![]() Englander's updated version involves two couples, one secular, the other deeply religious, around a kitchen table in suburban Florida drinking, smoking marijuana and debating the idea of what it means to be a Jew. The collection begins with the title story, a lengthy homage to a Raymond Carver story. In fact, to borrow a phrase from William Faulkner, the past is not even past. Religious Jews in crisis, the ephemeral nature of the written word and, most pointedly, the enduring trauma of the Holocaust are explored with abundant humour, tenderness and heartache. ![]() What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank ((his first novel, The Ministry of Special Cases, was published in 2007)) returns to the same fertile territory as Englander's first book of stories. The stories, infused with the wisdom, authority and authenticity of an old-world master, were not written in Russian or Yiddish like those of his literary forebears, Isaac Babel and Isaac Bashevis Singer, but in a precise, unadorned English that is both amazingly fresh and hauntingly familiar. ![]() It has been nearly 13 years since the publication of Nathan Englander's brilliant debut, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, an ambitious story collection written by a twentysomething Jewish writer raised in a religious community in suburban New York. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He was also influenced by the relationship between working class culture and football, being present at the Hillsborough disaster. Fisher was formatively influenced in his youth by the post-punk music press of the late 1970s, particularly papers such as NME which crossed music with politics, film, and fiction. ![]() He attended a local comprehensive school. After years intermittently struggling with depression, Fisher died by suicide in January 2017, shortly before the publication of The Weird and the Eerie (2017).įisher was born in Leicester and raised in Loughborough to working-class, conservative parents his father was an engineering technician and his mother a cleaner. He was also the co-founder of Zero Books, and later Repeater Books. He initially achieved acclaim for his blogging as k-punk in the early 2000s, and was known for his writing on radical politics, music, and popular culture.įisher published several books, including the unexpected success Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009), and contributed to publications such as The Wire, Fact, New Statesman and Sight & Sound. ![]() Mark Fisher (11 July 1968 – 13 January 2017), also known under his blogging alias k-punk, was an English writer, music critic, political and cultural theorist, philosopher, and teacher based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. ![]() ![]() Any substantial copying or any other actions that exceed fair dealing or other exceptions in the Copyright Act require the permission of the author. The author retains copyright in this thesis. It is my goal to demonstrate, like many others have before me, that the criteria that John Meier endorses can be applied to the burial, empty tomb, and post-mortem appearance narratives in the Gospels and 1 Corinthians 15, yielding historical results. Meier in his famous series A Marginal Jew to the resurrection narratives found in the four Canonical Gospels and in 1 Corinthians 15:3-8. The purpose of my thesis is to apply the criteria of historical authenticity as outlined by John P. Meier’s criteria for determining historical authenticity Author Monette, Gregory James Resurrecting a marginal Jew: A study on the resurrection narratives in the New Testament using John P. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Among other capital offenses, he liked to wear Capri pants.) Since only one of the townies that Lecesne gives voice to is a homophobe, there’s not much mystery here, nor, in a play consisting mostly of monologues, much drama of any other sort. We quickly learn why, as well: Leonard Pelkey was an outrageously flamboyant gay boy, unwilling or unable to “tone it down” for other people’s comfort or even his own safety. Chief among them is the improbable, noir-spouting police detective assigned to investigate the disappearance of a 14-year-old who is not just missing but murdered. Such is the case with The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey, a 75-minute one-man show in which James Lecesne, who also wrote the piece, portrays nine denizens of a Jersey shore town. Beware short plays bearing long titles they are usually not short enough. ![]() ![]() She can't, and so both summers play out in alternating timelines - one in which Natalya explores the city, tries to repair things with her mom, works on figuring out her future, and goes for the girl she's always wanted. Natalya Fox has twenty-four hours to make the biggest choice of her life: stay home in NYC for the summer with her dad (and finally screw up the courage to talk to the girl she's been crushing on), or spend it with her basically estranged mom in LA (knowing this is the best chance she has to fix their relationship, if she even wants to.) (Does she want to?) ![]() In Dahlia Adler's Going Bicoastal, there's more than one path to happily ever after. The Homo Sapiens AgendaĪ queer Sliding Doors YA rom-com in which a girl must choose between summer in NYC with her dad (and the girl she's always wanted) or LA with her estranged mom (and the guy she never saw coming). ![]() It's got all the Dahlia Adler trademarks-romance, wry humor, specificity, and genuine emotional depth." - Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author of Kate in Waiting and Simon vs. "This is what it looks like when a brilliant high concept is executed to perfection. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Griet finds herself carefully negotiating a path of survival between Maria Thins, Vermeer’s imperious mother-in-law Catherina, his insecure and eternally pregnant wife Tanneke, the senior servant in the household and Cornelia, the sly and scheming daughter. ![]() ![]() This sets Griet up for difficulties in the household, which is full of women vying for the tiny bit of power and authority available to them. She is the only one in the household allowed into his studio, because she has discovered the knack of cleaning the setting for paintings in progress without disturbing them. She is a lowly maid and laundress, but catches Vermeer’s eye from the start because he notices her awareness of color and shape as she arranges sliced vegetables on a table. The girl in question is Griet, a sixteen-year-old girl who goes to work in Vermeer’s tumultuous household. In Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier brings to life the subject and circumstances of one Vermeer’s best known and loved paintings. What paintings we have of his, however, are memorable with their luminosity and portrayal of everyday life in seventeeth century Delft, Holland. Almost nothing is known of painter Johannes Vermeer’s life, and he was not a prolific painter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since its first publication, over a staggering 15 million copies of MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS have sold globally to single men and women looking for guidance on how to find the perfect partner, married couples seeking to strengthen their bond, and divorcees hoping to fathom where it all went wrong. Now repackaged to relate to a new generation of readers, this phenomenal book continues to carry its legacy of understanding and trust into the world. `A treasure', `a bible' and `an heirloom' are some of the words used to describe the book that has saved countless relationships and improved innumerable others. The legendary relationships guide that mothers recommend to their daughters, friends give as gifts and brothers steal from their sisters, MEN ARE FROM MARS AND WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS is inarguably the definitive book on having a happy relationship. ![]() ![]() When I wrote my senior thesis during my final year as an undergraduate Creative Writing major, I listed Smith as one of my primary influences as a writer. I also found her ability to make the simplest physical interactions between characters sensual without becoming sexually explicit, very admirable. I found Smith’s deliberate and well paced prose incredibly appealing. ![]() Reading The Vampire Diaries was a transformative experience for me. I was immediately taken with the pretty, popular, and strong-willed Elena Gilbert, as well as her two vampire suitors, the sensitive Stefan and his womanizing brother Damon, not to mention Elena’s loyal friends Meredith, Bonnie, and Matt. I was twelve when the first book in The Vampire Diaries tetralogy was released back in 1991. ![]() Maat 11:59 pm ( fantasy, fiction, novels, romance, vampires, young adult) ![]() The Vampire Diaries: The Return: Nightfall by L.J. Smith ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is as if she has renounced all personal agency and narrative authority. Faye, neutral as a blank page, listens to each of them in turn, sometimes passing judgment, but more often leaving it to the reader to decide how to interpret what we have heard. Her interlocutors speak in long, arcing monologues that swoop from the minute banality of personal experience to touch on the great themes of human life and society and back again. ![]() “She lends herself as a filter,” as Judith Thurman wrote in a New Yorker Profile, last year. ![]() Like “ Transit” and “ Kudos,” the two books that followed it, “Outline” serves as a record not so much of Faye’s own thoughts and actions but of those described to her by the people she encounters. On a brief trip to Greece, Faye, the novel’s protagonist, does very little, and says even less. In 2014, the novelist Rachel Cusk published “ Outline,” the first novel in a trilogy whose style was markedly different from anything that she had previously written. ![]() ![]() Another young man, a blind piano tuner, also inhabits this castle from time to time, and one evening, hears the girl playing a beautiful song on the piano, and falls deeply in love with her. The teenage girl does not love him, yet this wealthy man takes her back to his castle and attempts to make her enact embarrassing sexual acts for his pleasure. The Bloody Chamber story, based on the legend of Bluebeard the pirate, is the tale of a teenage girl and talented pianist who marries an older French Marquis who was known to have wed many wives. Lyon, The Tiger’s Bride, Puss-in-Boots, The Erl-King, The Snow Child, The Lady of the House of Love, the Werewolf, The Company of Wolves and Wolf-Alice. The list of short stories available within this collection are as follows: The Bloody Chamber, The Courtship of Mr. ![]() ![]() The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter is a book containing the titular short story followed by a collection of nine other stories, all of which are darker and more adult renditions of common fairytales. ![]() |