![]() ![]() I read it in one setting, desperate to find out if hell has an End. The central conceit is brilliant and there’s a real sense of pathos for our author’s desperate attempts to find and maintain human connections in an ageless place. Even hell is strangely (Utah Valley) Mormon - a place for beautiful white people with perfect teeth. Peck’s Mormon biography is evident here, from the relief that he is not in Baptist hell, to the guilt he feels after drinking coffee from hell’s Star Trekkian vending machines. Hell could last three days or three trillion years. It’s not an infinite number of books, but the size boggles his (and your) mind. Trouble is, hell contains every book that could ever be written. Our author finds himself in a deliciously cruel/comfortable Zoroastrian hell in which he must find the book of his life in order to escape. A Short Stay in Hell is, alas, mis-titled. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I wanted to highlight not only famous drunk writers - John Berryman, Raymond Carver - but stories and writers who had been fully forgotten - like George Cain, who wrote about heroin’s grip on him in “Blueschild Baby.”Īs far as the subtitle goes, if authors had their way, there’d be no subtitles. ![]() There are many recovering stories that have been lost to the margins. It’s like an umbrella holding different stories. It’s a process larger than any single person. It’s never fully finished and I wanted to ponder that. JAMISON: A big part of the word recovering had to do with ongoingness. How did you come to choose the title and subtitle (“The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath”)? Ahead of the visit, we talked to her about her early days of drinking, the shame and loneliness of addiction, and becoming a sober storyteller. Jamison, based in New York and on the road with her 12-week-old daughter and her mom, will sit down with Wood at the Cambridge Public Library. Novelist and essayist Leslie Jamison ’04 comes to Cambridge Thursday for a conversation with Harvard professor James Wood on her new book, “The Recovering.”Īuthor of the best-selling “The Empathy Exams,” Jamison mixes memoir with literary criticism in her new narrative, reflecting on her own struggles to get sober and the burden of alcohol in the work and lives of writers and performers such as Raymond Carver, Billie Holiday, Stephen King, and Amy Winehouse. ![]() ![]() Brought to Rome, she is pressed into service as a personal slave to hedonistic Julia Valerian. After surviving the massacre of her family and the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, Hadassah is captured and sold to a well-to-do merchant’s family. Following the prides and passions of a group of Jews, Romans and Barbarians living at the time of the siege, the narrative is centered on an ill-fated romance between a steadfast slave girl, Hadassah, and Marcus, the brother of her owner and a handsome aristocrat. ![]() “The city was silently bloating in the hot sun, rotting like the thousands of bodies that lay where they had fallen in street battles.” With this opening sentence, A Voice in the Wind transports readers back to Jerusalem during the first Jewish-Roman War, some seventy years after the death of Christ. ![]() ![]() ![]() Having concluded the series in late 2014, Masashi Kishimoto has kept himself busy this year with the side story Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring and writing the story for the latest Naruto movie, Boruto: Naruto the Movie, both of which will focus on the title character's son, Boruto. ![]() The series would also spawn multiple anime series, movies, novels, video games and more. 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Author/artist Masashi Kishimoto was born in 1974 in rural Okayama Prefecture, Japan. ![]() ![]() Like the multivolume biography of Lyndon Johnson for which Caro is best known, you might call “The Power Broker” “unputdownable” - except that, at 1,300 pages, putting it down occasionally is the only way to avoid sore muscles. But its themes are too timeless to seem dated. For more than four decades, this particular urban planner was the most powerful man in New York, an unelected emperor who dominated the mayors and governors who were supposedly in charge, and who physically reshaped the city through sheer force of will.Ĭaro’s enormous book, meanwhile, is less a life story than an epic, meticulously detailed study of power in general: how it’s acquired, how it’s used to change history, how it ultimately corrupts those who get it.įirst published in 1974 - Barack Obama read it aged 22, and was “mesmerised” - “The Power Broker” was released in the UK for the first time this year. ![]() Technically, Robert Caro’s book “The Power Broker” is a biography of urban planner Robert Moses, but that description feels laughably inadequate on multiple counts. ![]() ![]() The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() First she introduces a vast array of characters: Mary Beth’s husband Glen, children Ruby and Alex and Max (these last two fraternal twins), Ruby’s friends Sarah and Rachel and Kiernan, Mary Beth’s friends Alice and Nancy and Olivia. Quindlen takes her time getting to that point, though. When “This is my life” serves as a book’s opening salvo, it’s a safe bet that that life is going to change. To her credit, the author avoids the obvious snares and manages to tell a compelling, emotionally charged story. It’s an ambitious book that sets out to talk about important things using big ingredients-family, love, death, redemption. “This is my life,” she announces in the very first sentence of Every Last One, a novel by Anna Quindlen ( Rise and Shine, One True Thing) that’s part domestic drama, part domestic hell. ![]() Mary Beth Latham is a devoted mother of three, a loving wife, the successful owner of a Vermont landscaping business who worries a bit, but not too much, about her employees. ![]() ![]() The circumstances and outcome of this transformation, he demonstrates, not only shaped medieval and modern Europe but established enduring and fundamental characteristics which differentiated Europe from other world civilizations.The process at the heart of change involved social, cultural and institutional transformations whose implementation required extensive popular participation. Together these changes brought into being for the first time an autonomous city-supporting civilization in non-Mediterranean Europe. Professor Moore argues that the period witnessed the first true revolution in European society, characterized by a transformation in the economy, in family structures, and in the sources of power and the means by which it was exercised. This book provides a radical reassessment of Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether you’re looking to build a storage shed or to take advantage of unused space in your closet, this volume will help you tidy up all around the house-from the bathroom to the backyard and everywhere in-between. CLEVER TIPS for storing bulky or awkwardly shaped items like blankets, sports gear and kitchen utensils.SIMPLE STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS to build customized storage solutions.50+ PROJECTS for your kitchen, bathroom, backyard, bedrooms, of?ce, workshop and more.Whether you’re looking to tidy up or store your belongings, we have you covered with a wide variety of projects and hints to make your living space the most orderly it’s ever been. If you’ve got stuff, you need to have places to put it and ways to keep it neat-and that’s where this book comes in. Chapters are as follows: Kitchen & Bathroom Garage & Outdoors Laundry Room, Closets & Clothes Around the House Workshop Special Section: Storing Sports Gear. Family Handyman is focused on creating do-it-yourself content to help simplify and inspire the everyday lives of our readers. Continuing Family Handyman’s “Whole House” series, this book offers readers a wide variety of tips and projects to help them tidy up and declutter around their living spaces. ![]() ![]() The twists and connections to the characters was surprising." He had a lot of issues with life that pulled him in different directions, but the intrigue of the story was written well. ![]() Dead Watch is anything but politics as usual.”- San Antonio Express-News ![]() is peerless when it comes to economical, taut plotting, most notably at building tension. "Sandford is a master at creating believable, indelible characters like Winter. As this runaway train picks up speed, innocents are murdered, and the guilty come to Jesus. Democratic "research assistant" (read: fixer) Jacob Winter, ex–Army Intelligence, wounded in Afghanistan, is called in by the Democratic president to unravel an extremely messy situation and shield his office from any hint of scandal. Finally, he is discovered in the remote Virginia woods, barb-wired to a tree, burned almost beyond recognition and missing his head. ![]() The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Lucas Davenport novels delivers “a page-turner with a new hero, breakneck pace" ( Minneapolis Star Tribune).įormer senator Lincoln Bowe, a Republican, has been missing for several days, setting off alarms on both sides of the political aisle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Read as a lonely jackalope comes into his own, learn how Ronald Reagan used his jackalope to find political success, explore the horrific ramifications as jackalopes terrorize those unlucky enough to cross their paths…and meet other creatures along the way, like the mighty chupacabra and terrifying moths. Introducing Unnatural Tales of the Jackalope: Eighteen stories, a poem, and a letter all about the fabled Southwestern Jackalope. ![]() …and while you’re waiting, check out the Unnatural Tales of the Jackalope Trailer here: Tonight’s special edition of Scary Scribes will feature snippets from Western Legend Press’ new anthology, Unnatural Tales of the Jackalope-and then we’ll get to chat with jackalope expert Casie Smalls as well as authors Jeff Strand, David (D.T.) Griffith, Sephera Giron, Rachel Towns, Jezzy Wolfe, and Fawn Recording Artist. ![]() |