![]() We’d sold some of our stuff and then we sold more, roadsiding it in Waimea, by the playground, across the street from the Catholic church, where all the trees grow up over the parking strips and everyone has to drive past if they’re headed to the beach. But Royce had come through, as simple as a phone call to your father and a phrase, “I think I got something for you, cuz,” and suddenly everything pointed to O‘ahu. Today, he lives with his wife and daughters in Minneapolis.Īnd that was how we were when the third sign came. He was a 2015 Tin House Summer Scholar and 2015 Bread Loaf work-study scholar. His work has appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading, McSweeney’s, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, among other outlets. ![]() Washburn was born and raised on the Hamakua coast of the Big Island of Hawai‘i. ![]() The following is from Kawai Strong Washburn's debut Sharks in the Time of Saviors. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This one defies all rational thinking and borders the impossible. And what Marchiori and his team see on those videos is more disturbing than all their other cases combined. ![]() ![]() He never touches his victims and he leaves no evidence behind, except for the detailed videos of his murders. Livio Marchiori, a homicide detective with the highest rate of solved cases in Verona, is faced with The Hypnotist, a serial killer the likes of which he’s never seen before. When he realizes that his very own daughter is a product of this sinister plot and that she is in grave danger, he vows to do everything it takes to make sure Maya will be safe and the people behind the experiment will all pay. John Blake, a CIA special agent, stumbles upon an illegal genetic experiment within the agency, conducted on unborn babies and officially presented as a fertility program designed to help couples get pregnant. What if someone could take complete control over your mind?Īnd what if that someone was a serial killer?ĭiscover EVO, a gripping crime thriller that reviewers and readers describe as “spellbinding”, “high-energy” and “impossible to put down”. A covert CIA operation that involves genetic engineering.Ī serial killer nicknamed “The Hypnotist”.Īnd the most terrifying threat humanity has to face. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Richard Burbage was the fortunate actor for whom the leading role was written. Ophelia and Gertrude, would, of course, have been played by boys, giving extra edge to Hamlet's attacks upon women's false faces. The ghost would have entered, as did other contemporary stage ghosts, through the trap door in the stage, which also supplied the grave for Ophelia. The pillars at either side of the stage and the balcony at the rear provided useful concealment for the play's many spies. Music, fine costumes and appropriate props helped the action on. Court records note that it was performed before King James in 1619 and before King Charles in 1637.Īt the Globe playhouse (the venue for which it was written) a simple, uncluttered, thrust stage allowed for swift, fluid action and a concentration on language. The title page of the 1603 quarto edition tells us that it has been played 'by his Highness Servants in the City of London, as also in the two universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and elsewhere'. On dry land, the play's theatrical success and popularity has continued unabated since its first performances in the early 1600s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing like good, naughty (nothing will come of it, right?), fun.Įxcept they come back, and I’m not any more able to make a good choice this time than the day before. Sylvie Haas Heat Stroked: Filthy Dirty Summer Kindle Edition by Sylvie Haas (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 159 ratings Part of: Filthy Dirty Summer (17 books) See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 0.00 This title and over 1 million more are available with Kindle Unlimited 2. ![]() Take advantage of the fact that I was a late bloomer who didn’t fully develop until after high school, and play along.Īnd as a bonus, because of course I went with option two, our seductive banter isn’t limited to the two of us since his super hot surgeon friend is just as naughty. ![]() Point out our unfortunate connection and that if he hadn’t been such a workaholic and absent father while his daughter was growing up, he might have recognized me.When my childhood best friend’s dad, who I’ve had far too many secret fantasies about, walks into the diner where I waitress and hits on me, I have two options: ![]() ![]() This event showed shoppers how to make use of mere scraps and strips of fabric to make useful objects. In today’s market Harrods is one of the top luxury department stores in the world, but back in 1943 it played host to a Make-do-and-mend fair arranged by the Board of Trade and showed how to scrimp with your spending. However, there were some who took pride in devising new ways to make the most of every food scrap, every inch of fabric, and every spare button. Historians have said that in Britain, where austerity measures were quite rigorous, many people felt resentful of the “make-do-and-mend” scheme, as they were weary of the shortages and constant scrimping. These short films were shown before feature films in theaters, one of the main entertainments of the era. ![]() ![]() Newsreels were a prime source of news during World War II, as the pre-television era offered only newspapers and radio as alternatives and not everyone had the latter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Glaude Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a president whose victory represents yet another failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about race. “In the midst of an ugly Trump regime and a beautiful Baldwin revival, Eddie Glaude has plunged to the profound depths and sublime heights of Baldwin’s prophetic challenge to our present-day crisis.”-Cornel West In our own moment, when that confrontation feels more urgently needed than ever, what can we learn from his struggle? ![]() ![]() James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. ![]() ![]() ![]() I want to continue, watching, charting, and discussing the counts, the recounts, the hand counts, but I cannot. Bush as the backdrop, Rankine writes: “I stop watching the news. ![]() ![]() ![]() In one section, with the controversial vote count over the reelection of George W. The book’s epigraph from Aime Cesaire is an admonition to not be a spectator: “And most of all beware, even in thought, of assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator,for life is not a spectacle, a sea of grief is not a proscenium, a man who wails is not a dancing bear…” In Rankine’s poem, the television is so much a symbol for the media, it’s simply the biggest source of bad news and despair. A repeated image of a static-filled television screen serves to separate the segments of the poem, signalling that Rankine is about to change the channel on us. It toggles between meditation and anger on a wide range of subjects, including death, cancer, depression (and anti-depressants), suicide, rape, 9/11, racism, history, politics, and literature, but the central trope is the ubiquitous television set. Paul: Graywolf, 2004) is a book-length prose poem filled with photographs and a few non-photographic images. Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (St. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The residents of the estate are terrified of the figure, but Elsie tries to shrug this off as simple superstition-that is, until she notices the figure’s eyes following her.Ī Victorian ghost story that evokes a most unsettling kind of fear, The Silent Companions is a tale that creeps its way through the consciousness in ways you least expect-much like the companions themselves ( summary from Goodreads). Inside her new home lies a locked door, beyond which is a painted wooden figure-a silent companion-that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself. But with her husband dead just weeks after their marriage, her new servants resentful, and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie has only her husband’s awkward cousin for company. When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury. A Victorian ghost story….count me 100% in. ![]() When it came across my desk for review I was totally on board, especially since I was kind of on a ghost story kick. ![]() I am absolutely in love with the UK cover….the US cover not so much but the UK one is totally eye catching and screams READ ME. 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He also rewinds the histories of American rhythms: from the birth of soul in Dilla’s own “Motown,” to funk, techno, and disco. In Dilla Time, Dan Charnas chronicles the life of James DeWitt Yancey, from his gifted childhood in Detroit, to his rise as a Grammy-nominated hip-hop producer, to the rare blood disease that caused his premature death and follows the people who kept him and his ideas alive. And at the core of this adulation is innovation: a new kind of musical time-feel that he created on a drum machine, but one that changed the way “traditional” musicians play. Yet since his death, J Dilla has become a demigod: revered by jazz musicians and rap icons from Robert Glasper to Kendrick Lamar memorialized in symphonies and taught at universities. He died at the age of thirty-two, and in his lifetime he never had a pop hit. He wasn’t known to mainstream audiences, even though he worked with renowned acts like D’Angelo and Erykah Badu and influenced the music of superstars like Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. ![]() Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J Dilla, a musical genius who transformed the sound of popular music for the twenty-first century. ![]() |