![]() ![]() Stationed on the Pacific island of Saipan, he bartered with members of his company for their beer allotments and traded the brew in turn for personal time in the photo lab. Withers likes to say that he went in the Army during World War II a picture taker and came out a photographer. "I got a visionary skill of looking at big images in small view, like looking through a camera," he said. His mother, a seamstress, would often send the young boy off to the dry goods store with the charge of picking up spools of thread to precisely match various materials. You might say that Withers' cultivated his eye for a picture first through the eye of a needle. But it was Willie Mitchell who carried around at night at the different social things and let him see, watch, learn and know." A lot of people don't know Willie Mitchell. " Willie Mitchell really developed him seriously in the recording industry. "I remember when Al Green, he didn't want no pictures, that little ol' country boy," Withers recalled. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Some of them explicitly tie horror fiction to the holy. An astounding array of writers have since, whether consciously or not, furthered Otto’s observations. The title of the series comes from Rudolf Otto’s The Idea of the Holy, in which the German Lutheran theologian describes the “numinous” at the heart of religion as an experience preceding any systematic dogma or ethical component–a “feeling,” in short, much closer to the sublimity of horror than any sensation popularly (read “dully”) conceived as “religious” (love, happiness, well-being). We’re excited to present Mysterium Tremendum, a quarterly chapbook featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry exploring the intersection between weird fiction/horror and the holy. Due to frequent interest expressed in this project by writers and readers alike, we’ve decided to try something a little different. ![]() We originally conceived of Mysterium Tremendum as an anthology scheduled for release sometime in 2021. Theme: Where religion and horror collide, do read below to see exactly what they mean! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a character, he is a delightfully crotchety storyteller and as a storyteller, he is a magnificent lens into the observations and insights of the other characters around him. All throughout, Chant regals you with vivid and concise images of those around him. Each of them is complete in their own way. The structure of ACOT is such that you’re really getting several stories for the price of one. So, when Alexandra Rowland posted an excerpt from her novel A Conspiracy of Truths and I found Chant to be a whole, flawed and clever and opinionated, character I was willing to let him take me anywhere. I will follow a well-made character into any setting. ![]() For me, Character is the single most essential element of creating a binge-worthy and fandom-ready story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This while knowing that on the Big Story that forever haunts this land - a peace settlement between its two peoples - there’s apt to be no story at all, that on one’s deathbed 30 or 40 years from now, this newspaper is likely to run a story titled “Mideast Peace Talks Falter.” Truly, could any job be worse? With the place so firmly fixed in the world’s attention, one would have to constantly sift through the mundane in search of something meaningful to say (“Hmm, a bus drivers’ strike in Haifa maybe that’s a metaphor”) amid a population with the dispiriting habit of prefacing answers to an interviewer’s questions with history lessons that can start anywhere from 98 to 2,000 years back. Having periodically reported from Israel and Palestine over the past 30 years, I’ve often wondered what could be worse than to be a journalist permanently posted there. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The time has come for us to build a global culture based on regenerative operations, where we are moving from doing less bad, to actually doing good for both people and for the planet. What if we could create a world in which the process of renewal and restoration were at the center of all activities? Where building resilience is embedded into core values, and is as essential to business operations as the bottom line? The good news: we can, and we are. We will be interviewing the movement's leaders and highlighting people & organizations that are pushing the Regenerative Movement forward to create a more resilient world. ![]() This is the first in a series of blogs focusing on various aspects of the Regenerative Movement: from soil and farming, to leadership, and personal growth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nikola Tesla, credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. In order to get to the bottom of what inspired one of history’s most consequential figures to the heights of societal contribution, we’ve compiled a list of the 5 best books on Nikola Tesla. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists,” he remarked. “My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, and inspiration. There are numerous books on Nikola Tesla, and it comes with good reason, he made significant contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system, as well as conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. ![]() ![]() ![]() All in a world that comes to life in your mind. ![]() It has everything you'd want: intrigue, awesomely real characters, suspense, and a captivating plot. ![]() Alexa is a heroine readers will love to follow!" - Marie Lu, bestselling author of the Legend series " Defy by Sara Larson is an amazing, fantastic book. The intrigue is really thick in this book, and there are secrets within plots and people." - Jessie Plots, blogging for USA Today Praise for Defy : An Indie Next List Selection "A wonderful tale of adventure, romance, and embracing your true self. an interesting, multilayered character, a valiant fighter with heart." - Booklist "Alex is so strong. Fans will be very satisfied with this final journey." - School Library Journal Praise for Ignite : " fast-paced fantasy novel laced with political intrigue." - School Library Journal "Alexa. She is independent and strong, a protector and rescuer. Larson creates a dynamic female protagonist in Alexa. Readers who are looking for fantasy with strong female characters, such as Cinder in The Lunar Chronicles or Celaena Sardothien of the Throne of Glass series, will find a great new trilogy here." - School Library Connection "The main characters develop well over the course of the narrative, and the themes of love and loyalty are well woven throughout. Praise for Endure : "Readers of the previous books in the trilogy will be lining up to read the conclusion to this epic story. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the story, Conrad wrestles with the moral and ethical implications of Western involvement in foreign lands - a subject with which many U.S. The novella is relevant to those who lead or may lead military operations overseas and to those senior policymakers who send them there. Indeed, perhaps his most well-known and widely read work, the classic novella Heart of Darkness, is problematic, to say the least, because of how he depicts the Africans in the story.Īgainst this backdrop, and during a time of renewed focus on social and racial justice in America, Heart of Darkness could be rejected as not worth reading or as unhelpful to military leaders today. His treatment of this relationship in his fiction is keenly incisive, yet contains flawed and insensitive portrayals of indigenous peoples. Born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857 to Polish parents in Ukraine, his journeys to the far corners of the earth gave him a firsthand view of late 19th-century European interaction with many foreign cultures in the colonized world. ![]() ![]() Joseph Conrad had a long career as a merchant mariner before he ever ventured to write fiction. ![]() ![]() Her fourth novel, Station Eleven, was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and won the 2015 Toronto Book Award. John Mandel is a New York-based Canadian writer. The Glass Hotel was on the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist.Įmily St. Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts. ![]() Thirteen years later, Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: "Why don't you swallow broken glass." Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. ![]() When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. ![]() New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. ![]() ![]() Trina’s most recent book is Pretty in Ink, her final and definitive history of women cartoonists. Her graphic novel, Lily Renee: Escape Artist, was awarded a gold medal from Moonbeam Chidren’s Books and a silver medal from Sydney Taylor Jewish Library Awards. Her all-ages graphic novel, Chicagoland Detective Agency: the Drained Brains Caper, first in a 6-book series, was a Junior Library Guild Selection. Her 2009 book, The Brinkley Girls: the Best of Nell Brinkley’s Cartoons from 1913-1940 (Fantagraphics), and her 2011 book, Tarpe Mills and Miss Fury, were nominated for Eisner awards and Harvey awards. She has written and drawn comics from Wonder Woman to Barbie. In 1970, she produced the very first all-woman comic book, It Ain’t Me, Babe, and in 1972 she was one of the founding mothers of Wimmen’s Comix, the longest-running all-woman comic anthology (1972 – 1992). Trina began in 1966, contributing comics to the New York underground newspaper, The East Village Other. ![]() ![]() Award-winning herstorian and writer Trina Robbins has been writing books, comics, and graphic novels for over forty years. ![]() |