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In spite of poverty, the family struggled to maintain a solid middle-class façade. The Roman Catholic Church dominated life of Mary Jane Murray, an accomplished pianist and his mother. John Stanislaus Joyce, an impoverished gentleman and father of James Joyce, nine younger surviving siblings, and two other siblings who died of typhoid, failed in a distillery business and tried all kinds of other professions, including politics and tax collecting. Technical innovations of Joyce in the art of the novel include an extensive use of interior monologue he used a complex network of symbolic parallels, drawn from the mythology, history, and literature, and he created a unique language of invented words, puns, and allusions. People note this novelist for his experimental use of language in these works. A profound influence of literary innovations of Irish writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce on modern fiction includes his works, Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Millennia before James Gleick wrested chaos theory from the obscure annals of meteorology to make it a locus of magnetic allure for modern science and a fixture of the popular imagination, the ancient Greeks placed chaos at the center of their cosmogony. “Chaos” by George Frederic Watts, circa 1875. So argues Stephen Fry in the opening of Mythos ( public library) - his gloriously imaginative, erudite, warmhearted, and subversively funny retelling of the classic Greek myths. It is also - curiously, thrillingly - where these two seemingly irreconcilable strains of our hunger for truth and meaning entwine. It is the foundation of our most ancient origin myths and the springboard for our most ambitious science. Since the dawn of human consciousness, this question has gnawed at the insouciance of our species and animated the most restless recesses of our imagination. But what was there before there was time, before there was substance? Before, in the lovely words of the poet Marie Howe, “the singularity we once were” - “when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was liquid and stars were space and space was not at all”? “Time is the substance I am made of,” Borges wrote in his sublime meditation on the most elemental and paradoxical dimension of existence. (2022) (McCaulley, Esau) (2022) (Barbarick, Clifford A.) (2022) (Otey, Melvin) (2022) (Roeber, Daniel R.) (2021) (Olson, Lourdes) (2021) (Dormandy, Michael) (2020) (Kreider, Glenn R.)ī Religious materials B Bible B Bible Black interpretations B African Americans Religion B Black interpretations of sacred works B African Americans Religion Saved in: Bibliographic Details Subtitles:Īfrican American biblical interpretation as an exercise in hope This year’s Summer Series will run from May 25th through August 24th and will include over 45 events featuring new independent feature films, short film programs, and live performances, expecting to attract over 45,000 attendees. Since its inception, Rooftop has set out to engage and inspire diverse communities by showcasing the work of burgeoning filmmakers, supporting them throughout their production, bringing NYC communities together, and more. Each screening is distinctly unique and features electric live performances, free afterparties, and Q&As with filmmakers and stars. The Summer Series–Rooftop’s signature program–is a one-of-a-kind, summer-long, outdoor film festival showcasing the best new independent films in iconic locations across New York City’s five boroughs. Following tradition, Rooftop Films will kick off its 27th Summer Series on Thursday, May 25th at Green-Wood Cemetery with a night of music, community, and an exciting collection of some of the best new short films of the year. Rooftop Films, the non-profit organization celebrated as New York City’s home for independent films and filmmakers, has announced the lineup for its annual Rooftop Films Summer Series, one of the longest running and largest outdoor showcases for independent film in the world. (From: L-R) Brice Gonzalez, Annie Gonzalez, Jesse Garcia and Hunter Jones in FLAMIN’ HOT (Photo: Emily Aragones, courtesy of Searchlight Pictures) The inspirations behind some of Stephen King’s most terrifying characters only make them scarier, but to counter the horror, he wrote brave characters that confronted these monsters. The Moonlight Man was a serial killer and necrophile that appeared to Jessie at her lake house, and he’s said to be inspired by Ed Gein, who is also known as the “Butcher of Plainfield”. Another character said to be based on a well-known serial killer is the Moonlight Man from Gerald’s Game, published in 1992 and adapted to film in 2017. For years, it has been debated whether IT’s Pennywise the Clown is based on infamous serial killer John Wayne Gacy or not, but the truth is that there are many similarities between them, such as both dressing as (or, in IT’s case, taking the shape of) a clown and targeting young victims. A Good Marriage (2014) Joan Allen was an esteemed veteran actress of movies, TV and stage when she signed on for this meh thriller about a wife who discovers that her hubs ( Anthony LaPaglia) is. A Good Marriage took a lot of elements from the real-life crimes and life of the BTK Killer, but he’s not the only villain in Stephen King’s stories to be inspired to an extent by a real serial killer. Hidden in the hills, their sprawling ranch is eerie and run down, but to Evie, it is exotic, thrilling, charged - a place where she feels desperate to be accepted. Soon, Evie is in thrall to Suzanne, a mesmerizing older girl, and is drawn into the circle of a soon-to-be infamous cult and the man who is its charismatic leader. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous aura of abandon. Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. Girls - their vulnerability, strength, and passion to belong - are at the heart of this stunning first novel for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. He came up with creative and unheard at the time ideas, especially on Sgt. Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, part of the White Album and Abbey Road. That all changed in 1966 when he worked with the Beatles' on the Revolver album. He was just starting out his career in the music recording business and wasn't always given the opportunity to work with the Beatles. He started working with them occasionally from 1963-1965. Geoff Emerick was one of the Beatles' recording engineers at EMI studios on Abbey Road. After reading that, I expected that he was going to say nice things about Paul because he still is friends with him. He admits that he became friends with Paul McCartney and did not bond with George Harrison. This is Geoff's book and they are his memories they way he saw it and the way he remembered them. I always read these type of books with a grain of salt. They say that Geoff made up some things that he was never even present for and the book is full of lies. Some say that Geoff thinks Paul can do no wrong and that George is a terrible guitarist. I know that Geoff Emerick's book has some controversy with it. Recently I obtained an autographed hardback copy of the book and I decided to give it another read. This book was published in 2006, and I borrowed a copy from the library back then and read it. This evening's Wednesday Review is of the somewhat controversial book Here There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick. B.K Borison has converted me! Not only did I love the romance, but the Christmas Tree farm setting, the small town, the quirky cast of characters…I wish I could crawl inside this book and live in it. I decided to treat myself to a Kindle Unlimited subscription for my birthday this year, and I’m so so happy that my first read using KU was Lovelight Farms, because WOW it was amazing! I was seeing it hyped up a lot on Booktube and adored the look of the cover, so decided to give it a shot despite not usually being a fan of the friends-to-lovers romance trope. He just came home for some hot chocolate, and somehow got a farm and a serious girlfriend in the process. Only … there is no boyfriend.Įnter best friend Luka Peters. To make the farm seem like a romantic destination for the holidays, she lied on the application and said she owns Lovelight Farms with her boyfriend. With the added publicity and the $100,000 cash prize, she might just be able to save the farm from its financial woes. In an effort to save the Christmas tree farm she’s loved since she was a kid, she enters a contest with instafamous influencer Evelyn St. Lovelight Farms is not the magical winter wonderland of Stella Bloom’s dreams. And shipments that have mysteriously gone missing. A hostile takeover of the Santa barn by a family of raccoons. Published by Barnes & Noble Press on November 10, 2021Ī pasture of dead trees. BorisonĪlso by this author: In the Weeds (Lovelight, #2) The term also has a literary bearing: Can we trust this tale? Is this narrator reliable? Diaz breaks the book into four sections, and the title of the first one is similarly ambiguous, echoing that of the whole work. Trust: both a moral quality and a financial arrangement, as though virtue and money were synonymous. That’s the hope anyway - or the fear, depending on whose side you’re on - and that’s the world Hernan Diaz explores in “Trust,” his intricate, cunning and consistently surprising second novel. The crime has been “forgotten, mind you, because it’s been properly handled,” the bodies neatly disposed of and the bank notes washed clean. Balzac puts those words in the mouth of a master criminal, and then adds a final twist. Of course, we also have to consider who’s speaking. Innovation? Maybe, but take a closer look at the human costs and natural resources needed to bring ideas to market. After all, what counts as an obvious explanation? The ownership of land? Balzac’s society might have thought so now we ask how that land was first acquired. “The secret of all great fortunes, when there’s no obvious explanation for them, is always some forgotten crime.” These words come from “Le Père Goriot” (1835), Honoré de Balzac’s great novel about the mysteries of Paris, and in English they’re most often quoted without the qualifying phrase in the middle. |