![]() That, I believe, is what the reader does-and highlights my attraction to the short story where, in six, twelve, or thirty pages, we can come to hold an entire spinning world in our hands.ĭale Bailey's The End of the End of Everything, for instance. I was writing short stories the same way I stood at that window, finding pieces and pushing them together in various ways till they fit, discovering with each story a new world. And from that narrow view-as I observed, extrapolated, imagined-came my understanding of the city. ![]() Antiques, foodstuffs, junk, teapots and electric kettles, well-used comic books and paperbacks, cheap clothing, shoes. Each weekend the street below would fill with stalls. ONE OF MY flats in London had a single small window looking out onto a bare brick wall, a slice of street, and, set off a bit, a stretch of other flats. Ghost Summer: Stories, by Tananarive Due, Prime Books, 2015, $15.95. The End of the End of Everything, by Dale Bailey, 2015, Arche Press, $16. ![]() Index of Title, Month and Page sorted by Author Fantasy and Science Fiction: Book Reviews by James Sallis ![]()
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![]() ![]() These inner worlds are rich and colored by their personalities, as Adam’s narrative is ridden with a love for film and its history, while Ben is up to date with all of the current fashions of the time period.įor the native New Yorker Adam, who loves film with a burning passion, he’s prepared to make his next step as a student at NYU in order to study cinema formally. For the most part, though, the vast majority of the novel is spent in their own worlds. The narrative switches back and forth between the two boy’s stories, although they do end up eventually meeting and getting more involved in each other’s lives. ![]() ![]() The “chapters” in this book are actually splitting up the passage of time it takes place towards the end of the school year, and both of the protagonists are thinking about their next moves and dreams. Two young gay high schoolers find their coming-of-age in New York in the middle of the AIDS crisis. ![]() ![]() ![]() One reason I stole it was that I like the sound of the words: Why I Write. Of course I stole the title for this talk, from George Orwell. ![]() Each one is classic Didion: incisive, bemused, and stunningly prescient. Here too is a 1976 piece from the New York Times magazine on “Why I Write” a piece about short stories from New West in 1978 and from The New Yorker, a piece on Hemingway from 1998, and on Martha Stewart from 2000. Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the “Points West” Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers a session with Gamblers Anonymous a visit to San Simeon being rejected by Stanford dropping in on Nancy Reagan, wife of the then-governor of California, while a TV crew filmed her at home and an evening at the annual reunion of WWII veterans from the 101st Airborne Association at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas. From the universally acclaimed, best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: ten pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer ![]() ![]() ![]() Filled with heroes, villains and intricate plots, the chronicle of this tragic romance puts a new face on an old story and holds an enigma to the light. How could the story of Marie Antoinette's Swedish lover and their trysts in the king's palace fail to engage a reader? There is no dearth of incident here. That doesn't mean it won't entertain you. ![]() Packed with names, dates and research and bristling with a lively correspondence, du Plessix Gray's book gives us fiction with a full dose of fact. ![]() This is History with a capital H, served up with relish. History is what you get in Francine du Plessix Gray's deeply intelligent novel "The Queen's Lover." Not history of the Sofia Coppola variety, in which Marie Antoinette giggles her way through a fog of silliness until her head is removed from the finery. A queen fleeing the scourge of revolution relies on a careless hairdresser to get her to safety. A palace congested with vermin and lice harbors lamb chops and cakes tucked deep into the upholstery. ![]() A gay king who can't stomach his queen sends his most trusted courtier to impregnate her. A society dame with the shrill voice of a street vendor hides her lover upstairs, then steals up for nocturnal raptures. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Gorgeous, seductive storytelling, martini-dry prose reminiscent of James Salter's finest. ![]() The empty beach town becomes their playground, and as they sneak into abandoned summer homes, go sailing, walk naked under the stars, make love, and drink a great deal of gin, Henry and Effie slip from innocence into betrayal, with irrevocable consequences that reverberate through the rest of their lives. Just as they get ready to cut the trip short, a decadent and glamorous set suddenly sweep them up into their drama - Clara, a beautiful socialite who feels her youth slipping away Max, a wealthy playboy and Clara's lover and Alma, Max's aloof and mysterious half-sister. ![]() As they tentatively discover each other, they begin to realize that everyday married life might be disappointingly different from their. It's the end of the season and the town is deserted. ![]() A heady cocktail' Mail on Sunday 'The new Gatsby' Stylist 'Thoroughly sexy and engrossing' Heat 'Nods to classics like The Great Gatsby and Revolutionary Road' Independent September 1957 Henry and Effie, young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon. 'Glamorous, nostalgic and very sexy' Paula Hawkins 'Powerful and devastating. Description for Cape May: 'The new Gatsby: so, so good' (Stylist) Paperback. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each of the patients Harper writes about taught her something important about recuperation and recovery. The Beauty in Breaking is the poignant true story of Harper's journey toward self-healing. How we recognize those breaks, how we try to mend them, and where we go from there are all crucial parts of the healing process. In the ensuing years, as Harper learned to become an effective ER physician, bringing insight and empathy to every patient encounter, she came to understand that each of us is broken-physically, emotionally, psychically. ![]() Her marriage at an end, Harper began her new life in a new city, in a new job, as a newly single woman. They stayed together through medical school until two months before she was scheduled to join the staff of a hospital in central Philadelphia, when he told her he couldn't move with her. Brought up in Washington, D.C., in an abusive family, she went to Harvard, where she met her husband. Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is overwhelmingly male and white. ![]() An emergency room physician explores how a life of service to others taught her how to heal herself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each invited unrestricted use and enterprising experiment until some would-be mogul battled his way to total domination. ![]() Could history repeat itself with the next industrial consolidation? Could the Internet-the entire flow of American information-come to be ruled by one corporate leviathan in possession of “the master switch”? That is the big question of Tim Wu’s pathbreaking book.Īs Wu’s sweeping history shows, each of the new media of the twentieth century-radio, telephone, television, and film-was born free and open. ![]() With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear. In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. ![]() ![]() ![]() His relationship with his Aunt was so fun to read.Īctually, all of his relationships were pretty great. Samson, I loved right from the start, but I think Rai made him fairly irresistible. In fact, she became relatable and by the end, I absolutely adored her. Rhi felt too rigid, but once I learned more about her character, her behavior began to make a lot of sense. In the beginning, I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure I was going to connect with this. Neither one of them is about to communicate what they are feeling. When Samson and Rhi are forced to work together, however, sparks begin to fly once again. This is the last person she ever wants to see again! So when Rhi spots him at an industry event, she runs. He also happens to be the hot guy that Rhi hooked up with one magical night. Samson Lima is a former pro-football player, who happens to be the nephew of Annabelle. The remaining owner, Annabelle, seems like she could be persuaded to sell, if Rhi could come up with just the right pitch. She has her sights set on a rival company whose just lost one of their founders. Rhiannon is the founder, creator and CEO of a successful dating app, but she is looking to expand. ![]() Rhiannon Hunter is a successful business woman with one thing on her mind. ![]() ![]() Mourning the loss of her husband, Aunt Monica is finishing his pet project: a biography of his great aunt Eleanor, with which California is conscripted to help. ![]() Turns out both are ghosts, and Dog continues to bring California letters written by Aunt Eleanor. On California’s first day at Aunt Monica’s, a mysterious dog shows up in the yard and delivers an old letter soon after, California’s great-great-great aunt Eleanor appears. ![]() Seeking jobs in Alaska, California’s dad deposits her at his sister-in-law Isabelle’s house Isabelle, in turn, promptly dumps California with Great-Aunt Monica. ![]() After her mother’s death four years ago, California Poppy, now 11, is left with a father unable to handle “girl things” such as buying bras. ![]() ![]() In pre-Christian times, she likely represented wisdom, old age, and guidance. Nelly likely started life being worshiped as a crone, water spirit, or old god. It is believed that the folklore around Hags like Nelly comes from the old pagan gods. When she came across curious children she would attempt to lure them into nearby bodies of water. It was believed she would sometimes leave the water and stalk village streets making strange sounds. She would lurk under the surface of lakes and rivers and drag passing children to their watery deaths. ![]() Like many hags from European folklore, Nelly was said to have a taste for the flesh of children. She was described as a withered old woman with freakishly long, thin arms and wild hair. The legend of Nelly Longarms comes from Durham, England. When one imagines a wicked old hag, the first thing to come to mind likely resembles traditional depictions of Nelly Longarms. 1.Nelly Longarms - The Quintessential English Hag In fact, in certain parts of the world, some of these hags are still feared to this very day. While some of these witches, like the Greek Circe, were always just the stuff of legend, many entries on this list were once believed to be real. These nightmarish, murderous, and often cannibalistic women have been cropping up in folklore for thousands of years. ![]() ![]() Of all the things that go bump in the night, the most prominent is probably the hag/witch. Whether one is studying European, Asian, or American folklore, different variations of the same nightmarish creatures tend to crop up. ![]() |