![]() ![]() “I wish my friend Andrea Dworkin were here to speak and write for herself, but thanks to this landmark biography by Martin Duberman, you will now be able to meet one of the greatest thinkers, writers, and activists of our time. This is a vital, complex, and long overdue reassessment of the life and work of one of the towering figures of second-wave feminism. Given exclusive access to never-before-published photographs and archives, including her letters to many of the major figures of second-wave feminism, award-winning biographer Martin Duberman traces Dworkin’s life, from her abusive first marriage through her central role in the sex and pornography wars of the following decades. ![]() This biography is the perfect complement to the widely reviewed anthology of her writing, Last Days at Hot Slit, published in 2019, providing much-needed context to her work. It is in recent years, especially with the rise of the #MeToo movement, that there has been a resurgence of interest in her ideas. Her many detractors were eager to reduce her to the caricature of the angry, man-hating feminist who believed that all sex was rape, and as a result, her work has long been misunderstood. Although frequently relegated to its more radical fringes, Dworkin was without doubt a formidable and influential writer, a philosopher, and an activist-a brilliant figure who inspired and infuriated in equal measure. ![]() Fifteen years after her death, Andrea Dworkin remains one of the most important and challenging figures in second-wave feminism. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. He worked with Richard Donner for four years, leaving the company to pursue writing full-time. During that time, he also began his comics career writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s in search of work within the film industry. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. ![]() Geoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the adaptation, Jefferson Cope was one of the orphans severely abused by Lady Boynton in his youth, and he decides to take his revenge by wiping out her financial empire and ensuring that she is kept in the dark, though she dies before she realizes her financial ruin. Altering the backstories of several supporting characters.She couldn't have any children of her own, so she selected her children from orphanages, all of whom were badly abused and tormented. In the adaptation, she is also a sadist, albeit one who has compiled a financial empire. ![]() In the novel, Mrs Boynton is a tyrannical sadist whose occupation had been a prison warden, which is central to her murder. Omitting characters such as Nadine Boynton and Amabel Pierce.Adding new characters that never appeared in the original novel, such as Lord Boynton, Nanny Taylor, and Sister Agnieszka.Moving the central setting of the story from Petra in southern Jordan to an archaeological dig Ain Musa in Syria, where Lord Boynton is searching for the head of John the Baptist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has since released four more comedy albums: Seriously Funny (2010), Laugh at My Pain (2011), Let Me Explain (2013), and What Now? (2016). ![]() Hart's comedic reputation continued to grow with the release of his first stand-up album I'm a Grown Little Man (2009). He also created and starred as a fictionalized version of himself in Real Husbands of Hollywood (2013–2016). He has since had roles in films such as Paper Soldiers (2002), Scary Movie 3 (2003), Soul Plane (2004), In the Mix (2005), Little Fockers (2010), Think Like a Man (2012), Grudge Match (2013), Ride Along (2014) About Last Night (2014), Get Hard (2015), Central Intelligence (2016), The Secret Life of Pets film franchise (2016–2019), Ride Along 2 (2016), Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017), the Jumanji film franchise (2017–present), and Night School (2018). He has also released several well-received comedy albums.Īfter winning several stand-up comedy competitions, Hart had his first breakthrough when Judd Apatow cast him in a recurring role on the TV series Undeclared (2001). Originally known as a stand-up comedian, he has since starred in Hollywood films and on TV. Kevin Darnell Hart (born July 6, 1979) is an American comedian and actor. ![]() ![]() His next book, about a European traveller to Africa, is set to come out this summer. He studied in France, where he now teaches 18th-century literature.Īt Night All Blood is Black is Diop’s second novel: his first – 1889, l’Attraction universelle (2012) – is about a Senegalese delegation at the 1889 universal exhibition in Paris. His father is Senegalese, his mother French and this dual cultural heritage is apparent in his literary works. Laurent, a specialist in Francophone post-colonial studies and how history is depicted in art, told us why the novel matters.ĭiop is a Franco-Senegalese writer and academic born in Paris in 1966. It has been a bestseller in France and won several major literary awards. ![]() The book tells the story of a Senegalese soldier who descends into madness while fighting for France in the first world war. He shares the prize with his translator Anna Moschovakis for the novel, At Night All Blood is Black (2018). ![]() Born to a French mother and a Senegalese father, David Diop has won the prestigious annual International Booker prize for translated fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, Cleopatra: A Life, and Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, a revelatory biography of arguably the most essential Founding Father that was named one of the Wall Street Journal’s Best 10 Books of 2022. Join author André Bernard, vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, in conversation with three masters of the nonfiction narrative, all unquestionably at the top of their literary game!Īugust 11, 4 pm: Stacy Schiff, hailed as “perhaps the most seductive writer of nonfiction prose in America,” her six biographies include Véra (Mrs. The Edith Wharton-Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence Program Alumni.The Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence Program.Life in the Dale: Augustus Martin’s Lenox. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Or is there another, more personal reason why he has come there? As the investigation deepens, the questions only mount: How has a barefoot woman escaped the island from a locked room? Who is leaving clues in the form of cryptic codes? Why is there no record of a patient committed there just one year before? What really goes on in Ward C? Why is an empty lighthouse surrounded by an electrified fence and armed guards? The closer Teddy and Chuck get to the truth, the more elusive it becomes, and the more they begin to believe that they may never leave Shutter Island.Because someone is trying to drive them insane. Shutter Island (2010) It’s 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe?s radical approach to psychiatry? An approach that may include drug experimentation, hideous surgical trials, and lethal countermoves in the shadow war against Soviet brainwashing. ![]() But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. ![]() ![]() Vavid Read reviews that mention speed of light famous equation atomic bomb david bodanis theory of relativity energy and mass lise meitner worlds most famous einstein famous black holes manhattan project easy to read mass and the speed high school great book heavy water guide to further reading special relativity cameron diaz well written. Mr Bodanis does not rise to e=cm2 challenge. ![]() Mar 10, Philip Mills rated it it was amazing. That makes this one all the more spectacular. ![]() ![]() Oct 11, Gendou rated it it was ok Shelves: In fairness, this merits three stars.īut Einstein’s equation is a reality, as demonstrated by nuclear bombs, nuclear power and nuclear sunshine. He aims his book squarely at readers who have no mathematics, no physics and no chemistry whatsoever, and who are not expecting to pick up any here. ![]() Not only did it trace the ancestry of E=mc2, but it provided the best biography of women in the. David Bodanis explains Einstein’s most famous equation to Cameron Diaz, and anyone else without a physics degree, in E=mc David Bodanis offers an easily grasped gloss on the equation. It is a history of where the equation came from and how it has changed the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() (TW: explicit sexual acts discussion of race play, and accompanying discussion of Jeremy O. ![]() She guides us through an incredibly nuanced conversation about "finding the erotic in the domain of the traumatic" (an experience that can be both frightening *and* exhilarating), and explains how, especially when it comes to queer sex, "we are both fenced in, and fencing ourselves in." Avgi is absolutely BRILLIANT, and we are so grateful that she was game to dive into this very complicated (but equally fascinating) territory! Avgi's work gives new meaning to the idea of "risky" sex by exploring the eroticism around shame, humiliation, and objectification, with a particular focus on the controversial sexual roleplay fetish known as race play. Avgi's new book is called "Sexuality Beyond Consent," and if that title makes you a tad uncomfortable.that's kind of the point. We have a conversation with psychoanalyst Avgi Saketopoulou that is truly unlike *anything* we've ever broached before. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is just the start of a rollercoaster ride for our artificial silk girl as she does her best to pass herself off as the real deal, hoping to find a man willing to pay her way. The artful young woman decides that this is where she needs to be, and she begins work on making a name for herself, scouting out all the best places to be seen and to find men to care for her and her needs. Still, despite being slightly closer to her dreams of riches and fame, the acting life doesn’t quite work out either, and after a couple of unfortunate incidents, she’s compelled to make a quick exit, eventually landing in Berlin. She’s an ambitious soul, if slightly lazy, and it isn’t long before she throws in her job, next finding herself as an extra in a stage production. Irmgard Keun’s Das kunstseidene Mädchen (The Artificial Silk Girl) is the story of Doris, an eighteen-year-old secretary living somewhere in Germany in 1931. Let’s take a trip to Berlin, then, to meet a young woman hoping to strike it lucky in the big city – and prepared to do almost anything to do so. Next time out, I’ll be returning to an old favourite, but today I’m trying a new (old) writer – although I suspect that for once, many of my readers will have got there well before me. ![]() The first few weeks of this year’s German Literature Month have been dominated by male writers, but fortunately I did get around to buying a couple of books by women a while back, and they’ll be the focus this week. ![]() |