![]() ![]() ![]() Born of Rita Mae Brown’s radical feminism, social consciousness and humor, it was the right book at the right time then and continues to seduce lesbian readers well into the 21st century,” says trailblazing author Lee Lynch. “ Rubyfruit Jungle was a trailblazing literary coup at publication. Brown is the author of more than 40 novels, two collections of poetry and nine screenplays. She has spent her life as both a writer and a political activist, who was known for her outspokenness about the need for recognition and inclusion of lesbians in the feminist movement. ![]() The award will be presented at the Annual GCLS Literary Awards Ceremony, Jin New Orleans, during the GCLS Annual Literary Conference.īrown’s first novel, Rubyfruit Jungle, is still in print over 40 years since its original publication date in 1973. Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS) is pleased to announce that Rubyfruit Jungle by bestselling author Rita Mae Brown (Bantam Press) has been selected as the 2015 winner of the coveted Lee Lynch Classic Book Award. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This book is written as if he is narrating his incredible and life changing journey, around a campfire to a bunch of his friends. Mark’s role, in this endeavor, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about and Adam’s was to be extremely ignorant and to whom everything that happened should come as a complete surprise. ![]() They goto Bali in search for Komodo Dragons, Zaire to see Northern White Rhinoceros, New Zealand to watch Kakapos, China to witness Yangtze River Dolphins and lastly to Mauritius to watch Rodriguez Fruitbats. In 1985, literary genius, Douglas Adams decided to go on a tour with zoologist Mark Carwardine around the world in search of Critically endangered animals for BBC. “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” – Douglas Adams ![]() ![]() The protagonist, who wrote a novel about a couple who “during an economic depression, decide to cryogenically freeze themselves,” experiences ambivalence about her marriage. In “Returning,” a woman travels with her husband to his native country, the fictional Garboza, only to be abandoned by him at the airport. as a child later in the story, she returns to visit her great-aunt, with whom she communicates primarily through a translation app. In “Tomorrow,” an arm protrudes from a woman’s vagina during her pregnancy, which her doctor says is “not ideal” but “relatively safe,” his cursory advice gleaned from a website that “looks like WebMD.” The mother, like many of the book’s protagonists, emigrated from China to the U.S. Ma ( Severance) examines themes of otherness and disconnection in this fantastical and often brilliant collection. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “White rage demands that people of color, and women, stay in their place in the racial structure and the patriarchal structure,” she says. “White rage is all about putting you back in your place,” Anderson says. ![]() She says the formal rules of the expulsion hearings barely concealed a simmering rage on the part of white legislators. Racism was also coursing through the words spoken and the tone taken towards the two young Black legislators, says Carol Anderson. Read an excerpt from the NPR article below along with the full piece here: “ Power, race, and fragile democracy in Tennessee.” Anderson provides illuminating context about the racial and racist dimension of this episode. Gloria Johnson (D-Knoxville), a white legislator who also participated in the protest, was spared expulsion by a single vote. Pearson and Jones joined an act of nonviolent civil disobedience on the House floor calling for gun safety legislation in the wake of the April 2023 shooting at Nashville’s the Covenant School. Justin Jones (D-Nashville), from the Tennessee State House of Representatives. A series of revolts in the 1600s and 1700s terrified white residents and led to a slew of laws forbidding Black people from having any weapons, including guns. Carol Anderson was recently quoted in a NPR article about the expulsion of two Black legislators, Rep. ![]() ![]() My own 13 QUICK THOUGHTS about The Dark Knight Returns‘ legacy ( can be found here).ĭan Greenfield: Dark Knight Returns #1 came out just a few months ahead of Watchmen. In Part 3 ( click here ), they pick their favorite “HELL YEAH!” moments. In Part 2 ( click here ), they discuss how the work influenced them as storytellers. In Part 1 ( click here ), creators remember their initial impressions of Miller’s landmark work. And in case you missed them, check out our creator roundtables, where writers and artists like Greg Capullo, Mike Allred, Ron Marz, Darwyn Cooke and many others talk about various aspects of The Dark Knight Returns: So as we head toward the end of seven-days-plus of Dark Knight Returns retrospectives, here’s how the artist of one legendary work sees another … He’s also one of the most insightful people I’ve interviewed in comics. Gibbons has worked with both Moore and Miller. ![]() Gibbons and Alan Moore, I figure, have a completely different perspective on Dark Knight Returns than most: Watchmen and DKR played out at roughly the same time and together they completely altered comics - and by extension, popular culture in general - in the decades to come. ![]() There’s one person I wanted to talk to more than any other for DARK KNIGHT WEEK - and it wasn’t Frank Miller. ![]() It’s like a Beatle talking about the Stones. ![]() ![]() I pulled the plug on these customer success departments in both companies, reassigning the staff back to the departments where their expertise fit best.” ![]() ![]() Newer objects of his ire are fun to read too, such as customer success departments which he found at both ServiceNow and Snowflake: “They were happy to follow the trend set by other companies like ours. Throughout the book Frank lobs hand grenades at his business bêtes noire – such as consultants who borrow your watch, charge you money for telling the time, and then keep your watch. ![]() Blocked pipes? HR recruiting flatlining sales people instead of gunslingers? Leaking faucets? Finance starving sales of investment? Inadequate header tank? Too many passengers and not enough drivers in the organisation? Diagnose and fix. Diagnose and define the problem, then fix it with celerity. ![]() The book is organised in five sections: Raise your standards Align your people and culture Sharpen your focus Pick up the pace and Transform your strategy. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you share a feather with a friend, you can have joint experiences in the Vurt alt world. Administered via colour-coded feathers which you suck on, Vurt offers a variety of experiences from legal happy blues and porno pinks to illegal knowledge blacks and the extremely dangerous yellow feathers. It’s a version of the city where the drug of choice is ‘Vurt’. ![]() Jeff Noon’s debut novel had the USP of being set in an alt-Manchester rather than the USA. It’s fair to say that back then, I’d not read anything as weirdly spec-fictional for around a decade – William Gibson’s Neuromancer in the mid 1980s, and before that the 1975 Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. Of course I couldn’t find my original paperback, I’m sure I still have it somewhere, so I had to buy a beat up old Ringpull reprint copy. ![]() It was originally published in 1993 by Mancunian small indie press Ringpull, who are no longer in the business. I discovered Vurt in the mid 1990s when Pan published the first mass market paperback (cover above) of this novel after it won the Arthur C Clarke Award in 1994. Meanwhile our ‘V is for’ book this month was a novel I was very happy to re-read. We’re nearing the end of the alphabet in our book group – we haven’t decided yet if we’ll return to the beginning or do something else when we finish. ![]() ![]() ![]() Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California is a biography of Dinkelspiel's great- great-grandfather, Isaias W. ![]() ![]() Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California (2015) St.Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California (2008) St.In 2016, Dinkelspiel presented a talk at the Montclair library about journalism, Isaias Hellman, Jewish involvement in the creation of California, wine in California and crime in the wine industry. In 2010, journalists Lance Knobel and Tracey Taylor joined Dinkelspiel in founding Berkeleyside, a local news website about the city of Berkeley, California.In 2018, Berkeleyside raised US$1 million through a direct public offering. 1982) and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (M.S. She is the author of Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California and Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California.Ī fifth-generation Californian, Dinkelspiel attended Stanford University (B.A. Dinkelspiel (born 1959) is an American journalist, author and founder of the local news website Berkeleyside. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, like Conan Doyle, who followed Holmes and Watson with his Professor Challenger novels, Rowling hankered for another series. The reviews were mixed, but she still sold more than a million copies worldwide, while clearly relishing this second act in her literary career. In 2011, after a troubled hiatus, Rowling fired her agent and the following year published The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults, under her own name. In the annals of British literature, Rowling's Harry Potter series is an unprecedented achievement. ![]() Just as remarkable, in 2007, Rowling completed her seven-volume Harry Potter sequence, with The Deathly Hallows, nailing down almost every last detail of a mind-bendingly intricate plot, and bringing an elephantine narrative to a satisfying and possibly open-ended conclusion. ![]() In 2004, Forbes magazine named Rowling the first person to become a billion-dollar author. Subsequent Harry Potter adventures smashed all known sales records. Not since Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories had a writer of Scots ancestry – indeed, any writer – achieved such an astounding audience. ![]() ![]() That Confederate struggle played out in a highly charged international arena. ![]() The attempt to repress a majority of its own population backfired on the Confederate States of America as the disenfranchised demanded to be counted and considered in the great struggle over slavery, emancipation, democracy, and nationhood. Women and slaves became critical political actors as they contested government enlistment and tax and welfare policies, and struggled for their freedom. Wartime scarcity of food, labor, and soldiers tested the Confederate vision at every point and created domestic crises to match those found on the battlefields. Although Southern statesmen and generals had built the most powerful slave regime in the Western world, they had excluded the majority of their own people-white women and slaves-and thereby sowed the seeds of their demise. When the grandiosity of Southerners' national ambitions met the harsh realities of wartime crises, unintended consequences ensued. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience. The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their property, has been told many times in heroic and martial narratives. ![]() Confederate Reckoning is the startling story of this epic political battle in which women and slaves helped to decide the fate of the Confederacy and the outcome of the Civil War. ![]() |