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'X-Men' Director Bryan Singer Accused of Sexually Abusing Teenage Boy
"X-Men" director Bryan Singer is being accused of "sexual abuse" of a teenage boy in a lawsuit filed Wednesday, according to court documents obtained by TheWrap.
According to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Hawaii, plaintiff Michael Egan, who was named in a press release by his lawyers, was 17 when he was forcibly sodomized by Singer, among other accusations.
Defendant, BRYAN JAY SINGER, manipulated his power, wealth, and position in the entertainment industry to sexually abuse and exploit the underage Plaintiff through the use of drugs, alcohol, threats, and inducements which resulted in Plaintiff suffering catastrophic psychological and emotional injuries. Defendant Singer did so as part of a group of adult males similarly positioned in the entertainment industry that maintained and exploited boys in a sordid sex ring. A Hollywood mogul must not use his position to sexually exploit underage actors.
The suit alleges Singer provided Egan with drugs and alcohol and flew him to Hawaii for sex on more than one occasion in 1999 and claims that Egan was not the only underage boy who was abused. Plaintiff is seeking an unspecified amount in damages.
It was filed a month before the release of Singer's next movie, "X-Men: Days of Future Past," is due to be released. A representative for Singer did not immediately respond to TheWrap's request for comment. Nor did a representative for Fox.
The abuse allegedly began in 1998, shortly after Egan was lured to parties at a house in Encino, Calif. where a high school friend lived, the lawsuit claims. The house, known as the M & C Estate, was often the site of "notorious parties" where adult males allegedly preyed on young boys, the lawsuit claims.
According to the lawsuit, Egan was a model and aspiring actor. The documents claim Singer told Egan at one such party that "the adults who resided in or frequented the M & C Estate controlled Hollywood and could decide whether Plaintiff's career aspirations and hopes would be realized" and was also present when Egan was warned to keep those men "happy" or else he and his family were in danger.
The men supposedly told Egan they were sure he was homosexual according to their "gaydar," even though Egan told them he was straight, and plied him with drugs and alcohol against his will and often without his knowledge.
"Plaintiff was often forced to consume alcoholic beverages and drugs, and was also surreptitiously administered drugs when they were placed in beverages that he consumed," the lawsuit reads.
One of the men who allegedly lived at M & C Estate, Digital Entertainment Network chairman Marc Collins-Rector, is accused of initiating the sexual abuse of Egan and arranging for Singer to assault Egan as well.
Approximately 2-3 months after Collins-Rector began sexually abusing Plaintiff, Defendant Singer was socializing with Collins-Rector around the estate's swimming pool and Plaintiff was in the pool. In compliance with the "rules" imposed by Collins-Rector that people in the pool area were not allowed to wear clothes, Plaintiff was nude as was Defendant Singer.
Collins-Rector ordered Plaintiff out of the pool, and Defendant Singer hugged Plaintiff and grabbed his bare buttocks. They then went to the jacuzzi where Collins-Rector had Plaintiff sit on his lap and fondled Plaintiff's genitals. Collins-Rector then passed Plaintiff to Defendant Singer and Plaintiff was made to sit on Defendant Singer's lap.
Defendant Singer provided an alcoholic beverage to Plaintiff and mentioned finding a role for him in an upcoming movie that he was directing. Defendant Singer told Plaintiff how "this group" controls Hollywood, and that he was sexy. Defendant Singer masturbated Plaintiff and then performed oral sex upon him. Defendant Singer solicited Plaintiff to perform oral sex upon him which Plaintiff resisted.
Defendant Singer flagrantly disregarded Plaintiff's unwillingness to submit, and forced Plaintiff's head underwater to make Plaintiff perform oral sex upon him. When Plaintiff pulled his head out of the water in order to breathe, Defendant Singer demanded that he continue which Plaintiff refused. Defendant Singer then forced Plaintiff to continue performing oral sex upon him outside of the pool, and subsequently forcibly sodomized Plaintiff.
Collins-Rector, a convicted sex offender who pled guilty in 2004 to luring five minors across state lines to have sex with them, was also accused of holding a gun to Egan and threatening to fire if he continued to resist submitting to sexual contact.
That threat supposedly convinced Egan to continue complying with Singer's alleged requests for sex when he was flown to Hawaii. Singer also allegedly promised acting roles to Egan if he complied.
Defendant Singer promised acting roles to Plaintiff in an 'X-Men' movie, in commercials, and in other of his projects, and professed that he would arrange for Plaintiff to audition for roles and projects in others' productions. Often when Plaintiff dared to resist the demands of Defendant Singer, he threatened to report Plaintiff's refusals to Collins-Rector which frightened Plaintiff due to Collins-Rector's history of threatening harm to him and his family, his previous display of the firearm, his having previously locked Plaintiff in a gun closet, and the presence of firearms in the Paul Mitchell estate.
Attorney Jeff Herman said he planned to file more lawsuits against Singer and others involved in the alleged parties.
"Hollywood has a problem with the sexual exploitation of children," Herman said. "This is the first of many cases I will be filing to give these victims a voice and to expose the issue."
Herman previously represented the five plaintiffs who accused Sesame Street Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash of sexually abusing them. Three of the suits were dismissed due to the statute of limitations running out, however, the plaintiffs vowed to appeal. One other plaintiff dropped his complaint, and a fifth plaintiff's suit is currently active.
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The epithet "any press is good press" is true across the board, even for the Academy Awards, which got a hella-needed ratings boost from the sophomoric, misogynistic hosting stylings of Seth MacFarlane in February. To our chagrin, MacFarlane has already been asked back to host the 86th annual Oscars ceremony next year, but as he's got a lot on his plate right now, he's "thinking it over."
The show's (male) producers, also sticking with the show, asked MacFarlane back as a gambit to hike up the male viewers for the show, since it proved effective this year. From The Guardian:
"MacFarlane's stint saw a 20% boost for the lucrative 18-34 audience and a dramatic 34% hike in male viewers in the same age range. Men aged 18 to 49 were up 18% for a show that has traditionally been more popular with female viewers."
Yeah, that's what's really been missing: a male-dominated perspective. Because we never see that. Ever. Anywhere in the world.
Something that's easy to gloss over about Oscars history: Even before MacFarlane, it's always boasted a veritable clusterf*ck of cringe-worthy set pieces and one-liners. Take the critically-panned Rob Lowe and Snow White dance that opened the 1989 ceremony, for instance.) Pretty dresses and glitterati aside, it's hardly the highbrow highlight it was during the very first ceremony in 1927.
More importantly, like all the potential female candidates being passed over for the new NBC late-night spots, Hollywood finds three or four safe (or super bloggy, like MacFarlane) candidates and sticks with 'em instead of taking a risk on, say, Amy Poehler or, hell, even Sarah Silverman. (She's like MacFarlane's flip side: She uses offensive material as a satirical illumination of just how f*cked up it is, rather than just for the sake of shock value.) Of the 86 Oscar shows, while a number of women have tag-teamed the hosting gig, only two women — Ellen DeGeneres and Whoopi Goldberg have hosted it solo. Jesus, I'd even prefer the monster St. Marks bong James Franco smoked before he co-hosted with Anne Hathaway. Just give it a little bow tie and put it on the stage.
I think what annoys me most about MacFarlane's brand of humor is that it lends itself to three kinds of stereotypes: The angry comedy-nerds getting revenge on the girls who didn't like them in high school (MacFarlane himself), the frat-bros who blithely quote the most sexist moments of Family Guy, and the humorless feminists who can't take a joke. Sigh.
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The earth is flat. Thomas Friedman derives the title of his bestseller book The Earth is Flat: A Short History of the 21st Century from the expression 'a flat playing field', denoting a competitive environment where teams compete on equal terms. He addresses the astonishing growth of communications and spread of knowledge through the development of computers, email, the Internet, etc. The stock market IT boom and collapse of the start of this century in the USA ironically gave a massive fillip to countries such as India and China. A sobering message for the USA and Africa is the importance of the education and work ethic of the peoples of the East. Their graduates are now returning to their home countries from the USA and elsewhere because of improved opportunities.
What has this to do with our journals and CPD? Everything - but first let's look at where we have come from!
The SAMJ then and now
The first South African Medical Journal was published in East London on 19 January 1884. The founding editor was Dr William Darley-Hartley, who played a subsequent prominent role in organised medicine in South Africa. Medical politics then were much the same as now - fees, dispensing, government versus doctors, etc. After some hiccups the SAMJ developed into a respected and internationally recognised general medical journal. At first it had the field all to itself and it did not matter whether this was flat or tilted. But then commercial publications appeared and specialist journals proliferated to provide for the needs of the increasing numbers of specialists, providing new and tough competition. Not long ago the publishing division of SAMA was costing SAMA membership some R3 million per year - still good value, but a hefty sum nevertheless. It became apparent that a hard focus and a more business-like and professional publishing approach were essential for successful survival. After much patience and persuasion the Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG) was established as an independent company though wholly owned by SAMA. An alliance was formed with Cape Media, a successful publishing group, to ensure a competitive critical mass on the production and advertising sales side. This has resulted in an impressive turnaround in just a few years with profits in sight.
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For authors, editors and readers, however, we were still in the equivalent of the horse and carriage era. Paper swamped everything, from submissions, through the editing process, to printing and distribution. But that all changed with the introduction early in 2007 of the 'OJS' online system (introduced to us with thanks to Pierre de Villiers). Everything is now electronic: author submissions, the editorial process including peer review and right through to publishing are all now available via www.samj.org.za. The back issues of the SAMJ (over 100 years of leather-bound volumes!) have been scanned and are in the process of being added to the servers, when they too will become freely available!
Members will still receive their copies of the SAMJ in the post, but our reach internationally will be significantly enhanced. Receipt of journals is a significant membership benefit, but the journal distribution has also been in need of an overhaul. Henceforth members will be entitled to receive up to three different journals and to subscribe to others in our stable at low cost. All will receive the SAMJ, specialists will receive a specialist journal if we publish in their field, and there is a choice of a third.
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The electronic advances will also impact on the CPD programmes offered by our journals. Benefits will be much enhanced for most users, but we regret that some will be disadvantaged. The CPD programmes will be available online immediately, and paper replies will not be accepted beyond the February 2008 issue. Advantages will include instant response on success or otherwise, ability to print the required certificate immediately, the provision of answers after 2 months, and access to CPD programmes of several journals other than SAMJ and CME. (Early additions are to be the SA Journal of Child Health, SAJOG and SAJBL - see below). Disadvantages are that faxing answer sheets will no longer be possible, and that readers will not be able to answer CPD questions many months later because the answers will be online. A wag has suggested that some of us oldies who do not have computer capacities will have to enlist the aid of our grandchildren. CPD will be available through the journals or the website www.cpdonline.org.za
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The GREAT British Film reception in honour of British Oscar nominees drew a big crowd to the Los Angeles residence of British Consul-General Dame Barbara Hay.
Visitors who turned up to Friday's event [Feb 22] included producer John Battsek – whose Searching For Sugar Man would go on to win the best documentary Oscar last Sunday – as well as Kon-Tiki producer Jeremy Thomas and former 007 George Lazenby.
The guest list also featured Jane Seymour, Les Misérables director Tom Hooper, Jared Harris, Anna Karenina cinematographer Seamus McGarvey and ParaNorman directors and best animation nominees Sam Fell and Chris Butler.


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Less than three months after losing her grandmother to cancer, Rihanna has honored her memory via symbolic ink. The pop star hit up a London tattoo parlor on Saturday and emerged hours later bandaged up. Yesterday, she performed alongside Coldplay and Jay-Z at the Closing Ceremonies of the London Paralympics, and one of her sheer costumes gave fans a hazy view of her twentieth piece of body art. Of course, the peekaboo ushered in wild speculation among fans as to what she may have gotten.
Luckily, Rihanna decided to offer up a complete, unencumbered picture via Instagram last night rather than let the rumors continue. The artwork is a picture of the Egyptian goddess Isis, a symbol of femininity and empowerment that still resonates with many today. It's located underneath and between her boobs. You can take a look at the shot below, courtesy of MTV…
Covering up nipples in order to tweet a mostly topless picture to honor grandma is a bit of a strange way to spend a Sunday, but the gesture is clearly well-intentioned and honest. Rihanna has long talked about the special relationship she shared with the deceased. Hopefully, this new artwork will allow her to feel the woman's guiding hands on her throughout the rest of her life.


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We're thinking about creating a tutorial section for all the work we do, for the best ways to scan in really high quality images, that sort of thing. We never get around to it, though - Al is always tweaking the code, and the rest of them are adding more, newer shows. Sigh. I guess you'll have to look for tutorials elsewhere, for now. Maybe we'll have something cool someday, though..
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I knew Julie Fei-Fan Balzer would be doing make-and-takes with her new products on Tuesday and didn't want to miss it. Luckily, I made it to The Crafter's Workshop booth while she was still there. Jennifer Wilson and I made lovely canvas necklaces with Julie!
Julie is just as much fun and enthusiastic as you would expect based on her blog and appearances in places like the Scrapbook Soup series that she co-hosts!
While I was there, I was able to check out some of her new templates, too. Below are the Life Strips and Pattern Strips designs:
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My favorite Ravelry group, Knit Knackers, holds knitting swaps fairly regurarly. The swaps are generally themed but in this last one we got to pick our own theme! I was lucky enough to get Mary for my swap and she chose the theme Twin Peaks. After looking at knitting patterns that would incorporate this theme, I was disappointed. So I decided to make my own pattern. Fingerless mitts based on the Black Lodge in the television show Twin Peaks.
This pattern is easy and fast! It's a great way to use up scraps as it requires less than 50 yards per color- red, white and black. The mitts are worked identically so there's no designated left or right mitt.
You will need:
size US 8 (5mm) needles for working in the round.
3 colors worsted weight yarn
stitch marker
darning needle to weave in ends
Size: Women's average to large hands.
Guage: 5sts per inch in 2x2 ribbing.
Zig Zag Pattern:
Row 1- knit all stitches
Row 2- *kfb, k3, sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, kfb* repeat for all stitches- 4 repeats total
Repeat the two rows alternating colors each time you start Row 1.
With red yarn, CO 44sts. Place marker, join in round.
*k2,p2* rib for 2 inches from CO edge.
Switch to black yarn.
Knit the Zig Zag pattern above, switching between black and white yarn. Stop when there are 14 striped rows (28 rows total) ending with white yarn.
Thumb opening:
With black yarn, do not join in round. Turn your knitting instead and start purling:
Row 1- purl all stitches
Row 2- *kfb, k3, sl1, k2tog, psso, k3, kfb* repeat for all stitches- 4 repeats total
Continue working Zig Zag pattern flat for a total of 5 striped rows (10 rows total) ending with black yarn.
With white yarn, join in round.
Continue the Zig Zag pattern in the round switching between white and black for a total of 4 striped rows (8 rows total) ending with black yarn.
Switch to red yarn.
Knit one round.
*k2,p2* rib for 1 inch.
Bind off loosely in rib pattern. Weave in ends and block.
Make 2. Wear them while eating cherry pie and drinking a damn good cup of coffee.
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text: Temple University's comedy team has advanced past 2011 defending champions Penn State in Rooftop Comedy's 2012 National College Comedy Competition. The team, which consists of Alex Grubard, Tim Ryan, Paul Kenton and Chris Whithair beat Penn State in online voting to move on to the next round which they will compete against the winner of NYU and Columbia. The contest started with a showcase at Temple, in which a team of eight comedians were chosen to perform at Helium Comedy Club in another live showcase at which judges narrowed the team down to it's current four person status. Now, online voting will determine which schools keep advancing for their chance to be named champions and win a performance at the 2012 Just For Laughs Chicago Comedy Festival. If you'd like to do your part in voting to help Temple move on, keep your eyes on Witout's Facebook and Twitter for updates on when the next round of voting begins.


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We've been getting talked about a lot in the last week now that the appliance stimulus (aka Cash for Clunkers Appliances, aka Dollars for Dishwashers) will begin the rebate reservation process on Monday at 8 a.m.
Even my phone's been ringing with people who want to know how to get money back for purchasing new Energy Star appliances like refrigerators, dishwashers and washers.
Oh, and freezers.
Yup, freezers count, too. Out of the approximately 25,400 rebates available in the state of Minnesota, 1,999 of them are earmarked for those replacing a freezer. I have only gotten one call about a freezer, which leads me to think people might not realize they're included in this program!
The rebate for replacing a freezer will earn you $100 if you "demanufacture" (fancy word for recycling) your old one or $50 if you just purchase a new one.
Freezers aren't the most exciting replacement. Usually they're relegated to a basement or garage or mudroom or something, so you don't think about it unless it breaks. But even if it's working, it could be costing you dearly.
A freezer from before 1993 wastes $35 a year in utility costs. A freezer from the 1980s? That's setting you back $70 in energy costs annually.
Whether you'd like a smaller, chest-style freezer like this 9 cu. ft. model for $399:
Or a larger chest-style freezer like this 15 cu. ft. model for $529.95
For more capacity that you don't have to defrost, you could step up to an upright-style freezer, 16.6 cu. ft., for $649.95:
And then there's our grandaddy-of-them-all freezer: a 20.5 cu. ft. upright-style, frost-free (with the pizza shelf and the ice cream zone…) for $749.95:
(My mom has this one, being the jellymaker and "It's on sale, so I'm going to stock up"-type of woman she is. I can't believe she still hasn't reached capacity yet.)
Anyways, I think the freezer rebates will last the longest, so you might have a better shot at getting money for one of these than say, a washing machine.
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The Rich Gets Richer - What Else Is New?
While exercising this morning I heard a news tidbit that in the U.S. productivity is up. Profits are up. That means the economy looks good.
Then, it seems, that wages should be up so all us can bask in this Land of Free Enterprise.
Only the top 1% can claim substantial increases in their earnings (I hesitate to use that word "earnings").
With the economy is full swing it means prices go up (widen that profit margin) which ups the cost of living and the average family is having a hard time making ends meet. Many have to hold down two jobs.
The reason the report, I heard the report say, is that companies feel they have more of an obligation to please their stockholders than their workers.
The stockholders are that upper one percent.
But don't feel too scornful towards that one percent. After all, they got a big tax cut. They got the tax cut because of the theory the more of a tax cut they get they more they will spend, which more goods will be produced to serve their needs, so more people of the work force will be needed to keep the wealthy supplied with the goods. Can you imagine what a responsibility that is for the wealthy? To keep us low life in jobs?
Such a responsibility will probably drive some of them to drink… martinis, scotch, etc.
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LOS ANGELES — Discovery Channel International has indefinitely postponed the broadcast of a show purporting to re-enact Michael Jackson's autopsy, the company announced Friday.
The company cited the start of hearings next week in the criminal case against Jackson's doctor and a request by the late superstar's estate as reasons for the postponement.
John Branca and John McClain, co-executors of Jackson's estate, accused Discovery of insensitivity toward the singer's family in a letter Wednesday demanding that the company cancel plans for the program.
They said they were especially outraged by an Internet ad for the show, Michael Jackson's Autopsy, which they described as depicting a corpse on a steel gurney covered by a sheet with a hand sticking out wearing Jackson's signature sequined glove.
Branca and McClain said Friday in a statement that Discovery seemed to be reacting to outrage from Jackson fans, in addition to their own criticisms.
"Discovery Channel made the correct decision in choosing to cancel this exploitative program. We are hopeful that this show will never run in any market in the future," they said.
The company's decision was first reported by celebrity website TMZ.com.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled to begin Tuesday for Jackson's Houston physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter, after which a judge will decide if there is sufficient evidence to hold Murray for trial.
The singer died on June 25, 2009, of what was later found to be acute Propofol intoxication, with other sedatives found to have been a contributing factor.


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Tonight's Concert Picks: The National Rifle at Johnny Brenda's, Everyone Everywhere at The Barbary, The Weeks at MilkBoy, JD Malone at Burlap and Bean, XPN Welcomes Lee Fields & The Expressions to World Cafe Live
With an album release a mere two weeks away, The National Rifle headline Johnny Brenda's tonight. Almost Endless will be the Philly band's first full-length, following up four EPs that span a seven year career. With glam rock vocals, spacey synths and a pulsing bass line, The Nationals Rifle's new recordings move the quartet away from the punk vibes of their previous releases and into the world of Bowie and M83 dipped in dream pop. Tickets and information for tonight's 21+ show with The New Connection and Crills Wilson can be found here. Below, stream "Glass Line" from Almost Endless.


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The 2010 Aprilia Shiver 750 are out and as with the new Dorsoduro, the new Shiver looks bigger than ever. No above changes actuality – a agilely revised fairing, 5mm lower bench height, altered (lower) handlebars, hardly college and added rear-set footpegs, bouncing anchor discs and a new paintjob is about it. The 750cc, 92bhp, 81Nm v-twin engine, with ride-by-wire tech and tri-mode (sport, touring and rain) ammunition bang mapping additionally charcoal unchanged.
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The Misano round of MotoGP in just over a week will see a host of changes at the CRT end of pit lane, as teams reevaluate ahead of the final part of the season. Perhaps the least surprising swap is that of the IODA Racing team, who are dropping their own IODA racing machine – an Aprilia powerplant housed in a steel trellis frame built by the team themselves – in favor of the Suter BMW bike currently being raced by NGM Forward's Colin Edwards.
Danilo Petrucci's biggest complaint all year has been a lack of top speed, sometimes as much as 50 km/h to the factory MotoGP bikes and close to 30 km/h to the other CRT machines, so the Italian will be hoping that the much more powerful BMW unit will give him a power boost. Petrucci and IODA tested the BMW at the Vairano circuit just south of Milan in Italy, but the persistent rain meant that Petrucci and Dominique Aegerter got little time on the bike.


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The University of Wisconsin Colleges is a multi-campus institution committed to high-quality educational programs, preparing students for success at the baccalaureate level of education, providing the first two years of a liberal arts general education that is accessible and affordable, providing a single baccalaureate degree that meets local and individual needs, and advancing the Wisconsin Idea by bringing the resources of the University to the people of the state and the communities that provide and support its campuses.
- To excel at delivering a liberal arts general education associate degree that prepares students for transfer to baccalaureate-granting institutions and professional programs.
- To emphasize teaching excellence including the development, use and assessment of effective teaching methods.
- To prepare students for lifelong learning, leadership, service and responsible citizenship.
- To foster scholarly activity that supports the mission of the University of Wisconsin Colleges.
- To serve the people of Wisconsin by promoting continuing education and outreach in Wisconsin communities.
- To participate in collaborative relationships with other University of Wisconsin System institutions, the Wisconsin Technical College System, private colleges and K-12 public schools in order to maximize educational opportunities and resources for the people of Wisconsin.
- To serve the needs of ethnically diverse students, students with disabilities and nontraditional students.
- To make available as a service to business, industry and the general public the unique professional expertise of the faculty and staff.
- To provide opportunities for civic and cultural enrichment in the communities that support its campuses.
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The UW Colleges will be Wisconsin's institution of access, innovation and quality in teaching, learning and community service.
In order to realize the mission, all members of the UW Colleges community have a responsibility to promote and a right to expect:
Respect for Persons
Basic to respect is the freedom of inquiry and expression – the right to be heard and the obligation to listen. Respect is mutual; it is founded on the recognition that members of the community are multifaceted with many gifts and challenges and come from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. The campus environment should be free from intimidation and harassment. Disagreement within the community is expected to be resolved through a process of mutual respect.
Personal Integrity
All community members must meet high standards of personal and academic integrity. Recognizing the value of others' time and effort, we strive to be accurate, to be timely and to evaluate critically. Views should be presented honestly – taking credit where credit is not due contradicts the goals of learning.
Individual Development
Initiative, critical thinking, the pursuit of truth and the exchange of ideas are essential to any academic experience. Community members should be committed to continuous improvement in themselves and others. All should be prepared to devote whatever time and effort is necessary both to educate and be educated. As the learning community fosters self-development, it should provide ample and accurate advising. Opportunities for professional development and training are essential for individual growth.
Considerate Assessment
The learning environment requires considerate assessment. The criteria for assessment should be mutually acknowledged, public and unambiguous. Assessment should be ongoing, focusing not only on individual community members but also on the educational process itself. The community helps its members to identify and assess their various responsibilities.
Responsive Institution
Each member of the community has a right and a responsibility to contribute to the success of the institution. The university should provide a responsive curriculum, smooth transfer procedures and fair grievance processes and policies. All segments should be involved in budgeting and other long-range planning. Leaders seek and respect input gained through the shared governance process so that decisions are made in the best interests of all members. Institutional and campus policies contribute to the success of all members of the community.


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After our full day at Disney, we were ready for a last few days of sun, swimming and family. Two out of three wasn't bad. I was amazed how long my girls would stay in the pool each day despite the cooler temperatures. We're talking hours.
Olivia getting a spin from Daddy
No worries from those who read my previous posts - these following pictures include kid friendly beverages. : )
Thanksgiving Dinner
Somehow I missed taking a picture of all of us adults!
These two are just plain special - even with them getting bigger, Auburn is always someone so special to Ava from all their time together when Ava was so little.
Kate, Daddy and Ava
Daddy and Olivia
Daddy and Ava
Olivia rocket
Kate rocket (LOVE this one : ) )
Ava rocket (and Daddy now tired . . . )
Olivia up to no good : )
Then sadly our week came to an end. Posing by Mickey one last time on our way out of town.
Kate wanted one by the castle
Riding the tram to our plane
I had told friends before we left that while I knew the girls were at an age to have lots of fun this trip that I was trying to keep expectations low so I didn't make it miserable for everyone. : ) I have to say that these girls made my week, no, my fall. They were so fun, so flexible and just so fun to watch enjoy, soak in, and enjoy the time both at Disney and just with family. After a busy year and not knowing what this next one may hold, I just thank God for this week as our family is in it's "pause" mode of life before we continue to grow, God willing. Our little family loved our time together and then getting to spend it with the rest of my family was just icing on the cake. Thanks for a great week Mom and Dad!


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Nonprofit educational groups, nonprofit agricultural groups and for-profit farmers are encouraged to attend a stakeholder informational meeting in January to learn more about potential leasing options of the proposed Nail Agricultural Park.
A seven-acre parcel located at 3900 Sellers Ave. and owned by the city will likely be leased to one or more community organizations for the possible development of community gardens, orchards or demonstration crops. The Green Living Coalition has expressed interest in developing the site and other groups that could take part in utilizing the land are the UC Cooperative Extension, East Contra Costa Historical Society, 4-H, FFA and agricultural programs on local high school campuses, according to city officials.
After the meeting is held, city officials are planning for a release of a request for proposals from interested parties. The proposed length of the lease will be five years with two five-year renewable options.
Among the lease conditions are that the project complements the neighboring historical society's museum. All of the future proposals must include a business plan and all major site improvements would be paid for by the lessee.


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Hannah and I had a fun little field trip to some Antique Malls here in St. Louis last Friday. Hannah ended up buying this really cool glass container thing-y, though she wasn't exactly sure what she was going to put into it.
We decided to stop by the local farmer's market before we picked up her little boy from pre-school. We were just going to pick out some fruits and veggies for dinner when we saw a bunch of succulents, staring at us, begging us to take them home. And they didn't have to beg very hard- I've been looking to get some for a while now, and so has Hannah!
Then, the idea started brewing… we could make a succulent terrarium with the above glass thing-y! Well, it would be a terrarium sans lid, since succulents need to stay mostly dry. So we picked up some soil, some stones, and she picked out three different types of succulents (don't ask me the names, because I have no clue!).
We lined the bottom with some medium sized stones (these can be picked up at many garden stores or Michael's or Hobby Lobby). Then, we packed some soil onto the top of the stones. This will allow for drainage of excess water since succulents need only be watered once per week/two weeks.
Then, we took each succulent out of their respective containers, took some of the soil off of the roots (not too much, just enough so that it is easier to re-plant it into the terrarium), and placed it into the soil of the glass container.
Once we re-planted the succulents, we added some more soil and packed it loosely around the roots of each plant. Then, we added another layer of the stones to make it look pretty!
We encourage you to find a unique glass container of your own, visit your local farmer's market, and make your own tutorial. When you do, we'd love for you to share it with us!


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About Three Under the Mistletoe: A Billionaire Chistmas Menage Romance by Tia Siren
I have two hot billionaire bosses trying to unwrap me like a sexy Christmas present! I can't jingle both their bells for Christmas…. Or can I?
Christopher Kinsey is dead wrong if he thinks he can just flash that billion-dollar smile and make me jump into bed with him! Sure, he's a walking, talking, rich as hell, wet-dream, but he tries to screw every woman he meets and I refuse to be just another notch on his belt. Then there's his best friend and partner, Patrick, who has a sweet, awkward sexuality that draws me to him. I know I can't have them both for Christmas, but dammit, choosing between them is going to be like picking which present to open first!
Three under the Mistletoe is light-hearted and sexy. Perfect to get you into the holiday mood!
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'Tis the Season
Here it is, December and Christmas is everywhere. I haven't started my shopping yet; I don't know what to get for anyone this year. Many of those on my list are fortunate enough to not "need" anything per se, and I'm not feeling moved to shop for just any old gift anymore.


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Another person has decided to call a project for "xmms2". I don't know what's up with people and superimposing the number 2 just because they're porting something to GTK+2. I've quite frankly had it up to here with this. Sure, it's a nice way of showing that "hey, we're up to specs with the latest and greatest of GTK+" but it's wrecking havoc for us involved with XMMS. First XMMS2.0.0-pre1 was announced by someone who actually had done a tremendous work porting the aging codebase of XMMS over to GTK+2. So I mailed him. That project is now called Beep, since apparently he has no interest whatsoever in XMMS, but I'll rant about that later.
And now I stumbled across a project on savannah named, you guessed it: xmms2. Which is made by a person I've seen around on the forum from time to time. It's most likely not as mature as the Beep port, but still. Why XMMS2? It's looking more and more that we'll have to let the cat out of the bag on a bigger scale. I can't sit and hunt around for people naming their projects XMMS2.
So, I did mail the guy responsible for this fork. Don't get me wrong, I'm not in any way trying to make people _not_ fork XMMS. By all means, it's permitted by the GPL. What struck me as odd was the reply I got back. He didn't answer _any_ of my inqueries, but instead it was really nothing at all in his reply. So what did I miss from his reply? Well, the thing is I told him that we had been planning a GTK+2 port for some time, and that we'd love to see him work on XMMS with us. Considering it would really help endorse people to port their plugins to GTK+2 and not create a big gap and confusion for the users in general. But no reply on that part. I'm reluctant to mail him again, but we're starting to feel the effects of this, once Beep becomes more widespread I think it will get alot worse.
So, it's no secret that the XMMS project was sponsored by 4Front Technologies a couple of years ago and they've remained in the background since then. Mostly trying to force us to take some direction, put up another commercial plugin on the homepage etc. Latest outburst from them is that they're going to be attending a linux expo and demo XMMS. And for some, which is beyond me, reason they will present XMMS as a videoplayer. Damnit, we're not a videoplayer. Not at all. Sure, there are plugins to play video through avifile, smpeg and mplayer. But really, video belongs to Xine/Ogle/Mplayer/etc. XMMS has always been and will always be targeted for music playback. 4Front will have a fit when the sponsored logo disappears from the site on our 6th anniversery.


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text: Funeral services for 84 year old Wallace Marner of Kalona will be 10:30am Friday at the Lower Deer Creek Mennonite Church in rural Kalona. Burial will be in the Lower Deer Creek Cemetery. Visitation is from 2:00 to 8:00pm on Thursday at the Yoder-Powell Funeral Home in Kalona where the family will greet friends from 2 to 4 and from 6 to 8pm. A memorial fund has been established for Mennonite Disaster Service.


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The Adobe Flash Platform Evangelism Kit explains the business problems rich Internet applications solve and how the Adobe® Flash® Platform is ideal for building rich Internet applications and content. The kit shows how the Flash Platform fits in existing Enterprise technology stacks and common use cases and customers within the Enterprise. The kit also provides key points that address common questions raised by executives, technology decision makers, and customers. Areas covered include the business case for rich Internet applications, why the Flash Platform is the leading solution, common use cases, customer case studies, facts, statistics and industry points, and more.
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The purpose of a historic overlay is to encourage additional effort in the preservation of historic structures. Any construction work that affects the exterior of a structure and requires a building permit must obtain a Certificate of Appropriateness before a building permit will be issued. Overlays are zoning tools that work with the underlying zoning—they don't replace it.
Why use Historic Overlays?
Many communities across the country are utilizing historic overlay districts. Cities which have historic overlay districts are discovering that the districts not only help preserve historic resources, they also help to stabilize or increase property values. Historic overlay districts are not designed to prevent changes—rather, they assist in shaping changes that enhance the historic characteristics that make a property unique. The idea is to encourage consistency in architecture, not force "sameness".
Historic Overlays defined
Historic Overlay Districts are defined in the Land Development Code [20-0305]. Sections 20-0305 and 20-0912 of the Code were revised in September 2005 to require the city to specifically identify each individual historic overlay district in the code and streamline the review process for Certificates of Appropriateness.
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- Roberts Street Historic Overlay District - Ord #2942; Roberts Street Map
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When Ross Douma accepted the position of Dordt men's basketball coach, the goals presented were simple.
"Be very competitive in the GPAC and creep back into the national scene," Douma was told by then-athletic director Rick Vander Berg.
Five years later, the demands have been met – and exceeded.
The Defenders have won 10 or more conference games in each of Douma's five years. They've appeared in three consecutive GPAC Championship games and two straight national tournament Elite Eights.
But the biggest accomplishment isn't something that can be quantified in numbers.
Dordt College has built a winning culture that has the program squarely on the NAIA's radar.
The credit can be assigned to several sources—Douma, of course, being a prominent one. The fifth-year head coach has developed a mantra that demands the most out of his players.
"It's important for us to be as good as we can spiritually, academically, socially and athletically every single day," said Douma. "If you're coming to Dordt to play basketball and you want a hands-off experience, it's probably not going to be a good thing."
Sports information director Mike Byker, who has broadcast nearly every game in Douma's tenure, sees the coach's high expectations on display quite frequently.
"Coach is instrumental as well in not accepting a poor effort," said Byker. "If you don't give an effort, that's not good, and he does not accept that."
Douma also benefited from having a highly motivated group of freshmen in his first year on the job. Among them were the likes of Trevor Wolterstorff, Jordan Vogel and Chris Sievers—all eventual thousand-point scorers.
You might say that Douma hit the jackpot with his inaugural recruiting class.
"The things that they put into the DNA of our program are going to be there for quite some time: the manner in which we practice, the expectations that we have, how we act off the floor, the striving for excellence in the classroom," Douma said.
With the initial success of Douma's early teams came a spike in attendance and enthusiasm. The DeWitt Gymnasium crowd quickly turned from a polite northwest Iowa congregation to a raucous 1,500-fan noise machine.
Athletic director Glenn Bouma, hired the same year as Coach Douma, has witnessed the transformation as well.
"We use the balcony seating every home basketball game, and in the past it was once or twice a season," said Bouma.
The electric atmosphere coupled with the team's success became a huge selling point during recruiting—something Douma excels at.
"Coach Douma is a natural recruiter," said Bouma. "He has an ability to connect with prospective student athletes and their parents and interest them enough to make a campus visit."
It is a common practice for recruits to come watch a game in person during the recruitment process. For any high school student, the energy within DeWitt Gymnasium may often seal the deal on their college choice.
"What basketball player doesn't want to come and play in front of a full gym and an active gym?" said Byker. "That's a no-brainer."
There was some question heading into this season about how Dordt would fare after losing the standouts that came from Douma's first recruiting class. However, the impact of last year's seniors created "long-lasting ripple effects" that have endured onto this year's team.
The current group is enjoying a top-five national ranking and sits first in the GPAC; benefiting from the seeds that were sown with the previous generation.
"We have a new group of seniors in Austin [Katje] and Kyle [Lindbergh] who were able to witness those things, but they don't want it to end either," said Douma. "They feel a sense of pride in terms of continuing."
Five years into the job, Douma has successfully built a program based on "the relentless pursuit of excellence."
And for the third straight season, Dordt fans get to call their team a title contender.


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« In Which We Develop A Radiant New Love For Literature »
Our Novels, Ourselves
This Thursday, This Recording unveils our list of the 100 Greatest Novels. This will likely be the final word on the subject, and a key to the city will be presented to us in the shape of a novel. In order to broaden our horizons, we asked a group of talented young writers and artists to name their favorite novels. This is the first in a three part series.
Part One (Tess Lynch, Karina Wolf, Elizabeth Gumport, Sarah LaBrie, Isaac Scarborough, Daniel D'Addario, Elisabeth Donnelly, Lydia Brotherton, Brian DeLeeuw)
Part Two (Alice Gregory, Jason Zuzga, Andrew Zornoza, Morgan Clendaniel, Jane Hu, Ben Yaster, Barbara Galletly, Elena Schilder, Almie Rose)
Part Three (Alexis Okeowo, Benjamin Hale, Robert Rutherford, Kara VanderBijl, Damian Weber, Jessica Ferri, Britt Julious, Letizia Rossi, Will Hubbard, Durga Chew-Bose, Rachel Syme, Amanda McCleod, Yvonne Georgina Puig)
Tess Lynch
In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
This is a book about Vietnam. Please, sit down. Come on, it isn't really about Vietnam, it's about – just sit down for one second – the clashing of public and private life, when the demon-like personifications of every horrible thing you've ever done wage war with whatever good parts of you still exist; the plot consciously implodes on itself, leaving you feeling psychologically fractured and with nightmares about killing your houseplants with boiling water while screaming "Kill Jesus," just like you've always wanted.
Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann Beattie
Ignore the movie please. This was Beattie's first novel, and my favorite of hers, not only because there's a character in it who spends all of her time in the bathtub like I do, and not only because Sam is the fictional hot best friend I projected any and all fantasies onto during my formative years, but because it's a quiet study of the electrically-charged feeling of being in love operative-word-hopelessly. The desserts she cooked that you miss, the radio songs, the happy hour beers spent bumming. Too true, Ann, too true.
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
You know what? Fuck Lolita. I take that back, don't fuck Lolita, she's too young, plus I loved that book. I loved this one more, though. The poem makes me disintegrate with feelings. I'd get all 999 lines tattooed on my face, but then I'd never be able to work in corporate America. John Shade's poem can be a bit of a downer ("how many more/Free calendars shall grace the kitchen door?"), so fictional editor Charles Kinbote comes in to offer up some zippy commentary from the imaginary land of Zembla. I thought Kinbote was supposed to make me feel better, that that was his purpose, but apparently Nabokov, in an interview, mentioned that Kinbote killed himself after publishing the manuscript. God, what a downer. I wish I'd never heard that bit of imaginary news; maybe there's no point to anything and I should go ahead and get that tat, do you think it would be pretty sickkk?
The Stand by Stephen King
This is my favorite Stephen King novel, and that's saying a lot, since I never leave the bookstore without some SK representation. The Stand is so long that if you get the uncut edition, you can step up onto it and get the bird's nests off your roof; even still, you feel depressed when you turn the last page. There's nothing like a story that begins with the end of most of humanity and then continues for about 1100 pages, peppered with the lyrically satisfying name Trashcan Man and lots of details about stomachs exploding. Life is gross. Books can be gross. You didn't want to finish those nachos anyway.
Tess Lynch is a writer living in Los Angeles. You can find her website here.
Karina Wolf
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
These days, Melmoth the Wanderer is more an allusion than a perused text. Nabokov named Humbert Humbert's automobile after the damned nomad; Oscar Wilde took "Melmoth" as a pseudonym, perhaps because of his shared status as eternal outsider. Maturin's 1820 gothic novel begins with a bequest – a young Trinity student inherits his uncle's estate and a manuscript, which relates the tale of his ancestor Melmoth, who extended his life by 150 years, presumably by selling his soul to the Devil. The only out from damnation is to find someone to take over the pact. The novel consists of a rococo series of nested vignettes, wherein characters encounter the cursed wanderer, sometimes peripherally. The pleasure (and challenge) of the text is in its stylish excesses.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
I re-visited Wuthering Heights when I taught at hokwan, a Korean cram school that aimed to stuff as many five dollar words possible into the minds of the foreign-born students. The odd task of reading Brontë's novel aloud to a teenage boy (who loved it) made me appreciate its ingenious storytelling along with its elemental feelings. As a child, Brontë endured the deaths of two sisters and in response created Gondal, a detailed imaginary world that she sustained in letters and stories from adolescence to adulthood. Wuthering Heights retains a similarly corrective power; the novel is less a romance than a psychic outcry and self-assertion.
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The best children's books are clever rejoinders to the early onset of life, primers for how to deal. Roald Dahl's The Witches retains the violent menace of early fairy tales while offering readers a wry (and controversial) antidote to vanquishing the enemy, a kind of mass witch transformation and cat-led genocide. Dahl retains his spiky humor and incorrectness – also, his irresistibly charming prose. With lovely line drawings by Quentin Blake.
Karina Wolf is a writer living in New York. Her book The Insomniacs is forthcoming from Penguin. You can find her website here.
Elizabeth Gumport
I am too adrift from myself to know what my favorite novels are. If I could tell you that, I could tell you so many things! But like rats fleeing a sinking ship, my former selves keep escaping me. One of the few things I am sure of these days is that I am twenty-five years old, and so like a child I go around insisting on my age. But we can forgive a child for identifying herself by how old she is, since what else would she have done with those months and years except live them? I, on the other hand, ought to have more and deeper moorings. Instead, the first page of D.H. Lawrence's St. Mawr looks like a mirror: "Lou Witt had had her own way so long, that by the age of twenty-five she didn't know where she was. Having one's own way landed one completely at sea."
Reading St. Mawr, the feeling I had was not of identifying with the character but of being identified by them. I did not "find"myself. I was found, as if by a carrier pigeon bearing a note. A few months later, it was The Wings of the Dove that saw me: James writes that Kate Croy "had reached a great age for it quite seemed to her that at twenty-five it was late to reconsider, and her most general sense was a shade of regret that she hadn't known earlier. The world was different--whether for worse or for better – from her rudimentary readings, and it gave her the feeling of a wasted past. If she had only known sooner she might have arranged herself more to meet it."
My sense of being "found"by these books was heightened by how I happened to read them: St. Mawr did in fact arrive for me by air, in a package from Amazon. It was a gift from a friend – the same friend who several months later would be the one to recommend The Wings of the Dove. A truly personal recommendation shows you something you don't often see, which is the way you hold yourself out to the world. That is what Lord Mark offers Milly Theale in The Wings of the Dove, when he shows her "the beautiful" Bronzino portrait "that's so like" her. What matters is not merely what you are like, but that you are like something – that the world knows what you look like, even when you don't. When shown the portrait, Milly admits she doesn't see the resemblance.
Knowing that a book exists is one thing, being made to recognize its existence by someone else another. It is the fact of Lord Mark's showing her the portrait, and not the portrait itself, that so topples Milly: "It was perhaps as a good a moment as she should have with any one, or have in any connexion whatever."A personal recommendation is not the same as one cast out to anonymous strangers on the internet.
I will try, therefore, to be as specific as possible: if you are my age, self-absorbed, and aimless but not hopeless, you should read these books immediately. Perhaps the figure sketched in them will impress you as your own, and perhaps it will resolve something for you. Sometimes books enter your life at exactly the right moment. It doesn't happen as often as you'd think: like people, they tend to appear too early, when you are too foolish to appreciate them, or too late, when they have been claimed by someone else.
Elizabeth Gumport is a writer living in New York.
Isaac Scarborough
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
Amongst all of the fantasy novels I devoured as an adolescent, Tigana is the only that holds up through the prism of passed years and moderate maturity – going back and rereading it remains the same mind-bending pleasure that it was when I was fifteen. Not only is it – a rarity in the subgenre – genuinely well written, but it does what fantastical writing is truly meant to: it comments on our world today, in a way that would otherwise be impossible. The power of names and naming stuck with me, and if there's a reason why I today refuse to spell Ashkhabad "Ashgabat" Kay may very well have something to do with it.
Making Scenes by Adrienne Eisen
The basic willingness to describe modern life's brutality – from lists of food consumed and bulimiacally purged, to the absurdity of what passes today for courtship – sets Eisen apart; her willingness to describe without going somewhere is also laudable. Reading Making Scenes is an experience closest to voyeuristically watching that cute neighbor across the hallway, except that she has begun to leave audiotapes on your doorstep of her – just as you suspected – far too aware and intelligent inner monologue. This voice sticks around.
Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
By and large, Dostoyevsky doesn't do plot: throughout his works, there are simply long periods of hysterics and contemplation, generally circling around a heinous crime committed in the very beginning of the work. Demons is no different in this respect, but here the hysterics come first, and then the crimes – a set-up that avoids the disappointment with which both Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment end, and one that provides much more space for the author to develop his characters' private insanities. And when it comes to madness, Dostoyevsky simply has no equivalent.
Isaac Scarborough is a writer living in Kazakhstan.
Sarah LaBrie
The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
A manifesto for young women destined to spend adulthood in a dimension just to the left of reality, the result of not having solidified quite correctly as children. The three teenaged orphans who guide us through Williams' strange desert are peculiar but not precious, compelling in their very anti-Amelieness. It's okay to be a genuine girl wacko, Williams tells us: if you're smart enough to own it, you still get to win.
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Fiction writers who start out as poets have an edge when it comes to building faultless sentences. Carson, a Classicist by trade, applies her skills as a translator of Greek verse to a novel about a monster named Geryon and his arrogant sometimes-boyfriend, Herakles. Building loosely on fragments of a poem by Stesichorus, Carson winds together scholarship and brutal wit to build a discomfitingly relatable love story.
The Counterlife by Philip Roth
In the autobiographical note that begins Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin discusses coming to the conclusion that, before he could produce anything else of substance, he had to write about what it meant to be black. Through the lens of Nathan Zuckerman, Roth offers a metafictional take on the same question as it relates to Judaism while experimenting with perspective, structure, time and form. Probably the most skillfully written examination out there on the bond between fiction writing and the desire for control.
Sarah LaBrie is a writer living in Los Angeles. You can find her website here.
Daniel D'Addario
England, England by Julian Barnes
In college, one of my mistakes was taking a class on comparative literature, after which I was left thinking that Britain or America could never produce a homegrown "national allegory." Was I ever wrong! England's image of itself is grist for this bizarre novel of ideas in which the nation is reassembled as a giant theme park for tourists—with a false king and queen and every famous Briton brought back to life. The novel questions the value of history and of myth—and despite its scorched-earth ending and brilliant dissection of the corporate profit motive, it does so with a bit of affection.
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Including Kazuo Ishiguro's cloistered-England novel The Remains of the Day in my three favorites here felt a little unfair; it's like being asked to choose among your children, when one is an ultra-sensitive genius. Instead I chose to include the instance in which Ian McEwan, predominantly a creator of tight narrative schemes, most closely approaches Ishiguro's sensitivity to context (a past era's very Britishness) and to character. For not the first but the most exhilarating time, McEwan's games have real consequence: the fate of a young marriage.
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
Novels with inert protagonists slay me, like Mary Gaitskill's books, or Updike's Rabbit series: watching things happen around characters is somehow more exciting and lifelike than watching characters conquer situations themselves (with the author's help). The protagonist, the amoral Scottish girl Morvern, is glamorously inert; things happen around her as she observes and calculates. The scene in which Morvern, unmoved, lights a Silk Cut cigarette while staring at her boyfriend's corpse is choked with an ennui Camus would envy.
Daniel D'Addario is a writer for The New York Observer. You can find his website here.
Elisabeth Donnelly
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn was a poet, and a good one, before he was a memoirist (shades of Denis Johnson), which is why his raw recounting of a fragile family stings with moments of sharp beauty and heartbreaking empathy. The plotline is relatively simple; when Flynn was 27 and working at the Pine Street Inn, a homeless shelter in Boston, he comes into contact with his long lost father. The book is elliptical and non-linear, echoing Flynn's memory, diving into blood and family legacy, Flynn's father's delusions of grandeur and his mother's suicide, homelessness, forgotten people, the way cities and vice can chew you up, and the burden of the past on Flynn's own life. It will knock you on your ass.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The thing that sticks in my mind about Ralph Ellison's masterpiece is that it's so… weird. The imagery that he uses to describe the cruelty of this world is unforgettable: the nameless protagonist in his basement with 1,369 lightbulbs, the Black youths forced to fight for gold coins on an electrocuted rug, the riot (and spear) that rips through Harlem thanks to the Invisible Man's gift of speech. While the book is ostensibly a record of growing up Black in a divided America, Ellison defies expectations at every turn, putting his character through scenes that are consistently strange and always feeling new (which left a legacy extending from John Cheever's short stories to Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle); and this surprise means that Ellison can cut sharply with the anger, satire, and moody magnificence that's fueling his work.
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
In the category of smart-girl-coming-of-age novels, Elaine Dundy's American girl in Paris farce is particularly delicious. You're in good hands with Dundy, after all, her biography was called Life Itself! (yes, with the exclamation point). The semi-autobiographical adventures of Sally Jay Gorce follow her as she dates, fucks, quips, and somehow makes a bad art film in the French countryside. It's hilarious, and by the story's end, proto-feminist Sally Jay is like a friend you don't want to leave.
Elisabeth Donnelly is a writer living in New York. You can find her website here.
Lydia Brotherton
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
I was late to the Brideshead party – I only read it a couple years ago — but now I'm one of those people who owns the entire Granada miniseries and sort of goes on about gillyflowers and plover's eggs too much. I can't help it, and I'm not sure I can explain it without embarrassing myself: I really love this novel.
Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
When I first read Orlando, I was confused by its weirdness and delighted by its casually historical imaginings (there is absolutely no way to read fiction involving Elizabeth I that isn't tacky except for this). And although I haven't reread it in a while, I remember and misremember it like a tricky, particularly good dream. Maybe if there were an umami taste of novels, Orlando would be it.
Chéri by Colette
One of the reasons I like reading Colette novels is that in addition to being evocative of summer holidays in France I've never had, they have the potential to read as little lyrical self-help books. To be honest, what actually happens in Chéri is less important than the life lessons I manage to project onto all that description of pale, beribboned wrists and afternoon weather: how to wear silk robes during the day and take up with younger men, why it's nice to upholster your furniture in dove-gray velvet, and — maybe most importantly—how to grow older, and, in your increasing age, more glamorous, demanding.
Lydia Brotherton is a soprano living in Basel, Switzerland. You can find her website here.
Brian DeLeeuw
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
"Favorite novels" is a slippery idea. Favorite when? When I read it? Now, years later, in the memory of reading? I'm not sure I would even finish Danielewski's novel today (this is saying something bad about me, not the novel), but its blending of pulpy horror and deconstructionist theory felt custom designed for where my head was at ten years ago, in the middle of college. I've never in my life been as consumed by the experience of reading a book. Probably I should try to read it again.
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
One of the ways a satire can be judged successful is if a lot of people don't understand that it's satire. Another is if a lot of these same people get very exercised and moved to protest and write angry and self-righteous ad hominem reviews. American Psycho passes both tests. If there remain any doubters (after talking to some of my friends, I know they're out there), the fact that Mary Harron directed the movie adaptation should be proof enough. This is the funniest book I've ever read, which makes it puzzling why much of Ellis's other work is so unfunny and sometimes plain bad.
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill writes about complicated and uncomfortable emotional states with more precision and cold elegance than anybody else I have read. She's most known for doing this in her short stories, and in some structural ways Veronica feels like a very long story rather than a novel. But those sort of classifications are irrelevant here. The book spares no one, least of all the reader. The prose itself is a representation of one of the novel's central ideas: beauty is cruel, but no less beautiful because of it.
Brian DeLeeuw is a writer living in New York. He is the associate editor of Tin House and the author of the novel In This Way I Was Saved. You can find his website here.
Our Novels, Ourselves
Part One (Tess Lynch, Karina Wolf, Elizabeth Gumport, Sarah LaBrie, Isaac Scarborough, Daniel D'Addario, Elisabeth Donnelly, Lydia Brotherton, Brian DeLeeuw)
Part Two (Alice Gregory, Jason Zuzga, Andrew Zornoza, Morgan Clendaniel, Jane Hu, Ben Yaster, Barbara Galletly, Elena Schilder, Almie Rose)
Part Three (Alexis Okeowo, Benjamin Hale, Robert Rutherford, Kara VanderBijl, Damian Weber, Jessica Ferri, Britt Julious, Letizia Rossi, Will Hubbard, Durga Chew-Bose, Rachel Syme, Amanda McCleod, Yvonne Georgina Puig)
If You're Not Reading You Should Be Writing And Vice Versa, Here Is How
Part One (Joyce Carol Oates, Gene Wolfe, Philip Levine, Thomas Pynchon, Gertrude Stein, Eudora Welty, Don DeLillo, Anton Chekhov, Mavis Gallant, Stanley Elkin)
Part Two (James Baldwin, Henry Miller, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Margaret Atwood, Gertrude Stein, Vladimir Nabokov)
Part Three (W. Somerset Maugham, Langston Hughes, Marguerite Duras, George Orwell, John Ashbery, Susan Sontag, Robert Creeley, John Steinbeck)
Part Four (Flannery O'Connor, Charles Baxter, Joan Didion, William Butler Yeats, Lyn Hejinian, Jean Cocteau, Francine du Plessix Gray, Roberto Bolano)


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