![]() Providing comprehensive coverage of the 1989 protests that ended in bloodshed and drew global scrutiny, Zhang includes context for these explosive events, sympathetically depicting a world of discontented, idealistic, activist Chinese youth rarely portrayed in Western media. ![]() Now, in this powerful graphic novel, Zhang pairs with French journalist and Asia specialist Adrien Gombeaud and artist Ameziane, to share his unvarnished memory of this crucial moment in world history for the first time. Lun Zhang was just a young sociology teacher then, in charge of management and safety service for the protests. When reports of soldiers marching into Beijing to suppress the protests reverberated across Western airwaves, the world didn't know what to expect. ![]() As tens of thousands of students and concerned Chinese citizens took to the streets demanding political reforms, the fate of China's communist system was unknown. ![]() Over 30 years ago, on April 15th, 1989, the occupation of Tiananmen Square began. Follow the story of China's infamous June Fourth Incident-otherwise known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre-from the first-hand account of a young sociology teacher who witnessed it all. ![]()
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![]() Today, the plaintiffs’ lawyers revealed in dramatic fashion that Jones’s lawyers accidentally sent opposing counsel years worth of data from Jones’s personal cellphone, including emails and text messages. The past two days of the Jones trial have been wrenching and shocking. ![]() “Jesse was real,” Lewis said of her dead son. In the years that followed that horrific massacre, Jones used his platform to spread lies that the shooting was a “false flag” operation, and that the grieving families were playing the role of actors in an elaborate government plot. The trial will determine how much Jones and his company must pay Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, two parents from Newtown, Connecticut, whose 6-year-old son, Jesse, was killed in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012. For the past few days, the Infowars founder and conspiracy theorist has been in and out of a Travis County courthouse as one of his numerous defamation trials continues. The only way to shut up Alex Jones, for a moment, at least, is to place him inside a courtroom. ![]() Sign up for Charlie’s newsletter, Galaxy Brain, here. ![]() ![]() In addition to his work for the Milan publishing house Adelphi Edizioni, Calasso is known for his study on the role of sacrifice in modernity, for which he frequently turned to examine archaic sources, like Greek and Vedic mythology. During that lecture, while reflecting on Goethe’s Dichtung und Wahrheit (1833) and what it says about the lack of detail in the story of Moses-thus making the case for writing the novel-Mann proudly reminisced how his secretary, tasked with typing the first volume in full, told him: “Now we know at last how all this actually happened.” The Book of All Books, by Roberto Calasso, the Italian writer and publisher who died in July 2021, is accomplished in a closely related way, though the way in which Goethe’s heritage is taken up differs-a point to which I will return shortly. ![]() ![]() 450 pages.ĭURING HIS AMERICAN exile, on the evening of November 17, 1942, at the Library of Congress in Washington, Thomas Mann gave an address about his quadrilogy, Joseph and His Brothers (1933–43), the most expansive of his novels, telling the story of Joseph’s abandonment by his brothers and the life he lived in Egypt. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the movie, starring former child star Corey Feldman, never saw theatrical release.Ī short time later, ReganBooks published Frey’s debut novel, Destiny’s Homeboy, which press materials described as “an effort to recast War & Peace in the hip-hop milieu.”Ĭritics were less generous. A lucrative two-book contract evaporated, along with a Hollywood deal.įrey did later produce a film version of Pieces, using his personal fortune. Oprah Winfrey, who selected Pieces for her influential book club, excoriated Frey for his deception, and he quickly became a whipping boy within the publishing world. A second volume, My Friend Leonard, was later discredited. ![]() He was 61 years old.įrey became a household name in 2005, when his best-selling memoir of addiction and recovery, A Million Little Pieces, was debunked as fiction. James Frey, the disgraced author whose literary career was supplanted by turns as a reality TV star, ad pitchman, and philanthropist, was found dead of a heart attack in his Los Angeles mansion. ![]() ![]() I especially want to thank Tod Goldberg, teacher, mentor, and writer, who not only opened all the right doors, but shoved me through them and John Schimmel, Jody Heaston, Sara Robinson, and David Elliott, who were with me for the entire birthing process. Just like giving birth, a project of this size and magnitude (not to mention blood, sweat and tears) is more of a joint effort man solo performance, and my gratitude to all who put up with me as I started my way through it. Unless Rabbit can keep his cool and learn the rules of a game he's never wanted to play. For he's been keeping another secret about himself. It's enough to make even the calmest Border-born angry. Smugglers from Iversterre have been making runs into the Border, killing its sacred beings. ![]() Laurel needs Rabbit's help to stop a war. And their chance meeting is nothing of the kind. Turns out he's not just some poor Border farm boy turned trooper, but the son of Iversterre nobility. The Faena, a mountain cat named Laurel, blows Rabbit's cover. But help comes from an unexpected source: a Faena-or "magical"-from the Border kingdom. A lost grunt, seeing as how his unit can't seem to find its way out of the mountains. Text Size- 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24Ī horse soldier, Rabbit is nothing but a grunt in the Royal Army of Iversterre. ![]() ![]() Just as every person has a unique personality, every person has a unique body, and every body tells its own story. We all experience the world in a body, but we don’t usually take the time to explore what it really means to have and live within one. ![]() Keep reading for my thoughts on this amazing and timely book. Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thank you so much to the people over at Algonquin Young Readers for reaching out to me about this book and inviting me on to this blog tour, I am honoured to be part of the review team for this book. As soon as I saw the email about this book, I knew I absolutely needed to read it, I knew I was going to love it, but I didn’t realise how much it would end up talking to me. ![]() Today I’m so happy to be bringing you my review of Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen for the blog tour organised by Algonquin Young Readers. “The most important thing I’ve learned from this entire experience is that all those things we sometimes don’t like about ourselves truly can be seen as beautiful or unique or strong or wonderful if we love ourselves enough when we look at them.” – Body Talk Published: 18 th of August 2020 – Algonquin Young Readers ![]() ![]() Title: Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rhinegeist is changing up its CEO post, appointing Adam Bankovich as interim CEO. Hard lemonade and tea collectively increased off-premise sales +17.6%, to nearly $1.5 billion, and volume +11.2% year-to-date through March 26, market research firm Circana reported. Fishers Island founder Bronya Shillo is staying on, which is a great move by Gallo, and the company is getting a delicious product. Gallo’s spirits division, Spirit of Gallo, is acquiring Fishers Island Lemonade. Zoe and I would love to see you all in Nashville. Tickets are available now, with some of the proceeds benefiting the guild. We’ll also get an update from Sharon Cheek, executive director of the Tennessee Craft Brewers Guild. Plus, we’ll hear from board members of the National Black Brewers Association, including Harlem Brewing’s Celeste Beatty, Black Frog Brewery’s Chris Harris and a special mystery guest. Then we’ll discuss strategies for opening out-of-state taprooms with Monday Night’s Jeff Heck, Hi-Wire Brewing’s Adam Charnack and Weathered Souls’ Marcus Baskerville. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have to think carefully about when I’m representing a member of a group I’m part of and when I’m allying with those I care about.īecause no interview is complete without some book recommendations: are there any other middle grade novels with LGBTQ+ themes that you think everyone needs to read? ![]() I was just focused on telling the story I needed to see in the world, until I looked up and saw the distant wave coming closer, and I knew it was time to finish it up, take the plunge, and send it out into the world.Īs I’m working on my new project, which is more intersectional (involving issues of deafness, the Black Lives Matter movement, intergenerational strife and first crushes), I’m running into a new terrain of balancing the varying threads of the piece. I was never intending George to be marketable. Did you ever experience this? If so, how did you combat it? I often hear marginalized authors talk about the tendency to self-censor – to erase the diverse elements in a story in advance out of fear that keeping them would tank the book’s marketability. ![]() ![]() ![]() In short, I have attempted to demonstrate how conflicting modes of being – heart and head, faith and reason, peace and conflict, life and logic – struggled with each other in the Unamunian universe, and how they could lead to creative courage and meaning. Buy a discounted Paperback of Tragic Sense of Life online from Australias leading online bookstore. ![]() ![]() Moreover, it has also been the concern of this thesis to show that the tragic sense of 1ife, far from being the occasion for resignation, is a source of creativity for Christian existence. Booktopia has Tragic Sense of Life by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO. Unamuno’s own life and the life of the so-called “Generation of 1898” serves as an introduction to the meaning of the tragic sense of life in human existence and in the Christian faith. Unamuno wrote about and lived within this “tragic sense of life,” which consists of this agonizing struggle and it is the centrality of this fact which can be demonstrated in his writings. Tragedy, in the Unamunian sense, means an agonizing struggle between opposing forces so well matched that no final victory of one over the other is possible. The major thesis of this research work has been that Unamuno’s life and writings can best be seen in terms of a philosophy of tragedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Entire settlements, entire cities and nations would be infected and go mad. Never had they thought their judgments, their scientific conclusions, their moral convictions and beliefs more unshakeable. But never, never had people considered themselves so intelligent and unshakeable in the truth as did these infected ones. Those who received them into themselves immediately became possessed and mad. But these creatures were spirits, endowed with reason and will. Some new trichinae had appeared, microscopic creatures that lodged themselves in men’s bodies. ![]() Everyone was to perish, except for certain, very few, chosen ones. ![]() He had dreamed that the whole world was doomed to fall victim to some terrible, as yet unknown and unseen pestilence spreading to Europe from the depths of Asia. ![]() |