![]() ![]() Others address what happens when someone discovers that he has supernatural powers-the columnist who kills people by writing their obituaries in "Obits " the old judge in "The Dune" who, as a boy, canoed to a deserted island and saw names written in the sand, people who then died in freak accidents. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. In "Afterlife," a man who died of colon cancer keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. There are thrilling connections between stories themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. As Entertainment Weekly said about this collection: " Bazaar of Bad Dreams is bursting with classic King terror, but what we love most are the thoughtful introductions he gives to each tale that explain what was going on in his life as he wrote it. In this new collection he introduces each story with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it. ![]() ![]() For more than thirty-five years, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments on when, why and how he came to write (or rewrite) each one. Includes the story "Premium Harmony"-set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. ![]()
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![]() But Arthur Miller intended to use the Salem Witch Trials as an allegory for the anti-communist Red Scare and the congressional hearings of Senator Joseph McCarthy going on in the United States in 1953, when the play was first performed. Sure, on the surface this play appears to be totally about the Salem Witch Trials. This play is a commentary on the claustrophobic Puritanical-code-of-conduct-fear-of-witches nonsense of Massachusetts in the 17th century and a commentary on the claustrophobic, girdles-white-picket-fences-fear-of-Communists nonsense of America in the late 1940's and 1950's. Yep-Arthur Miller's The Crucible gives us a parable that spans centuries. If, on the other hand, the first image that popped into your head was of Salem's Anne Hale-bingo, you're 100% correct. If the first image that popped into your head was of Mad Men's Betty Draper-bingo, you're 100% correct. Think mass hysteria that makes entire communities suspicious and paranoid. Imagine a super-constrictive time in history. ![]() ![]() His books include After the Ecstasy, the Laundry The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace Meditation for Beginners and The Wise Heart. Just as the serene beauty of the lotus blossom grows out of muddy water, Buddha’s simple instructions have helped people to find wholeness and peace amid life’s crisis and distractions for more than 2, years. ![]() He is the cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California. About the Author: Jack Kornfield is one of the key teachers to have brought Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. ![]() Jack Kornfield, one of the most respected American Buddhist teachers, has compiled these teachings to impart the essence and inspiration of Buddhism to readers of all spiritual traditions. The book also includes traditional instruction on how to practice sitting meditation, cultivate calm awareness, and live with compassion. Among the selections are some of the earliest recorded sayings of the Buddha on the practice of freedom, passages from later Indian scriptures on the perfection of wisdom, verses from Tibetan masters on the enlightened mind, and songs in praise of meditation by Zen teachers. ![]() This treasury of essential Buddhist writings draws from the most popular Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese sources. ![]() ![]() ![]() Recently we’ve gotten the “Orphan” sequel (although those familiar with that franchise know why Esther doesn’t quite fit this mold). Children who haven’t yet learned morality (and perhaps aren’t capable of learning it) are among the most unsettling horror and murder-mystery villains, in my opinion. More to the point, Josephine is a sociopath. Josephine is precocious, so that makes the writing easier. She does a masterful job with Josephine, described as being 11 or 12 by narrator Charles, an informal assistant to Inspector Taverner. ![]() Setting: The Leonides estate, London, Fall 1947Ĭhristie hadn’t written many children at all up to this point. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I say that’s the reason to go see it.”įor almost a year, however, it was unclear whether audiences would even have that chance. But, unsurprisingly, the first thing Warner Bros.’ top execs said when they saw Watchmen was “‘Too violent, too sexy, too long,’” recounts Snyder. ![]() “Everyone has a pretty great television now, and you’d better f-ing give them a reason to get up off their sofa and go to the movies,” he says. ![]() With all sorts of media competing for viewers, Snyder very cannily realizes why he has to push the limits. “And Zack would say, ‘That’s awesome that’s the one.’ Being bold is what the audience loves, and Zack’s not going to give them under-the-top.” “We’d try takes that were so ridiculous, and I’d think, That was just too much,” Butler recalls. While filming 300, Snyder encouraged star Gerard Butler to act with extreme energy. ![]() ![]() ![]() You also didn't speak Chinese, as some kid taunted you about - at least his Chinese. WANG: It was, but I think I was protected by the fact that I was a child and just kind of took things as they came, as children do, and had that sort of natural resilience. SIMON: This memoir takes us through five years in your childhood, a young girl trying to make a home in America with her family. ![]() QIAN JULIE WANG: Thank you so much for having me, Scott. Qian Julie Wang, who is a Yale Law graduate, now an attorney, has written a memoir, "Beautiful Country." She joins us now from Brooklyn, N.Y. Her family escaped to the United States, New York, in 1994 but were undocumented, and they had to live, in the Chinese phrase, as people in hei (ph) - the dark, the shadows, the underground world of undocumented immigrants who work menial jobs off the books in fear that their underground existence might be exposed. Her uncle, a teen at the time, was arrested for criticizing Mao Zedong, and her father's family lived under a hail of rocks, pebbles, slurs and worse. The story of Qian Julie Wang, as she explains, begins before she was born. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her only hope is to find the mythical Grove, a small enclave of trees protected by a hardcore band of rebels. With only two days of oxygen in her tank, she too faces the terrifying prospect of death by suffocation. ![]() ![]() Sixteen-year-old Alina is part of the secret resistance, but when a mission goes wrong she is forced to escape from the Pod. Anyone who opposes the regime is labelled a terrorist and ejected from the Pod to die. The rich Premiums, by contrast, are healthy and strong. A poor Auxiliary class cannot afford the oxygen tax which supplies extra air for running, dancing and sports. Years after the Switch, life inside the Pod has moved on. "When oxygen levels plunge in a treeless world, a state lottery decides which lucky few will live inside the Pod. Source: Received from the publisher for review ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Clara and Agatha found a way forward and from the age of 15 Agatha boarded at a succession of pensions and took piano and singing lessons. There were more money worries and talk of selling Ashfield. Clara was distraught and Agatha became her mother’s closest companion. Her father, not well since the advent of financial difficulties, died after a series of heart attacks. When she was five, the family spent some time in France having rented out the family home of Ashfield to economise, and it was here with her “governess” Marie, that Agatha learnt her idiomatic but erratically spelt French. Agatha invented imaginary friends, played with her animals, attended dance classes and began writing poems when she was still a child. Where did her creativity come from? She absorbed the children’s stories of the time - Edith Nesbit (The Story of the Treasure Seekers, The Railway Children) and Louisa M Alcott (Little Women) but also poetry and startling thrillers from America. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stallings, Terrance Hayes, and Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, Dove’s selections paint a dynamic and cohesive portrait of modern American poetry. Featuring earlier works by Robert Frost, James Weldon Johnson, and Wallace Stevens along with examples from the new generation of critically acclaimed poets, including A. Now available in paperback, this indispensable volume represents the full spectrum of aesthetic sensibilities-with varying styles, voices, themes, and cultures-while balancing important poems with vital periods of each poet. Annotation: In time for the holiday season, a beautiful paperback edition of Penguin’s landmark poetry anthologyRita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, introduces readers to the most significant and compelling poems of the past hundred years in The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. The Penguin Anthology of by Rita Dove (Editor) Paperback 26.99 30.00 QUICK ADD When the Light of the World by Joy Harjo (Editor), LeAnne Howe (Editor), Jennifer Elise Foerster (Editor) Paperback 19.95 Best Books of 2020 QUICK ADD African American Poetry: 250 by Kevin Young (Editor) Hardcover 45. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Balthasar was interred in the Hofkirche cemetery in Lucern.Īlong with Karl Rahner and Bernard Lonergan, Balthasar sought to offer an intellectual, faithful response to Western modernism. However he died in his home in Basel on 26 June 1988, two days before the ceremony. From the low point of being banned from teaching, his reputation eventually rose to the extent that John Paul II asked him to be a cardinal in 1988. In 1950 he left the Jesuit order, feeling that God had called him to found a Secular Institute, a lay form of consecrated life that sought to work for the sanctification of the world especially from within. He worked in Basel as a student chaplain. He joined the Jesuits in 1929, and was ordained in 1936. He studied in Vienna, Berlin and Zurich, gaining a doctorate in German literature. He is considered one of the most important theologians of the 20th century.īorn in Lucerne, Switzerland on 12 August 1905, he attended Stella Matutina (Jesuit school) in Feldkirch, Austria. Hans Urs von Balthasar was a Swiss theologian and priest who was nominated to be a cardinal of the Catholic Church. ![]() |