![]() William Shakespeare, Miguel de Cervantes and Garcilaso de la Vega - also called ‘El Inca’, one of the great Spanish chroniclers of the 16th century - all died on this day in 1616. It is celebrated each year on 23 April, a significant date in world literature. ![]() UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day was established in 1995 to promote the worldwide enjoyment of reading, and to recognise the role of books as ‘a link between the past and the future, a bridge between generations and across cultures’. This year on World Book and Copyright Day, discover The Library Shakspeare, an 1890 illustrated edition of the Bard’s collected plays in the museum’s Rare Book Collection. By Bronwyn Mitchell, Editor, Queensland Museum ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() AV000784: poor sound quality, speech until 001510 (followed by Panorama: Nikki Giovanni and Stokely Carmichael and Panorama: Alyce C. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings. He speaks about the differences between revolutionary and reform movements Pan-Africanism the All African People's Revolutionary Party scientific socialism nkrumahism capitalism and imperialism. He stresses black people must put theory into practice - organize and take action. ![]() Object Details Creator Anacostia Neighborhood Museum Scope and Contents During a lecture to students at Howard University, Stokely Carmichael speaks about the movement of black people toward unity with a clear, common ideology based on science. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was born in Norwich, England, in 1946 and grew up in Zimbabwe and Wales. Philip Pullman is the author of several best-selling books, most notably the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, its companion trilogy The Book of Dust, and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. Popularity of Books Continues - Publishers Association's A Year in Publishing Summary. ![]()
![]() along with Writing Sarek and the hardcover editions of my two new novels, Summerlong and Im Afraid Youve Got Dragons, and more. Beagle is a powerhouse of classical fantasy, and this collection proves that he’s still very much relevant, and that he still has a lot to say. Joined Messages 6,432 Reaction score 1,343 Location Silicon Valley. As their heady summer phases into early autumn, Lioness’s mysterious husband appears on the ferry from Seattle, bringing with him the chilly and inevitable resolution to Beagle’s strange and lovely lyric vision. Beagle is just awesome TheIT Infuriatingly Theoretical. Lioness’s presence inspires Abe to fulfill his cherished dream of playing second harmonica with a small jazz band and Joanna to learn the dicey sport of kayaking, even though she can’t swim. ![]() From the moment she becomes part of their lives, changes-some miraculous, some devastating-begin affecting Abe and Joanna. Abe offers her his old garage as a temporary home. Beagle (The Last Unicorn) returns with this long-anticipated new novel, a beautifully bittersweet tale of passion, enchantment, and the nature of fate. Retired history professor Abe Aronson and his longtime lover, Joanna Delvecchio, encounter an enigmatic young beauty, Lioness Lazos, waitressing in a local diner. ![]() ![]() ![]() Renowned fantasy author Beagle ( The Last Unicorn) recasts a primeval myth in this 21st-century hymn to Persephone, set in the islands off West Seattle and celebrating the cyclic changing of seasons, relationships, and the life of the planet itself. ![]() ![]() On the upside, I took one of my favorite pictures of Cookie the day I made those cookies: However, those cookies left a little to be desired, too. Molly knows her stuff and she’s from Oklahoma so I listen to her real good. Then Molly Wizenberg waxed poetic about Kim Boyce’s whole grain chocolate chip cookies in Good to the Grain. They were a little too crisp, too ready to snap. They didn’t have enough of that gooey, brown sugary goodness on the inside. The New York Times cookies, though? Everyone agreed they were really good, but they weren’t what I was looking for (blasphemy to some of you, I’m sure!). From that, I learned that cookies really are better if you let the dough age for 12 to 72 hours-the dry dough ingredients soak up the rest of the ingredients over time, which ultimately produces a better cookie. I baked a few cookies with the fresh dough and then let the dough rest overnight as directed. In my attempt to narrow down the possibilities, I searched around for the highest authorities on chocolate chip cookies and sampled the most promising cookie recipes I could find.įirst, I tried baking a whole wheat version of The New York Times’ chocolate chip cookies during a snow storm last year. ![]() A girl can only eat so many cookies, though, so it has been a long and slow process that paused during a crazy hot summer. ![]() ![]() I have been on the hunt for the perfect whole wheat cookies for over a year now. ![]() ![]() … It's something that I've been open with myself about since I was young. ![]() So that's how I view my cultural identity. “And it's one word, so it can't be separated. ![]() If you ask her, though, she has her own preference for describing her cultural identity: Naijamerican. How being a bridge between cultures inspires Okorafor’s novelsĪ quick Google search for Nnedi Okorafor reveals that she is a Nigerian American writer. 16, 2021) published within two months of each other. 18), which made the New York Times bestseller list, and “Noor” (Nov. Most recently, her novels “Akata Woman” (Jan. Now 47, she has published a couple dozen novels, short stories and comics, including the Binti trilogy and the Nsibidi Scripts series, as well as several Marvel comics. “By the next semester, I was writing my first novel,” she said. Okorafor went on to earn master’s degrees in journalism and literature, as well as a Ph.D. ![]() “The only way that I kind of saved myself, I just started writing these stories to myself.” That's what I lost, but what I gained was I was writing these stories,” she said. “That quickness and ease of motion that I had was lost. ![]() ![]() ![]() To save him, his long-lost Everest-trekking dad appears with a plan for the duo to make a life in Katmandu-a smokescreen to make Peak become the youngest person in history to summit Mount Everest. 12-15)ĭare-devil mountain-climber Peak Marcello (14), decides to scale the Woolworth Building and lands in jail. The reasons behind Uncle Louie’s retreat from the world are all but palpable, as is the rough charm of Melody and her sanguine younger sister, April. Susanna’s melancholia, artistic vision, and detachment are portrayed with a disarming combination of delicacy and power. Louie, who is descending into senility, is more than she can handle, and the path out of her isolation lies instead in Susanna’s friendship with Melody, an overweight, acerbic neighbor who is verbally abused by her father. ![]() In her Uncle Louie, who has cloistered himself away from the world for 20 years, Susanna thinks she has found a kindred spirit. Susanna feels friendless and bereft after her only friend callously dumps her, her football-hero brother grows aloof, and her teacher makes debilitating comments about her art portfolio. ![]() In this empathetic portrait of a troubled teenager, Anderson (Going Through the Gate, 1997) makes ordinary problems weigh as heavily on readers as they do on the heroine. ![]() ![]() ![]() At last Arthur encounters the man himself, in a dingy café… ![]() Here he meets the femme fatale Betty May, who blames Crowley for the death of her husband, and tells fantastic tales of satanism in Sicily. In London, Arthur graduates towards the epicenter of Bohemian literary life in the pubs of Fitzrovia. When Arthur goes up to Oxford, Vicky Bird connects him with circles who dabble in the supernatural. He is haunted by some romantic tragedy in his past, in which Crowley may be implicated. The title needs to be taken quite literally as much of the narrative revolves around the shadowy figure of occultist Aleister Crowley, at the height of his dubious powers during this era.Īs boys growing up in a small country town, Arthur and his brother befriend an eccentric poet, whom they dub Vicky Bird-in fact a fairly well-known literary figure called Victor Neuberg. A charming, quirky memoir from British author Arthur Calder-Marshall, recalling his youth in 1920s England. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Le Carre (real name, David Cornwell) held the audience in the palm of his hand as he read passages from his books and connected them to his own life - though he cautioned that "there is no such thing as a fictional character literally drawn from life - you can draw an inflection or a mannerism (from an actual person), but finally you have to fill that person with the possibility of your own character." It was a satisfying evening, even (it's hoped) for the ghosts. Rick Pym, the character in "A Perfect Spy" who was modeled on le Carre's father, "was pretty true to Daddy," said Cornwell. The author's older brother, Anthony Cornwell, now lives in Lynnwood, and was there, providing his seat mates with an informed commentary on his brother's work. There was even a living witness to le Carre's account of his father. ![]() There was George Smiley, the British spy of impregnable integrity and unrelieved gloom, a beloved le Carre character who almost everybody - except le Carre - would like to see resurrected. There was Ronnie Cornwell, le Carre's dead father, a confidence man who has been the basis for pivotal characters in le Carre's new book, "Single & Single," and his classic "A Perfect Spy." There were some formidable ghosts in the sanctuary of Seattle's First United Methodist Church on Tuesday night, keeping watch as author John le Carre took 640 rapt listeners on a walk through his books and his past. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No matter where I was, wandering about the world, I used at night to look for the North Star and, in my mind's eye, could see the beloved sky-line of great hills beneath it. While away from it, as children and as grown-ups, we dreamt about it. Going away from it we were half drowned in tears. We played in or on the lake or on the hills above. The answer is that it had its beginning long, long ago when, as children, my brother, my sisters and I spent most of our holidays on a farm at the south end of Coniston. In a 1958 author's note, Ransome wrote: "I have been often asked how I came to write Swallows and Amazons. ![]() On their return to England, he bought a cottage near Windermere in the Lake District and began writing children's stories. ![]() He played chess with Lenin and married Trotsky's personal secretary, Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina. In 1917 when the Russian Revolution began he became a journalist and was a special correspondent of the Guardian. He had an adventurous life - as a baby he was carried by his father to the top of the Old Man of Coniston, a peak that is 2,276ft high! He went to Russia in 1913 to study folklore and in 1914, at the start of World War I, he became a foreign correspondent for the Daily News. Arthur Ransome was born in Leeds in 1884. ![]() |