![]() Forché visited the country multiple times between 19 on a Guggenheim fellowship this experience became the basis for her controversial poetry collection The Country Between Us (1981) – and, much later, What You Have Heard Is True.įorché's memoir begins with an approach by Leonel Gómez Vides, who has traveled from El Salvador to meet Forché knowing that the poet has been translating the work of his aunt, Nicaraguan-Salvadoran writer Claribel Alegría. By one estimate, 65,000 people were either killed or disappeared by El Salvador's military junta during this period, in no small part due to the support it received from the U.S.'s Carter and Reagan administrations. The war would last over a decade and kill untold tens of thousands. ![]() In What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (2019), poet Carolyn Forché recounts her time in El Salvador in the late 1970s during this time, the country teetered on the edge of a devastating civil war. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The find is something NASA needs in the light of recent failures. NASA claims this as proof of extraterrestrial life. In it are insect fossils very similar to, but not the same as, species on earth. ![]() At this spot NASA discovers a very dense meteorite. ![]() NASA's new Polar Orbiting Density Scanner (PODS), part of the Earth Observation System (EOS), a collection of satellites monitoring the globe for signs of large-scale change, has found an extremely dense spot in the Milne Ice Shelf. The President sends her to the Arctic as part of a team of experts to confirm and authenticate findings made by NASA deep within the Milne Ice Shelf. Her father, Senator Sedgewick Sexton, is a presidential candidate who is more popular than incumbent President of the United States Zachary Herney. Intelligence Analyst Rachel Sexton is in her mid-thirties, is single, and works for the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office). ![]() ![]() In Lee’s “A Wicked Voice” (1890) and Cather’s The Troll Garden (1905), characters experience symphonic and operatic music which not only haunts their psyches, but extends beyond the Pleasure Principle, thus resulting in a jouissance through which the protagonists are able to momentarily escape from the weight of physicality. Though separated by over a decade, differing interpretations of literary theory and technique, and the wide azure Atlantic Ocean, the English aesthetic author Vernon Lee and the American novelist Willa Cather both struggled with the understanding of not only the unconscious, but also the method by which the psyche might be unfettered and freed from societal ideologies of the sexed body. “The myth of the sirens reminds us of the jouissance of music, the pleasure of surrender and engulfment, and the fears of making bad choices under the influence of uncontrollable substances-and the dangers of dissolving a safe distance between self and other.” Linda Phyllis Austern (60) ![]() Music, Jouissance Vernon Lee, Willa Cather ![]() ![]() ![]() When she loses her way, and fails to meet him, he asks the wind for assistance, and gets it. When Sixo arranges to meet his Thirty-Mile Woman in a stone shelter ‘that Redmen used way back when they thought the land was theirs,’ he asks the spirit of the Redmen for permission to enter. Morrison, as Sitter notes, suggests that Sixo represents an African ideal of masculinity, by accentuating his ‘Africanness.’ His manliness stems not from the approval of others, nor from the disempowerment of others, but from an unfailing respect that he demonstrates for everyone, whether alive or dead, and for the natural and supernatural worlds. ![]() Sixo is drawn on a heroic scale, not defining himself by the opinions of others, or his judgement of their superiority or inferiority. ![]() Looking to Beloved for an alternative to Paul D’s other-affirmed masculinity, we find Sixo. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Kovac has a sixth sense for crime, and it's burning. It's too much like looking into his own future. He doesn't want to spend any more time than he has to in the bleak, empty world of the victim's father, Iron Mike, Kovac's old mentor and a department legend. The investigation will be a formality, a duty that veteran Homicide detective Sam Kovac isn't looking forward to. Was it suicide? Or a kinky act turned tragic accident? Either way, his death wasn't a crime. In front of it hung the body of Andy Fallon, a Minneapolis Internal Affairs cop. ![]() The single word was written on the mirror. It is the story of two hard-boiled cops who dare to cross the thin and dangerous line that separates good and evil as they risk their lives to investigate the suspicious death of one of their own. New York Times bestseller Tami Hoag is at the top of her form in her newest thriller, blending unforgettable characters, breakneck suspense, and chilling twists. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of his comic work weren't superhero stories but those were the ones that won all the plaudits, a fact which he always resented because he felt that people were taking wrong messages from them just because they were superhero stories.Īnd seeing how many writers after him derived influence from his stories, it's hard to say he was wrong. So much of what we understand superhero stories to be today come from his influence and what he always sought for were things underneath the surfaces of the stories. He's probably one of the extremely few people who doesn't need to watch them in order to be able to give still-relevant perspective on why he thinks superhero stories have ruined the comic medium. He doesn't care about superhero movies at all, it seems he's got more salient feelings about superhero comics instead. If this is the only thing people listened to him about, he'd probably never speak to anyone ever again. ![]() Ehh, I don't think he would even care to be cited based on his opinions on superhero movies, all of which he has summarily dismissed and never wants to think about again. ![]() ![]() Three major and rarely exhibited ‘total’ installations will be presented together for the first time: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment 1985, Labyrinth (My Mother’s Album) 1990 and Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future 2001. Including architectural models of realised and unrealised utopian projects and public sculptures, the exhibition demonstrates the breadth of the Kabakovs’ practice. ![]() The exhibition charts the Kabakovs’ incredible artistic journey, from the early paintings, drawings, albums and sculptural works made by Ilya working as an ‘unofficial’ artist in his Moscow studio from the 1960s, through to his move to New York in the late 1980s – a turning point which marked the beginning of his collaboration with Emilia on immersive and often large-scale installations. ![]() ![]() Critiquing the conventions of art history and drawing upon the visual culture of the former Soviet Union – from dreary communal apartments to propaganda art and its highly optimistic depictions of Soviet life – their work addresses universal ideas of utopia and fantasy hope and fear. ![]() The Kabakovs are amongst the most celebrated artists of their generation, widely known for their large-scale installations and use of fictional personas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rammed her hands down the front into the silken gym shorts he wore and wrapped her fingers around all that hard heat. Didn’t bother to push it off his shoulders, but dragged down the tab on his flight duit. She shoved him away and tore at the release on his flight vest. His mouth raged along her jawline, down her neck. He’d have driver the air from her body if their mouths were not already clamped together, her arms wrapped around the back of his head. ![]() He plowed into her and kept right on going until her back slammed against the chopper’s pilot door. Mark covered the five steps between them faster than she could raise her arms to welcome him. Others claimed that he hadn’t been born but hatched. There were even debates on exactly what breed that would be. The very fastest, most dangerous viper, everyone added quickly. The most common theory placed Major Henderson’s mother as part snake and his father as pure vipor. Rumor had it they were implanted and the major no longer needed eyes. His face clean shaven, eyes hidden by mirrored Ray-Bans. His straight black hair fell to his squared-off jawline. Broad shoulders, raw muscle, and the most dangerous-looking man Emily had ever met. ML Buchman writes a really great alpha hero and sexual tension.īefore I give the excerpt, I have to give a description of Major Mark Henderson, nicknamed “The Viper.” ![]() Today’s excerpt is more of a building up to a sexy scene. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If Griffin is ever to rebuild his future, he must first confront his history, every last heartbreaking piece in the puzzle of his life.įrom Griffin Jennings's perspective, he loses his first love Theo three times: first when Theo heads to college in California while Griffin finishes senior year at their Manhattan high school then when Theo finds new love with a fellow college student and, finally, when Theo drowns in the Pacific. He’s losing himself in his obsessive compulsions and destructive choices, and the secrets he’s been keeping are tearing him apart. ![]() But no matter how much they open up to each other, Griffin’s downward spiral continues. To make things worse, the only person who truly understands his heartache is Jackson. But now, the future he’s been imagining for himself has gone far off course. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. When Griffin’s first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, dies in a drowning accident, his universe implodes. Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everythingįrom the New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than Not comes an explosive examination of grief, mental illness, and the devastating consequences of refusing to let go of the past. "This book will make you cry, think, and then cry some more." ![]() ![]() ![]() " Kill Creek is a book from a horror fan to horror fans―creepy, atmospheric, and messed up in all the best ways.a must-read for anyone who likes it when their fiction goes to dark places." ―Sam Reader, Barnes & Noble A match for readers who enjoyed Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House." ― Booklist (starred review) It is also a thought-provoking and enjoyable look at the genre itself. "A menacing and cinematic story that evolves into a bloody, action-driven terrorfest. "The horror debut of 2017." ―B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog The combo of a great premise and an exquisite ability to conjure dread and terror make Scott Thomas’ debut the perfect Halloween treat." ―Andy Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter ![]() "Not since I read The Shining in eighth grade has a book scared the crap out of me as much as Kill Creek. Stephen King-esque storytelling." ―The A.V. "Intensely realized and beautifully orchestrated Gothic horror." ―Joyce Carol Oates Shortlisted for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel The American Library Association's Horror Book of 2017 ![]() |