![]() ![]() Growing up in suburban Michigan, the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, Michelle found solidarity with African Americans in the work of seminal black authors. Attending public schools from kindergarten through high school, she remembers in her book that she “…never learned about Asian Americans, alive or dead, in any class, from any teacher.” Michelle Kuo, the author of 2017’s Reading with Patrick, grew up under similar circumstances in Kalamazoo, Michigan. ![]() After all, how do you express the way you were affected by the stories you didn’t hear? I’ve realized in recent years, however, that the exclusion of Chinese Americans from the American canon had an impact that I’ve struggled to put into words. Personal identity is multi-faceted and I found plenty of role models and sources of pride as I grew to become a dedicated student, athlete and lover of food and music in suburban Connecticut. I reflect on this shortage of Chinese American stories during my childhood without criticism or complaint. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Represented by Melissa Flashman at Janklow & Nesbit. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, writer/photographer/videomaker Amarnath Ravva, where she is at work on a new novel. Her writing has appeared in Granta, The Paris Review Daily, BOMB, LA Times, Tate Etc. and other places.Īmina has also co-curated literary events, such as When Does It or You Begin?, a month long festival of writing, performance, and video at Links Hall in Chicago Both Sides and The Center, a summer festival of readings and performances enacting various levels of proximity, intimacy, and distance at the MAK Center/Schindler House in West Hollywood and the Errata Salon, a talk/lecture series at Betalevel in LA’s Chinatown. ![]() Her new book, A Horse at Night: On Writing, came out in October of 2022 with Dorothy, a publishing project in the US and Daunt Books in the UK. Writing, composition, and background The novel took Cain four years to write. The novel follows the life of its narrator, Vitria, from shortly before her marriage until shortly after its dissolution. ![]() Amina Cain is the author of the novel Indelicacy, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, published in 2020 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and two collections of short stories, Creature and I Go To Some Hollow. Indelicacy is a 2020 novel by American writer Amina Cain. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Sunday Times bestselling biography of the glamorous couple behind the modern royal family, the aunt and uncle of Prince Philip.ĭICKIE MOUNTBATTEN: A major figure behind his nephew Philip's marriage to Queen Elizabeth II and instrumental in the Royal Family taking the Mountbatten name, he was Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia during World War II and the last Viceroy of India.ĮDWINA MOUNTBATTEN: Once the richest woman in Britain and a playgirl who enjoyed numerous affairs, she emerged from World War II as a magnetic and talented humanitarian worker loved around the world.įrom British high society to the South of France, from the battlefields of Burma to the Viceroy's House, The Mountbattens is a rich and filmic story of a powerful partnership, revealing the truth behind a carefully curated legend. ![]() impressively well-researched' Daily Mail, Biography of the Year ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was hooked on Chameleon Moon from the first few pages. These strange powers have something to do with Parole’s history, which gradually unfolds over the course of the story. That said, Parole is also home to characters who each have a number of otherworldly powers, such as the ability to fade into invisibility, sing hope into people’s hearts, or create living beings out of metal. Parole is a quarantined city, sealed off from the rest of the world under a protective barrier, and situated over a blazing inferno that consumes anybody who falls through the cracks. ![]() And believe me, this book did not disappoint.Ĭhameleon Moon is a dystopian, alternate reality story about the city of Parole and its citizens. This novel came highly recommended, and I was particularly impressed to see that it had been edited by Claudie Arseneault, and illustrated by Lyssa Chiavari, both of whom are authors I admire greatly. I first came across Chameleon Moon on a suggested reading list of science fiction & fantasy novels featuring asexual-spectrum characters, written by ace-spec authors. Author: Alyccea Nymaessene, November 2017 ![]() ![]() His thesis studied the Revolt of the Comuneros, and remains one of the leading scholarly books on the topics. He completed his doctoral thesis in 1970. In 1955, he was named a lecturer of Spanish by the Superior University of Saint-Cloud. ![]() His parents were Spaniards who emigrated from Bocairent in Valencia. Joseph Pérez was born in Laroque-d'Olmes in the Ariège department, which is in the south of France near the Spanish border. Among his books, he examined the independence movements of Hispanic America Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic Monarchs Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, and Philip II of Spain. ![]() Pérez specialized in the births of the modern Spanish state and the Latin American nations. Joseph Pérez (14 January 1931 – 8 October 2020) was a French historian specializing in Spanish history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Elsie, who died in 1973, was a middle school science teacher in Norwalk and founded an environmental club in the late 1960s.īoth his mother and grandparents, Henry and Anita Willcox, were subpoenaed to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and their careers were ruined as a result. ![]() Roger, a community organizer specializing in co-ops, was a sailor. Willcox's parents were both politically active. Willcox was adopted by Roger and Elsie Willcox of South Norwalk, Connecticut. Sharpe, a member of the U.S Ski team at the time, was unmarried and gave the baby up for adoption at the urging of her family. Willcox was born to Eleanor Sharpe of Woodstock, Vermont. In 2014, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Guardian for his environmental activism. ![]() In 2013, he was aboard the MV Arctic Sunrise when the Russian military boarded it and arrested him and 30 other activists in what became known as the " Arctic 30." He was detained for two months before being released. He was on board as captain of the Rainbow Warrior when it was bombed and sunk by the DGSE (French intelligence service) in New Zealand in 1985. Peter Willcox (born March 6, 1953) is an American sea captain best known for his activism with the environmental organization Greenpeace. ![]() ![]() ![]() I still haven’t gotten Covid as of this writing-fingers crossed!-but the pandemic at large did keep us home for big stretches of 2020-2022. Oh, and I’m also working on a big secret project we hope to announce in the coming months! ![]() It’s a preposterously ambitious full color project covering the evolution and biology of vision principles of visual perception demonstrations of how visual elements behave in the mind’s eye best practices for clarity, explanation, and effective rhetoric and some personal reflections on our family’s experiences with blindness. The book has taken me years so far, but I sincerely believe it’ll be worth it. The second draft of my (neurotically-tight) layouts ran 571 pages, and I’m determined, as I plow through my third-and hopefully final-draft, to make it substantially shorter and less rambling. I’m still working feverishly on my massive book about visual communication. Yeah, yeah, nobody reads site blogs anymore, but I have a lot to talk about-more than can fit in a tweet-and this seemed as good a place as any to put it all into words… Nursing room sign, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. ![]() ![]() She is a basketball player for her high school in her small town of Grandma Earl, Georgia and has played a terrible game against her ex-girlfriend Tally, who she still loves, and who has transferred schools to rival Candlewick. She Drives Me Crazy opens with our protagonist Scottie Zajac having a rough go of it. ![]() Hijinks, heartbreak, and gay fake-dating scheme for the ages. But when an opportunity presents itself for Scottie to get back at her toxic ex (and climb her school’s social ladder at the same time), she bribes Irene into playing along. Their bumpy start only gets bumpier the more time they spend together. Things only get worse when their nosey, do-gooder moms get involved and the girls are forced to carpool together until Irene’s car gets out of the shop. ![]() ![]() After losing spectacularly to her ex-girlfriend in their first game since their break up, Scottie Zajac gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her nemesis, the incredibly beautiful and incredibly mean Irene Abraham. ![]() ![]() Gaiman’s best-known novel, "American Gods," was about deities whose modern-day existence depended on people still believing in them. ![]() The blurb on the back of Ubume describes Kyogoku as “the Neil Gaiman of Japanese mystery fiction,” and it’s a fair comparison. He has little appetite for mystical hokum rather, he seeks to explain fantastical phenomena by situating them in a precise social and historical context-an affectionate form of debunking, if you will. The self-proclaimed "yokai" (ghost) researcher is an expert on the spooks and preternatural creatures that populate Japanese folklore, using them as inspiration for his numerous doorstop-sized tomes. Kyogoku has since established himself as one of Japan’s preeminent mystery authors. ![]() ![]() Such was the case with Natsuhiko Kyogoku’s "The Summer of the Ubume." When it was first released in 1994, the book was deemed too long to be eligible for any Rookie of the Year awards (which have maximum allowable page counts), inspiring publisher Kodansha to create a new accolade, the Mephisto Prize, for unpublished writers with a tendency to ramble. ![]() Far rarer are the ones who have had a new prize created because of them. There’s no shortage of writers who have picked up literary awards for their debut novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everything that can be stolen from her has been snatched from her grasp. Those she thought to trust have betrayed her. The land has chosen its hero, but war demands a hefty price–one Aria may not be willing to pay. War lingers on the horizon, as armies gather deeply within the shadows. What’s a girl to do? Within the Nine Realms, treachery runs deep. And one fate she never asked for, but can’t escape. A council who has deemed her too dangerous to live. One king who yearns to control her, and own her body, mind, and soul. Aria faces new challenges and tribulations within the Nine Realms. You can read this before Crown of Chaos (Legacy of the Nine Realms, #4) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.įrom USA Today Bestselling Author Amelia Hutchins comes a tale of love, war, and treachery. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Crown of Chaos (Legacy of the Nine Realms, #4) written by Amelia Hutchins which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Crown of Chaos (Legacy of the Nine Realms, #4) by Amelia Hutchins ![]() |