![]() ![]() I couldn’t get published to save my soul in Canada. My perspective shifted when I started reading and submitting to literary journals. My mother was of the opinion that only people from the other side of the tracks wrote books, people with PhDs. In hindsight, my feelings were a sort of familial hangover. You’ve said you once thought of writers as “those people,” referring to the Oxford and Harvard-educated, and I’m wondering when your perspective shifted: When did being a professional writer start to seem possible? Up for discussion were Evil Application Forms, mental furniture, and the job of the writer. Her recent stories have appeared in both print and online editions of Hazlitt ( ).īillie and I met for coffee and continued our conversation over e-mail. Her debut short story collection, Greedy Little Eyes, won both the CBC Bookie Award and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award the Globe and Mail called it “dark, funny, graceful, witty.” One Good Hustle, Billie’s most recent novel, was long-listed for the Giller Prize, and her essay “Hitler Sea Skank” ( ) earned her a nomination for a National Magazine Award. Billie’s first book, the novel Going Down Swinging, was published by Random House in 2000. Billie Livingston is the author of seven books, including her recent novella The Trouble With Marlene, which has been adapted for the screen and will be released this year ( ). ![]()
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![]() ![]() (You know that worker honey bees are all feminine, right? There are only a few drones in every hive.) I fought with him for two years and then surrendered. It felt like a very serious, urgent invitation to be God's servant, his handmaid, his little worker bee. But then Jesus had to go and propose to me. (I wanted boys because I felt they just weren't being raised properly these days.) By the time I was 15, I set my sights on being an ornithologist (specializing in raptors) and most likely living in the wild (a husband was welcome to join me if he could keep up). When I was nine, I planned on living in a farmhouse in New Hampshire with my husband, ten boys, and a sheepdog. Nuns often get referred to as "brides of Christ," which is what we are, but after all these years, I also feel like his wife, his old lady, not just his blushing bride. Mother Teresa once said, "If you are called, you will know it, and you won't be able to explain it to anyone." But fools rush in, so here goes. Do you think I would give up my life to play pretend princess? Not on your life. ![]() So, what's it like being married to Jesus? Real. Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue Topic Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy.Towards a Global Culture of Safeguarding.Revitalizing Global Religious and Interfaith Networks.Religion and the Crisis of Displaced Persons.Politicization of Religion in Global Perspective. ![]() ![]() ![]() In today’s talk, architect and city planner Toni Griffin talks about how she and her team plan to rebuild the city from the ground up through an initiative they’re calling the Detroit Works Project. Many people are optimistic it can be done. In a post-industrial economy, as manufacturing has evolved and established itself overseas, Detroit needs to figure out its new place in the new world. Of course, Detroit’s economic collapse was not solely brought about by bad management, but is the result of larger global economic shifts. Toni Griffin: A new vision for rebuilding Detroit ![]() Since the booming 1950s, the city of Detroit has lost more than a million residents the vacant lots that now speckle the city form a space about the size of Manhattan. Most recently, the city filed for bankruptcy its former mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, was sentenced to 28 years in prison for public corruption. The list of problems assaulting the once-mighty Motor City is long and, from a look at national newspapers, incessantly documented. Photo: Ryan LashĮveryone knows Detroit is in trouble. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “They don’t have Fannie Farmer, ‘Joy of Cooking’ or Betty Crocker,” Slotnick says. More than three decades after it was published, I wondered whether it, and a few other influential cookbooks of that same year, would hold up in a drastically different culinary era.Īccording to the owner of New York’s Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks, where she sells rare and vintage titles, a lot of people still use “The Silver Palate” as a basic cookbook. It was a comprehensive source for a generation of home cooks in America. My mind immediately flashed back to 1982’s “The Silver Palate Cookbook,” by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins. ![]() ![]() While we focus primarily on the scholarship of Biblical texts and their history, we also accept discussion of related extra-biblical writings such as the Apocrypha, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Nag Hammadi texts, among others. Our sister sub demands strict academic standards for all comments, but /r/AskBibleScholars is a forum where professional scholars can be asked for their personal opinion, advice, and recommendations about any aspect of their work or the field of Biblical scholarship in general. ![]() Intended as a companion to /r/AcademicBiblical, this sub allows professional scholars a forum to discuss their field in a more informal setting. Modern theology is outside the scope of this sub, and any questions should be directed to /r/AskTheologists. Ask our panel of approved Scholars and Quality Contributors anything regarding biblical scholarship and related academic study. ![]() ![]() She relies on her hunts for food to survive. The story begins with Feyre Archeron hunting in the forest in harsh winter weather. ![]() What happens in A Court of Thorn and Roses? Warning: The following article contains spoilers for the A Court of Thorns and Roses series. Subsequent novels in the series draw inspiration from other fairy tales and myths, including "Hansel and Gretel" and "Hades and Persephone," as well as the Book of Exodus. The novel eventually went in a different direction but still draws inspiration from these stories. She initially imagined the story as a retelling of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast with elements of the Norwegian folktale "East of the Sun and West of the Moon" and the Scottish legend of Tam Lin. Maas started writing her first draft of A Court of Thorns and Roses, the novel that launched the series, in 2009. The series follows Feyre and Tamlin's story as Feyre spends time in the world of the fae and discovers that everything she thought she knew about faeries is absolutely wrong. ![]() Her kidnapper is Tamlin, a High Fae and one of the seven High Lords of Prythian. The saga begins when Feyre Archeron, a 19-year-old huntress, is kidnapped and brought to the faerie lands of Prythian after she kills a faerie wolf. ![]() A Court of Thorns and Roses is a young adult high fantasy series by Sarah J. ![]() ![]() Also like Atkinson’s novels, Moriarty’s work is difficult to classify. Like Kate Atkinson, Moriarty is a master at taking several seemingly disparate plot threads and weaving them all together with a bang at the end. The good thing about a Moriarty novel is that even if there’s one plot development you can’t discuss, there are plenty of others to choose from. ![]() ![]() “So all I’m able to say is that something happened at a barbecue, and I went home with the idea for this book.” “With my other books, I’ve been able to tell the whole story of how I was inspired to write it, but in this case it will give away far too much,” she says during a call to her home in Sydney. But we can reveal that it involved a child, and that it was so troubling that Clementine is taking breaks from practicing for a crucial audition (she’s a cellist) to give talks with the sobering title “One Ordinary Day” at suburban libraries around Sydney.Įven Moriarty (whose first name is pronounced Lee-ann, if you’re wondering) has trouble talking about this one. So what did happen in that backyard? To say would shatter the considerable suspense of Truly Madly Guilty. ![]() One day, the sun is shining and you’re attending a backyard barbecue with friends and neighbors two months later, it’s pouring rain and you can’t stop blaming yourself for what happened on that last sunny day. We’re all one step away from disaster, and Australian author Liane Moriarty knows it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Released in the wake of 2012's game-changing Avengers movie, Fraction and Aja's Hawkeye had a simple but brilliant premise: This is what the archer is doing when he's not being an Avenger. (It also made our Best Comics of the Decade list in 2019.) It topped out at about 23 issues, way more than anyone had expected going in. By contrast, Fraction and Aja's Hawkeye comic was a genuine bestseller that, as Andrea Towers argued for EW, re-oriented the storytelling of Marvel Comics to be more relatable and character-driven. There had been a couple Hawkeye solo comics before 2012, but they had only lasted for a handful of issues each. Originally created by Stan Lee and Don Heck, Clint Barton has never been the most famous Avenger. All of them have pointed to the same shared inspiration for the series: The 2012-2015 Hawkeye solo comic that was written by Matt Fraction with art by David Aja, Annie Wu, and a handful of others. By this point, EW has interviewed several people involved in the making of Marvel's new Hawkeye show on Disney+: Stars Hailee Steinfeld and Jeremy Renner, producer Trinh Tran, director and producer Rhys Thomas. ![]() ![]() ![]() The character was not the lead character in the Ultimate Spider-Man animated television series on Disney XD, but was later added to the main cast, as Kid Arachnid. He was featured in the Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man comic book series, and after Marvel ended the Ultimate imprint in 2015, Miles was made a character in the main Marvel Universe ( Earth-616), beginning with stories under the All-New, All-Different Marvel branding that debuted that same year. The 13-year-old biracial teenage son of an African-American father and a Puerto Rican mother, he is the second Spider-Man to appear in Ultimate Marvel, an imprint with a separate continuity from the mainstream Marvel Universe called the Ultimate Universe ( Earth-1610). Miles Morales first appeared in Ultimate Fallout #4 (August 2011), following the death of Peter Parker. He is one of the characters known as Spider-Man, having been created in 2011 by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli, with input by Marvel's then-editor-in-chief Axel Alonso. Miles Gonzalo Morales ( / m ə ˈ r æ l ə s/) is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. ![]() Bio-electric energy threads produced from fingers.Superhuman strength, speed, agility, and reflexes. ![]() (based upon Spider-Man by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko) ![]() ![]() ![]() * The 2011 Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge (Thanks to marthawells.)įrom The Chronicle of Higher Education (available to nonsubscribers for five days): "Harry Potter and the Deeply Appreciative Professor."įor those of you interested in 2011 reading challenges, I have more links for you since my last post: There's a list of donation drives here at the Friends of the Pine Ridge Reservation website, including lists of books requested by schools on the reservation. Check out the blog here for a chance to win before December 20. The League of Writers blog is sponsoring a giveaway contest for a copy of all five of the bloggers' forthcoming young adult dystopian novels ( XVI by Julia Karr, Across the Universe by Beth Revis, Memento Nora by Angie Smibert, Possession by Elana Johnson, and The Seventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch). It's the last week of classes, which means that a grade-a-thon lurks around the corner. ![]() |