Maria adelmann how to be eaten5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() No matter what we were or weren’t doing in private, meeting Hugh in public felt like meeting an enemy on a brief and unwieldy truce. Even before leaving the house I felt unwell. Only the Good | Indiana Review, Winter 2015. ![]() You take The Pill daily at 4pm, on schedule exactly because-just imagine: your children would have his fire red hair, and your terrible, errored DNA. James believed but was a negative word that subtracted positive meaning from the first part of the sentence, and therefore he rarely used it.Įlegy | The Southeast Review (SER), Fall 2016. We had a war going on between ands and buts, or, at least, I had a war going on between ands and buts. When I saw the world as upside-down-which, indeed, it seemed to be-then the houses and trees were like stalactites hanging from the ceiling of earth above my head, and our little civilization was very small, just the tiniest inhabited layer in a world made up almost entirely of air. Unattached | Carolina Quarterly, Winter 2017 ![]() ![]() I was born almost completely deaf, and by the time I was seven I had already become a prisoner to my education. The Portrait | The Threepenny Review, Spring 2018. In some dreams, Gretel is a piece of dark, hollow chocolate. Two Stories: Aftermath: Hansel & Gretel's Dreams | Tin House, Spring 2018. With no courtship or aftermath, the exit is peaceful and unembarrassed. In the morning, we lie skin-to-skin, like spoons stacked in the silverware drawer. Middlemen | Alaska Quarterly Review, Winter/Spring 2019. ![]()
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Last night at the telegraph club cover5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() A budding relationship develops with her first White friend, Kathleen, and together they sneak out to the Telegraph Club lesbian bar, where they begin to explore their sexuality as well as their relationship to each other. As she makes her way through her teen years in the 1950s, she starts growing apart from her childhood friends as her passion for rockets and space exploration grows-along with her curiosity about a few blocks in the city that her parents have warned her to avoid. Lily Hu has spent all her life in San Francisco’s Chinatown, keeping mostly to her Chinese American community both in and out of school. Finally, the intersectional, lesbian, historical teen novel so many readers have been waiting for. ![]() Trapped by Michael Northrop5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() For example, the way you described Scotty popping his pimple and how Pete looked when he died gave us an image in our heads that was disturbing. We were so impressed with your descriptive writing that sometimes we got disgusted. Our Wilson Reading class read your book, Trapped, and we liked the book a lot! We didn’t want to stop reading it! We liked the part when they all worked together to get food and solve other problems. 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If you would like to contact me for any reason other than spam, click here or write to me at: ![]() Pamela r lightsey5/13/2023 ![]() This valuable interdisciplinary resource provides a succinct overview of the doctrine of creation that is informed by a discussion on identity. ![]() ![]() ""Writing in the shadow of mass killings of unarmed black persons in the United States, Lightsey's Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology is a timely publication. Theological reflection on contemporary debates such as same-sex marriage and ordination rights make this book a valuable resource to clergy, students of theology, LGBTQ persons and allies. The author privileges their narratives and experiences as she reviews several doctrines and dogma of the Christian church. Lightsey helps readers explore the impact of oppression against Black LBTQ women while introducing them to the emergent intellectual movement known as queer theology. Using a womanist methodological approach, Pamela R. ![]() ![]() Our Lives Matter uses the tenor of the 2014 national protests that emerged as a response to excessive police force against Black people to frame the book as following the discursive tradition of liberation theologies broadly speaking and womanist theology specifically. ![]() Alexis by Marguerite Yourcenar5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Yourcenar’s novels to be translated from the French by Grace Frick in collaboration with the author, Memoirs of Hadrian being the first.įlanking Russia’s outlet to the Baltic Sea lie the countries known before the First World War as the Baltic Provinces, once made up chiefly of vast landed estates controlled by a feudal aristocracy. ![]() The brief but emotionally devastating story is of the love triangle between three young people affected by the civil war between the White Russians and the Bolsheviks: Erick and Conrad, best friends from childhood and Sophie, who is burdened with an unrequited love for Conrad.įrom the 1957 Farrar, Straus and Cudahy edition: Coup de Grâce is the second of Mme. In a 1988 interview in Paris Review, Yourcenar reveals that the novella’s lead female, Sophie, is very close to herself at twenty. ![]() Coup De Grâce by Marguerite Yourcenar is this noted French author’s 1939 novella, her second such work following Alexis (1929). ![]() The readers of broken wheel5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() KB: Everything I write is somehow autobiographical – I’m not a good enough writer to make up stories and emotions entirely. KC: Your debut book is a book for book lovers. I started thinking about what a bookshop can do for a town and the people in it. They were often strange, sometimes profoundly uninterested in books, and all so very… human. But when I started writing, I realized that what I remembered from my years in a bookshop was just as much about the people that passed through it. ![]() After all, I used to consider customers a rude interruption of my reading. Katrina Bivald: When I first decided to include a bookshop in the story, I thought it would be mainly about the books. ![]() How did your work in a book shop influence the story? Kirstine Call: I adore your book, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend. (Go here, for my full goodreads review) I’m thrilled to interview Katarina for Writer’s Rumpus! When I read Katarina Bivald’s, The Reader’s of Broken Wheel Recommend, I had no expectations so I was completely delighted to find it compelling, thought provoking and entirely satisfying. ![]() A family tragicomic5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a song about homesickness and spending quality time with one’s parents.Īmerican Archive. This is a YouTube video and audio of the song Chinese by Lily Allen, released in 2009. It also mentions the Bechdel Test, which originated in her comic strips.Īllen, Lily. This biography talks about Alison’s upbringing, her popular works, like “ Dykes to Watch Out For ”, as well as the graphic novel Fun Home and it’s Broadway adaptation. Determining Whether Permission is Needed. Navigating Copyright for Reproduced Images: Part 2. D).Įnjoy Fun Home or feel sparked by one of our pages? Write a comment and let us know! We look forward to hearing from you and hope you enjoy the blog. If you are interested, you can visit the ‘Annotated Bibliography’ page for more information about sources. Please note that all images were reproduced for educational purposes, in accordance with the American Psychological Association’s Fair Use guidelines (Lee, 2016, sec. In addition, the bottom of each post features a ‘tag’ that will allow you to see more from an author you enjoy.Įach page includes links to related material and a list of all works that were referenced. The menus in the top-right corner allow you to search for posts by subject. Welcome! “A Closer Look at Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic” is a blog dedicated to examining Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir. ![]() A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow5/12/2023 ![]() She and Effie become sisters when Effie’s grandmother sends Effie to live with Tavia’s family. In this story, sirens live among humans and are exclusively black females, so they face severe discrimination since society wants white sirens. And Effie still hasn’t gotten over her friends turning into stone years before at the park while she was spared. ![]() As the faire is set to begin, Effie can’t concentrate as a murder case of a siren becomes news. She tries to conceal this irritation by remembering she’s Euphemia the Mer, the town faire’s cosplaying mermaid, along with Elric, the cosplaying merman. Her skin is unbearably itchy as she keeps scratching her scalp around her locs. Morrow follows two teen girls who call themselves sisters as they evolve into their true selves in an environment that discriminates against who they are.Įffie is changing. ![]() *Given an advanced reading copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review*Ī Song Below Water by Bethany C. ![]() The rent keeper book5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Steer clear of IRS tax penalties or back taxes because you can’t defend deductions you claimed.Avoid extra time and stress digging up information for an IRS audit.Save money on tax preparation because your CPA doesn’t bill you for time spent correctly organizing your information.Analyze which rental properties performed best.Know whether novel business strategies succeeded.Manage your cash so that you don’t run out.Compare your growth (or lack of growth) from year to year.Track key performance measurements like cash flow, profit and loss, and net worth.An organized, timely, and easy-to-use real estate accounting system serves many practical purposes. 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From heroin to cocaine and Valium, there are few drugs Mustaine didn’t use, with frequently harrowing results. ![]() The second, 17, is the approximate number of stays this guitarist and singer had in rehab until finally getting clean and sober early in this decade. ![]() 29, at Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre with Slayer and Testament. The first, 18, refers to the dozen-and-a-half musicians who have played in the four-man Megadeth, whose latest lineup performs Sunday, Aug. There are two numbers that leap out of “Mustaine,” the new autobiography by La Mesa native Dave Mustaine, whom metal fans know best as the leader of Megadeth, the band he formed after being kicked out of Metallica in 1983. Where: Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre, 2050 Entertainment Circle, Chula Vista ![]() |