MAJOR FRANCIS AINSLEY: Once his tender words and admiring glances had promised happiness. LITTLE HAWK: Sustained by his kindness through the endless winter of her captivity, she finally submits to his lovemaking, only to find her passionate nature betrays her New England upbringing. JOSHUA STARK: His piercing blue eyes penetrate her inner-most defenses, and, to her shame, she helplessly succumbs to the sensations awakened by his knowing touch. She quickly discovers how protected she has been from the harsh realities of life - and from men who demand far more than a flirtatious smile and a discreet kiss. Forced to flee Boston rather than marry a man she does not love, Bethany Herbert rides westward to seek a new life on the American frontier.
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A first-generation Philipino-American, Angela makes the argument that the United States must re-orient the way we think about everything-the economy, in particular-to venerate the vital act of care, of tending to each other’s needs, and of prioritizing the collective…otherwise we are lost. So says author and journalist Angela Garbes, who in the first pages of her new book, ESSENTIAL LABOR, expands the concept of “mothering,” creating a tent for everyone, of any gender, who is engaged in the process of creation and care. And it is it's too much for one person to do." You're supposed to be able to like handle everything and it's just it's work. You're supposed to be able to like pull yourself up by your bootstraps. And somehow in our culture, it feels like you're asking for too much, if you need things, right, you're supposed to be super self-sufficient. You know, like we need air, we need housing, we need food, we need companionship. That to be a human, the basic condition of being a human is being needful. "This to me is basic, but it feels like we've drifted really far from it in our culture. Streep’s serpentine fashion designer Priestly is unmistakably reminiscent of another iconic antihero-like villain who fulfills a remarkably similar plot function: the ruthless and silver tongued stock market trader Gordon Gekko, played brilliantly by Michael Douglas in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street (1987). Even the most cynical of critics could not deny that the cherry on top of The Devil Wears Prada was Meryl Streep’s Oscar-nominated performance as the glorious antagonist Miranda Priestly, the fictional longtime editor-in-chief of equally fictional fashion magazine Runway. When Lady Susan leaves her own impoverished Vernon estate, Longford, and goes to visit the rich and coveted DeCourcy family at their fabulous country house, Churchill, the cast multiplies. This is all fine as long as you don’t care about the wafer-thin plot (or absence thereof) and myriad characters too vast to keep straight, played by British actors you’ve never heard of. Stillman’s film The Last Days of Disco, are reunited here with delicious scheming. Beckinsale and Chloe Sevigny, who played roommates in Mr. Alicia Johnson, an exiled American from Connecticut, at her side, Lady Susan shuffles her possibilities like a deck of cards in a game of gin rummy, the two of them gossiping and chatting away as every eligible man and friendly woman they meet pass across the landscape of their plot like trusted innocents, waiting to be duped. The source of his screenplay is an unfinished, unpublished Jane Austen novella, Lady Susan, about the foibles and follies of Lady Susan Vernon (beautifully played by Kate Beckinsale with a calculating guile masked by forced sincerity), a beautiful widow who, left in embarrassing financial straits by her late husband, leaves no stone unturned in her quest for a rich new husband for herself and her daughter Frederica. Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny and Xavier Samuel Although I continued to adjunct, part of the deal in academia is that everything you write is academic research. So part of it was not having a stable job. I had short-term contract positions and never landed that secure, full-time position, which is increasingly rare in academia. Raechel Anne Jolie: Why the pivot: One reason is that many people with PhDs were pushed out of academia in any sustainable way. Why the pivot? What drew you to writing a memoir after working in academia for so long? Had you written personal essays or creative nonfiction-or just journaled-before? This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.īrianna Di Monda: You wrote your memoir after getting your PhD from the University of Minnesota. Jolie kindly agreed to an interview about her memoir, and together we discussed witchcraft, male care, code-switching, and common perceptions of so-called “white trash.” She navigates permanently altered relationships with her parents, grandparents, friend, and boyfriends, and finally finds a home in queer pop culture and the local punk scene. Her story covers her experience growing up in poverty with her single mother after her father is hit by a car. The book was a winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction and an NPR Favorite Book of 2020. Raechel Anne Jolie grew up in northeast Ohio with her mom before receiving her PhD from the University of Minnesota and going on to publish her memoir, Rust Belt Femme. Ken Arkwright had seen more than most but remained avuncular and sanguine, a good copper for a green girl to be beneath the wing of. Tracy Waterhouse was still wet behind the ears, although she wouldn't admit to it. West Yorkshire in 1975, awash with serial killers. Donald Neilson, the Black Panther from Bradford, hadn't been captured yet and Harold Shipman had probably already started killing patients unlucky enough to be under his care in Pontefract General Infirmary. They would both see the beginning of the Ripper's killing spree but Arkwright would be retired long before the end of it. WPC Tracy Waterhouse, a big, graceless girl only just off probation, and PC Ken Arkwright, a stout white Yorkshireman with a heart of lard. By the time they neared the top they were resting at every turn of the stair. The two PCs huffed and puffed their way up the stairs. They had been told that it was on the fifteenth floor of the flats in Lovell Park and-of course-the lifts were broken. It was growing bigger with every step she took. In the middle of it all, Tracy Waterhouse was only concerned with the hole in one of the toes of her tights. The Black and White Minstrel Show is still on television, John Poulson is still in jail. At the end of the month Saigon falls to the North Vietnamese army. At the beginning of the month, in Albuquerque, Bill Gates founds what will become Microsoft. Margaret Thatcher is the new leader of the Conservative Party. Gaslight still flickering on some streets. Leeds: "Motorway City of the Seventies." A proud slogan. Poe is describing the experience of “true love” that most people only know about from songs, books and films, and which women in particular seem to pine for and crave. The mere fact that she exists and shares her time on Earth with him is enough to banish all the evils of the world and leave him in a perpetual state of bliss. Instead he is describing how his love for Eulalie has transformed his entire experience of the world. In this poem Poe is not merely describing the shared mutual admiration and trust that underpins a healthy romantic relationship. In so many of his poems, he captures a love so fanatical, no one doubt it true. This unequal intensity, is what Poe is best at in verse. This experience goes beyond simple companionship and comfort, and involves a wondrous appreciation for another human being that far exceeds the meaning and intensity that we are accustomed to in our everyday lives. This poem describes the transcendental experience that can sometimes occur when we truly and deeply love another person. “Eulalie” by Edgar Allen Poe is more than just another love poem. Can compare with the bright-eyed Eulalie’s mariner and amateur boxer, with a heart of gold - and a head of solid wood.” Howard bibliography, an astonishing (perhaps even amazing and astounding □ ) volume of other characters and genres, including his “humorously over-the-top adventure stories” Sailor Steve Costigan, “an A.B. He wrote, as I just learned from his Wikipedia entry Robert E. The only downer review comment (of those I read) I agree with is, coulda had a better cover.Įven if you aren’t a Conanophile, don’t give up on Howard too quickly. Note, the Amazon listing includes some negative reviews along with positive ones. (Otherwise, feel free to skip to the next item or scroll.) Leiber’s Fafhrd/Gray Mouser) you still might. If you aren’t (or consider that you used to be), but enjoy well-written sword-and-some-sorcery fantasy (e.g. Stirling’s new (hardcover, December 2022 paperback scheduled for September 2023) Conan – Blood of the Serpent (TitanBooks/Penguin/Random House). Howard’s Conan (“the Cimmerian” aka “the Barbarian”) stories, you’ll enjoy reading S.M. Review by Daniel Dern: If you are a fan of (or otherwise enjoy) Robert E. Conan – Blood of the Serpent: The All-New Chronicles of the Worlds Greatest Barbarian Hero by S.M. That just presents one problem: he must not fall in love with her-again. But now that the title is his, he is plotting to shock the ruling class with ambitions of reform-and reveal the infamous Cornelia is his duchess. To a man she hasn’t seen for twenty years.Ī horse breeder with a clandestine taste for revolution, Rafe Goodwood never expected to become a duke. But when an inheritance gives her the chance to fund the cause of women’s rights-on the condition she must wed-she is forced to reveal a secret: she’s already married. Once upon a time she married in secret.Īn activist painter of radicals and harlots, Cornelia Ludgate dismisses love and marriage as threats to freedom. The scandalous women of the SOCIETY OF SIRENS are back with an explosive secret.their ranks include a duchess in disguise From the agency's MKULTRA mind-control experiments to the wars of the Mideast, Angleton wielded far more power than anyone knew. In The Ghost, investigative reporter Jefferson Morley tells Angleton's dramatic story, from his friendship with the poet Ezra Pound through the underground gay milieu of mid-century Washington to the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate scandal. He oversaw a massive spying operation on the antiwar and black nationalist movements and he initiated an obsessive search for communist moles that nearly destroyed the Agency. He committed perjury and obstructed the JFK assassination investigation. He abetted a scheme to aid Israel's own nuclear efforts, disregarding U.S. He launched mass surveillance by opening the mail of hundreds of thousands of Americans. He unwittingly shared intelligence secrets with Soviet spy Kim Philby, a member of the notorious Cambridge spy ring. From World War II to the Cold War, Angleton operated beyond the view of the public, Congress, and even the president. |