![]() ![]() Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives-ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. ![]() Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018 Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 ![]()
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![]() ![]() So although I did read Marisha Pessl's Night Film before I started writing, most of my inspiration came from either nonfiction sources-I'm a big fan of the BFI Film Studies series in all its variations, and Danny Peary's Cult Movies trilogy of reference books-or from the one-two punch of Ramsey Campbell's absolutely amazing Ancient Images (which revolves around the search for a lost British-made Boris Karloff/Bela Lugosi movie that may have been censored for containing references to a noble family's pact with dark powers) vs. ![]() Gemma Files: I'd like to start by making the point that I haven't actually read any of the cited books aside from Flicker, and I've just started reading that-I picked up a copy down at Readercon, right before I won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel. How do you conceive of the differences between these mediums, and is Experimental Film an attempt to bridge that difference? Murray Leeder: Experimental Film joins Walker Percy’s The Movie-goer, Theodore Roszak’s Flicker, Steve Erickson’s Zeroville and others in the peculiar category of literary fiction about cinema, and even invokes a kind of “cinematic” quality in its section headings. ![]() ![]() However, before they have a chance to discover what they mean to each other, Dan is called up by the Guard to assist at a natural disaster. Then a traumatic event occurs and breaks down the barriers between them. As much as it hurts, Dan is willing to remain in the friend zone to keep from losing Jared completely. Jared doesn’t want to be exclusive, and Dan can’t walk away. A night of passion shakes them to their very core. But when his Guardsman buddy, Joseph, introduces him to Jared, Dan is smitten by the luscious twink. ![]() At twenty-two, he’s innocent, a bit shy and not interested in meaningless hook-ups. Dan Harrison has been in the National Guard for about six months and out of the closet not much longer than that. Life is all about having a great time with as many hot guys as possible. ![]() There’s nothing like a night of fun getting glammed up, throwing on some heels and shaking his ass to the latest Britney tune. ![]() ![]() But can he resist a sweet, National Guardsman with puppy dog eyes? EMT Jared Li loves his job, his friends and clubbing. Love is a dangerous emotion that EMT Jared won’t risk. ![]() ![]() "With a compelling plot, a vivid historical context, a rapid pace, an exciting mystery, and excellent characterizations, the novel will satisfy fans of Da Vinci Code–like conspiracy tales as well as those who savor multidimensional literary thrillers." -starred Booklist review Set against the menacing streets of Depression-era Munich and the cruel rise of Nazism, Juan Gómez-Jurado’s spellbinding thriller proves again that he is a master storyteller. The Traitor’s Emblem is an epic novel spanning decades of family betrayal, impossible love, and the high price of vengeance. ![]() This discovery turns Paul’s world upside down and leads him on a hunt in Nazi Germany to uncover the mystery surrounding his father’s death. But one night, seconds before committing suicide, Paul’s cousin reveals a terrible secret about his father’s death. After his family falls into disgrace, fifteen-year-old Paul dreams of the heroic father he never knew. Decades later, the captain’s son receives a substantial offer for it and is told an astounding story behind the object: it holds the key to Paul Reiner’s lifelong quest. ![]() He doesn’t know who they are or where they came from, but one of them gives the captain a mysterious gold-and-diamond emblem before disembarking. ![]() A spellbinding novel about an epic mystery set against the rise of Nazism that spans decades of family betrayal, impossible love, and the high price of vengeance.īased on a true story: A Spanish sea captain rescues four German castaways during a treacherous storm in 1940. ![]() ![]() ![]() Catherine and Laurence live and work in a house on a hill with studios and wild flower meadows, overlooking the sea in Devon, southwest England. He went on to study Painting for 8 years, culminating in a Master's Degree from the Royal Academy of Art in London. It is currently longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018.īorn in 1959, Laurence Anholt was brought up mainly in Holland where he developed a lasting love of Art. ![]() The Hypnotist was described by The Bookseller as 'gripping, powerful storytelling with a powerful anti-racist message.' The book has been officially endorsed by Amnesty International, it was the winner of the Historical Association Young Quills Award, shortlisted for the Southern Schools Book Award and four major book awards. Laurence's first YA / Crossover novel THE HYPNOTIST was published by Penguin Random House on 6th October 2016. Laurence has also collaborated on numerous picture books with his wife, the artist, Catherine Anholt. ![]() Titles like the self-illustrated Anholt's Artists series have sold many millions of copies around the world. ![]() In a career spanning three decades, Laurence Anholt has produced over 200 children's books, which are published in more than 30 languages. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only that, it would be her first outing into the realm of Weres (as in Werewolves) Vampires and the like. Thinking I would pick a work from her Justice or Honor Series, I noticed that I had received what I soon discovered to be the first book of a brand new series. ![]() Needless to say, when I mentioned to my “boss” that I would be doing a Radclyffe book, her clearly knowledgeable response was, “she’s a bit steamy, you know!” She has written many romance novels, romantic intrigue novels, lots of short stories, and has edited anthologies of romance and erotica. To call this woman prolific is an understatement. ![]() I made contact with the author, and received a variety of her works, and then I had to make a decision as to which one I’d review first. This brief exposure made me want to read more. She was the editor, as well as author of one of the featured stories. As you might recall, my first “encounter” with the author Radclyffe was when I reviewed The Best Lesbian Romance Fiction 2010 (4/21). ![]() ![]() Reading Level: 3.1 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5īy the Kate Greenaway Medalist Deep in the woods in an old white cabin, three friends make their pumpkin soup the same way every day. Physical Information: 0.2" H x 10" W x 10" (0.40 lbs) 32 pagesįeatures: Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product Lexile Measure: 610 AD (Adult Directed Text) ![]() Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Friendship The story will resonate for any child who has known the difficulties that come with friendship. One day the Duck wants to stir instead, and after a horrible squabble, he leaves the cabin in a huff. WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guaranteeīinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: Three friends make their pumpkin soup the same way every day. ![]() Contributor(s): Cooper, Helen (Author), Cooper, Helen (Illustrator) ![]() ![]() ![]() *BRAND NEW* DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: THE DEEP END IS OUT NOW!Īnd DON’T MISS an all-new fantasy from Greg’s best friend in Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Adventure, the follow-up to the instant #1 bestseller Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson’s Journal. Stories that all readers can’t wait to get their hands on Can Greg make it through this new school year with his cool(ish) reputation intact? Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules is the second book that has been written in the series, and it is a comic portrayal of an awkward kid by the name of. It’s a brand-new year and a brand-new journal and Greg Heffley is keen to put the humiliating (and secret!) events of last summer firmly behind him.īut someone knows everything, someone whose job it is to most definitely not keep anything embarrassing of Greg’s private: his big brother, Rodrick. The second laugh-out-loud, fully-illustrated Diary of a Wimpy Kid book from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney ! A global phenomenon with 250 million copies of the series sold worldwide! ![]() ![]() ![]() The question addressed by this article is whether esotericism or secret teachings exist in Machiavelli's writings. Offering evidence of the failure of The Prince to deliver on these epistemological aspirations, the article argues that the work’s concluding chapter amounts to a final attempt to render the variability and contingency of the city’s political situation intelligible by fashioning it into an apocalyptic story with which Florentines would have been intimately familiar. ![]() Machiavelli gravitates toward this apocalyptic solution because he has failed to render the apparent contingency of the political world intelligible by containing it with analytical categories, ordering it with general rules, or analogizing it with metaphors for fortune. The final chapter of The Prince, the article suggests, is an apocalyptic exhortation that reiterates Savonarola’s message in secular terms. In Florence, the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola was at the center of this enthusiastic movement. ![]() This article accounts for the surprising final chapter of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Prince by situating it in the context of the apocalyptic fervor that gripped Italy at the turn of the sixteenth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s like the emperor is buck naked…once I point to it, then people can see it.” “Why on a Friday or Saturday night at my dad’s juke joint…why would the band be singing sad, depressed songs? Why? It doesn’t even make any sense. “We are not even down in the dumps and sad and depressed at a funeral. In the 2021 book The Blues: The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture, an unconventional historian boldly reclaims ownership of his own culture. This genre genesis is the latest chapter in Southern history to receive a thoroughly-researched audit and closer inspection of where historical fact blurs into myth. ![]() ![]() Blues musician and author Chris Thomas King.įrom deep within the Mississippi Delta, the legend of the founding of the blues is one held by the labor-worn hands of descendants of the enslaved, eclipsed by the story of how Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. ![]() |