![]() It ran for 12 years and won a bunch of awards, including the Tony for Best Musical. ![]() It's about artists, love, and shitty landlords all set in New York City's East Village amidst the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the late 1980s. What's RENT? RENT is a 1996 Broadway musical by the late Jonathan Larson loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's La boheme. Buried towards the bottom of Brooklyn drag legend Charlene Incarnate's recent piece for Out about how "Angel's Gender Identity Is RENT's Most Enduring Mystery" is a short little aside that reads: "queer author Sarah Schulman has suggested with compelling evidence that the characters are plagiarized from her 1990 novel, People in Trouble." Did that line leave you confused? Don't worry. ![]()
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5/11/2023 0 Comments Author of as i lay dying![]() ![]() ![]() Stubborn Anse frequently rejects any offers of assistance, including meals or lodging, so at times the family goes hungry and sleeps in barns. Along the way, Anse and the five children encounter various difficulties. The family's trek by wagon begins, with Addie's non-embalmed body in the coffin. The night after Addie dies a heavy rainstorm sets in rivers rise and wash out bridges that the family will need to cross to get to Jefferson. Anse, Addie's husband, waits on the porch, while their daughter, Dewey Dell, fans her mother in the July heat. She expects to die soon and sits at a window watching as her firstborn child, Cash, builds her coffin. In the novel's first chapters, Addie is alive but in ill health. It is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her poor, rural family's quest and motivations-noble or selfish-to honor her wish to be buried in her hometown of Jefferson, Mississippi. ![]() The book is narrated by 15 different characters over 59 chapters. The novel uses a stream-of-consciousness writing technique, multiple narrators, and varying chapter lengths. The title is derived from William Marris's 1925 translation of Homer's Odyssey, referencing the similar themes of both works. Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th-century literature. As I Lay Dying is a 1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Where the lost wander![]() ![]() ![]() Do note that they’re not covering covid-19 related claims. ![]() World Nomads | If you’re an adventure seeker, backpacker, or planning your once-in-a-lifetime world trip, make sure you check out World Nomads, they designed the perfect travel insurance to help you travel safer and smarter. Readers of WTSW receive 5% off any insurance policy, more information here. Heymondo | Whether you’re going on a 3-week backpacking trip, or planning a long stay somewhere abroad, Heymondo has excellent insurance options either way – plus full covid-19 coverage and a handy app with 24-hour medical assistance. ![]() Suddenly a shot rings out, and she falls to the ground, dead. The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Inside the vehicle, a young woman crawls out and begins to run. In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector find their way through peril, uncertainty, and loss. Director April Mullen ’s camera then dollies up a desolate desert road and an overturned SUV sitting in the middle of it. To help you find the right policy, I’ve listed two of my favourite options below: ‘Wander’ was filmed on the homelands of the Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache peoples. Though you rather don’t think about the things that could go wrong, there’s always a chance that something happens, and when that’s the case, it is better to be safe than sorry. When travelling this big wide world, I never go on an adventure without my essential travel insurance sorted out, and though I felt safe in Morocco, I recommend anyone travelling here to do the same. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Amo jones malum part 1![]() Nate was quite the player until he met Tillie, but even after she disappeared he went back to his old antics. ![]() The Hero(s): Nate Riverside Malum – second to leader of the Elite Kings Club, Bishop and step-brother to Madison. Her story is not like the rest of them, because her story is dead. I’m Nate Riverside-Malum, the one your girl whispers about to her friends and whose initials are scratched down your back. My name is Tillie Stuprum, and my story is not like the rest.Įverything she thought she knew is a fabricated version of the truth. Her eyes may not glisten with stars, but they roar with fire, and when she finally reaches her peak, it’s that same fire that will burn. He may be a Malum, but she is a Stuprum, born into this world but neglected by the choice of her mother. Those secrets were guarded by the boys that were about to smash her world open and tear it all apart… There were things this little girl didn’t know, things she was about to find out and secrets that have been kept from her. Sucked into a dark vortex of lies, hate, and deceit, and spat out by money, glitz, and power. One day, she fell down The Elite Kings’ rabbit hole. ![]() ![]() Once upon a time, there was a young girl who lived in a battered trailer, a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. “Love is savage, love is blind, love is something they may not find…” ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Our missing hearts a novel![]() ![]() Then one day, Bird receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, and soon he is pulled into a quest to find her. He doesn’t know what happened to her-only that her books have been banned-and he resents that she cared more about her work than about him. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club October ’22 Pick) “Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching…I was so invested in the future of this mother and son, and I can’t wait to hear what you think of this deeply suspenseful story!” Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review A TIME Magazine Best Book of 2022 įrom the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes the inspiring new novel about a mother’s unbreakable love.A New York Times Notable Book of 2022. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Mariama ba books![]() ![]() ![]() Sudarkasa details the African woman's economic as well as socio-political contributions. "Moreover," she writes, "during the pre-colonial period in many West African societies, women had important political and religious roles that entailed their working extensively 'outside the home." This legacy continues in contemporary society where "virtually all adult females are engaged in some type of money-making activity" (49). Niara Sudarkasa documents the African woman's proven economic contribution to the struggle for survival, liberation, and a better quality of life for African peoples. Full to surfeit with romantic accolades that work more to stifle than to uplift and empower Black women-thus, Africa-Mariama BB demands that women be recognized as actual beings who not only exist in a physical reality, but who also have made and are making actual contributions to the welfare of that reality. The Black woman in African literature must be given the dimension that her role in the liberation struggles next to men has proven to be hers, the dimension which coincides with her proven contribution to the economic development of our country. The nostalgic songs dedicated to African mothers which express the anxieties of men concerning Mother Africa are no longer enough for us. ![]() ![]() David Herzberg’s White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America seeks to correct this “radical act of forgetting” by examining the troubled history of psychoactive drugs in America. Mostly overlooked was the fact that Ox圜ontin was only the latest in America’s long history of pharmaceutical disasters. Though they were branded as villains in the eyes of the public, the Sacklers escaped criminal charges and had to pay only $225 million of their family money-small potatoes for a family that took some $10 billion out of Purdue between 20. This sum is less impressive than it looked in headlines: Purdue’s bankruptcy in 2019 means that the money is unlikely to be collected. The company was ordered to pay $8.3 billion in penalties, damage, and forfeiture. After years of litigation prompted by spiking overdose rates, in November 2020 Purdue pleaded guilty to conspiracy to aid and abet doctors in dispensing Ox圜ontin without a legitimate medical purpose. ![]() Reams have been written about the misdeeds of Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of Ox圜ontin, and Purdue’s majority owners, the Sackler family. University of Chicago Press, 2020, 400 pp. White Market Drugs: Big Pharma and the Hidden History of Addiction in America Sophie Pinkham ▪ Spring 2021Ī worker removes the Sackler name from a building at Tufts University in 2019. ![]() It’s easier to blame individuals for the opioid crisis than to attempt to diagnose and cure the ills of a society. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The book with no pictures![]() No matter what.” Cue sound effects (“BLUURF”) and nonsense statements (“I am a monkey who taught myself to read”) designed to make a laughingstock of the adult reader while keeping children howling, even as the reader’s “voice” lodges its protests (“Wait a second-is this whole book a trick?”). Everything the words say, the person reading the book has to say. ![]() Then the kicker: “Here is how books work. “It might seem like no fun to have someone read you a book with no pictures,” Novak writes early in the book, his words set in a black serif font that all but demands a serious, James Earl Jones–style voice-over. Different font types, sizes, and colors signal important changes in tone and voice to whomever is reading the story aloud (and the book’s jokes rely on a readaloud setting). ![]() ![]() Actor Novak’s expert sense of comic timing is on full display in his first picture book, which, true to its title, only contains words on a white background. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments El deafo superpowered edition![]() ![]() Can Cece channel her powers into finding the thing she wants most, a true friend?Įl Deafo is a book that will entertain children, give hearing-impaired children a hero of their own, and challenge others to consider an experience unlike their own. ![]() Maybe even superpower! Cece is on her way to becoming El Deafo, Listener for All.īut the funny thing about being a superhero is that it’s just another way of feeling different. ![]() With the Phonic Ear she can hear her teacher not just in the classroom but anywhere her teacher is in the school-in the hallway. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. She’s sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Starting at a new school is scary, especially with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Cece’s class was deaf. What does it take for a student with hearing loss and a hearing aid to become a superhero? A Superpowered Special Edition with 40 pages of all-new material! ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Lucas star wars![]() ![]() Almost six hundred people showed up at this year’s summit, which took place in early November in the Marin County Civic Center, in San Rafael, California Star Warsians came from as far away as Australia and Japan. Schwarz and Target who sell the stuff, and for everyone in the far-flung Star Wars universe to get a better sense of “how deeply the brand has penetrated into the culture,” in the words of one licensee. The biannual Star Wars Summit Meeting is an opportunity for the licensees who make Darth Vader masks and thirty-six-inch sculpted Yoda collectibles to trade strategy and say “May the Force be with you” to the retailers from F.A.O. ![]() |