![]() ![]() ![]() But some queer stories have become louder than others: the tragic lesbians of midcentury pulp novels whose affairs can only end in degayification or death (via, of course, a “properly” heterosexual man), white, cisgendered, genteel gay men who just want to settle down and raise a baby (just like you, straights!), and the coming out story. I knew it centered on a young lesbian who ended up being sent to “pray the gay away” camp, but it’s… I hesitate to say so much more, because I think that every queer story is valuable. It’s a title I remember from my bookstore days, trying to give it the much-desired face out. (See our attention spans regarding Fantastic Fours and Spider-Mans.) And both of those are nonfiction titles, which mean that I’ve been without a fictional character breathing in my ear with how weighty and real they seem for quite some time.īut The Miseducation of Cameron Post put that to rights. But it seems like the last books that I truly adored and found myself practically drowning in ( Women in Clothes and Truly Wilde) were months ago, which, in nerd time, is practically an eternity. When I first realized this, I thought it couldn’t be true-2015’s been a pretty solid reading year so far, especially with my determination to read more lady authors than gentlemen authors this year. It’s been a long time since I read something as good as The Miseducation of Cameron Post. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Absorbing in its complexity and bold in its bloodiness, this beginning promises (and delivers) equal shares of beauty and decay. Kristoff portrays a world as rife with villains and treachery as the ancient Italian civilizations it echoes. "Launching the Nevernight fantasy series, Kristoff (the Lotus War trilogy) creates a splendid world of corruption and violence. But if she survives to initiation, Mia will be inducted among the chosen of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the only thing she desires. Treachery and trials await her with the Church’s halls, and to fail is to die. ![]() ![]() Now, a sixteen year old Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic - the Red Church. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.ĭaughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Nevernight is the first in an epic new fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author, Jay Kristoff. ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. But an old enemy, the treacherous Earl Eadric, dogs Godwin's footsteps, and as the final battle approaches, around the valiant English the trap begins to close. With epic courage and ferocity, Godwin and Edmund repel the butchering Danes in three great battles. ![]() Godwin must traverse the meadows, wintry forests and fogbound marshes of Saxon England, raising armies of monks, ploughmen and shepherds against the Viking invader. When Ethelred's son Edmund takes the throne, determined to succeed where his father failed, he plucks Godwin from domestic peace to be right-hand man in his loyal shield wall. One man lives to bear witness to the upheaval: Godwin, barely out of boyhood and destined to become one of his country's great warriors. ![]() King Ethelred lies dying and the England he knew dies with him the warring kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex and Northymbria tremble on the brink of great change. You will not sit idly by as our cultural and religious symbols are dragged through the mud. A statement that you will not stand for hatred. ![]() By signing on, you're making a statement. Together we denounce all those abusing our faith to spread hatred and negativity. The year is 1016 and England burns while the Viking armies blockade the great city of London. Shieldwall is an effort to unite the heathen community. ![]() ![]() Headlee graduated from Northern Arizona University (NAU) and then received a masters degree in vocal performance from the University of Michigan. Her maternal grandfather was African-American and her maternal grandmother was of Russian Jewish descent. Her maternal grandparents were composer William Grant Still and pianist Verna Arvey. Headlee is the author of We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter (Harper Wave, September 19, 2017).Ĭeleste Headlee was born December 30, 1969, in Whittier, California, the daughter of Judith Anne Still, a writer, and Larry Headlee, a marine geologist. ![]() Before 2009, she was the Midwest Correspondent for NPR's Day to Day and the host of a weekly show on Detroit Public Radio. In her 20-year career in public radio, Headlee has served as the host of the Georgia Public Broadcasting program "On Second Thought" and co-host of the national morning news show The Takeaway. ![]() William Grant Still and Verna Arvey (maternal grandparents)Ĭeleste Headlee (born December 30, 1969) is an American radio journalist, author, public speaker, and co-host of the weekly series Retro Report on PBS. Radio journalist, author, public speaker, singer ![]() ![]() ![]() The talk is followed by a discussion with Sanford Kwinter, professor in graduate architecture and urban design at Pratt University and co-author, with Moe, of the forthcoming book What is Energy and How (Else) Might We Think About it?. ![]() ![]() He proposes alternate modes of reference that go beyond the Cartesian plane, which, he argues, fails to elucidate the political, social, and ecological dimensions of architecture, instead providing the disabling illusion that architecture exists as a single object in a frozen shape-space. “Architecture is not simply located a building is not simply located,” Moe remarks as he pushes back against the framework of understanding architecture as purely terrestrial. Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier 4,356 ratings, 3.95 average rating, 158 reviews Open Preview Towards a New Architecture Quotes Showing 1-6 of 6 Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs. In this video, Kiel Moe, Gerald Sheff Chair in Architecture at McGill University, approaches this issue via mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead’s theory of the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, especially as it is evidenced in modern architectural production. To address the salient environmental, social, and political crisis of our world, we need to change many of our basic theoretical and practical assumptions about what architectural design is and does. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And I believe it was that same second grade teacher who also published my first book in construction paper and staples! So, reading and writing have always been a part of my life, thanks to some very special people.īut it hasn't always been fiction for me. ![]() My second grade teacher first got me hooked on Silverstein. Montgomery, who created Anne of Green Gables and Shel Silverstein, who wrote the poems I fell in love with in Where the Sidewalk Ends. My two favorite authors growing up were L.M. And my grade school teachers only helped to fuel my love for reading. My mom created a small library for my two sisters and me when we were young. They say to find out who first inspired a writer to write, you have to ask who first inspired him or her to read! And I believe that's true. I think I started writing the moment I started reading. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This volume focuses on the concept, causes, and consequences of deadlocks in multilateral settings, and analyses the types of strategies that could be used to break them. Keywords: mediumship-survival-proxy research-cross-correspondences-drop-in communicatorsĭeadlocks are a feature of everyday life, as well as high politics. She argues that a revival of research on mediumship, particularly with proxy sittings, could contribute importantly to present-day psychical research and, perhaps ultimately, move us beyond the current impasse. In this paper the author examines some types of mediumship research that have been considered particularly important for the survival question: cross-correspondences, drop-in communicators, and proxy cases. Although a vast amount of high-quality research resulted from that effort, the study of mediumship was almost completely abandoned during the latter half of the 20th century, primarily because of the impasse reached over whether the phenomena are best-interpreted as attributable to deceased agents or to living agents. The study of mediums was part of a larger program of psychical research, begun in the late 19th century, intended to examine specifically whether human personality survives bodily death, and more generally whether the brain produces mind or consciousness, as most scientists since the late 19th century have assumed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hatshepsut was a master strategist, cloaking her political power plays in the veil of piety and sexual reinvention. At just over twenty, Hatshepsut ascended to the rank of pharaoh in an elaborate coronation ceremony that set the tone for her spectacular reign as co-regent with Thutmose III, the infant king whose mother Hatshepsut out-maneuvered for a seat on the throne. ![]() Her failure to produce a male heir was ultimately the twist of fate that paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king. Hatshepsut'the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty'was born into a privileged position of the royal household, and she was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father's family. ![]() An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.įollowing this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where he would purchase books from spinner racks, some of which he still owns today.Īaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers, on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket was based, was a large influence on Aaron. Jason Aaron grew up in a small town in Alabama. ![]() ![]() ![]() Into this odd mixture, the lonely caseworker Linus Baker, is thrust. Linus is scared of the children at first, but soon sees that they act much like other kids. However, the community around them views them as threats. Meanwhile, the kids are scared that Linus will take them away from their happy home in “The House in the Cerulean Sea.” It is clear to all that he will be making a recommendation whether to shut down the orphanage or not. Sal is a shapeshifter who can become a small Pomeranian. He has the special ability to give others the shapeshifting ability by biting them. He has also been in many orphanages and has suffered abuse. Theodore is one of the few wyverns in existence. Talia is a fare female gnome. Phee has particularly strong forest sprite powers. Chauncey is an amorphous blog with monster-like tentacles. The six children at Marsyas are unique. Lucy, short for Lucifer, is the Antichrist. ![]() |