![]() ![]() Their work has appeared in numerous online and print magazines including Wrongdoing Magazine, The Madrigal, Cleaver Magazine, Gone Lawn, Rust + Moth, Thrush, Cobra Milk Mag, The Collidescope, Trampset, Yes, Poetry and HIV Here & Now. They are a three time best of the net nominee. James Diaz is the author of This Someone I Call Stranger (2018) Indolent Books, All Things Beautiful Are Bent (Alien Buddha, 2021) Motel Prayers (Alien Buddha, 2022) and Editor of the Anthology What Keeps Us Here: Songs from The Other Side of Trauma. In 2016 they founded the online literary arts and music journal Anti-Heroin Chic to provide a platform for often unheard voices, including those struggling with addiction, mental illness and prison/confinement. ![]()
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When, after many other allusions to historians and historicism, Kostova introduced a character whose last name is Hristova, I was tempted to run out to a pharmacy for some antihristomine. ![]() A gold-tipped fountain pen is to most writers' lives as Monet's haystacks are to piles of dirt.Ī similar kind of romanticizing - but of historians, not writers - is on display in Elizabeth Kostova's first novel, "The Historian," about an Oxford professor, his advisee and the advisee's daughter, who are all, at different times, in search of Dracula's tomb. In part, it's the self-consciousness and fetishism that ticks me off. (And I know you will.) Any time I see a movie that has more than three extreme close-ups of a gold-tipped fountain pen skritching across a piece of paper - or any time I read a text that relies heavily on the words "writings" or "scrivenings" - I know I'm in for a healthy dose of the Romance of the Literary Life, and suddenly I feel irritable and restless and ready to skin a small animal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, the refreshingly filter-free housewife and unapologetic mom is the newest full-time cast member of Bravo’s juggernaut franchise, where she often elicits raised eyebrows and gossip from her costars for her refusal to be the scorned ex-wife, to be bullied, to change her sarcastic sense of humor, or-on most occasions-to wear a bra. ![]() Before she knew it, Brandi was the perfect Hollywood trophy wife-at least until her marriage exploded. For the first time, Brandi talks about how she escaped a rough neighborhood on the outskirts of Sacramento and stumbled into a successful modeling career that swept her into a world of Paris Fashion Weeks, private jets, and uncircumcised penises. Not only does Brandi spill the beans about her side of the split, the lovable housewife shares the incredible wild ride that took her from a life in the ghetto to Hollywood’s most elite circles. So why should she change now? Brandi Glanville tells all in this hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir.įans have been waiting for Brandi’s scoop on one of the biggest divorces of the decade, since her husband of eight years abandoned her and their two sons to marry country singer LeAnn Rimes. She’s the brutally honest breath of fresh air on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, known for her dramatic divorce, her barely-there clothing, and her inability to keep her mouth shut. ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing upon an alien power terrible in its magnitude, they seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate every human, every civilization, in order to begin anew. Awaiting Tavore and her allies are the Forkrul Assail, the final arbiters of humanity. A woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, Tavore Paran of House Paran means to challenge the gods - if her own troops don't kill her first. One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her army together, if the shaky allegiances she has forged can survive all that is to come. Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent. Savaged by the K'Chain Nah'Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate. ![]() The climax to the epic Malazan Book of the Fallen series that will determine how the world is ruled. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our artists start with a blank canvas and paint each and every brushstroke by hand. Please be assured that we will NEVER sell any Felix Vallotton painting reproductions that are computer or machine generated, such as canvas prints, posters, or giclees. ![]() ![]() The Yellow Sheet by Felix Vallotton is guaranteed to be entirely hand-painted on canvas by a master artist that has years of training and experience in capturing every brushstroke detail, color palette, and overall beauty of the original oil painting. All of our Felix Vallotton oil painting reproductions are meticulously painted to the highest museum quality by our master artists utilizing the finest quality oil paints on artist grade cotton canvas. The Yellow Sheet by Felix Vallotton is a 100% hand-painted oil painting reproduction on canvas painted by one of our highly skilled artists. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's also noticeable that the families depicted to the book (ultimately famil y, since at a point they are joined by marriage) also go through transformations, departing from poverty in the beginning of the saga, until gaining economic and political prosperity through marriage. Throughout the narrative, historical wars, revolutions, political crises and events are depicted and the characters are part or affected by them. The trilogy tells the story of a traditional family that lives through transformations of the society, so not only the story of that particular family is explored, but also the historical process that took place in that part of Brazil, as in the whole country. ![]() The saga is composed of three books, divided in total by seven volumes: Living in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil, both families experience the transformations of the country. The series tells the story of two families - Terra and Cambará -, and how they evolve through 200 years of history, from 1745 to 1945. Confusingly, the first part of the series, O Continente, was translated as Time and the Wind, giving the impression that it is the whole work. O Tempo e o Vento ( Time and the Wind) is a trilogy of novels written by the Brazilian author Erico Verissimo. ![]() For the 2013 film based on this trilogy of novels, see Time and the Wind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her great legacy was later rescued from her desk drawer-an astonishing body of work revealing her acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world. ![]() As she knowingly put it: “There is one thing to be grateful for-that one is one’s self and not somebody else.”ĭickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published. She did not live in time, as did that other great poet of the day, Walt Whitman, but in universals. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a desk drawer, revealed her true self. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Visit EDA »Įmily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. 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The concert will be broadcast live from the grounds of Windsor Castle, with 20,000 people in attendance 10,000 of which are lucky members of the public who obtained tickets through a ballot. Even if Perry’s anthems aren’t to His Majesty’s tastes, he’ll find plenty to enjoy at this fine celebration: from music by Lionel Richie and Take That (sadly, sans Robbie Williams), DJ Pete Tong and Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli to entertainment courtesy of Tom Cruise, Joan Collins, and… Winnie-the-Pooh. Glancing at the diverse lineup for the concert, meanwhile, one can’t help but wonder if the King is truly a fan of Katy Perry, the American popstar of California Gurls fame. ![]() ![]() Before the pop-tastic evening comes a welcome dose of classical, in Songs of Praise (noon) hosted by Katherine Jenkins. ![]() ![]() Lovecraft's tales were more than just fiction, and he must accept another unexpected and far more unwanted inheritance. As Carter reluctantly investigates, he discovers that H. Then people start dying in impossible ways, and while Carter doesn't want to be involved, he's beginning to suspect that someone else wants him to be. Other works include the Russalka Chronicles, a series of young adult submarine warfare science fiction novels. ( 1923- ) Wolf's Complete Book of Terror ( Clarkson N. He came to readers' attention with his series of black comedy novels about the necromancer Johannes Cabal. Lovecraft mythos into the twenty-first century, optioned by Warner Bros TV. Lovecraft, the writer from Providence who told tales of the Great Old Ones and the Elder Gods, creatures and entities beyond the understanding of man. Howard worked as scriptwriter and video game writer since the early 1990s, and wrote the Broken Sword series of games among others. The start of a thrilling supernatural series that brings the H.P. She's Emily Lovecraft, the last known descendant of H. ![]() ![]() Strangeness, however, has not finished with him.įirst, he inherits a bookstore in Providence from someone he's never heard of, along with an indignant bookseller who doesn't want a new boss. ![]() ![]() Now he's a private investigator trying to live a quiet life. Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case - the hunt for a serial killer - went wrong in strange ways and soured the job for him. ![]() |