![]() ![]() The Interview is a science fiction novel that eschews the stars in favor of the delicate, fragile, interior world of human emotion. Initially skeptical, Raniero's curiosity and attraction grows. ![]() She declares that her telepathic abilities can parse the signal - a warning of some kind. Dora, his young patient, is part of the New Convention, a movement of young people preaching free love and alternative models to coupling and family. In the sky, strange bright triangles appear, bearing mysterious messages from an extraterrestrial civilization. Set in Italy in 2048, it follows Raniero, a fifty-something psychologist in a failing marriage. The Interview is the second graphic novel by Manuele Fior, author of the critically acclaimed and international award-winning debut 5,000 KM per Second. ![]() An English language edition of this 2013 European graphic novel. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Copy and paste and fill in your relevant details. ❤️Ĭlick below for a sample letter to your school board. And we need you to speak up for your friends and classmates. Young people-your voice matters more than ever. But they are often outnumbered at meetings by a vocal minority. As we have seen in many of these battles, it’s going to take passionate student voices to stop a small yet loud group of people from limiting our education and from hurting students of color and those who identify as LGBTQ+. ![]() These bans are attempting to make bigoted voices the loudest in our communities. Well-trained and experienced librarians and teachers are trying their best to do the jobs they were trained to do. ![]() It is no secret that special interest groups, politicians, and school boards all over the country are targeting young people of color and those in the LGBTQ+ community by challenging, banning, and removing books that help those students and their families feel seen and included in their schools and communities. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this new large-format edition, Hancock responds to critics and brings readers up to date with developments in the debate. ![]() The author has a highly controversial view of history and his theory of a mysterious, lost civilization that brought knowledge to other people around the world, has attracted a wide audience. He exposes the eerie network of connections between: the Great Sphinx and pyramids of Egypt the Andean temples of Tianhuanaco the Mexican pyramids of the Sun an. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the head of this magical society sit the feuding houses of the Red Rose and the White Rose, whose power is determined by playing The Game: a magical tournament in which each house sponsors a warrior to fight to the death.Īs if his bizarre magical heritage weren't enough, Jack finds out that he's not just another member of Weirlind-he's one of the last of the warriors, at a time when both houses are scouting for a player. Soon, Jack learns the startling truth about himself: He is Weirlind, part of an underground society of magical people living among us. And it feels great-until he loses control and nearly kills another player during soccer team tryouts. ![]() Suddenly, he is stronger, fiercer, and more confident than ever before. Only the medicine he has to take daily and the thick scar above his heart set him apart from the other high-schoolers. A teen from Ohio discovers he's the last in a long line of magical warriors chosen to fight to the death.īefore he knew about the Roses, sixteen-year-old Jack lived an unremarkable life in the small Ohio town of Trinity. ![]() ![]() I’m not sure about wanting to be a writer, but I have very, very early memories of wanting to be a reader. What is your earliest memory of wanting to be a writer? I had the absolute pleasure of getting to know Tucker and his creative process for the latest installment of 20 Questions. When You Call My Name, his latest YA novel and first for Penguin Random House, was inspired in part by a viral Twitter thread he wrote in 2018 that he never imagined would attract so much attention. Over the decades he has also worked in magazines, newspapers, and advertising. ![]() He’s the author of Confessions of a Backup Dancer (Simon Schuster), Anxious Hearts (Amulet Books), and Oh Yeah, Audrey! (Harry N. Reading, for me, reminds me that I am alive.” Tucker Shaw is a writer and editor who first found his family in New York City’s East Village in 1991 when he was 23. And when a story moves your emotions, you feel it straight through your flesh and into your bones. ![]() “But I don’t think there is anything more immersive than having your nose in a book. 20 Questions is a Q&A interview series with musicians, authors, and everyone in between, celebrating experiences both shared and individual in the messy game of being human. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m watching the Jetsons, and it’s creeping me right the fuck out. So what happened to all those people, in the minds of this show’s creators? Are they down beneath the clouds, where the Jetsons never go? Was there an apocalypse, or maybe a pogrom? Was there a memo? Thing is, not-white-people make up most of the world’s population, now as well as back in the Sixties when the show was created. This is supposed to be the real world’s future, right? Albeit in silly, humorous form. It’s the 21st century and there are no flying cars what the hell is up with that? So disappointing.īut I watch the show now, as an adult, and I notice something: there’s nobody even slightly brown in the Jetsons’ world. I’m watching reruns of an old kids’ cartoon I used to love: “The Jetsons.” I grew up wanting to take a flying car to school because of this show. How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? The Toxins of Speculative Fiction, and the Antidote that is Janelle Monae Note: this is the not-fully-proofed not-final draft of the essay. If you haven’t done so yet, check out both! In celebration of Janelle Monae’s new album, which I’ve bought but haven’t listened to yet since I’m holding it as a carrot/reward for meeting certain writing goals over the next few weeks… here’s an essay that I wrote for Jonathan Wright’s ADVENTURE ROCKETSHIP! Let’s All Go To The Science Fiction Disco anthology. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Tihanyi’s poems sing of absence and yearning, the need for closeness struggling with the desire for personal space, those thorny contradictions of love, all bristle or quiver in Tihanyi’s tight lyrics with an intensity that seduces the reader and resonates in both mind and body long after the last line. Rishma Dunlop, author of White Album and Reading Like a Girl Tihanyi’s capacity for pleasure and emotional veracity is all the more convincing for her contrasts between a lush, sentient world and a clear-eyed view of contingency. (artist), Delectable Mountains: Artist as Mother, Mother as Subject. “Infused with an erotic spirit, these poems describe a range of relationships between the lover and the beloved, the observer and the observed. Vol 3.2 Mothering, Fathering and Peace and Rishma Dunlops edited collection. These are poems that know exactly how close we hold each other when we are saying goodbye.” -Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault ![]() “This is a moving and powerful book of honest tenderness a book full of the clarity that flows when hope has been pierced by sorrow. Sometimes tender, sometimes searing, the one thing all of these poems do is sing. Tihanyi writes of love not only from the personal perspectives of daughter, mother, friend and lover, but also of a human being celebrating the world. ![]() ![]() This is the word at the heart of In the Key of Red, Eva Tihanyi’s sixth poetry collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() They increasingly earn more than $100,000 a year, regularly out-earning their husbands and, as men have done for generations, are starting to "marry down," if they marry at all. The full title is "The End of Men and the Rise Of Women," and in the book Rosin describes how women now earn the majority of college degrees and hold more than half the jobs in the American workplace. But while she tried to think of an alternative when it came time to turn the idea into a book, nothing else seemed to sum up this moment of transition nearly as well. She's explained to him that she didn't actually choose that title - it was coined by an editor at The Atlantic when Rosin wrote a cover story two years ago about how women are gaining on men in almost everything. "He sends me notes that say 'only bullies write books called "The End of Men,"'" Rosin says, ruefully. Hanna Rosin wants you to know that her 9-year-old son, Jacob, questions the title of her book, too. ![]() ![]() In 1630s Paris, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos are a group of highly trained musketeers commanded by Captain Treville who meet D'Artagnan, a skillful farm boy with hopes of becoming a musketeer. The third series premiered in multiple countries first, before premiering in the UK on, and concluding on 1 August 2016. In February 2015, it was announced that the show had been renewed for a third series, which was announced in April 2016 to be the last. The program was largely filmed in the Czech Republic. Jessica Pope and Adrian Hodges produced the show for the BBC. It also features Peter Capaldi as Cardinal Richelieu in Series One, Marc Warren as Comte de Rochefort in Series Two, and Rupert Everett as the Marquis de Feron in Series Three. ![]() It stars Tom Burke as Athos, Santiago Cabrera as Aramis, Howard Charles as Porthos, Luke Pasqualino as D'Artagnan, Tamla Kari as Constance Bonacieux, Maimie McCoy as Milady de Winter, Ryan Gage as Louis XIII and Alexandra Dowling as Queen Anne. The first episode was shown on BBC One on 19 January 2014. The series follows the musketeers Athos, Aramis, and Porthos as they serve King Louis XIII and citizens of 17th-century Paris. The Musketeers is a British period action-drama program based on the characters from Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel The Three Musketeers and co-produced by BBC America and BBC Worldwide. ![]() ![]() The stories span the unique challenges faced by young, inexperienced doctors - having to decide during a first human dissection whether it is more important to follow the anatomy textbook or keep a tattoo intact - but also delve into their private lives, their relationships and family histories, their fears and motivations. We are introduced to a group of medical students over ten years, following their interlinked stories as they make the transition from medical school to hospital life. In this beautifully written collection, Vincent Lam weaves together black humour, investigations of both common and extraordinary moral dilemmas, and a sometimes shockingly realistic portrait of today's medical profession. ![]() ![]() An astonishing literary debut centred around four students as they apply to medical school, qualify as doctors and face the realities of working in medicine, from a powerful new voice in fiction. ![]() |