![]() In 1954, the Pittsburgh Courier assigned Hurston, unable to sell her fiction, to cover the small-town murder trial of Ruby McCollum, the prosperous black wife of the local lottery racketeer, who had killed a racist white doctor. ![]() Her significant work ably broke into the secret societies and exposed their use of drugs to create the Vodun trance, also a subject of study for fellow dancer-anthropologist Katherine Dunham, then at the University of Chicago. People awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to Hurston to travel to Haiti and conduct research on conjure in 1937. She also assembled a folk-based performance dance group that recreated her Southern tableau with one performance on Broadway. ![]() Hurston applied her Barnard ethnographic training to document African American folklore in her critically acclaimed book Mules and Men alongside fiction Their Eyes Were Watching God. This literary movement developed into the Harlem renaissance. ![]() In 1925, Hurston, one of the leaders of the literary renaissance, happening in Harlem, produced the short-lived literary magazine Fire!! alongside Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman shortly before she entered Barnard College. Novels, including Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and nonfiction writings of American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston give detailed accounts of African American life in the South. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "I have been told by responsible journalists that there was more world interest in Cleopatra, which I produced, and in its stars-Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison-than in any event of 1962. A revealing story about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's tempestuous romance and an insightful filmmaker's journal, now back in print for the 50th anniversary of Cleopatra's release, My Life with Cleopatra shares the true story of the relationship and film that enthralled the world. Thalberg script library and started a course. In the mid-1930s, he created the Irving G. Cleopatra faced countless problems during its filming and production: passionate casting disputes, broken contracts, a costly re-location from London to Rome, an emergency tracheotomy for its star, Elizabeth Taylor, scandal-ridden gossip surrounding relationships on set, and a budget of $2 million that ballooned to final costs of $44 million. Legendary producer Walter Wanger recalls the drama that occurred both on and off the set, including the incredible obstacles he had to overcome and the exhilaration of producing a cinematic triumph. Throughout his life, Wanger was a devoted alumnus of Dartmouth College. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mailhot leaves the hospital but she does not feel that healing. This clash would add to the fog of trying to recover from the darkness of depression and moving into healing light. “In my culture, I believe we carry pain until we can reconcile with it through ceremony.” This made little sense to Mailhot, a culture clash of white values and Indian beliefs. She recalls the group counselor instructing the women to learn to forgive themselves. ![]() Indian girls can be forgotten so well they forget themselves.”įinding herself hospitalized in a psych ward, Mailhot tells of her struggle to relate to the non-Native women in group therapy. “When she (grandmother) died nobody noticed me. “Heart Berries” is a most welcomed story by Mailhot (a member of the Seabird Island Indian Reservation of the Pacific Northwest) because she gives an honest, poetic, even healing voice to the many, many Indian women suffering in silence.īeginning with time spent with a Christian grandmother who loved carnations, canned milk and cooking without recipes, Mailhot learned at an early age the price Indian women pay. In her first collection of essays, Therese Marie Mailhot weaves a memoir that is lyrical and intimately revealing of a once guarded interior story of surviving abuse and mental illness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Raised by a working mother, Butler witnessed from a young age the quiet heroism of survival, as her mother endured cruel treatment from white employers whose homes she cleaned. Guy and Laurice Butler, though her father passed away when she was a young girl. Octavia Estelle Butler was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. Not only can we take Butler’s words at face value to understand her devotion to writing and her personality and beliefs, but we can also see the sharpness and incisiveness-even in this small sample paragraph-that characterizes her work. A pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil and water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.” I am also comfortably asocial, a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles. Her body of work, including such acclaimed novels as Kindred and Parable of the Sower, is lauded for its trenchant social commentary and continued pertinence well beyond its original publication.īutler’s self-penned author description in an early edition of Parable of the Sower gives us a great picture of the person she was: “Who am I? I am a forty-seven-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. Butler was a renowned Black author who wrote in, and arguably revolutionized, the science fiction genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Renowned for his biographies of William Wilberforce, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Martin Luther, Metaxas is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, the witty host of the acclaimed Socrates in the City conversation series, and a nationally syndicated radio personality. What Happens When One of America’s Most Admired Biographers Writes His Own Biography?įor Eric Metaxas, the answer is Fish Out of Water: A Search for the Meaning of Life-a poetic and sometimes hilarious memoir of his early years, in which the Queens-born son of Greek and German immigrants struggles to make sense of a world in which he never quite seems to fit. ![]() Learn how Eric Metaxas became the thought leader he is today. ![]() ![]() contemporary in the genre, and maybe also because historical romance is firmly rooted in the 19th century these days. ![]() ![]() We don’t really see much of the 20th century, in general, in historical romance, presumably because of how we break up historical vs. But you’re so right that we don’t see it at all in historical romance. Maisel,” and “Call the Midwife,” just to name a few. ![]() The long answer is that the period of the late 50s and early 60s is a common setting for television period pieces: “Mad Men,” “The Marvelous Mrs. The short answer is that I’m fascinated by this era. Why did you set The Cabots in that decade? The 1960s is an unusual era in romance, right on the cusp of what is considered historical vs. And so I wrote a story that was filled with hope and sunshine (and pancakes and convertibles). I wrote Peter Cabot Gets Lost during the first weeks of the pandemic when I absolutely could not focus on the book I was supposed to be drafting and yet couldn’t resign myself to doing nothing, either. With both books, I wanted to write something very low-stakes and gentle with minimal conflict. What was the impetus behind Tommy Cabot Was Here and Peter Cabot Gets Lost ? You published The Cabots during the pandemic. Sebastian’s newest series, The Cabots, is set in the relatively recent - and turbulent - 1960s. ![]() Now a prolific author of 14 novels, she is best known for her queer historical romances. Before her writing career took off, Cat Sebastian practiced law and taught high school and college writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Madam President: The Extraordinary, True (and Evolving) Story of Women in Politics is a nonfiction informational storybook of a collection of stories about women in politics, illustrating first ladies, the women's movement, congressional women, and foreign policy leaders. They have enabled and empowered us to ask today: Well, why not the presidency? With an engaging narrative, fascinating quotes, and elegant illustrations, it not only shows how far women have come but also reveals the many unsung roles women have played in political history Step by step, these capable ladies have paved the way for our young leaders of tomorrow. Today, surely our country is ready for a leader who, as Elizabeth Dole said, “will call America to her better nature.” This captivating book illuminates the bravery and tenacity of the women who have come before us. ![]() ![]() ![]() But sixty-four years after that Geraldine Ferraro declared, “We can do anything,” and became the first American woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket. Some seventy years later, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote, “To vote is the most sacred act of citizenship,” the government of the United States still did not treat women as equals, having yet to grant them the right to vote. When Abigail Adams asked her husband to “Remember the Ladies,” women could not vote or own property in America. ![]() ![]() Whalley’s performance is excellent, combining the vulnerability of a beaten wife with the steeliness of a woman determined to survive. Her lies spring from a desire to remain positive in the face of criminality and daily drudgery and she serves as a warning to Mary of what she may become if she remains in this life. Little more than a damsel in the novel, here Patience has been written as a multi-dimensional figure. One such welcome change is the expansion of Aunt Patience’s role. Initially arriving at the inn with a strictly black and white moral view of the world, she is quickly worn down by the morality of the locals, which is more of a murky grey.Īs with any adaptation, changes to the original text have been made, but largely for the benefit of the story and the characters. In doing so, Frost establishes Mary’s isolation in this world. Emma Frost’s adaptation quickly gets to the heart of the smuggling ring using the inn as its base and thrusts Mary into the action. ![]() The first episode wears its Gothic sensibilities on its sleeve there are ever-lengthening shadows, enigmatic figures glimpsed from afar and a mystery to be solved. ![]() ![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch. ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() There are other light creases where pages have been turned, but there are no tears or other significant faults. ![]() There are a number of library marks to the interior, and some marks and creases to the pages as follows: Barcode and a few pen marks to the front free endpaper, library stamp to half-title page, top corner crease to p.11/12, small stain bottom corner p.22/23, top corner crease to p.75/76, lower corner crease to p.91/92, library stamp to bottom of p.98 and p.296, library sticker to rear pastedown. Small bump to the top board near to the spine. ***A good copy in brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. ***Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. ![]() Please note that this is an ex-library copy. ![]() The hardback edition was published simultaneously with a paperback edition, but had a much smaller print-run. First impression of the scarce first UK hardback edition with the full number-string sequence as follows: 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. ![]() |