![]() ![]() Her research and writing have been supported by residencies at Yaddo, Ucross, and Vermont Studio Center and by fellowships from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the Howard Foundation. Her second book, “ Thin Skin ,” will be published by Pantheon Books. ![]() Her essays have appeared in the New England Review, the New York Times, Outside, Guernica, and Tin House. Shapland has a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin. Her first book, “ My Autobiography of Carson McCullers” (Tin House 2020), was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award and won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award, the Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award, and the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award. Jenn Shapland is a writer and archivist living in New Mexico. SEATING: is general admission and available on a first come, first served basis. Moderator: Aspen Words Executive Director Adrienne Brodeurīookbinders Basaltwill be onsite selling Shapland’s books. ![]() Join us for an in-person author talk at TACAW (400 Robinson St, Basalt, CO 81621) featuring May Writer in Residence, Jenn Shapland whose debut book “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers” published in 2020 Shapland is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award winner as well as 2020 National Book Award finalist. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Now an elite angel hunter for the Society of Angelology, he pursues his mission with single-minded devotion: to capture, imprison, and eliminate her kind.But when Evangeline suddenly appears on a twilit Paris street, Verlaine finds her nature to be unlike any of the other creatures he so mercilessly pursues, casting him into a spiral of doubt and confusion that only grows when she is abducted before his eyes by a creature who has topped the society?s most-wanted list for more than a century. With Angelopolis, the conflict deepens into an inferno of danger and passion unbound.A decade has passed since Verlaine saw Evangeline alight from the Brooklyn Bridge, the sight of her new wings a betrayal that haunts him still. ![]() It's a must-read."e ?Booklist (starred review) A New York Times bestseller and global sensation, Angelology unfurled a brilliant tapestry of myth and biblical lore on our present-day world and plunged two star-crossed heroes into an ancient battle against mankind?s greatest enemy: the fatally attractive angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim. ![]() Part historical novel, fantasy, love story, thriller, and mystery. "e A stunning follow-up to the best-seller Angelology. ![]() ![]() ![]() She refuses all invitations & is just starting to find herself feeling a little lonely & bored when two children arrive & her day ends very hopefully. The other Christmas story, The Little Christmas Tree, concerns a woman who decides to spend Christmas alone in the country. ![]() Luckily Dick Hawk-Monitor saves the day, at least as far as Elfine is concerned. Aunt Ada is fulminating against all her kin as always & Adam’s attempts to fill the Christmas stockings with treats like turnips & swedes are not appreciated. Why anyone had any desire to eat that pudding, I have no idea. Whoever gets the coffin nail will be dead within the year. The Christmas pudding is full of not charms but curses. The story takes place some years before Flora Poste arrives to sort everyone out. Only the title story is set at Cold Comfort Farm & a miserable place it is, especially at Christmas. Stella Gibbons has enjoyed something of a revival this year with new editions of several of her novels from Vintage Classics & this volume of short stories, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm. ![]() ![]() Reunited with Aenea just in time for the Pax to catch up to them, Raul’s role in the story is split between confused narrator and occasional action hero. Aenea sends Raul on a quest to retrieve the Consul’s ship, although it is also kind of a spiritual journey that separates him from her long enough (thanks to relativity time shenanigans) for her to get closer to him in age, so the sexual relationship stuff isn’t so squicky, and for some other shenanigans that I won’t spoil. The Rise of Endymion gets something right from the start: the cover depicts the Shrike with four arms!Īnyway, it picks up pretty much where Endymion leaves off, give or take a little bit of time passing. ![]() Nevertheless, I decided last week that enough was enough. But Dan Simmons’ science fiction is just so damn dense I knew it was going to take days to get through it, and I was not looking forward to making that commitment. I kept putting off reading The Rise of Endymion it has been sitting in my to-read pile since I bought the last three books from the used book store. ![]() ![]() I’d be lying if I said I remembered much about the first three books at this point (that’s why I write reviews). ![]() Over seven years and four books later, I have finished the Hyperion Cantos. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her experiment as a low-wage worker, her energy is constantly directed towards the well-being of others, usually at the expense of her own. ![]() Over the course of the book, Barbara realizes that this physical exhaustion is mirrored by mental and emotional exhaustion as well. This physical labor can sometimes lead to medical problems-often compounded by a lack of insurance, which many of these workers cannot afford-which endanger their ability to work, leading to a devastating cycle. Low-wage labor is often directly linked to physical pain: from eight-hour shifts without a bathroom or sit-down break at a restaurant, to the physical exertion required to clean a home, hourly-wage workers must often exhaust themselves physically in order to earn their income. But the term also serves to encapsulate the notion of physical, emotional, and mental toil faced by the country’s lowest class of workers. Labor is defined in economic terms throughout the book, as work performed in exchange for payment. She is, of course, interested in poverty in general-as a journalist, Barbara had covered the topic extensively before writing this book-but here she is particularly concerned with the plight of the working poor. In Nickel and Dimed, Barbara sets out to experience the working life of low-wage laborers first-hand. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our guests are Juan Garcés, who also has written a book, simply called Allende, about the president who he advised, his closest adviser until September 11th, 40 years ago, 1973, when the palace was being bombed by the Pinochet forces and Salvador Allende took his own life. ![]() See all of Democracy Now!’s coverage of the 1973 Chilean Coup.ĪMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report. 'Make the Economy Scream': Secret Documents Show Nixon, Kissinger Role Backing 1973 Chile Coup Part 2 of our conversation on the 40th anniversary of the Chilean coup with Spanish lawyer Juan Garcés, a former personal adviser to ousted Chilean President Salvador Allende, and Peter Kornbluh, author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability.Ĥ0 Years After Chilean Coup, Allende Aide Juan Garcés on How He Brought Pinochet to Justice ![]() ![]() ![]() "As a zoologist, you are never far from poop!" the writer explains. ![]() The zoologist's latest offering puts a decidedly quirky twist on her years of experience: POOP: A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE UNMENTIONABLE is a fun, fact-filled guide to the fascinating world of poop across species. ![]() Nicola Davies's seemingly boundless enthusiasm for studying animals of all kinds has led her around the world-and fortunately for young readers, she is just as excited about sharing her interests through picture books. In WILD ABOUT DOLPHINS, Nicola Davies describes her voyages in a firsthand account filled with fascinating facts and captivating photographs of seven species of dolphins in action. Enchanted at the sight of what she called the "big fish" jumping so high and swimming so fast, she determined right then that she would meet the amazing creatures again "in the wild, where they belonged." And indeed she did-as part of a pair of scientific expeditions, one to Newfoundland at the age of eighteen and another to the Indian Ocean a year later. "I was very small when I saw my first dolphin," says zoologist Nicola Davies, recalling a seminal visit with her father to a dolphin show at the zoo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The distributions of a wide variety of physical, biological, and man-made phenomena approximately follow a power law over a wide range of magnitudes: these include the sizes of craters on the moon and of solar flares, the foraging pattern of various species, the sizes of activity patterns of neuronal populations, the frequencies of words in most languages, frequencies of family names, the species richness in clades of organisms, the sizes of power outages, volcanic eruptions, human judgments of stimulus intensity and many other quantities. ![]() For instance, considering the area of a square in terms of the length of its side, if the length is doubled, the area is multiplied by a factor of four. In statistics, a power law is a functional relationship between two quantities, where a relative change in one quantity results in a relative change in the other quantity proportional to a power of the change, independent of the initial size of those quantities: one quantity varies as a power of another. ![]() To the right is the long tail, and to the left are the few that dominate (also known as the 80–20 rule). An example power-law graph that demonstrates ranking of popularity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Do not engage in hate speech, harassment, arguing in bad faith, sealioning, or general pot stirring. Rules Be KindĮvery interaction on the subreddit must be kind, respectful, and welcoming. ![]() This also applies to you posting on behalf of your friend/family member/neighbor. 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Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() An unforgettable story that opens hearts and minds to Deaf culture. Excerpt: Hands of My Father By Myron Uhlberg Being a printer was the only job my father ever had, and he loved it. "Myron’s relationship with his father is at once complicated and touching, and his descriptions of signing, particularly his father’s, are both educational and profound. This is a moving, joyous, dramatic work of art, a gift of unusual understanding and grace." -Ken Burns, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker ![]() "Like the spectacular memoir upon which this has been drawn, The Sound of Silence starts with magnificent force and control and never lets up. By turns heart-tugging and hilarious, Myron Uhlbergs memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents-and his life in a world that. "A sweet, satisfying memoir about family bonds and finding one's place in the world." - Kirkus Reviews ![]() Sometimes it takes a beautiful storyteller like Myron Uhlberg to remind us of the world’s quiet and graceful charms." -Jonathan Eig, New York Times best-selling author of Ali: A Life and Luckiest Man "This book is a gem-full of wisdom, love, laughter…We live in a noisy world. ![]() |