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![]() ![]() ![]() A note I took in the middle of one spring night said, “WHY NOT WRITING?” I answered myself in my notebook in the morning: “I DON'T WANT ANY OF THESE IDEAS.” I had also not been able to read, not before bed, not on the plane west. Since March, I’d felt certain of my capacities diminished. Buying a pre-owned Subaru in Portland, Oregon, a few weeks later, I explained to the salesman that the move had been long planned, by which I meant that we weren’t part of the exodus from the city prompted by the plague, something I’d also explained to the handyman repairing the wall we’d waterlogged by drilling into pipes above the toilet while hanging a medicine cabinet in our new apartment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Denault! Holy Shit! This book is crazy, I was so judgmental that it took me days before I started to read Gambit. ![]() I demand a hardback copy of the Gambit by C.L. Because despite the conflict, mine is becoming quite fond of you.” “Mine doesn’t like you very much.” “Well, that’s a shame. “Willow, this….tension… between us is unsustainable.” His warm hand, still at my waist, slid to small of my back. How much will she sacrifice in order to win To ensure peace, she must leave the past behind, marry a man she’s never met, and submit to the authority of a relentless officer with a hidden agenda of his own. ![]() Greed, corruption, and genetic tampering threaten every aspect of her existence as she’s thrust, unwilling, into the sophisticated culture of the elite Core city. With remarkable skills and a shocking genetic code the Core and its enemies will do anything to obtain, Willow suddenly finds the freedom she craves slipping through her fingers. But when a genetically-advanced military officer shows up in her village and questions her identity, long-buried secrets begin to emerge. Sixteen-year-old Willow Kent believed she was normal. Those with extraordinary skills rise to power and fame. In Earth’s battle-ridden future, humans have evolved. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They also knew his patrician manner, transatlantic accent, and witty aphorisms. People know his essays, screenplays, and Broadway. Works of American writer Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, noted for his cynical humor and his numerous accounts of society in decline, include the play The Best Man (1960) and the novel Myra Breckinridge (1968). As his amanuensis, he chooses Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, a young New York City journalist, and together they explore both Burr's past and the continuing political intrigues of the still young United States. And he is determined to tell his own story. Burr retains much of his political influence if not the respect of all. In 1833, Burr is newly married, an aging statesman considered a monster by many. ![]() In 1807, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted of treason. In 1804, while serving as vice president, Aaron Burr fought a duel with his political nemesis, Alexander Hamilton, and killed him. With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observers.īurr is a portrait of perhaps the most complex and misunderstood of the Founding Fathers. Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post-World War II years. ![]() ![]() 2 The story begins in early 1990s Los Angeles with the assassination of the American counterterrorism chief, Max Ophuls, who is murdered by his Muslim driver Noman Sher Noman, nicknamed ‘Shalimar the clown’. Published in 2005, Shalimar the Clown, Rushdie’s ninth novel and one of the finalists for the 2005 Whitbread Novel Award, depicts a world full of terror and the transformation of a Muslim clown into a terrorist. ![]() In the same way, the aesthetics of the uncanny in Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown, which opens with the epigraph I quoted, provides a way to respond to and to reflect on the terror of several global and local wars and of the terrorist attacks over the past few decades. Indeed, as Vidler has noted, after both 19, the uncanny has re-emerged ‘as an aesthetic sensibility’ to rethink the two post-war periods. Citing examples from the modernist avantgardes’ use of defamiliarization, Vidler states, ‘Estrangement and unhomeliness have emerged as the intellectual watchwords of our century, given periodic material and political force by the resurgence of homelessness itself, a homelessness generated sometimes by war, sometimes by the unequal distribution of wealth’ (9). ![]() ![]() In The Architectural Uncanny, Anthony Vidler suggests the significance of the uncanny as a psychoanalytical and aesthetic response to violence and trauma. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. ![]() Even culture has become a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile to add credibility to the competing sectors. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. In the West, a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies in the East, the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. ![]() Almost four years after the war's end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. Summary: "From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage-called a "fast-moving thinking man's thriller" by The Wall Street Journal-comes a sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation. ![]() ![]() ![]() To top it off there is a superb villain in Housemaster Vaughn, you will hate him. Into the plot comes a male servant of Linden’s called Gabriel and this provides the love story in a clever plot. Rhine wants to escape back to her twin brother Rowan but will she be able to? Rhine resists Linden by adopting the stance “you can trap more things with honey than you can with vinegar”. Linden marries all three and keeps them imprisoned in an amazing property with the intention of breeding with all of them. Rhine is 16 years old and is captured and purchased by Linden along with two other girls Cecily and Jenna. The rich employ “Gatherers” to hunt young girls for breeding purposes to secure survival of the species and of their own property. Unfortunately their children and their children’s children suffer from an incurable virus that limits a males life span to 25 years and a female life span to 20 years. ![]() This generation still exist and are healthy and robust. Seventy years earlier scientists created a perfect generation free from diseases and allergies. The background to this first in a series is a post- holocaust world in which the U.S.A survives but it is a changed world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Call it Sabrina.” “Describe an ungenerous or unkind act you have committed.” “Find in every orgasm an encyclopedic richness … Reimagine doing the laundry as having orgasm, and reinterpret orgasm as not a tiny experience, temporally limited, occurring in a single human body, but as an experience that somehow touches on all of human history.” Figure It Out is both a guidebook for, and the embodiment of, the practices of pleasure, attentiveness, art, and play. He directly proposes assignments to readers: “Buy a one-dollar cactus, and start anthropomorphizing it. Wayne dreams about a handjob from John Ashbery, swims next to Nicole Kidman, reclaims Robert Rauschenberg’s squeegee, and apotheosizes Marguerite Duras as a destroyer of sentences. A subway passenger’s leather bracelet prompts musings on the German word for “stranger” Montaigne leads to the memory of a fourth-grade friend’s stinky feet. He is a Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate Center. ![]() In 2020 he received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. In his new nonfiction collection Figure it Out: Essays, Wayne Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world. His first feature-length film, The Collective, premiered at UnionDocs (New York) in 2021. Figure it Out: Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum (Published by Soft Skull) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved its wonderfully eclectic mix of themes, in terms of ingredients, communities, and historical traditions. ![]() I’ll never look at a green chili-or any of these delicious dishes-the same way again.”-Kate Lebo, author, The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly “A compelling book with a remarkable mix of history, personal insights, and a genuine investment in making connections across continents, generations, and disciplines. Each ingredient in Green Chili and Other Impostors leads to a deeper understanding of how foods, gathered from all over the world, are claimed and made at home-a global story that Furstenau makes personal in luscious prose. “In this delightful book, Nina Mukerjee Furstenau plays sharp-eyed detective and amiable guide as she traces essential Bengali ingredients along histories that are as surprising and creative as the cooks they inspire. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online. 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