6/30/2023 0 Comments American psycho novel![]() ![]() ![]() He thought the violence in American Psycho, which was made into a film starring Christian Bale in 2000, so obviously exaggerated that it could not be taken seriously, let alone considered dangerous in real life. “Mr Ellis is a confused, sick young man with a deep hatred of women who will do anything for a fast buck.”Įllis seemed bemused at the time, and not apologetic. “This is not art,” said Tammy Bruce, president of NOW’s LA chapter. The National Organisation for Women called for a boycott of the book, and every other book from the same publisher. There had been what they called “aesthetic differences over what critics had termed its violent and women-hating content”. And does anyone remember that there was no one there for me at all? I had to pretty much go through a trial by fire on my own.”Įllis’s publisher, Vintage, had only taken on the book because its original publisher, Simon & Schuster, withdrew at the last minute. “I would not have the impulse to write that book again,” Ellis says now, during a visit to the Guardian. That way, if somebody did murder him, his parents couldn’t sue the publisher. He had to sign a declaration saying he had read them all. B ret Easton Ellis received 13 death threats before American Psycho was even published. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() Henry brilliantly draws us into a terrifying but ultimately affirmative novel in which love, friendship, and the shining truth about who we really are redeem an otherwise hopeless universe.” - Howard Frank Mosher, award-winning author of God’s KingdomĪt the start of Henry's haunting follow-up to her Agatha-winning debut, Learning to Swim (2011), reporter Troy Chance stumbles onto what could be the story that changes her career as well as several lives when the ice cutters she's photographing on New York's Saranac Lake for a feature about the Lake Placid area resort's annual Winter Carnival find a man frozen under the surface. And when she uncovers long-buried secrets that could shatter the serenity of the small town and many people’s lives, she’ll be forced to decide how far her own loyalties reach. ![]() But as Troy digs deeper, it’s clear someone doesn’t want the investigation to continue. Trying to unravel what brought him to this Adirondack village, she joins forces with his girlfriend and his sister, who comes to town to find answers. ![]() When she is assigned to write a feature on his life and mysterious death, Troy discovers he was the missing son of a wealthy Connecticut family. ![]() While she's watching the crew build the Winter Carnival ice palace, Troy Chance sees a body encased in the frozen lake-a man she recognizes as the boyfriend of one of her roommates. A riveting novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Learning to Swim and an Anthony Award nominee for Best Novel ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Hg buzz bissinger![]() ![]() That March, he published a long-form piece in GQ that detailed a clothes-shopping addiction he had been grappling with. (Buzz) Bissinger, fifty-eight years old and until then known primarily for his wildly best-selling account of high-school football in small-town Texas, “ Friday Night Lights,” from 1990, experienced a new flush of notoriety. In 2013, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist H. G. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Vortex chronicles![]() ![]() Vi embarks on a perilous journey across land and sea that will unveil shocking truths about her dying world, explore the mysteries of primordial magic, and have her fighting for the one thing that remains when all else is lost: love. And, despite herself, she's falling for that charming sorcerer with pointed ears and haunted eyes as he trains her in secret. Assassins anointed by the evil she seeks to thwart hunt her relentlessly. Making matters worse, her empire falters under political turmoil, and her disappearance as the crown princess might just be what causes it to buckle. ![]() And that she is the only one who can put a stop to it. That the mysterious plague ripping through her empire is the first warning an ancient evil threatens to rise anew. Now, a sorcerer from a distant land tells her she must leave her home to claim her true power as champion of the goddess. That is, until the day she manifested a powerful sorcery unlike any other. To save her world, she must sacrifice everything she holds dear.ĭespite descending from a long line of powerful sorcerers, Vi Solaris lacked all magic. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments My Heart Is My Own by John Guy![]() ![]() Mary, aged nine © Musée Condé, Chantilly / The Bridgeman Art Library Henry VIII © National Portrait Gallery, LondonĪntoinette of Bourbon © Musée Nationale de la Renaissance, EcouenĮdward VI as a baby with a rattle by Holbein © National Gallery of Art, Washington / The Bridgeman Art Libraryįrancis II aged eight © Musée Condé, Chantilly / The Bridgeman Art LibraryĮlizabeth de Valois 1559, by François Clouet © Musée Condé, Chantilly Mary of Guise © The Scottish National Portrait Gallery Linlithgow Palace from Theatrum Scotiae, London, 1718 ‘Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library’ ![]() John Guy has presented and contributed to numerous documentaries for BBC2 and Channel 4, including Timewatch, as well as appearing frequently on BBC Radio’s flagship culture programmes such as Start the Week and In Our Time, and writing for the Sunday Times, Guardian, Economist, The Times Literary Supplement, BBC History Magazine and History Today. His previous books include My Heart is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots, winner of the 2004 Whitbread Biography Award and the Marsh Biography Award the highly acclaimed dual biography A Daughter's Love: Thomas and Margaret More a history, Tudor England, which has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide and, most recently, the biography Thomas Becket. ![]() John Guy is an award-winning historian, an accomplished broadcaster and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Wage labour and capital![]() These will set “binding” pay, pension, holiday, health and safety, training and other rules for workers, going above and beyond existing legal rights. Labour’s green paper last October on a “new deal for working people” said the party would bring together worker and employer representatives in a sector to negotiate fair pay agreements. The new details sparked criticism from a Labour peer and risk angering affiliated trade unions, but will likely be welcomed by many employers. ![]() The comments in a draft policy document seen by LabourListsuggest the party has either rowed back on a previous commitment to establish fair pay agreements “across the economy”, or simply clarified for the first time many sectors will be excluded. ![]() Labour has suggested that one of its most radical policies to empower trade unions through new sector-wide collective bargaining agreements will not include “many parts of our economy”. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Isaacson walter leonardo da vinci![]() ![]() The key to da Vinci’s genius as an innovator, as Isaacson presents it, was his “ability to make connections across disciplines-arts and sciences, humanities, and technology” coupled with “an imagination so excitable that it flirted with the edges of fantasy.” Proceeding chronologically through the artist’s life-from his apprenticeship at age 14 in Florence under Andrea del Verrochio to his later years in the court of Ludovico Sforza in Milan and his death in France in 1519-Isaacson shows how da Vinci’s inquisitiveness set him apart from his contemporaries but frequently distracted him from completing commissions or projects. Praising the subject of this illuminating biography as “history’s most creative genius,” Isaacson ( The Innovators) uses observations and insights in the 7,200 extant pages of notes Leonardo da Vinci left behind as interpretive touchstones for assessing the artist’s life and work. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Chasing me to my grave pulitzer![]() ![]() Rembert calls forth vibrant scenes of Black life on Cuthbert, Georgia's Hamilton Avenue, where he first glimpsed the possibility of a life outside the cotton field. Chasing Me to My Grave presents Rembert's breathtaking body of work alongside his story, as told to Tufts Philosopher Erin I. ![]() Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsy's encouragement, he started drawing and painting scenes from his youth using leather tooling skills he learned in prison. ![]() During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain gangs. WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE Booklist ?#1 Nonfiction Book of the Year * African American Literary Book Club (AALBC) #1 Nonfiction Bestseller * Named a Best Book of the Year by: NPR,? Publishers Weekly ,? BookPage, Barnes & Noble, Hudson Booksellers, ARTnews, and more * Amazon Editors' Pick * Carnegie Medal of Excellence Longlist "A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dos concepciones del sexo: la de Flora, que solo ve en el un instrumento de dominio masculino y la de Gauguin, que lo considera una fuerza vital imprescindible puesta al servicio de su creatividad. ![]() Ahora, tres aos despus, aparece El paraso en la otra esquina, obra que ha despertado nuevamente las dudas sobre la vigencia de la calidad literaria de su autor. The dramatic lives of two bold, independent adventurers Paul Gauguin and his grandmother Flora Tristan, a trail-blazing women's suffragist as imagined by one of the master storytellers of our time Chicago Tribune Book Worldĭescription in Spanish: Dos vidas: la de Flora Tristan, que pone todos sus esfuerzos en la lucha por los derechos de la mujer y de los obreros, y la de Paul Gauguin, el hombre que descubre su pasion por la pintura y abandona su existencia burguesa para viajar a Tahiti en busca de un mundo sin contaminar por las convenciones. Ante ello, La fiesta del chivo (2000) apareci como una respuesta contundente: el ambicioso Vargas Llosa de La casa verde y de Conversacin en La Catedral haba vuelto. With this novel we get to know these two great personalities that had similar characteristics: an impressive stubbornness and a bulletproof determination and motivation. They never met, but both dreamed, each in their own way, with a better world. ![]() A century passed between the birth of Flora Tristan and the death of her grandson, the great painter Paul Gauguin. Mario Vargas Llosa, Premio Nobel de Literatura 2010, nació en Arequipa, Perú, en 1936. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments The mysteries of udolpho![]() Her mother dies, then her father dies, and she ends up in the care of an aunt with about as much sympathy and tenderness as the hideous Mrs. ![]() Udolpho is the story of the worst year in Emily St. The Mysteries of Udolpho, when I had once begun it, I could not lay down again I remember finishing it in two days - my hair standing on end the whole time.” (Ch. Radcliffe’s works, and most of them with great pleasure. ![]() “ The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. It was because of Austen’s praise of Radcliffe’s novel, that I purchased Udolpho as summer reading-and how could I not, when sensible Mr. ![]() A deranged nun cloistered away in a convent hidden in the forests of southern France tells the story of when she used to be a beautiful, love-crazed noblewoman, the climax of which is her confession to persuading a married man to poison his wife-and that is just one of the many bizarre twists of Ann Radcliffe’s exciting classic Gothic tale, The Mysteries of Udolpho: A Romance,¹ the novel that inspired Jane Austen’s Gothic parody Northanger Abbey. ![]() |