![]() ![]() I can picture myself doing other things because I do and always have and always intend to do other things. Seemed just as likely at the time that I might go off to be a high school teacher or construction worker. ![]() RG: I knew I was going to go off to school to study poetry when I was 21 or so because I liked writing poems, though I'm not sure that I knew I would be a poet. LIU: When did you know you wanted to be a poet? Did you ever waver from that goal - and can you ever picture yourself doing anything else? I feel like I'm able to have very sophisticated conversations about writing and literature most days, which is to say I have a pretty good job. ![]() The students, also, are wonderful: The graduate students are amazing, and the undergrads are really a joy. And my colleagues in other departments, whom I've had the pleasure of meeting, are also great. ![]() My colleagues are great, interesting people - in both creative writing and literature. LIU: What has been your experience being on faculty here? I knew about the program, knew graduates of the program, knew the work of the faculty, and had also seen an Indiana basketball game or two in my life, so figured I'd give it a whirl. ROSS GAY: I chose Indiana back in the fall of 2006, when I saw that they had a job for a poet posted. LIVE AT IU: Why did you choose Indiana University? ![]()
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![]() Griffin consults a dermatologist in the city, and the doctor gives him medication that will darken his pigmentation. Setting off from his home in Mansfield, Texas-and leaving behind his wife and small children-Griffin goes to New Orleans, where he stays with a friend without telling him what, exactly, he’s doing (he does this because he wants to protect this companion from any negativity that might come his way as a result of the project). Although Levitan thinks the idea is crazy, he agrees to pay for Griffin’s expenses in return for a number of articles about the experience. ![]() A religious man and an active journalist, Griffin turns to George Levitan, the editor of Sepia magazine, for help with his endeavor. The author and protagonist of Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin is a white journalist who disguises himself as a black man to understand the experience of African Americans in the South during the late 1950s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Michael Moynihan, the book's editor, calls this "the definitive version of a seminal intellectual and spiritual inquiry, masterfully executed by a leading French thinker" (n.p.). McNallen, popular writers among alt-right readers. This most recent English translation of On Being a Pagan, first published in French in 1981, is from Arcana Europa Media, a small publisher featuring works by Stephen Edred Flowers and Stephen A. Founder of the Nouvelle Droit in the late 1960s-an extreme right-wing movement in France with parallels to neofascist movements throughout Europe at that time-De Benoist has influenced white nationalists in Europe and in the United States, including Richard Spencer and Greg Johnson, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Rather, paganism is altogether more rational, tolerant, and liberative than any type of monotheism.ĭe Benoist's ideology reflects the paganism embraced by some members of the alt-right. He rejects the notion that paganism is a "nature religion" (179), seeing that as a Christian slander. When the author does discuss paganism, he turns either to its classical manifestations in antiquity and late antiquity or its expression in Scandinavian and Germanic ideas of family and lineage. ![]() Relying heavily on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Alain de Benoist spends more time deconstructing Judaism and Christianity than presenting a coherent defense of paganism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trapped in an empire that reviles her heritage and suspects her faith, the young messianic princess struggles for survival in a Roman court of intrigue. But when Selene's parents are vanquished by Rome, her auspicious birth becomes a curse. ![]() ![]() To Isis worshippers, Princess Selene and her twin brother Helios embody the divine celestial pair who will bring about a Golden Age. Heiress of one empire and prisoner of another, it is up to the daughter of Cleopatra to save her brothers and reclaim what is rightfully hers. From the New York Times bestselling author of America's First Daughter comes the first epic novel of Cleopatra's daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1881), who went from Australia’s national boxing circuit to a mental asylum in Perth, the novel has amassed some stellar blurbs, including from Helen Garner “meets a need I didn’t know I had” and J.M. A fictionalized account of the life of the Rasputin-like Italian-American boxer Joe Grim (b. Michael Winkler’s novel was a cult sensation in his native Australia, where it was the first self-published book in history to be shortlisted for the country’s most prestigious prize, the Miles Franklin Award (one publisher rejected it as “repellent”). ![]() ![]() Grimmish, Michael Winkler (Coach House, April) ![]() ![]() An acceptable book request includes at least one of the following: Low-effort book requests will be removed.
![]() ![]() ![]() FAMILY STORY TIME: Reading together is a great way to bond with your child while also fostering communication, understanding, and a lifelong love for reading. ![]() With its bilingual format, this Spanish story book for children is ideal for helping early readers with foreign language comprehension. FEATURES: With English and Spanish text side-by-side, this easy-to-follow Spanish story book is an excellent resource for strengthening reading skills. CLASSIC STORIES: This classic tale, retold in English and Spanish, captures a child's interest, page after page, as they take their imagination on a magical journey through timeless stories and adventures. "THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA: Featuring 32 pages of fresh, captivating illustrations, this 8"" x 8"" story book tells the tale of the princess who must prove that she is dainty enough to marry a prince by sleeping atop a pile of 20 mattresses with a secret pea underneath-but would she feel the pea? Only a true princess would. ![]() ![]() Nakano bribes Hitomi to go visit Masayo and get gossip about her new lover, which sparks a friendship between the two women. Nakano whose mishaps and shenanigans serve as the focal point or punchline of each story. Hitomi is short-tempered and cagey, Takeo is passive and uncommunicative, and Masayo is chatty and expansive, but it is the stubborn and befuddled Mr. The twelve loosely connected stories in The Nakano Thrift Shop are about the strange and silly things that happen to this odd group of characters, whose small dramas for the most part seem to exist outside of the specifics of time and place. Nakano’s sister Masayo, an artist of independent means. While she watches the store and works the till, a young man around her age, Takeo, accompanies Mr. Hitomi works at the Nakano Thrift Shop, which is run by a middle-aged man named, unsurprisingly, Mr. Publication Year: 2017 (United Kingdom) 2005 (Japan) ![]() ![]() Japanese Title: 古道具 中野商店 ( Furudōgu Nakano Shoten) ![]() ![]() ![]() Vaughan began writing series featuring his own characters. ![]() He worked for DC Comics, where he wrote Batman and Green Lantern: Circle of Fire, and Dark Horse Comics, writing for Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight. ![]() He later went on to write for some of Marvel’s highest-profile characters, including Spider-Man, Captain America, and the X-Men, as well as penning noteworthy limited series such as Doctor Strange: The Oath and The Hood. Vaughan’s professional comics writing career began at Marvel Comics on Tales from the Age of Apocalypse. Brian K Vaughan (or BKV for short) is the writer and co-creator of the critically acclaimed Saga, Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, Runaways, Pride of Baghdad, The Hood, The Escapists, The Private Eye, a digital comic with artist Marcos Martin at, and, most recently, Paper Girls. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the speculative aspects of the book, combined with Zumas’s historical and sociological insights, inevitably bring to mind Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Like an Elizabeth Strout novel, their personal stories and heartbreak layers into something more acute. Zumas switches fluently through the perspectives of each of these women in Red Clocks, which is set in the fictional small town of Newville, Oregon. The only tweak Zumas has made is that in the world of her book abortion has been criminalized in the U.S., an occurrence introduced so quietly and so plausibly that it isn’t even startling-just another calamity for women to add to the list. ![]() Mattie, a teenager, loses her virginity to a confident and callous classmate who’s unconcerned with her comfort and doesn’t wear protection. Gin, a loner, is defiantly private but offers home remedies to local women with health issues but no money or insurance. ![]() Susan, a mother, raises two children in the house she grew up in. ![]() Ro, a history teacher, has a father in a retirement home in Florida and a brother who died of a heroin overdose. The America in Leni Zumas’s new novel, Red Clocks, is so familiar as to be almost unremarkable. ![]() |