Octavia butler lilith5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() From Hugo and Nebula award–winning author Octavia Butler, Lilith's Brood is both a thrilling, epic adventure of man's struggle to survive after Earth's destruction, and a provocative meditation on what it means to be human. The human species inevitably expands into something stranger, stronger, and undeniably alien. Some people resist, forming pocket communities of purebred rebellion, but many realize they have no choice. The Oankali arrive not just to save humanity, but to bond with it-crossbreeding to form a hybrid species that can survive in the place of its human forebears, who were so intent on self-destruction. Survivors of a cataclysmic nuclear war awake to find themselves being studied by the Oankali, tentacle-covered galactic travelers whose benevolent appearance hides their surprising plan for the future of mankind. ![]() The newest stage in human evolution begins in outer space. The complete series about an alien species that could save humanity after nuclear apocalypse-or destroy it-from "one of science fiction's finest writers" ( The New York Times). ![]()
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![]() ![]() It opened up for general attention to areas of cultural study that are now commonplace" -Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling ![]() "The influence of the series and the book. He is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation" -Peter Fuller, Arts Review "Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of the professional art critics. he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings. ![]() John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. ![]() Anoka by Shane Hawk5/20/2023 ![]() “Horror is in a very exciting place,” says Neil McRobert, who hosts the Talking Scared podcast, which interviews some of horror fiction’s biggest names. A multi-layered dive into the heart of a horrific secret – complete with talking cat – it received a rave review from master of the genre Stephen King, who said he hadn’t “read anything this exciting since Gone Girl”. ![]() Ward had already published two literary horror novels, Little Eve and Rawblood, when her latest work, The Last House on Needless Street, came out this year. It’s what horror is for: finding new, boundary-breaking ways to share fear and empathy.” Jones has published over a dozen novels in the US, but The Only Good Indians was his first outing in the UK George Sandison, who acquired it for Titan, said that “one breakneck fever dream of a read later, my mind astray in the North American wilderness, thunderclouds rolling, elk breath at my neck, I realised I had to buy it”.īritish-American author Catriona Ward calls Jones: “a master stylist who takes risks with narrative boundaries, playing with the very idea of what horror is”. Stephen Graham Jones Photograph: Titan Books ![]() All That Heaven Allows by Mark Griffin5/19/2023 ![]() After signing with the powerful but predatory agent Henry Willson, the young hopeful was transformed from a clumsy, tongue-tied truck driver into Universal Studio’s resident Adonis. Growing up poor in Winnetka, Illinois, Hudson was abandoned by his biological father, abused by an alcoholic stepfather, and controlled by his domineering mother.ĭespite seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Hudson was determined to become an actor at all costs. Yet beneath the suave and commanding star persona, there was an insecure, deeply conflicted, and all too vulnerable human being. The icon worshipped by moviegoers and beloved by his colleagues appeared to have it all. In the ‘70s and ‘80s, Hudson successfully transitioned to television his long-running series McMillan & Wife and a recurring role on Dynasty introduced him to a whole new generation of fans. ![]() The embodiment of romantic masculinity in American film throughout the ‘50s and ‘60s, Hudson reigned supreme as the king of Hollywood.Īs an Oscar-nominated leading man, Hudson won acclaim for his performances in glossy melodramas ( Magnificent Obsession), western epics ( Giant) and blockbuster bedroom farces ( Pillow Talk). The definitive biography of the deeply complex and widely misunderstood matinee idol of Hollywood’s Golden Age.ĭevastatingly handsome, broad-shouldered and clean-cut, Rock Hudson was the ultimate movie star. ![]() Review crossroads franzen5/19/2023 ![]() He has recently fallen in love for the first time and all should be right in his world, but then he starts to question his relationship and how he has avoided going to the Vietnam war. Clem is the oldest and is going to college. The book delves into the lives of the older three children, for some reason leaving Judson barely mentioned. They have four children, Clem, Becky, Perry, and Judson. His wife Marion, who seems to be a very conventional wife and mother, but bubbling just under the surface is a world of neurosis. We meet the father Russ, the First Reformed’s associate pastor, a man suffering something like a mid-life crisis, unsure of his achievements or even his marriage. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s another sprawling story and it follows the lives of five members of the Hildebrandt family, at Christmas 1971 and beyond. This is the latest novel by Jonathan Franzen, known for works such as The Corrections and Freedom. Crossroads – Jonathan Franzen – Audible Book Review ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The best word to describe Paul Douglas Lovell is “unconventional” and it makes sense that his author bio would also be far from typical.Ĭoming from a motherless family of five children, this runt of the litter had to scratch and scramble for any attention he received. Read about his life in this optimistic and fascinating roadbook adventure. A peek into what really goes on behind the glassy-eyed smile of a male street worker. ![]() It is an ordinary account of day-to-day life as viewed from a unique perspective. It may not have been pretty, and there was risk and danger as well as fun and thrills, but Paul had the audacity to succeed in his quest to obtain happiness, security and wealth. Without added glamour or grit, Paul shares the raw accounts of his life as a rent-boy in the 90s, from London to Los Angeles. He uses his questionable wits to make a quick decision that steers him down a rather dodgy path. But Paul does not dwell too much on the past and refuses to allow these events to mar his ambition.Īt eighteen a lost train ticket leaves him stranded in the city after a job interview. Some very typical, such as early abandonment, poverty, lack of education and sexual abuse. Many factors contribute in delivering the main character onto the streets. Paulyanna: International Rent-boy is an honest and frank portrayal of a working-class male prostitute’s life. ![]() Walking the Americas by Levison Wood5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The relationships he forges along the way are at the heart of his travels-and the personal histories, cultures, and popular legends he discovers paint a riveting history of Mexico and Central America. Wood encounters indigenous tribes in Mexico, revolutionaries in a Nicaraguan refugee camp, fellow explorers, and migrants heading toward the United States. Levison Wood's famous walking expeditions have taken him from the length of the Nile River to the peaks of the Himalayas, and in Walking the Americas, Wood chronicles his latest exhilarating adventure: a 1,800-mile trek across the spine of the Americas, through eight countries, from Mexico to Colombia.īeginning in the Yucatán, Wood's journey takes him from sleepy barrios to glamorous cities to ancient Mayan ruins lying unexcavated in the wilderness. ![]() Flatterland5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Funkytown is part of series inspired by pop structures that give way to experimentation and unpredictability. The flatness that characterizes Apfelbaum’s installation is less about form than it is about horizontality, a structural flattening of hierarchy that can be found in musical forms such as funk and punk rock. Always situational, Apfelbaum’s intentional arrangements expose the temporal and improvisational currents running through her abstractions. ![]() The installation consists of hundreds of crushed synthetic velvet pieces, all hand-cut, dyed, and laid out across the gallery floor. Polly Apfelbaum: Flatterland: Funkytown March 10 – ApOpening Reception: Saturday, March 10th 6-8pm Polly Apfelbaum’s inaugural exhibition at D’Amelio Gallery, Flatterland: Funkytown, is a continuation of the artist’s long exploration of floor based works that oscillate between structure and formlessness. ![]() House of salt and sorrows book 25/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Well, this book was overall an interesting read but it wasn’t as amazing as I thought it would be. ![]() It’s a dark retelling of twelve dancing princess with a gothic touch. Craig’s stand-alone debut YA fantasy novel. When Annaleigh finds out that her sisters have been sneaking out to attend glittering midnight balls and dance until dawn, she’s not sure whether to stop them–or join them.Īnd when she begins to see a series of horrific, ghostly visions and more sisters die, she realizes she must solve the mystery–with the help of Cassius, a sea captain who knows much more about her than he should–and unravel the Thaumas curse before she descends into madness or. Whispers throughout the Highmoor estate say the girls have been cursed by the gods. Four of Annaleigh Thaumas’s eleven sisters have returned to the Salt, the brackish water that surrounds their lonely island home, their lives cut short, each more tragically than the last. ![]() The normal heart by larry kramer5/19/2023 ![]() The only way we'll have real pride is when we demand recognition of a culture that isn't just sexual. ![]() ![]() Why don't they teach any of this in the schools? If they did, maybe he wouldn't have killed himself and maybe you wouldn't be so terrified of who you are. Once upon a time you wanted to be a soldier.īruce, did you know that an openly gay Englishman was as responsible as any man for winning the Second World War? His name was Alan Turing and he cracked the Germans' Enigma code so the Allies knew in advance what the Nazis were going to do - and when the war was over he committed suicide he was so hounded for being gay. Forster, Lorca, Auden, Francis Bacon, James Baldwin, Harry Stack Sullivan, John Maynard Keynes, Dag Hammarskjold… These are not invisible men. ![]() “I belong to a culture that includes Proust, Henry James, Tchaikovsky, Cole Porter, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Marlowe, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Tennessee Williams, Byron, E.M. ![]() |