5/30/2023 0 Comments Eileen a novel by ottessa moshfegh![]() ![]() Unfortunately, some 100 pages in, she is still announcing her imminent departure. The book’s opening evokes a stark kind of empathy for Eileen, who is extreme in her oddness and aversion to personal hygiene, but still quite likable. ![]() Eileen’s perspective is one of hindsight, some 50 years later, looking back on her final days of quiet, isolated misery before the rest of her life begins, a very different life we know will happen without knowing much more. She also spends a lot of time hating herself (“I looked like nothing special”) and plotting her exodus from the small New England town where she’s been trapped. In 1964, Eileen Dunlop is 24 years old, living with her cruel, alcoholic father, and working at Moorehead, a juvenile detention center for boys. Winner of both the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize and a Stegner Fellowship, Moshfegh moves beyond her previous short fiction achievements with this dark and unnerving debut novel. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The dehumanization and sabotage of which Hogan speaks didn’t affect GTTF’s members but were inflicted by them on the people they were supposed to be protecting. And they did it all while collecting praise from their colleagues and bosses, more resources from the department, and millions of dollars in overtime - often more than their annual salaries. ![]() ![]() “To reverse the tide of rising crime, we need to stop demonizing and sabotaging the dedicated men and women who risk their lives every single day to keep the rest of us safe,” Hogan continued in that speech, a grimly ironic statement juxtaposed with the subject of We Own This City.įor years, members of the Baltimore Police Department Gun Trace Task Force had run roughshod over citizens, stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and millions in drugs, framed people for crimes they hadn’t committed, and caused the death of a bystander during an unnecessary car chase. The line is from an October 15, 2021, press conference during which Republican Hogan refused calls to defund the police and instead announced a $150 million package intended as “a desperately needed shot in the arm” for Maryland police agencies. “The city of Baltimore is a poster child for the basic failure to stop lawlessness,” says Maryland governor Larry Hogan in the opening credits of We Own This City, and there’s a smirking bent to the series’ decision to feature that quote in each of its six episodes. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The witch house lovecraft![]() ![]() ![]() We adapted it.Īnd Portia, you play Alice, the main character in the film. Lovecraft story, “Dreams in the Witch House?”īobby, you wrote and also directed the film?īE: Yeah, I co-wrote it with Ben Wallace. Hi guys! So, let’s talk about WITCH HOUSE, It’s based on an H.P. The production of WITCH HOUSE marks the first time a narrative film has been shot at the legendary location, and you won’t believe some of the stuff that happened! Check it out! The film takes place in and was filmed in Indianapolis, Indiana’s legendary Hannah House, a very famous and supposedly very haunted house. We were later joined by the film’s cinematographer, J.D. Lovecraft ? Are you obsessed with haunted houses? Then you are sure to enjoy WITCH HOUSE, the new film from director Bobby Easley, an adaptation of Lovecraft’s 1933 short story “Dreams in the Witch House.” I recently had the chance to chat with Bobby, along with Portia Chellelynn who stars in the film. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The night circus![]() The animals that grace the performances lack colour zebras, ravens, white doves. The circus exists in monotone black and white striped tents, exhibits in shades of grey lacking colour and the circus groupies, rêveurs, who dress in black with a hint of bright red about their person. The imagery is stylish and I think the creation that is the circus is wonderful one I would probably much prefer in a visual medium. As the circus evolves, Celia learns that the game is afoot. Initially laughed at for being a woman, she dazzles the proprietor with her manipulations, creating birds from inanimate objects and transforming the colours of her gown. ![]() After her father’s death, Celia applies to join the Night Circus as an illusionist. ![]() When her mother dies, he binds her into a challenge, to pit her magic against another a boy whose identity will remain secret for many years to come. The great illusionist Prospero has a daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the book also takes a wildly anti-tourist swing when we get to the cities of Pripyat and Varosha, judging tourists for their desire to gaze at the ruins, as if her entire book wasn’t about cities that have fallen to disease, to war, to pillaging, to fire and tragedy. The book often offers a romanticization of ruins and lack of empathy for the lost city itself, offering only side-notes about struggles in the region, apparently attempting to become apolitical. The information offered is basic-often including strangely chosen sidebars such as one describing what “Golden Ages” are-and often shifts in tone, for example switching between attempting to squash myths and lore about a city and embracing it in order to try and get at the mysteries of its formation or demise. The book itself is pretty, the illustrations beautiful, but the wealth of content peters off slightly there. Aude de Tocqueville suffers from a lack of coherent tone, either problems in writing or in translation, and a couple content issues as well. ![]() ![]() I wish I had enjoyed Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations more, but unfortunately, it had many problems. ![]() ![]() His emotions spiral out of control when the press exposes too much about his relationships. On the inside, he’s overwhelmed by anxiety. Jimmy Kaga-Ricci, a gay Christian transgender boy of Indian and Italian descent, greets his fans from a distance. ![]() Before the final show of their tour, Fereshteh ditches her high school leavers’ ceremony to fulfill her dream of seeing them in concert with Juliet Schwartz, a White online friend she’s meeting for the first time-but when she arrives in London, her high expectations are derailed by reality. ![]() ![]() Two teens-a super fan and a celebrity musician-confront their insecurities about their relationships and identities as their lives unexpectedly intertwine.įereshteh (or Angel as she’s known online, a translation of her Farsi name), is a Persian British hijabi who lives for The Ark, a boy band rising to international fame. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mary in particular resisted this dictate, although the Tripletts did briefly place their son in a facility called the Preventorium before thinking better of it and seeking out Kanner. Every doctor his parents consulted insisted that the boy was hopelessly insane and should be institutionalized so that the Triplett family could get on with their lives. His mother, Mary, worried that Donald’s habit of running out into the street would, during some brief moment when her attention lapsed, get him killed. (He would endlessly repeat the words chrysanthemum, business, and trumpet vine for no discernible reason.) He mostly ignored the people around him-unless he was throwing violent tantrums when aspects of his environment or routine were changed. Triplett, the scion of a leading family in a small Mississippi town, could speak, but what he said made little sense to his parents. It was Kanner who, in the 1940s, identified autism as a condition distinct from both “mental retardation” and schizophrenia, with which it had long been confused. In a Different Key begins and ends with one man: Donald Triplett, the first person diagnosed with autism by Leo Kanner, an American child psychiatrist. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The notebook sparks![]() ![]() He followed it up with Message in a Bottle and A Walk to Remember, both of which were bestsellers. The book hit the New York Times bestseller list in the first week it was released. She obtained a $1 million advance (unheard of, for a first time author) for Nicholas. ![]() He sent it to several agents, and finally struck gold when Theresa Park read it and decided to represent him. ![]() Having already written two unpublished books, in 1994 he wrote The Notebook. For the next few years, Nicholas worked at odd jobs, including waiting tables and real estate appraising. That same year, he met his wife Catherine and after a whirlwind romance, married her just over a year later. Majoring in business finance, he graduated in 1988. Graduating valedictorian from his high school and receiving a full post secondary scholarship, he pursued an academic career at the University of Notre Dame. Born in Omaha Nebraska, Nicholas moved around the country with his family several times before permanently settling down in Fair Oaks, California. Nicholas Sparks, author of bestsellers such as The Notebook and Message in a Bottle, has been actively engaging readers with his novels for over 10 years. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments I Killed Adolf Hitler by Jason![]() ![]() After World War II, 50 percent of Americans polled said they didn’t believe Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun had committed suicide in their bunker in 1945, as captured Nazi officials claimed. The failure of the assassination and the military coup d’état which was planned to follow led to the arrest of at least 7,000 people by the Gestapo-including Schlabrendorff-of whom 4,980 were executed.ĭescription: Think You Know Everything about the death of Hitler? Think Again. The plot was the culmination of the efforts by several groups in the German resistance to overthrow the Nazi German government. A further attempt followed on 20 July 1944: Claus von Stauffenberg and other conspirators, including Schlabrendorff, attempted to kill Hitler inside his Wolf’s Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia, in what would become known as Operation Valkyrie. Schlabrendorff managed to retrieve the bomb the next day and elude detection. The bomb detonator failed to go off, however, most likely due of the cold in the aircraft luggage compartment. ![]() ![]() The first attempt took place on 13 March 1943: During a visit by Adolf Hitler to Army Group Center Headquarters in Smolensk, Schlabrendorff smuggled a time bomb, disguised as bottles of cognac, onto the aircraft which carried Hitler back to Germany. Description: Originally published in 1947, this book chronicles the assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler, both of which Fabian von Schlabrendorff, a major leader in the resistance against Hitler, played a direct role. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Forget me hit me let me drink great quantities of clear, evil... by Katie Schmid![]() ![]() An old-school vibe, an air of knowing something underground that the shiny book clubs haven’t heard about yet. In the last year I’ve become addicted to these small, subversive texts-they’re like vinyl for book-lovers. The Future Tense chapbook may be palm-sized, but the lyric, dense prose takes over your entire world. Novellas, short memoir, and the curious chapbook. Ortiz, And the most interesting part is, they’re doing it in bite-size form. ![]() Future Tense published Chloe Caldwell’s breakout Legs Get Led Astray and the immersive Excavationby Wendy C. Run by literary community extraordinaire and Powell’s ambassador Kevin Sampsell, Future Tense has consistently published work that eviscerates everything I thought I knew about literature. It’s tough to admit when a cynical corporate slogan hits the mark, but I can’t think of a better way to describe Portland’s Future Tense Press and its portfolio of literary fire-starters. Small is huge, Wells Fargo tells us with a Pleasantville main street gloss. ![]() |