![]() ![]() On Ozick’s background and career, in general, see this profile at the Jewish Women’s Archive. As part of its “Big Read” program, the National Endowment for the Arts created an extraordinary guide to "The Shawl" (and to the novella “Rosa” that was published alongside it in a slim book in 1989), which includes a video interview with Ozick, an audio guide to the story, discussion questions, and more. ![]()
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![]() ![]() On each page, one for every day of the year, you’ll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes and provocative commentary to help you tackle any problem or approach any goal. ![]() The Daily Stoic offers a daily devotional of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, and the slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as diamonds like Zeno, Cleanthes and Musonius Rufus. Tested in the laboratory of human experience over the last two thousand years, this timeless knowledge is essential to navigating the complexities of modern life. Long the secret weapon of history’s great figures, from emperors to artists and activists to fighter pilots, the principles of Stoicism have shone brightly through the centuries as a philosophy for doers. The Daily Stoic is a compelling, accessible guide to living a good life, offering daily doses of this classic wisdom. Where can you find joy? What’s the true measure of success? How should we manage anger? Find meaning? Conquer grief? The answers to these questions and more lie at the heart of Stoic philosophy. ![]() ![]() ![]() At play’s end, they make their decisions, perhaps on the basis that ‘love is not the opposite of hate - hope is.’ By that time, having been honored with patience and attention, Mr Pugliese’s play becomes most rewarding …” -Martin Gottfried, New York Law Journalįrank Pugliese's credits for the stage include KAOS (New York Theatre Workshop) AVEN'U BOYS (Off-Broadway, Obie Award) THE KING OF CONNECTICUT, THE TALK, THE ALARM (all with Naked Angels) "HOPE" IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS, LATE NIGHT - EARLY MORNING (The Drama Dept.) THE CRAZY GIRL (NY Stage and Film, Gloucester Stage). ![]() In one way or another, each is in despair. For this play is a ninety-minute jigsaw puzzle whose pieces, seemingly unrelated, gradually come together and by the end, the picture is in focus and complete … All these people, then, are in midst of making decisions about their lives, present and future. Perhaps, for some, the theater is never supposed to be difficult, but for those whose attention can hold under such challenging conditions, the reward is considerable. It is also very much a poem in dramatic form, a poem that baffles at first, and strains the mind. The play, too, by the time it is through, is an ode to hope. ![]() “The title of Frank Pugliese’s difficult but rewarding new play, ‘HOPE’ IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS, is taken from an Emily Dickinson poem. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, evenhandedly and with great assurance, Hickman charts the course of loss and recovery for each family member. In bed, Laura discusses with Trace Annie's sudden burst into near-adulthood-she's having sex with her boyfriend, what does he think about that? They both think some issues may get settled on the family vacation in Colorado, but once there, suddenly and meaninglessly, Annie's killed while horseback riding. ![]() As the story begins, the family is trying to cope with the death of Laura's father and with her mother's grief, and Hickman captures in near-photographic detail the likable, contrary, selfish, and generous attitudes of a nice family dealing with the grieving widow and with one another. They have three children, two boys about to graduate from college and a 16-year-old daughter, Annie. She's married to a good-natured engineer, Trace, who takes comfort in facts and who isn't much for emotional expression-a common, likable sort whom Laura still loves dearly after many years. Hickman tells her quiet story through the eyes of Laura Randall, whose very name cries out ordinariness. A first novel that, beginning with its title, begs comparison to Judith Guest's Ordinary People, by an author best known for her nonfiction writing on grief (Healing After Loss, not reviewed, etc.). ![]() ![]() Engrossing, insightful and laugh-out-loud funny, this is an irresistible ride to the wilder shores of modern military life. Speaking to the scientists and the soldiers, she learns about everything from life-changing medical procedures to innovations as esoteric as firing dead chickens at fighter jets. Mary Roach is a fairly prolific author who brings humor and common sense to popular science. At its best which is to say, for roughly the book’s first half Grunt explores the seemingly mundane particulars of how uniform fabrics are chosen and tested (particularly for their. Setting about her task with infectious enthusiasm, she sniffs World War II stink bombs, tests earplugs in a simulated war zone and burns the midnight oil with the crew of a nuclear submarine. ![]() In Grunt, the inimitable Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. But there’s a whole other side to the gruesome business of the battlefield. Mary Roach is the author of five best-selling works of nonfiction, including Grunt, Stiff, and, most recently, Fuzz. Mention it and most of us think of history, of conflicts on foreign soil, of heroism and compromise, of strategy and weapons. ![]() ‘The most entertaining writer in science’ – The Times, Books of the Year ![]() A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science & Technology Book Prize ![]() ![]() ![]() Chbosky makes several references to other literary works, films and pop culture in general.Īlthough Chbosky's first book was a commercial success, it was banned in some American schools for its content and received mixed reviews from literary critics. The novel addresses themes permeating adolescence, including introversion, sexuality and drug use. Intelligent beyond his years, he is an unconventional thinker as the story begins, the reader learns that Charlie is also shy and unpopular.Ĭhbosky took five years to develop and publish The Perks of Being a Wallflower, creating the characters and other aspects of the story from his own memories. Set in the early 1990s, the novel follows Charlie through his freshman year of high school in a Pittsburgh suburb. ![]() Its narrator is an introverted teenager known as Charlie, who describes his experiences in a series of letters to an anonymous stranger. The Perks of Being a Wallflower The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a coming-of-age epistolary novel by American writer Stephen Chbosky which was first published on Februby Pocket Books. For the film of the same name, see The Perks of Being a Wallflower (film). ![]() ![]() He attempted six concepts for a cartoon strip, all of which were rejected. He thus returned once again to designing advertisements for a while. He decided not to work said character into the strip of what would become Calvin and Hobbes, as he was offended working on a character that wasn't his own and creating a strip just for advertising. He was once approached with a offer to create a strip featuring the character of a robot with a propeller on his head, which had a huge licensing program planned with plush toys. At some point, he picked up a job designing advertisements, which he supposedly "detested".ĭuring this time, he turned his attention to being a self-employed cartoonist. Watterson was however denied further employment beyond the trial period. Immediately, the Cincinnati Post offered him a job drawing political cartoons for a six-month trial period. ![]() In 1980, Watterson graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio with a degree in political science. ![]() He has a younger brother, Tom, who is a high school teacher in Austin, Texas. The family moved to Chagrin Falls, Ohio when Bill was six years old his mother, Kathryn, became a city council member. Watterson (1932-2016), worked as a patent examiner while going to law school, until becoming a patent attorney in 1960. ![]() Watterson was born in Washington, D.C., where his father, James G. ![]() ![]() I gave this 3 stars, some four and five star RS books would be: AT Winter's End, The Word Inside and Downward To Earth. Though the main character thinks he is a God, he is very human in his thoughts and even though I did not like the main character, I have no doubt this was what he was like in real life and how I would probably be under the same circumstances. ![]() We also see how Kings do not have all the power as they must deal with the priests and the priestess and what the people expect. Though there are lots of demons and such mentioned in the story, we see through his adventures how these are just how they explain anything they do not understand. He is big and strong and he sleeps with several women a night (It's good to be the King). He grows up in the story and he becomes what he thinks is nearly a God. As a youth he is confused over all the religious rituals and little is done to explain them to him. It is written in first person by the King. Condition: First UK edition: octavo hardcover, with gilt spine. ![]() RS is one of the more talented writers around. ![]() Like all Silverberg books the prose is good. ![]() It is the story of a King from his childhood to late adulthood. The story is based on probably the oldest known story ever written. When his father the king of Rurk dies, Gilgamesh is forced into exile by the newly crowned Dumuzi. This reads like something Mary Renault would write and she would do a better job. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His trials have forged in him a deep empathy for others in hardship - an essential quality as he addresses a nation at its most dire hour in decades.īlending up-close journalism and broader context, Evan Osnos illuminates Biden's life and captures the characters and meaning of an extraordinary presidential election. Yet even as Biden's life has been shaped by drama, it has also been powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to confront his shortcomings, errors and reversals of fortune. has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest - fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career that reached the White House, but also marked by deep personal losses that he has suffered. Now he carries the hopes of billions upon his shoulders' Sunday Times 'Biden has overcome unimaginable tribulation, multiple presidential primary humiliations, a potentially crippling speech impediment and his own mediocrity. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos - A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the Year ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As if that weren't bad enough, it looks like the authorities already suspect something is afoot, there's a saboteur aboard, and the Icarus appears to be shaking apart at the seams. The ship, Icarus, turns out to be a ramshackle hulk, the ragtag crew literally picked up off the street, and the cargo so secret, it's sealed in a special container that takes up most of the cramped and ill-designed ship. But this time he may have taken on more than even he can handle. ![]() ![]() So when Jordan and his partner, Ixil-an alien with two ferret-like "outhunters" linked to his neural system-are hired by a mysterious gentleman to fly a ship and its special cargo to Earth, they jump at the job.Ĭaution has never been one of Jordan's strong suits. In order to survive, Jordan ekes out a living dabbling in interstellar smuggling for outlaw concerns that represent the last vestiges of free trade in the galaxy. Unfortunately for him, the iron-fisted authority of the powerful Patthaaunutth controls virtually every aspect of galactic shipping. Jordan McKell has a problem with authority. From Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of two landmark Star Wars® series, comes an original new tale featuring a renegade space pilot, his unusual alien partner, and an unknown cargo that can change the course of galactic history. ![]() |