![]() ![]() After she remarried, they lived in Newhalem, a small company town in the North Cascade Mountains, where his stepfather, Robert Thompson, worked at Seattle City Light. His parents separated when Wolff was five and his elder brother Geoffrey was twelve he lived with his mother in a variety of places, including Seattle, Washington, when he was an adolescent. (Wolff was raised and identifies as Catholic, like his mother.) The father had become Episcopalian, and Wolff did not learn about his father's Jewish roots until he was an adult. ![]() Wolff was born in 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama, the second son of Rosemary (Loftus) from Hartford, Connecticut, and Arthur Samuels Wolff, an aeronautical engineer who was a son of a Jewish doctor and his wife. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences. His academic career began at Syracuse University (1982–1997) and, since 1997, he has taught at Stanford University, where he is the Ward W. Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in September 2015. He has written four short story collections and two novels including The Barracks Thief (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army (1994). Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. Wolff at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, California, 2008Ĭatherine Dolores Spohn (m. ![]()
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![]() And Woona is the only married woman out of the four. ![]() ![]() Ara is a mute hair stylist who spends her free time obsessing over Taein, a fictional K-pop singer. Miho is an orphan who has become an artist and now has a chaebol boyfriend. Kyuri is a stunning room salon girl who obtains her beauty through plastic surgery. The storyline spins deftly through four first-person perspectives that slowly fold together. From overarching beauty standards and cutthroat pressure among social classes to broken family relationships, the novel fleshes out the ramifications of these issues through the narration of its main female protagonists. ![]() In her debut novel, releasing April 21, former CNN reporter Frances Cha tackles topical social issues that women in South Korea struggle to overcome. Detailed perspectives of the world around the building come from the voices of the five women it houses, in the riveting slice-of-life tale, “ If I Had Your Face.” ![]() Sitting on the same road with a perfect view of all the sordid dealings is a gray, cheaply built, four-story officetel. In the busiest part of Seoul, South Korea lies a street buzzing with drunk men, who are exploring the abundance of bars that the area has to offer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lilian was in charge of "Woman's Work" in the Newark Evening News from 1895 to 1900 and was known as "Miss Mack" or "Lilian Mack". At this point she uses an alternate name "Lillian Mack" and lives in Newark. In 1893 her poem "Peace" was featured in the New Jersey Scrapbook of Women Writers created for the World's Columbian Exposition. She attended private schools including Dunkirk Union School. Lillian wrote her own "Woman's Page" for a city paper as a teenager. Her parents were Irish immigrants Edward and Winifred. Lilian McNamara was born in 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio. Garis, were possibly the most prolific children's authors of the early 20th century. Prior to this, she was the first female reporter for the Newark Evening News in New Jersey. ![]() ![]() McNamara (20 October 1873 – 19 April 1954) was an American author who wrote hundreds of books of juvenile fiction between around 1915 and the early 1940s. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is an intellectually exciting record of a meeting between two important philosophers and it also serves as the best possible introduction to the essential concerns and ideas of contemporary philosophy. While the debate began rooted in linguistics and theory of knowledge (the core interests of the two philosophers who are arguably the defining academic minds of the late twentieth-century) it became a much wider discussion, encompassing topics from history and behaviourism to creativity, freedom and the struggle for political justice. ![]() In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a time of great political and social instability, two of the world's leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by Dutch philosopher Fons Edlers to debate an age-old question: is there such a thing as 'innate' human. ![]() Their debate was one of the most provocative and original debates to have occurred between contemporary philosophers and serves as a concise introduction to their respective philosophical theories. The debate offered sharp contrasts between the more traditional view of human nature and what would become a postmodernist perspective. Two of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers debate a perennial question. ![]() In 1971, at a time of enormous political and social change, two of the world's leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by the Dutch philosopher Fons Elders to debate the question: is there an 'innate' human nature independent of our experiences and external influences? ![]() ![]() ![]() There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides her charges-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and their procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings are harrowing.Īs Blindness reclaims the age-old story of a plague, it evokes the vivid and trembling horrors of the twentieth century, leaving readers with a powerful vision of the human spirit that’s bound both by weakness and exhilarating strength.īlindness is a great novel by Portuguese writer José Saramago that deals with human’s individual and collective reactions when in the face of adversarial forces. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations, and assaulting women. ![]() ![]() Theme: Existence, Uncertainty, and Autonomy Good, Evil, and Moral Conscience Biological Needs and Human SocietyĪ city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” that spares no one. Setting Place: An unnamed city, primarily in an abandoned mental hospital Major Characters: The doctor (Blindness), The doctor’s wife, The girl with the dark glasses, The first blind man, The first blind man’s wife, The boy with the squint, The old man with the black eye patch, The car thief First Publication: 1995 (English translation: 1997) ![]() ![]() ![]() I felt that it took FOREVER for them to come to their senses! While I enjoyed reading about it – I wish we could have had a little longer of an ending to see them REALLY enjoy one another. WHO DOES THAT?! Seriously.Īside from that – this story was awesome. Who sits by and watches as their best friend is HEARTBROKEN, yet she continues to go out with Collin and the guys & even tries to hook Collin up with other woman. As far as friends go – I feel like I would accidentally back over her with my car if she were my friend. I will point out that I DESPISED Sin’s “Best Friend” Taylor in this book. She starts to realize that she wants to be THAT girl that Collin pays attention to & for a lot longer than one night. Yet, it soon stops being about friendship to Sin. (Messed up, right?!) After all, friends help each other get dates lol. Sin soon becomes the girl that helps Collin get his girls. The two of them end up sleeping together in the same bed…. He seems to be with a different girl every night. There were some things that reminded me of BD and some parts in the story that just had me flashing back to BD.Ĭollin is your typical Lady Lover. ![]() Not in the “OMG – this book ripped off the other books story line” kind of way, but in a good way. One thing I can say is that this book reminded me of Beautiful Disaster. I do wish it was a bit longer, but only because I felt that some parts of the story could have been elaborated on just a little more. For being a short read, I found this one rather enjoyable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even readers who aren’t fans of horror will appreciate this bighearted story. Danforth creates a fantastic sense of dread and champions queer female relationships throughout, delving into Libbie and Alex’s history and how their circumstances doomed them to their fate. On set, though, there is very real evidence of haunting. Merritt has been asked to consult on the film, which features lesbian superstar Harper Harper and subpar but earnest Audrey Wells, who is told by the film’s director that the shoot, on location at Brookhants, will be rigged with spooky events to elicit genuine responses. The dead students had been obsessed with MacLane’s memoir, in which the author invokes the devil to satisfy her desire for women. danforth is the author of the highly-acclaimed young adult novel The Miseducation of Cameron Post. In the present, Merritt Emmons is reviewing the screenplay adaptation of her book about three students who died at Brookhants in 1902, two of whom were attacked by a swarm of wasps under the watch of principal Libbie Brookhants and her partner Alex Trills, who also met eerie, premature deaths. ![]() Danforth’s sumptuous sophomore novel (after The Miseducation of Cameron Post) chronicles the allegedly cursed 1902 memoir The Story of Mary MacLane and its link to the shuttered Brookhants School for Girls in Little Compton, R.I. ![]() ![]() This is the first edition in which the image separations were created digitally the files have been specially prepared by Robert J. Arbus's photographs penetrate the psyche with all the force of a personal encounter and, in doing so, transform the way we see the world and the people in it. Nearly half of a century has done nothing to diminish the riveting impact of these pictures or the controversy they inspire. ![]() Universally acknowledged as a classic, Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph is a timeless masterpiece with editions in five languages and remains the foundation of her international reputation. Their goal in making the book was to remain as faithful as possible to the standards by which Diane Arbus judged her own work and to the ways in which she hoped it would be seen. The monograph of eighty photographs was edited and designed by the painter Marvin Israel, Diane Arbus's friend and colleague, and by her daughter Doon Arbus. ![]() The publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph in 1972- along with the posthumous retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art-offered the general public its first encounter with the breadth and power of her achievements. When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of forty-eight, she was already a significant influence-even something of a legend-among serious photographers, although only a relatively small number of her most important pictures were widely known at the time. ![]() ![]() Her first science-writing job was in Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the atomic bomb and the center of some of the country’s most cutting edge and controversial research – including work on laser fusion and the “Star Wars” missile defense system. Sandi Doughton is an award-winning science writer for The Seattle Times and the author of Full Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest.ĭoughton has been covering science, medicine and the environment for more than 25 years, first in New Mexico, then in the Pacific Northwest.ĭoughton set out to be a biologist, but after graduate research that required her to stand in a walk-in freezer and drip rattlesnake venom into test tubes, she decided to combine her interests in journalism and science. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the 'devastating' impact Crawford's adopted daughter Christina's memoir Mommie Dearest had, LaLonde believes it's turned into something good.In Feud, actresses Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon play Crawford and her Hollywood nemesis Bette Davis.But now, as the popular FX series Feud hits its stride, Crawford's grandson Casey LaLonde is glad the show depicts her in a truer light.Crawford was portrayed as a sadistic control freak who beat her eldest daughter and was an abusive drunk in the movie Mommie Dearest.Exclusive home video shows the screen icon at her most relaxed, having a smoke and walking through a stream carrying a hunting rifle.EXCLUSIVE: She was NO grandma dearest! The grandson of Hollywood actress Joan Crawford praises TV's Feud and tells of the private life of the 'human,' loving woman he knew simply as JoJo ![]() |