![]() The reason Rebecca then takes Edie home with her…can’t be reduced into straightforward facts. The bone saw is because she’s a medical examiner. Newly fired from the publishing house for being “sexually inappropriate,” Edie is working for a delivery app when she gets an order for lobster bisque and a bone saw delivered to a VA hospital. Afterward, Rebecca leaves her a voicemail: “I enjoyed meeting you, let’s do that again.” And so it begins. ![]() ![]() Of course, she has been curious about the wife, but it's only after Eric goes silent that she wanders into his unlocked house and comes face to face with Rebecca, who knows who she is and coolly invites her to stay for dinner. “The age discrepancy doesn’t bother me,” she explains, keenly aware of the dynamics of these types of exchanges, his stability and experience for the redemptive power of her youth. ![]() After losing her day job, a troubled young artist finds herself living with her much-older lover, his inscrutable wife, and their adopted daughter in Leilani’s electric debut.Įdie meets Eric online: She's a 23-year-old Black art school dropout with a mouse-infested apartment in Bushwick and an ill-fitting administrative job at a children’s publishing imprint he's a White archivist in an open marriage and twice her age. ![]()
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![]() And you have the gravestones you have to deal with. THe soil can give and it can crush in on the box. "I don't use a machine," the gravedigger continued, "because it can sink the other graves. "In big cemeteries, where they do many graves, a lot of times they use a machine, that's right." He spoke like a Southerner, but very matter-of-factly, very precisely, more like a pedantic schoolteacher than a physical laborer. "I thought they did this with a machine," he said to the gravedigger. His frame, however, was still thick and strong. He wore dark coveralls and an old baseball cap, and from the gray in his mustache and the lines in his face he looked to be at least fifty. ![]() ![]() The man was standing about two feet down in the unfinished grave and stopped shoveling and hurling the dirt out to the side as the visitor approached him. “He was walking back through the cemetery to his car when he came upon a black man digging a grave with a shovel. Born place: in Waukegan, Illinois, The United States ![]() ![]() Visual cues that identify a person’s identity and the group they belong to-ghosts or humans-are obvious. They are especially clear, yet, at the same moment. ![]() Because the ghosts are predominantly blue in color-likely because they are dead-they blend in better with their surroundings. The graphic novel’s liberal use of color is what actually pleased me. There are some beautiful green and blue tones in this story, and it’s worth looking at for the graphics alone. It’s packed with lovely sceneries and attractive color palettes. When Blue realizes Hamal’s strange ability may be putting him in danger, Blue has to find a way to protect him-even if it means leaving him. ![]() Together, their friendship develops into something more, but being a ghost, Blue can never truly be connected with Hamal. O’Neil, author of The Tea Dragon Societyīlue has been living as a ghost for a year when he meets Hamal, a beautiful and sweet gardener who has the ability to see and communicate with ghosts. ![]() “It’s a pleasure to lose yourself in the beautiful artwork, and one of the loveliest queer romances I’ve ever read.” - K. Genres: young adult, fiction, graphic novel, LGBTQ+, romance Publisher: Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, LLC ![]() ![]() Chadwyck-Healey’s Twentieth-Century Drama collection includes full-text for a number of Wilder’s plays, including Our Town.The Thornton Wilder Society’s homepage, including a bibliography of criticism, a newsletter, and a study guide for Our Town.The Official Thornton Wilder Family Website features information on his works, a news page, a biography and chronology, and other information of interest.The UIUC Libraries hold many books by and about Wilder, and here are some more resources on Thornton Wilder and his work: Wilder also co-wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt. ![]() Wilder is perhaps best known for his ambitious dramas – the most prominent are Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), both of which won the Pulitzer Prize – but he is also known for his novels, which included The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Ides of March, and The Eighth Day. ![]() Wilder, three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, wrote this and other works that have become classics of American literature. Thornton Wilder’s classic play Our Town will be performed at Krannert Performing Arts Center from April 12 – April 22 (view a schedule of performances here). ![]() ![]() Redmayne, who appeared in Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts franchise and played a transgender woman in The Danish Girl, released a lengthy statement to Variety. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. ![]() ![]() It’s clear that we need to do more to support transgender and nonbinary people, not invalidate their identities, and not cause further harm." According to The Trevor Project, 78% of transgender and nonbinary youth reported being the subject of discrimination due to their gender identity. Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo or I. While Jo is unquestionably responsible for the course my life has taken, as someone who has been honored to work with and continues to contribute to The Trevor Project for the last decade, and just as a human being, I feel compelled to say something at this moment. Rowling and myself,” he said, “but that is really not what this is about, nor is it what’s important right now. “I realize that certain press outlets will probably want to paint this as in-fighting between J.K. Radcliffe, Harry Potter himself, was the first star from the franchise to release a statement ( via The Trevor Project) about Rowling’s comments. The celebrity and industry's initial response: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What did you love best about How to Steal a Dragon's Sword?Ĭressida Cowell is so witty. Check out the website for games, downloads, activities and sneak peeks! Hear all about Hiccup and all of your favourite characters, learn to speak Dragonese and train your own Dragon to do tricks! ![]() Listen to the rest of Hiccup's exploits in How to Train Your Dragon, How to Be a Pirate, How to Speak Dragonese, How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse, How to Twist a Dragon's Tale, A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons, How to Ride a Dragon's Storm and How to Break a Dragon's Heart. ![]() How to Train Your Dragon is a DreamWorks film starring Gerrard Butler, America Ferrera and Jonah Hill, out on DVD adapted from the bestselling How to Train Your Dragon series by Cressida Cowell. Can Hiccup find the King's Things and win the sword-fighting contest to stop Alvin the Treacherous from becoming King of the Wilderwest? ![]() But worse still, the wicked witch Excellinor has returned. The waters have risen, flooding fields and washing whole villages away. Dragons are starting to revolt against their Masters. Ever since the woods of Berserk burned down, it is almost as if the world is cursed. The story continues in the ninth volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs read by David Tennant.īad times have come to the Archipelago. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then the family discovered a paint mine on their farm, and Silas went into the paint business – the family made incredible amounts of money very quickly selling paint, moved to Boston, and began to build a house on Beacon Hill. ![]() ![]() This section introduces the background of the Lapham family – Silas and his wife, Persis, lived for many years on a New England farm, comfortably middle class though occasionally struggling to make ends meet. Silas is being interviewed about his newfound wealth by a seedy journalist. The book is centered on Silas's morality and a realistic portrayal of American life – for this reason, Howells is often referred to as the father of American Realism. Howells wrote the novel in opposition to sentimental romantic novels of the time. The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885), a realist novel by William Dean Howells, follows the main character Silas Lapham as he gains material wealth after many years living in poverty with his family, but feels that he doesn't have the social etiquette necessary to become a true part of the upper class. ![]() ![]() I had chosen what I thought was the right path for me and perhaps that path had finally come to its end. But I had no regrets for the decisions I had made. One decision to go hitchhiking had changed the path of my life forever. ![]() When only a year before I had been living a normal middle-class life near Toronto. How did I end up in Alaska in the first place? I thought. It seemed like the biggest mistake of my life. It was thirty dollars, but I only had fifty to my name, so I left it on the shelf. I remembered the girl who had given us a ride that morning who had insisted that we got bear spray. I couldn’t decide if I should wake her or let her sleep. My friend Heidi was sleeping peacefully beside me, unaware of the dire situation we were in. ![]() I hoped it wasn’t a grizzly, but I had seen so many that morning there was no doubt that it had to be. ![]() I could hear the creature’s claws tear the thick Alaskan moss as it circled us. ![]() I looked around, but I couldn’t see in the pitch-black night. I held my breath and hoped that whatever was beyond the thin fabric wall would go away. The strange noise provided a quick reminder that I was camping in Denali National Park – six million acres of raw Alaskan wilderness. The sound of something breathing deeply woke me up from my sleep. But nothing in the world can get you more time. Time and effort can get you anything you want in the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() is either a delight, an arrow, or both, from era-defying comic asides. “An alternately joyous and heartrending celebration of language – even the sword fights are rendered with nothing more than pointed words. ![]() has, in his sixties, written an absolute banger in his startling adaptation of Rostand.” – Time Out New York ![]() a weaponless marvel of language.” – The Observer ★★★★★ “A beloved tale of yearning, beauty, and desire. ★★★★★ “The most breathtakingly exciting show in London right now.” – Evening Standard ★★★★★ “Funny, thrilling and deeply moving.” – WhatsOnStage ★★★★★ “I defy anyone not to fall in love with it.” – The Telegraph Sentimental monument to love.” – The Washington Post The production highlights a cool new vocabulary for Edmond Rostand’s With a whip-smart script by Martin Crimp, I spent most of the production’s swift two acts fully engaged in its humor, pathos and fury.” – The New York Times It’s also a world in which, as the baker Ragueneau (now a poet, too) predicts, ‘There’s going to be a new force of words’. Replacing Rostand’s stately 12-syllable alexandrines with jumpier rhythms, its euphemisms with plain speech and its perfect rhymes with ones so slant they serve as italics, Crimp rockets the action to a world drunk on language as it’s actually spoken. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Ethan sees her before her trip to Bettsbridge, she sits in "the pale light reflected from the banks of snow," which makes "her face look more than usually drawn and bloodless." In contrast, the imagery associated with Mattie is associated with summer and natural life. The imagery associated with Zeena is bleak and cold also. For example, in the beginning of the novel, Wharton gives readers the feeling of the bitterness and hardness of the winter by setting the constellation, Orion, in a "sky of iron." When Ethan and Mattie enter the Frome household after walking home, the kitchen has "the deadly chill of a vault after the dry cold of the night." This image is appropriate to the living death that Ethan and Mattie experience in the years after their accident. Metaphors compare two unlike things without using words of comparison (such as like or as). The figurative language used by Wharton includes metaphors and similes. ![]() Her descriptions serve a definite stylistic and structural purpose. In Ethan Frome, Wharton's descriptive imagery is one of the most important features of her simple and efficient prose style. Wharton establishes patterns of imagery by using figurative language - language meant to be taken figuratively as well as literally. ![]() |