Waters. ![]() She’s smart enough to steer clear of those hot, well-built boys with unparalleled stamina. ![]() With a famous NHL player for a step-brother, Violet Hall is well acquainted with the playboy reputation many hockey stars come with. ![]() ![]() Fish face? Why the hell not?* This is a book where not everything is explained, and that is both a detriment and a benefit Vaughan is not a writer to explain everything in issue #1, but over time instead. Want to look like another gender or race? You got it. Whether by surgery, holograms or just latex masks, everyone hides their true identity. In the comic, physical alterations have been taken to an extreme level. Set in a future where absolutely nothing is what it seams, Private Eye takes a look at our culture and imagines where we may be heading. The first issue of the series has been released not in print or even on Comixology, but offered through a pay-what-you-want basis on their own site Panel Syndicate. Vaughan, known for such critically acclaimed series as Y The Last Man, Ex-Mechina and Saga has just started a new series with artist Marcos Martin, known for his work on Robin: Year One and Daredevil. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think it might have been when Danny's second house burned to the ground and Pilon and the group decided to move in with Danny in his first house. Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you? ![]() Simple and direct in his thought process, sometimes entirely logical and others entirely illogical in his approach to solving many of life's problems, he reminded me of a gentle giant, someone easy to like and yet, not quite. I suspect most readers would select either Pilon or Danny but, I enjoyed the humanity reflected in Big Joe Portugee more. Which character – as performed by John McDonough – was your favorite? I had no difficulty at all imagining his collection of dogs, his style of life that wasn't terribly different from theirs, and his unassuming nature and gratitude for the little he had. with a little mystery thrown in for good measure. A study in assumptions, ethnicity, allegiance, dependency and fate. If you could sum up Tortilla Flat in three words, what would they be?Ī continuation of life in Monterey albeit at a later time - post war era - and in a different venue from Cannery Row. ![]() |
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