![]() I sat and tried to read Pan, but I was unable to concentrate. You see, I'm not disturbing you, she said, and she patted my hand. She put down the coffee on the table with exaggerated care. A coffee? And I'll leave you alone with your book. ![]() She fetched a rag and mopped up the mess I'd made. I was so embarrassed by my clumsiness that tears almost came into my eyes. I shifted my position and stretched out my hand, knocking over a glass of water. So what are you doing later today? she asked. I wanted to tell her more about Hamsun's style, but she interrupted me. They were almost the same language in 1894. You can't tell the difference? she said and raised her eyebrows. ![]() She was a pretty brunette who looked about twenty. I realised she had been there for some time. After a while, I looked up and saw that one of the waitresses was standing behind me. I went into the café and sat down in the corner. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Another goal is surely to make students who choose your course tell others that it was amazing, that you were terrific. ![]() One of your goals is to have the students who have to be there want to be there. You know that neither category guarantees an easy ride, and you wouldn’t want it any other way. Either your course is a) required of everyone or maybe required in some specific track, or b) it’s an elective. Either they have to be there, or they want to be there. You remind yourself that your students are there for one of two reasons. You’re looking for their response, even before they’ve read a word of what you’ve set down. You distribute the handouts, making eye contact as you do it-everyone is so young, and the class is more diverse each time you steal a glance. You’ve brought with you a set of handouts, the ones you quickly say are also and always available online in the course learning module. The first day, the first class meeting, the noises, the competing interests of choosing seats and choosing neighbors, the geometry of students and backpacks, tools, food, books. What really is a syllabus? Is it a tool or a manifesto? A machine or a plan? What are its limits? Its horizon? And who is it really for? And what would happen if you took the syllabus as seriously as you take the most serious forms of writing in your own discipline? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Traveling to the streets of Harlem, the coastal Sea Islands, sites of the historical Underground Railroad, and the American South, the work of Bey and Weems explores ideas grounded in the experiences of Black people refracted through issues of gender, class, and systems of power. Longtime friends and mutual inspirations, Bey and Weems both explore complex visions of Black life in America through intimate portraits, dynamic street photography, and conceptual studies of folklore, culture, and historical sites. Join a conversation decades in the making.ĭawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue is an exhibition that presents over 140 works by two of today’s most significant photo-based artists. Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue – SEATTLE ART MUSEUM Get Tickets Become a Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Variants of it occur again and again in his work, expressing the idea, as he put it in 2001, “that our public institutions – our companies and our government and our media – absolutely affect our ability to exist gracefully in the world”. “‘I pour my life’s blood into this place,’” the narrator’s father says in the early story Isabelle (1994), “‘and you offer me half what I paid?’ ‘Market forces at work’,” the estate agent replies, a line that is virtually impossible to argue with, both within the confines of the story and without. ![]() ![]() The powerlessness of the individual haunts his stories, the sense of citizens being to multinationals as flies to wanton boys. Aside from being one of the funniest writers around, it is difficult to think of anyone better than he is at describing how commercial imperatives deform individual lives. Saunders’s America isn’t only divided into left and right, but also rich and poor, black and white, and, most notably, the individual and the corporation. ![]() ![]() ![]() He says that Sportcoat’s attempt to shoot Deems “hits all the levers and gets all the elevators started” (Award-Winning Author… 02:09-02:13), a metaphor that implies that members of the community act as parts of a larger whole, influencing and affecting one another. ![]() In a video interview from August 2020 shortly after Deacon King Kong was published, McBride states that he views the story as being chiefly about a community. This common location and the Brooklyn neighborhood in which the Cause is located give all the characters a unifying identity, even if they relate to the area differently (for example, Potts works in the neighborhood but doesn’t live there, and Elefante doesn’t live in the Cause Houses but is still a part of the larger neighborhood). The novel is populated with various characters in and surrounding the Cause Houses, which act as the epicenter of the novel’s conflicts and action. The author has teamed with global content company Sister to develop his latest novel, Deacon King Kong, as a TV series. Deacon King Kong is at its heart the story of a community grappling with social change in 20th-century America. James McBride is bringing his latest best-seller to TV. ![]() ![]() ![]() I read The Scarlet Thread again in June after reading first about 2 years ago… It was like I hadn’t read it before. ![]() If you’ve read any of her books then you will know what I am saying. The descriptions were so vivid… I almost puked while reading Chigozie’s description of Abula, the madman a character in the book.įrancine Rivers is still unarguably one of the best Christian fiction writer there is. I can’t describe! Description is top notch. This book, this book, this book! Ughhhhhhh. Y’all should know how much I love this book by now!□ It’s a collection of poems and prose that deals with issues like trauma, loss, healing, feminism and the likes. It is such a page turner and I am glad I read it. ![]() Can I get an Amen? Amen! Sisturrr!īack to the books I read in June… Here goes… In June, I read some pretty amazing books that I would like to share with you and in light of that, I say, Happy new month to you and I pray this month brings all the wonderful blessings you have hoped for. Thank you for coming on StoryStoryOh today. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also describes feeling a “disconnect between the history profession and ‘the people.’” That disconnect became clear, she says, on visits to the bookstore, where the best-selling history books were ones written by nonacademics. Ogle writes, “demanded that I focus on narrow-bordering-on-arcane topics that I publish my work in scholarly journals and academic presses with readerships of six.” In an essay, she explains what leaving academe has taught her “about doing history.” ![]() ![]() Ogle was a historian at the University of South Alabama, but left in 1999 because she no longer wanted to write for an academic audience. Hustler’s choice for April was Ambitious Brew: the Story of American Beer (Harcourt, 2006), by Maureen Ogle. For an author, then, earning the magazine’s book-of-the-month distinction means attention from some very dedicated readers. Hustler magazine readers are drawn in each month by the articles. ![]() ![]() We are saying you can literally be programmed by neurogenetics and epigenetics to change your life.” When you form a new habit, you are training the brain as well as your gene expression to allow you to go into autopilot on what you’re doing every day. When you form a new habit, not only are their changes in the neurocircuitry or neural network but also in the genes or epigenetics. You may be born with certain genes that your parents gave you, but every day it’s how you live your life physically controlling those genes and their activity that can make a difference. You have hundreds of billions of neurons and tens of trillions of synapses that rewire when you form a new habit. Your neural network creates your personality and how you see the world. “It takes 60 days or so to establish a new habit,” Tanzi said, “And not just mentally, but physically it does too. ![]() ![]() ![]() My read of CRESS was stupendous. It was such an amazing read for me and I fell even more in love with the series (even though I didn’t think that was possible). Then I received an ARC of CRESS and couldn’t let it go so I kept my ARC (actually ended up trading to get a different ARC since I sent my copy out on loan and the post office LOST IT) and of course, needed a hardcover and a paperback of CRESS to match my other books. ![]() ![]() I had already owned CINDER and SCARLET in hardcover but of course I needed to purchase a paperback copy of SCARLET since it had my name in it! Because I had the paperback of SCARLET, I needed a paperback of CINDER. My collection started when I had the opportunity (thanks to Macmillan/Fierce Reads) to have my blog name in the paperback copy of SCARLET! I read CINDER a bit later than other readers since it A) came out before I started blogging and I didn’t know about it yet and B) was hesitant about a cyborg Cinderella (how wrong I was)! ![]() To say that I’m obsessed with The Lunar Chronicles and all things Marissa Meyer MAY be an understatement. ![]() ![]() ![]() I expected the writing to be very modern, but it’s not. I was a little surprised by the translation. ![]() I did like the illustrations, although they veered a little too close to the bulging muscles and gravity-defying breasts that most people think of when they hear the word, comic. ![]() It’s a very visual story, with the sirens and Scylla and Charybdis, a journey to the underworld, the cyclops, and Circe’s spell. I think most of us had only vague ideas about what was going on, and we probably only figured those out after the teacher spoon-fed them to us. I don’t know what translation we read, but we needed a translation of it. I wish this had been around when I was wading through The Odyssey in high school (and maybe college? I can’t remember). Gareth Hinds undertakes the task of adapting The Odyssey, the tale of Odysseus’s long journey home after the Trojan War, into graphic novel format. ![]() |