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Incidents in the Life of a Slave GirlSkyhorse Publishing 2015; US$ 14.99
After hiding in her grandmother?s attic for seven years, Harriet Ann Jacobs was finally able to escape servitude?and her master?s sexual abuse?when she fled to the North. Once there, she became a very active abolitionist, and her correspondence with Harriet Beecher Stowe inspired her to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl about her years... more...
Freedom's DawnRowman & Littlefield Publishers 2015; US$ 39.99
Louis DeCaro, Jr. , associate professor of history at The Alliance Theological Seminary in New York City, is the author of Fire from the Midst of You: A Religious Life of John Brown (2002) as well as works on Malcolm X and the urban church. more...
Love, Liberation, and Escaping SlaveryUniversity of Georgia Press 2015; US$ 22.95
The spectacular 1848 escape of William and Ellen Craft (1824–1900; 1826–1891) from slavery in Macon, Georgia, is a dramatic story in the annals of American history. Ellen, who could pass for white, disguised herself as a gentleman slaveholder; William accompanied her as his "master's" devoted slave valet; both traveled... more...
John Brown in Memory and MythMcFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2015; US$ 39.95
John Brown's father on the day of his birth, May 9, 1800, wrote "John was born one hundred years after his great grandfather. Nothing else very uncommon." Many years later came the 1856 Pottawatomie Massacre, where his uncommon convictions led him and his band of abolitionists to kill five pro-slavery settlers in Franklin County, Kansas.... more...
Pirates, Merchants, Settlers, and SlavesUniversity of California Press 2015; US$ 60.00
In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, more than a thousand pirates poured from the Atlantic into the Indian Ocean. There, according to Kevin P. McDonald, they helped launch an informal trade network that spanned the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, connecting the North American colonies with the rich markets of the East Indies. Rather... more...
John BrownTaylor and Francis 2015; US$ 44.95
First published in 1909, W.E.B. Du Bois's biography of abolitionist John Brown is a literary and historical classic. With a rare combination of scholarship and passion, Du Bois defends Brown against all detractors who saw him as a fanatic, fiend, or traitor. Brown emerges as a rich personality, fully understandable as an unusual leader with a deeply... more...
Slavery, Race and American HistoryTaylor and Francis 2015; US$ 44.95
These essays introduce the complexities of researching and analyzing race. This book focuses on problems confronted while researching, writing and interpreting race and slavery, such as conflict between ideological perspectives, and changing interpretations of the questions. more...
Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York CityMcFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2015; US$ 39.95
During the fourteen years Sydney Howard Gay edited the American Anti-Slavery Society's National Anti-Slavery Standard in New York City, he worked with some of the most important Underground agents in the eastern United States, including Thomas Garrett, William Still and James Miller McKim. Gay's closest associate was Louis Napoleon, a free... more...
Slavery in AlabamaUniversity of Alabama Press 2015; US$ 44.95
Since its initial publication in 1950, Slavery in Alabama remains the only comprehensive statewide study of the institution of slavery in Alabama. Sellers concentrates on examining the social and economic aspects of how slavery operated in the state. After a brief discussion of slavery under imperial rulers of the colonial and territorial periods,... more...
Evil NecessityThe University Press of Kentucky 2015; US$ 30.00
In Kentucky, the slavery debate raged for thirty years before the Civil War began. While whites in the lower South argued that slavery was good for master and slave, many white Kentuckians maintained that because of racial prejudice, public safety, and property rights, slavery was necessary but undeniably evil. Harold D. Tallant shows how this view... more...


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Didn't guys like Eberle and Giroux play two more seasons in junior after being drafted?
Not all draft picks are equal. Late birthdays are technically finishing their 18 year old years when they are drafted...versus regular picks like Eberle and Giroux and Scheifele are finishing their 17 year old year when drafted. So it's not necessarily surprising when a 19 year old fails to make the NHL team, and spends two more years in junior. But with late birthdays like Sutter, the second year after they are drafted is their 20 year old year, so it IS quite concerning when they fail to make the AHL. They can be assigned to the AHL in their second year after being drafted, unlike "normal" picks. This year is Sutter's 19 year old year and should be looked upon it as such (same as Scheifele's year this year). Imagine if Scheifele got sent back to junior next year...
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October 31, 2014
10015 6th AVE SW • Seattle WA • 98146 PH: 206.631.5200
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Monday 11/03 Picture Retake
Wednesday 11/15 WCH Coffee Hour with WCCDA – Principal Chat and Information Sharing
Thursday 10/16 Town Hall with Principal for English Speaking Families 6:00-7:00 WCH Library
Thursday 11/13 Town Hall with Principal for Spanish Speaking Families 6:00-7:00 WCH Library
Thursday 11/18 Town Hall with Principal for Vietnamese Speaking Families 6:00-7:00 WCH Library
Thursday 11/20 Town Hall with Principal for Somali Speaking Families 6:00-7:00 WCH Library
Monday-Wednesday 11/24-26 Student-Parent Conferences – NO SCHOOL
Thursday & Friday 11/25 & 26 Thanksgiving – NO SCHOOL
Head Start at WCH: We are staring our first Head Start classes for preschoolers on October 13. We welcome all the new families and children!
Early Learning Information Night: White Center CDA is having a parent information night on early learning at Mt. View /elementary on October 17 from 4:00-7:00. All families welcome.
WCH office re-opens August 11 at 7:30 am- 3:30pm. Have a great summer!
Incoming Kindergarten Students have the opportunity to get a Jump Start on their education. Kindergarten families, mark your calendars! We hope to see you at Jump Start!
All incoming first graders are invited to a week of fun and learning with their first grade teachers. Sign up through the office. We will see you there!
Click here to get the school supply list.
Come and meet your new teachers! All families welcome!
Spanish/English & Vietnamese/English for Kindergarten and 1st grade
WCH has two classes of Head Start for 3 to 5 year olds. Application forms available at the school.
Hello White Center Heights Families and Community Members,
I am entering my third year as principal of White Center Heights in 2014-15. I am committed to working with families, teachers, and our community partners to support our students to achieve great things!
I have worked in public education for a long time. Before coming to White Center Heights I was the Assistant Principal at Madrona Elementary in Sea Tac. I was a classroom teacher and literacy coach in Bellevue and Seattle. I have been an instructor at the University of Washington in the Teacher Education program. Early in my career I was a classroom teacher, district consultant, and school principal in Australia.
My vision for WCH Elementary is that when our students leave WCH Elementary, they are ready for middle school and beyond. This means they will be:
- Academically successful by being confident and capable with the Common Core State Standards;
- Self-disciplined to work independently, remain focused on their learning, and make good choices;
- Proud of their heritage and compassionate towards others in the community; and,
- Able to communicate and build good relationships with adults and other children.
We have amazing teachers and staff at WCH. They work hard every day to ensure our children learn. But we need help and support from our families and community members. We need to work together – teachers and families and administration and community members - working with our students to ensure they are successful and confident people.
At WCH Elementary we will be focusing on the district goals for all students to meet the new Common Core State Standards and to reach zero out-of-school suspensions. In 2014-15 we will:
- implement standards-based teaching and assessment to ensure all our students meet the new standards;
- implement the workshop model in reading, writing, and math to ensure students get lots of opportunities to demonstrate independence on the standards and to differentiate instruction so students meet standards;
- explore inquiry-based learning so students are engaged in meaningful learning that demands higher level thinking;
- build on our PBIS (positive discipline) work to decrease the number of out-of-school suspensions by 30-50%.
I look forward to working with you all to ensure our students find success in 2014-15.
Dr. Anne Reece (PhD)
Highline children can eat free breakfast, lunch, and snacks during the summer through the federally funded Simplified Summer Food Program (SSFP). The program provides funding for 17 Highline schools to serve children living in South King County in partnership with six community organizations.
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by Jeni Bone
The 88-metre Illusion – the biggest-volume superyacht ever constructed in China – is well under way at the Raffles yard in Yantai, Shandong province, and is being offered for sale through Fraser Yachts.
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According to insiders, Illusion has recently been moved across the yard by barge, building is progressing well and she is scheduled for a mid-2015 launch.
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Fraser Yachts is showing a model of Illusion at the Hainan Rendez?Vous, March 30 to April 2 in Sanya, China.
British company Rainsford Mann Design (RMD) is responsible for her interior and exterior, with styling inspired by the unique, timeless and classic styling cues of the Rolls Royce marque, evident on her stem bow and the flowing sheer line.
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The interior by Sinot Yacht Design looks from the renderings to be an intriguing mix of Asian references and contemporary design – not many superyachts can boast terracotta-warrior-style figures in the main deck entrance area.
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Naval architecture is by Azure Naval, while the exterior styling came from the company formerly known as RSD. Rolls-Royce diesel-electric engines will give the yacht a top speed of 17 knots.
She is equipped with Diesel Electric Propulsion by Rolls Royce which has Azimuth Thrusters capable of cruising at a full speed 17.5 knots. It is also capable of covering over 7,000 nautical miles with the additional benefits of having an advanced Dynamic Positioning System enabling the Yacht to stay unanchored in its programmed position. The Illusion Series also has a Touch & Go helipad with 2x tenders.
The art deco modern styled interior is eye catching yet simplistic and has a spacious deck space which can accommodate up to 12 guests in a lavish setting assisted by up to 26 professional crew.
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Interview with a manager and a trial shift.
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I was able to negotiate working on night at the weekend (including Friday) rather then two shifts.
- Accepted Offer
I applied in-person. The process took 3 days – interviewed at T.G.I. Friday's.
I had three interviews. I was asked to display my ability of 'flare', which is fine.
Interview Questions
- I don't think there was. It was an easy job to obtain. Answer Question
There was no negotiation, I was hired on the spot.
- Accepted Offer
I applied online. The process took 1 day – interviewed at T.G.I. Friday's.
real easy he talked most of the time personality gets it
- No Offer
They ended up not even doing a hiring process and asked if I would do a test run with a guy who was training as a manager to do interviews. Nice guys but kind of a messed up thing to do to a college kid looking for work.
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- What is your favorite type of TGIF food? Answer Question
- No OfferNegative Experience
I applied through other source – interviewed at T.G.I. Friday's (Carrollton, TX).
I was very surprised by the interview process. Two people walked in. One excused herself. A few minutes into the conversation the second person excused herself. They ended the interview 10 minutes into the session and boy was I glad. I brought a pen capable of recording both audio and my keystrokes - commonly known as a LiveScribe. It seemed to freak them out. I thought wow what do these people have to hide. This place was not what had been sold to me - a really good place to work with cool people. The interview was interrupted twice. A total wash. They said they had to attend to an urgent matter - yeah right.
Interview Questions
- Tell me about yourself. Answer Question
- Accepted Offer
Simple enough, I moved up the ranks over the years, never had a real interview, just a series of chats. A much more natural manner of interview.
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I applied through a recruiter – interviewed at T.G.I. Friday's.
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better position elsewhere
- Accepted Offer
Interview often pertains to a persons personality over qualifications. The restaurant business is about ones personality working with customers and garnering return visits.
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- Unrelated quirky questions like "If you were a superhero, who would you be and why?" etc... Answer Question
- Accepted Offer
Applied for the position online and received a call 3 days later to come in for an interview. First I had to take a written personality test and after I passed I met with the server manager. After several easy questions consisting of my prior work history and hobbies, I then met with the host manager for then same questions. Then after about 30 minutes of waiting I met with the general manager who only asked me questions about my background and finally met with the bar manager who asked me situational questions such as "what would you do if a guest claimed they ordered something else and received the wrong entree?" He then hired me right on the spot. Now this particular Fridays was corporate owned which is why I'm guessing I had to meet with so many managers. Most are franchised owned and most likely more layed back.
Interview Questions
- What would you do if a guest claimed they ordered something else and received the wrong entree? 1 Answer
- Accepted OfferPositive Experience
I applied in-person. The process took a week – interviewed at T.G.I. Friday's (Charleston, WV).
Basic interview process
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Tonight's the worst night of the NFL season, the one evening ESPN capitulates to Chris Berman's demand and puts him on a Monday Night Football telecast. Berman tried to discuss the Ray Rice fiasco with analyst Trent Dilfer, and the entire thing was a disaster. »
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Our friends at Busted Coverage got their dirty mitts on this shot of Boomer bumblin', stumblin', and sweatin' through his shirt at last week's Boston Strong concert. We know it had to be hotter than a pizza oven that night inside TD Garden, but it still bears repeating: Nobody brings the swamp ass like the Swami.
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The 2013 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am got underway yesterday, and ESPN's Chris Berman is a participant. We're not sure what Berman's position on the leaderboard is, but if this sequence is any indication of how he's been playing, he can't be doing too well. Come for the rage-inflected look of exasperation after… »
Both the graphics department and the on-air talent—in this case, Chris Berman—believe this to be Tim "it only took ten seconds" Tebow and Jake Locker chattin' and tossin' the old pigskin at the beginning of Monday Night Countdown. »
Like any good showman knows, you've got to give the people what they want. And, clearly, what the people want is an homage to a bit on foreign painkillers from a lovable oaf. So this morning on Sunday NFL Countdown, Chris Berman used the Buffalo Bills "home game" in Toronto against the Seahawks to return to the… »
Ben Roethlisberger may be a "jagoff" notorious for his barroom antics, but when an item showed up in ESPN's televised rundown before Monday Night Football tonight titled "Roethlisberger Drink & Drunk," it caught many viewers by surprise. »
Last night's Monday Night Football was no oasis from politics for sports fans, as ESPN repeated its performance from 2008 and had the major candidates for president appear during halftime for a conversation with Chris Berman. Berman, who continues to somehow blackmail Vince Doria into letting him do these things,… »
Americans, you've got an important decision to make on Election Day. So the last thing you probably want before you go to bed the night before is Chris Berman yelling and buffooning up your Monday Night Football. Well, good news! Berman will keep the clowning to a minimum and instead put on his serious journalist hat,… »
Chris Berman's much-ballyhooed turn at the mic to call a live Monday Night Football game came and went last night, and without much drama. He was better than last year's Mike & Mike experiment, at least, though his reliance on baseball terminology to call a football game was disconcerting and eventually comedic, in… »
Two months ago, there was buzz in Bristol that Chris Berman was on the verge of re-signing a big contract. Bristolites were surprised. First, his contract wasn't set to expire till May 2013, so why do anything 10 months before? Especially since ESPN let plenty of prominent contracts go down to the wire this year? And… »
Perhaps on advisement from his superiors, the very popular Chris Berman was noticeably restrained during last night's Home Run Derby. In fact, his "backbackback" catchphrase found limited use; Berman only uttered "back" 79 times. That's still plenty enough for us to have fun with, and so here's Berman taking a stab… »


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Fishing at Pike Haven on Lake Oahe
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Nett Lake duck hunt on a not-so-ducky day
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Viking Sportsmen's Club aids in area lake stockingLocal chapter matches funds to help improve walleye numbers
October 16, 2009
A day without rain is a day for fishing
October 08, 2009
Courtesy is required on Green Lake, not another ordinanceSPICER — An education about being respectful — and not a new ordinance — will be pursued next year in an attempt to curb what some perceive as rude behavior on Green Lake.
By Carolyn Lange , October 02, 2009
Dakota Recreation Report
By Patricia Stockdill , October 01, 2009
Spiny waterfleas found in Lake Mille LacsIt's the first discovery of the species outside of Lake Superior and certain U.S.-Canadian border waters, such as Lake of the Woods, Rainy Lake and Namakan Lake.
By Associated Press , September 24, 2009
Lend a hand on public landNorth Dakota volunteers will participate in the annual National Public Lands Day by helping care for the state's public land Saturday.
September 24, 2009
Changing times for campFrom the main lodge deck you can see a fire pit to the right with five logs to sit on, a dock in the center with a small gravel boat landing and a group of four cabins to the left. All are in front of the blue waters of Spiritwood Lake.
September 16, 2009
St. Joseph man rescued after being thrown from runaway fishing boat on Eden LakeEDEN VALLEY — Eden Valley Fire and Rescue Squad, along with the Stearns County Sheriff's Office, responded to a runaway fishing boat Sunday afternoon on Eden Lake.
By Tribune News , September 15, 2009
Isle Royale National Park: Berries galore and so much moreHeavy fog blanketed the harbor as we stood on the dock on the morning of Aug. 12. The crew of the Voyageur II ferry worked fast to prepare for our departure from the Grand Portage harbor.
By Anne Williams , September 13, 2009
Growing urgency drives effort to control Eurasian watermilfoil in beautiful Green LakeSPICER — There's a myth out there that goes like this: Eurasian watermilfoil will never thrive in the clean waters of Green Lake.
By Tom Cherveny , September 12, 2009
Authorities: Alcohol appears to be factor in Sand Point Lake boat accidentThe St. Louis County Sheriff's Department is investigating a Wednesday night boat accident on Sand Point Lake in Voyageurs National Park near Crane Lake.
September 10, 2009
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Two more spots to open for wild rice harvestRicing season opened Aug. 15, but nine bodies of water remained closed to ricing until the rice became ripe. Two area spots will become available Friday.
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Hilperton, Wiltshire
Hilperton or Hilprington, a village and a parish in Wiltshire. The village stands near the Kennet and Avon Canal, 1 1/2 mile NNE of Trowbridge station on the G.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Trowbridge. Acreage of the civil parish, 1202; population, 1011; of the ecclesiastical, 1029. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Whaddon, in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £300 with residence. The church is good, and has an ancient tower. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. A chapel of ease was built in 1889 at the junction of St Mary and Wyke roads.
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the paradigmatic fantasy of the Age of Aquarius
Titty, Cock, Intercourse and Ejaculation
In more innocent days, you could write about cocks and not be misunderstood. Unintentional double entendres.
Almosting a Joycean Listicle
"In keeping with James Joyce's own love of lists, here's a terribly subjective list of ten books published in this century that are in different ways as inventive as Ulysses was in 1922. These novels aren't necessarily inspired by Ulysses, except insofar as it has affected every subsequent novel, but like Joyce's masterpiece they challenge us in ways we never knew to expect. If nothing else, Bloomsday should remind us to pick up some books not despite their difficulty but because of it." (Electric Literature) [more inside]
Summer Reading List
22 Books by Black Authors to Add to Your Beach Bag this Summer In response to recently published summer reading lists from The New York Times and NPR that featured mostly White authors, Blavity shares a list of 22 summer reads from Black authors. [more inside]
Grey day
I Read The New "Fifty Shades" Book (SLBuzzfeed) (NSFW)
"It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked lookingglass of a servant."
Ulysses and Us by Declan Kiberd [Irish Times]
In some ways the fate of Ulysses reflects this openness, at least in the Dublin of today. It seems a work of high modernism, in the manner of a Proust or a Musil, yet it has become a signature element in the life of the city in which it is set. Each year hundreds, maybe thousands, dress as characters from the book – Stephen Dedalus with his cane, Leopold Bloom with bowler hat, Molly Bloom in her petticoats, Blazes Boylan in straw boater – as if to assert their willingness to become one with the text. They re-enact scenes on Eccles Street, on Ormond Quay and in the martello tower in Sandycove. It is impossible to imagine any other masterpiece of modernism having quite such an effect on the life of a city.[more inside]
best books you can read in under an hour each
"For those who love books, but don't have enough time for reading. Here are the best books you can read in under an hour each." 24 books to read in under an hour (infographic) by Piotr Kowalczyk at Ebook Friendly. (via Electric Literature) Previously: What to read when pressed for time
The Master of the Apocalypse
László Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian author, wins the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. Awarded for his work, including the only recently available in English Satantango, and the The Melancholy of Resistance (1993 Book of the Year in Germany). Master of the long sentence his work has won praise from critics as a writer who is "fascinated by apocalypse, by broken revelations, indecipherable messages" [See New Yorker link above] and has been praised by many writers, including Susan Sontag, who described the apocalyptic vision of his writing as inviting comparisons to Melville and Gogol. He has collaborated extensively with Hungarian film director and master of the long take, Béla Tarr, including a 7 hour production of Satantango (SLYT) and Tarr's bleak, final work The Turin Horse (SLYT, Hungarian, turn sub-titles if required). Lovingly and expertly translated into English by British poet and Hungarian-born George Szirtes and more latterly by the Hungarian translator Ottilie Muzlet, Krashnorkai caused something of a literary sensation when he visited New York in 2012. As usual The Guardian has a useful summary of, and guide to, his work including many useful links. None are better than the author's own website. I would also recommend the interview with him in The White Review to read what the author has to say for himself. Previous love for Krasznahorkai on Metafilter can be found here and here.
Sex and gender doubleshot
17 Pathbreaking Non-Binary and Gender-Fluid Novels | You might be sexually fluid and not realize it — or even care
Why Has 'My Struggle' Been Anointed a Literary Masterpiece?
William Deriesiwicz takes a contrarian point of view on Knausgaard's critically lauded series of novels: The term "hyperrealism" derives from the visual arts, where it refers to paintings that are designed to look like photographs. To call writing like Knausgaard's hyperrealistic, to enthrone it as the apotheosis of realism, is to cede reality to the camera. It is to surrender everything that makes literature distinct from the photographic and the televisual: its ability to tell us what things look like, not to the eye, but to the mind, to the heart...How sad it is to imagine that some of our most prominent novelists look at My Struggle and think, That's the book I wish I could have written. How depressing to suppose that just as modernism culminated in Joyce, Proust and Woolf, the literature of our own time has been leading up to… Knausgaard.
No, these oysters, they were purely oysters as a concept
A trio of Haruki Murakami's Advertorial Short Stories: In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Onward spent massive sums on advertising J. Press in the print media. The classic ad format, often seen on the back cover of lifestyle magazine Popeye, showed a Japanese or American man telling a colorful story about their favorite trad clothing item. In 1985, as Japanese pop culture went in more avant-garde directions, Onward came up with a new idea — asking up-and-coming novelist Murakami Haruki to write a very short story inside each month's advertisement for magazines Popeye, Box, and Men's Club. [more inside]
The Great 2015 Indie Press Review
"The feature began originally as an idea born from a discussion online with a number of indie press editors, authors, and readers about the deluge of 'best-of' and 'most anticipated' features and how the majority of these articles continue to be disproportionately favorable to the larger publishing houses. A lot gets lost in transit among the smaller presses, and I wondered why this was the case; the question I asked had been, Why wasn't there a comprehensive gathering of what the indie community has to offer?" [more inside]
"...characters arise out of our need for them."
The humble quest to read all things lesbian
The Lesbrary - "The humble quest to read everything lesbian: a lesbian book blog." Also see sidebar for links to other lesbian book blogs, websites, and online resources. [more inside]
Either I'm a sexual deviant, or they're wrong
Did Amazon Sink the Queen of Online Erotica? - Phoebe Reilly, Vulture
"Engler is an underappreciated pioneer, a self-proclaimed feminist in furry-cat slippers. To put her crowning achievement demurely, she challenged the book-publishing industry's denial of women's appetite for sexually explicit books. She wrote tawdry, lowbrow novels, and published hundreds of others, that freed romance from its lame euphemisms well before Fifty Shades of Grey, and she did so in a digital format long before the Kindle and the iPad allowed e-books to flourish.
"To put it less demurely: There were readers out there, lots of them, who didn't want to read about thick manroots. They wanted hard cocks. So that's what Ellora's Cave gave them. Easily and often."
An Answer to the Novel's Detractors
"The world exists. Why recreate it?" Adelle Waldman explains why.
The first science fiction anthology to focus on the immigrant experience
2 Kill 2 Mockingbirds
Harper Lee is publishing a second book this July. "Go Set a Watchman" is essentially a sequel to "To Kill a Mockingbird," although it was finished earlier.... The new book is set in Lee's famed Maycomb, Alabama, during the mid-1950s, 20 years after "To Kill a Mockingbird" and roughly contemporaneous with the time that Lee was writing the story. In the last few years Lee has been embroiled in legal disputes with her agent over the royalties to To Kill a Mockingbird (previously), as well as with journalist Marja Mills, who published an unauthorized biography of her (previously). Title borrowed from Matt Yglesias.
"I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it."
On Edgar Allan Poe by Marilynne Robinson [New York Review of Books]
"Edgar Allan Poe was and is a turbulence, an anomaly among the major American writers of his period, an anomaly to this day. He both amazed and antagonized his contemporaries, who could not dismiss him from the first rank of writers, though many felt his work to be morally questionable and in dubious taste, and though he scourged them in print regularly in the course of producing a body of criticism that is sometimes flatly vindictive and often brilliant.
"It's hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid."
Robert Stone, Novelist of the Vietnam Era and Beyond, Dies at 77 [New York Times]
"Robert Stone, who wrote ambitious, award-winning novels about errant Americans in dangerous circumstances or on existential quests — or both — as commentary on an unruly, wayward nation in the Vietnam era and beyond, died on Saturday at his home in Key West, Fla. He was 77.[more inside]
That evergreen feminist cautionary fable: The Handmaid's Tale
Does The Handmaid's Tale hold up? , Adi Robertson for The Verge:
"A few weeks ago, I mentioned to a friend that I was in the middle of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. 'It's like 1984 for feminists, right?' he asked. Sort of, I said. But it's a lot scarier. It's about how you'll lose every right you have, and none of the men you know will care. Then I said he would probably betray me if they froze all women's bank accounts. That was the peak of my paranoia, but it held on for several more days, as I read on the subway while half-consciously figuring out how I might theoretically escape to Canada. 1984 was for lightweights."[more inside]
César Aira
"I've realized that the perfect length for what I do is 100 pages. In my brevity there may be an element of insecurity. I wouldn't dare give a 1,000-page novel to a reader […] My novels became shorter as I became more renowned. People now allow me to do whatever I want. At any rate, publishers prefer thick books. But with books, the thicker they are, the less literature they have.""—César Aira [more inside]
Book-selling on Mutanabbi Street: texts from vital sidewalks
Al-Mutanabbi is an open book, bearing symbols that are deeply etched into the body of today's Baghdad. The street has no endpoint. [more inside]
anxieties about lurid voyeurism, unwholesome interest: In Cold Blood
"Much has been said about the storytelling techniques of 'Serial,' which comes out in weekly installments even as the show's host, Sarah Koenig, reinvestigates the conviction of a Baltimore-area teenager for the murder of his ex-girlfriend. The serialized approach teases its audience with cliffhangers, prompts its listeners to construct their own theories and invites outsiders to glimpse the tricky winnowing process of reporting. But 'Serial' also testifies to how much the criminal justice system itself is founded on storytelling." (Laura Miller, Salon: The new "In Cold Blood" revisionism: Why it doesn't matter if Capote's classic wasn't fully true) [more inside]
Truth is harder to tell than a lie
The habitual liar may be a very honest fellow, and live truly with his wife and friends; while another man who never told a formal falsehood in his life may yet be himself one lie-heart and face, from top to bottom. This is the kind of lie which poisons intimacy. And, vice versa, veracity to sentiment, truth in a relation, truth to your own heart and your friends, never to feign or falsify emotion—that is the truth which makes love possible and mankind happy. Robert Louis Stevenson on truth and writing.
You must know thrilling things before you can write about them
I never correct anything and I never go back to what I have written, except to the foot of the last page to see where I have got to. If you once look back, you are lost. How could you have written this drivel? How could you have used "terrible" six times on one page? And so forth. If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. A year before his death, James Bond author Ian Fleming explained how to write a thriller.
Position yourself, whenever possible, at the top of a flight of stairs.
Looking at Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" series.
Isaac Asimov's Foundation: The little idea that became science fiction's biggest series [SPOILERS] (io9)
On the planet Terminus, a group of academics struggles to survive as the Galactic Empire crumbles. With no weapons, all they can rely on are the predictions of a dead genius named Hari Seldon. That's right — it's time to discuss Isaac Asimov's Foundation![more inside]
Welcome to Foundation Week, a Blogging the Hugos special event. In 1983, Isaac Asimov won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for Foundation's Edge, in which he revisited his groundbreaking Foundation mythos for the first time in over thirty years. Because the Foundation series is such classic, quintessential, and beloved science fiction — the original stories won their own unique Hugo for Best All-Time Series in 1966, and influenced artists from Douglas Adams to George Lucas — Josh Wimmer and Alasdair Wilkins will be discussing each of the seven books between today and Sunday. We begin with Foundation, published in 1951.
"A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get."
First editions, second thoughts: [New York Times] "On December 2, Christie's will auction 75 first-edition books, each of which is a unique object that has been annotated with words and/or illustrations by its author. Proceeds from the auction will benefit PEN American Center."
Literature - good God y'all - what is it good for? Absolutely something.
What is Literature for? [SLVimeo]
"I wanted this to be the saddest thing I'd ever written,"
Closing a Chapter of a Literary Life [New York Times] Ahead of the American publication of his latest work, "The Book of Strange New Things," Michel Faber discusses it and why it will be his last novel.
Once outsold Dickens - now called "the other Dickens"
As the nights are beginning to draw in and Halloween approaches, how about something to make the flesh creep and send a shiver down the spine? Charles Dickens was a master of the macabre, whether it's in his Christmas ghost stories such as A Christmas Carol, in the chilling Gothic emptiness of Satis House in Great Expectations or the dirty squalor of London in Oliver Twist. But there was another novelist who most people have never heard of, whose books also offered the Victorian reading public a good helping of horror. At the height of his career, he sold more copies of his work than Dickens, who is widely thought to have been the bestselling novelist of the age. This other writer's name was George W. M. Reynolds, and he has recently been called 'the other Dickens'. 2014 marks the bicentenary of his birth.
What to read when pressed for time.
17 Brilliant Short Novels You Can Read in a Sitting by Lincoln Michel at Electric Literature:
This week author Ian McEwan expressed his love of short novels, saying "very few [long] novels earn their length." Certainly it seems like a novel has to be a minimum of 500 pages to win a major literary award these days, and many genre novels have ballooned to absurd sizes.[more inside]
I love a good tome, but like McEwan many of my favorite novels are sharpened little gems. It's immensely satisfying to finish a book in a single day, so in the spirit of celebrating quick reads here are some of my favorite short novels. I've tried to avoid the most obvious titles that are regularly assigned in school (The Stranger, Heart of Darkness, Mrs Dalloway, Of Mice and Men, Frankenstein, The Crying of Lot 49, etc.). Hopefully you'll find some titles here you haven't read before.
I spent 10 years doing New York all wrong
Adelle Waldman, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., was a lonely aspiring writer in New York, generally unhappy. Then she moved to Brooklyn and found that community made all the difference.
"Not everybody wants to read about vampires and dystopia,"
To Lure Young Readers, Nonfiction Writers Sanitize and Simplify: [New York Times]
"Inspired by the booming market for young adult novels, a growing number of biographers and historians are retrofitting their works to make them palatable for younger readers."
"There is such a thing as the courage in remaining baffled."
"Once upon a time there was no not a king." - Carlo Collodi, basically.
KC Green, the cartoonist currently writing and drawing Gunshow and writing the pre-apocalyptic fantasy-western Back (with art from Nedroid's Anthony Clark) has embarked upon a third project: a chapter-by-chapter adaptation of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, currently up to the end of the book's first chapter. [more inside]
It all comes back to fun
When the champion of adult culture is portrayed, even by himself, as an old curmudgeon yelling at the kids to get off his lawn, it suggests that this adult culture is one of the unfortunate but necessary costs of coming into adulthood. We give up the pleasures of entertainment for the seriousness of art. I just don't think that this is true. Christopher Beha on Henry James and the Great Young Adult Debate.
"distinctly queer and contemporary, as if retrofitting a classic car"
"Longings and Desires", a Slate.com book review by Amanda Katz:
[Sarah] Waters, who was born in Wales in 1966, has carved out an unusual spot in fiction. Her six novels, beginning with Tipping the Velvet in 1998, could be called historical fiction, but that doesn't begin to capture their appeal. It is closer to say that she is creating pitch-perfect popular fiction of an earlier time, but swapping out its original moral engine for a sensibility that is distinctly queer and contemporary, as if retrofitting a classic car.[more inside]
Her books offer something like an alternate reality—a literary one, if not a historical one. There may have been lesbian male impersonators working the London music halls in the 1890s, as in Tipping the Velvet, but there were certainly not mainstream novels devoted to their inner lives and sexual exploits. Waters gives such characters their say in books that imitate earlier crowd-pleasers in their structure, slang, and atmosphere, but that are powered by queer longing, defiant identity politics, and lusty, occasionally downright kinky sex. (An exception is her last novel, The Little Stranger.) The most masterful of these books so far is Fingersmith, a Wilkie Collins-esque tale full of genuinely shocking twists (thieves, double-crossing, asylums, mistaken identity, just go read it). The saddest is The Night Watch, a tale told in reverse of a group of entwined characters during and after World War II. But among many readers she is still most beloved for Tipping the Velvet, a deliriously paced coming-of-age story that is impossible to read in public without blushing.
"Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food."
International Read an E-Book Day:
The new holday -- "holiday"? -- is the brainchild of OverDrive, a major e-book distributor. OverDrive is the country's largest provider of e-books to libraries; it handles e-books from 5,000 publishers, including major Penguin Random House, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Perseus, Wiley, and Harlequin. If you've ever checked an e-book out from the L.A. Public Library, it was provided by OverDrive. To celebrate International Read an E-book Day, Overdrive will be giving away tablets and e-reading devices at the readanebookday.com website and through social media. Readers are asked to "tell their story of what eBooks mean to them" and use the hashtag #eBookDay to be eligible.via: L.A. Times
Do you ever dream of starting again in a new skin?
Uncomfortable in His Own Skin 'Your Face in Mine,' by Jess Row, a Novel About Changing Race: [New York Times]
"When literary fiction dares examine the issue of race at all, it is usually done in an exceedingly tone-deaf way (think William Styron's Confessions Of Nat Turner or Kathryn Stockett's The Help) or from a somewhat safe remove (think Chabon's Telegraph Avenue). It always seems as if the story is accompanied by a blaring announcement that it's time for this (white) protagonist to learn something. Sometimes the pedantic drum-banging can get so excessive it drowns out everything else, including the inclination to tell a good story. If nothing else, the debut novel from Jess Row, Your Face In Mine, is a refreshing plunge into the deep end of the race conversation." [A.V. Club][more inside]
If we're not in pain, we're not alive
You invest so much in it, don't you? It's what elevates you above the beasts of the field, it's what makes you special. Homo sapiens, you call yourself. Wise Man. Do you even know what it is, this consciousness you cite in your own exaltation? Do you even know what it's for?Dr. Peter Watts is no stranger to MetaFilter. But look past his sardonic nuptials, heartbreaking eulogies, and agonizing run-ins with fascists (and fasciitis) and you'll find one of the most brilliant, compelling, and disquieting science fiction authors at work today. A marine biologist skilled at deep background research, his acclaimed 2006 novel Blindsight [full text] -- a cerebral "first contact" tale led by a diverse crew of bleeding-edge post-humans -- is diamond-hard and deeply horrifying, wringing profound existential dread from such abstruse concepts as the Chinese Room, the Philosophical Zombie, Chernoff faces, and the myriad quirks and blind spots that haunt the human mind. But Blindsight's last, shattering insight is not the end of the story -- along with crew/ship/"Firefall" notes, a blackly funny in-universe lecture on resurrecting sociopathic vampirism (PDF - prev.), and a rigorously-cited (and spoiler-laden) reference section, tomorrow will see the release of
"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery."
Things That Don't Suck, Some Notes on The Stand
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I recently reread The Stand for no particular reason other than I felt like it. I'm honestly not sure how many time[s] I've read it at this point, more than three, less than a half dozen (though I can clearly remember my first visit to that horrifyingly stripped bare world as I can remember the first reading of all the truly great King stories). It's not my favorite of King's work, but it is arguably his most richly and completely imagined. It truly is the American Lord of The Rings, with the concerns of England (Pastorialism vs. Industrialism, Germany's tendency to try and blow it up every thirty years or so) replaced by those of America (Religion, the omnipresent struggle between our liberal and libertarian ideals, our fear of and dependence on the military, racial and gender tension) and given harrowing size.
I'm happy to say that The Stand holds up well past the bounds of nostalgia and revisiting the world and these characters was as pleasurable as ever. But you can't step in the same river twice, even when you're revisiting a favorite book. Even if the river hasn't changed you have. This isn't meant as any kind of comprehensive essay on The Stand. Just a couple of things I noticed upon dipping my toes in the river this time.
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You Are Now Entering the Demented Kingdom of William T. Vollmann: [The New Republic] Home to goddesses, dreams, and a dangerously uncorrupted literary mind.
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Not to be outdone by the proposed Romancing the Stone series from NBC, rival network ABC has ordered a pilot for the globetrotting adventure series The Seven Wonders – based on the Jack West Jr. novels.
The books hale from Australian writer Mark Reilly, who published the first story in the series, Seven Ancient Wonders (also known as The Seven Deadly Wonders in the US) in 2005. Since then, Reilly has completed the series with The Six Sacred Stones in 2007 and The Five Greatest Warriors in 2009.
Bionic enhancements and avian BFF's aside, the main premise of the series focuses on the race to acquire the seven pieces of a capstone, formerly resting atop the Great Pyramid of Giza that can absorb the catastrophic energy from a sunspot, which occurs every 4,000 years or so. The capstone was divided up by Alexander the Great and placed in different locales across the globe – which is sort of like breaking up a pacemaker and spreading it around your house after surviving a heart attack.
Competing for these capstone fragments are three teams: One from Europe, representing the interests of the Catholic Church, the CIEF – or Commander-in-Chief's Extremis Force (basically the Freemasons), and one led by Jack West Jr. – who, unlike the others, plans to use the capstone for the good of mankind, instead of personal gain.
Depending on what spin the series puts on the source material, The Seven Wonders will either end up as pulp-inspired goodness, or a snicker inducing mess.
Given that the project is being produced by film and television veteran Mark Gordon, who has had great success with shows like Criminal Minds, Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice, as well was theatrical releases like Saving Private Ryan and this year's sci-fi trip Source Code, The Seven Wonders should not find it too difficult to attract an audience.
With The Seven Wonders joining Revenge, Missing (starring Ashley Judd) and Jerry Bruckheimer's proposed Navy SEALs project, ABC may start calling itself the Adventure Broadcasting Company.
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Sign seed billMay 04,2006The Legislature has passed a reasonable bill safeguarding Vermont farmers from neighbor-against-neighbor warfare over genetically modified seed. The bill would place responsibility for damage caused by the seed where it belongs with the companies that are selling it.
Gov. James Douglas, who appears hyper-sensitive to the interests of the large chemical companies, is considering a veto of the bill.
The GMO seed bill addresses problems that arise when organic farm operations are put in jeopardy from contamination caused by the drift of pollen from genetically modified crops. It has happened already in Vermont. Farms lose their organic certification and the advantage that gives them in the market if they cannot assure customers that they practice organic methods, and many customers want no part of the GMO crops that have been developed by Monsanto and other companies.
The bill does not address the debate about the value of GMO crops. Many farmers, including farmers in Vermont, argue that seeds that have been engineered to resist certain pests allow them to use less pesticide on their land, making the crops more environmentally benign and saving money for the farmer. Already GMO seeds account for a high percentage of the corn and other crops grown in the United States. GMO seeds arouse anxiety because of what we don't know about their effects in the environment. But the bill passed by the Legislature does not address these issues.
What it does is establish that farmers who suffer contamination from GMO crops have the right to sue the company that sells the seed instead of the farmer who was using the seed. After all, the companies are patent holders of the seed and retain ownership of the seeds' DNA. Supporters of the bill argue that if the companies are going to retain ownership, they must also retain responsibility.
Opponents of the bill say that if the law passes, seed companies may withdraw from Vermont and Vermont farmers may be left without this new form of agricultural technology. But the seeds companies have not said they would do that. The suggestion that they would do so exists at the level of rumor, and it appears that Douglas has bought into it.
Douglas' real fear may be that passing a bill putting the onus on the seed companies sends an anti-business message that is not good for Vermont. Douglas ought to worry less about the interests of businesses such as Monsanto and worry more about the interests of farmers in Vermont, who are a big business in this state. These include farmers in the expanding sector of organic agriculture. The bill allows them access to Vermont courts to protect their interests if their operations are compromised.
Even farmers who use GMO seed may find comfort in the bill. They would no longer be on the hook if pollen from their crops drifts over to a neighbor's farm, ruining his crops. It is the owner of the seed who will be responsible, and that is the seed company.
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