![]() ![]() In this brainy, playful, shattering account, Machado ultimately tells her own singular tale. Love that dare not speak its name.” Elsewhere, she imagines they are characters in I Love Lucy and Star Trek. In one chapter, she compares her torrid romance to a lesbian pulp novel: “Depraved inversion. Her dazzling autobiography drags that discussion into the light, examining her experience through the prism of different tropes and genres in search of answers to her traumatic past. ![]() And by “the silence,” she means a dearth of similar stories: Seldom is domestic abuse in same-sex relationships summoned from the shadows. “I speak into the silence,” Machado writes. When Machado was a grad student in Iowa, she met her first girlfriend it made her feel like “a child buying something with her own money for the first time.” That woman would become her abuser. Now, with her inventive memoir, In the Dream House, Machado continues this thrilling amalgamation of narratives to lay bare the emotional toll of her own real-life horror story. In 2016’s genre-bending short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, she melted the raw materials of literary fiction and fantasy-horror and melded them into an uncannily original assemblage of feminist fairy tales. Carmen Maria Machado is as much alchemist as author. ![]()
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Murder At The Golf ClubA 1920s Murder Mystery In Which Everyone Gets To 'Play' A Round Of Golf. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book asks a lot of questions about the power of that kind of celebrity, and about the ways in which social media divides and unites people. ![]() April's just out of college and starting out in New York City, which she loves, and she becomes an internationally famous social media star practically overnight. With protagonist April in her early 20s, it's not marketed strictly at teens, but there's a lot of appeal here. Parents need to know that An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is a science-fiction story by Hank Green, the driving force along with his brother John of several popular science and "nerd-power" YouTube channels. A reference to college as an expensive place to cultivate your taste in beer.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. ![]() ![]() I thought that being a cultural “fish out of water” as a reader in a small West Texas town without a library would make him self-conscious or bitter when looking back. For some reason I thought he was a bit of a curmudgeon. What surprised me the most in this book is the affection McMurtry has for so many things – his childhood, his family, reading, and of course for books themselves. McMurtry is a patron author of lost causes – the West, cowboys, independent second-hand booksellers, small towns. Even if staying on them doesn’t make any sense. They’re about big spaces and the people resolved to stay on them. As he shares here, most of his books are probably about Archer City. That’s Larry McMurtry’s hometown, as well as the subject of his book The Last Picture Show. The cover photo, though, is the Dairy Queen in Archer City, Texas. A DQ can be a cultural hub in a rural area. Now I take my own kids there now when passing through. I used to go there as a teenager when driving to college. ![]() That DQ photo reminds me of the Dairy Queen I’d often stop at in Goldthwaite, Texas, at the intersection of Highway 183 and 16. ![]() I have great affection for everything about this book: the Dairy Queen cover photo, the West Texas rumination, the author’s cherishing of books and words. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Parking spaces can be found in the parking lot outside the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, along East Harmon Ave, and in the lot behind the Lied Library. She is also the founder of One More Book, a publishing house and bookstore encouraging reading among children of countries with low literacy rates and underrepresented cultures. A graduate of Howard University and USC, she is currently a Margaret Mead Fellow at Columbia University Teachers College. Moore’s work appears in The Paris Review, Frieze Magazine, Guernica, and The Atlantic Magazine. Wayétu Moore is the author of She Would Be King, an ambitious and beautiful novel reframing the creation of Liberia through magical realism. Moore brings us an excerpt from her new book, “She Would Be King” which re-imagines the creation of Liberia through magical realism.” “On this episode of UNLV Speaks: the Black Mountain Institute presents its breakout fiction writer, Wayétu Moore. KUNV is the broadcast service of The University of Nevada, Las Vegas. ![]() Check out this audio excerpt of UNLV Speaks, in collaboration with our partner, KUNV. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fox, Nina Blackwood, Linda Evans and Denver author David Sirota. Narrated by former brat pack member Rob Lowe, it aims to be “the defining biography of a decade,’ as told through interviews with Fonda, Larry Hagman, DMC, Danny DeVito, Oliver Stone, Calvin Klein, David Hasselhoff, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Michael J. ![]() National Geographic Channel’s three-part easy-listening history, “The ’80s: The Decade That Made Us,’ premiering Sunday-Monday-Tuesday at 6 p.m., purports to be more than nostalgia. Dig a little deeper and you can see the beginnings of the social/cultural/techno revolutions that shaped today’s world. ![]() Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menuįlashback to Rubik’s cubes, “The Cosby Show’ (pictured), Jane Fonda workout videos, Pac Man, Ronald Reagan and “Back to the Future’ and what do you get? Besides the musical headache (“Another One Bites the Dust’?), you get a kinda fun, kinda icky dose of the 1980s. ![]() ![]() ![]() And as her life continues to quickly spiral out of control, she realizes that something BIG is about to happen. Tis the season to be jolly… Or is it?ĭaisy’s life is flipped upside down by strange letters that are sent to her by her best friend, Amelia. And Christmas is right around the corner. You can get your copy for just 0.99 cents on Kindle, Smashwords and Nook only during the month of December.ĭaisy has the perfect life, beautiful children and a wonderful husband. ![]() This great novella brings mystery, suspense and the best stocking stuffer for your favorite e-reader. ![]() I hope you enjoy this short read which will be on sale for 0.99 for the month of December. You’ll be able to see on my new novella “Season’s Greeting from Amelia” how good intentions are not enough to justify our wrong actions. ![]() ![]() ![]() It suits the story, which is reminiscent of one told around a campfire over the course of many days. Many of the characters read like archetypes rather than people, especially the deities. Hall of Smoke is well-written and compelling, even if slightly predictable at times. Combined with this is a story about colonialization, and the tension between old and new. Long weaves an intricately crafted narrative around the fall of gods, a pantheon on the brink of extinction. A world in which deities walk among mortals and come when called, full of supernatural powers, Hall of Smoke draws you in quickly and doesn’t let you go again. Off on a mountain to offer prayer and sacrifice to the Goddess, Hessa is absent when her town gets raided and comes back to devastation. But when the story sets out, she is in disgrace because she failed to follow Eang’s plan to kill a visitor. Hessa is an Eangi, a priestess of Eang – the Goddess of War. Many thanks to Titan for sending me an early review copy. Long is an exciting debut set in a Viking-inspired world of gods and warrior priestesses. Out in January 2021 from Titan Books, Hall of Smoke by H.M. ![]() ![]() The air conditioning and digital instruments went on functioning without a sound. ![]() For some time, throughout the ship there was a dead silence. When it filled half the width of the screen the annihilation reactor was turned off. In the crosshairs of their field of vision was the disk of a sun that was not much hotter than a regular red dwarf. Only automatons were working on the bridge. ![]() Since the journey was relatively short, rather than full hibernation they had been put into a deepened sleep in which body temperature did not drop below fifty degrees. The eighty-three men of the crew were sleeping in the tunnel-shaped hibernation chamber on the main deck. ![]() The Invincible, a class II cruiser, the largest vessel of the fleet stationed at the base in the Lyra constellation, was moving in photon sequence across a quadrant on the very edge of that cluster of stars. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. "The best kind of love story."-Alex Sanchez, Lambda Award-winning author of Rainbow Boys and Boyfriends with Girlfriends "Feels timelessly, effortlessly now."-Tim Federle, author of Better Nate Than Ever "I am so in love with this book."-Nina LaCour, author of Hold Still ![]() "A remarkable gift of a novel."-Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle ![]() Morris Award Winner: Best Young Adult Debut of the Year * National Book Award Longlist Now a major motion picture: Love, Simon, starring Nick Robinson and Katherine Langford! This edition includes new Simon and Blue emails, a behind-the-scenes scrapbook from the Love, Simon movie set, and Becky Albertalli in conversation with fellow authors Adam Silvera and Angie Thomas. ![]() |