![]() ![]() Activists and medical professionals made it a city of firsts-the first gay journal, the first homosexual rights organization, the first Institute for Sexual Science, the first sex reassignment surgeries-exploring and educating themselves and the rest of the world about new ways of understanding the human condition. In the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berlin became the undisputed gay capital of the world. “A superb work of historical reclamation–by far the best account we have of the formative years of homosexual identity and emancipation, it is brilliantly researched and beautifully written.” -Martin Duberman, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, CUNY “Beachy enlarges our understanding of how the international gay-rights movement eventually prospered, despite the setbacks that it experienced not only in Nazi Germany but also in mid-century America.” - The New Yorker “Excellent and richly documented.Beachy’s work must considered in the larger context of a shift in cultural studies.Fascinating.” -V.R. ![]()
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![]() No Country is like a modern-day Western, only with war veterans instead of cowboys and heroin instead of cattle. At least, if there was one, we couldn't find it after it's all been ground to dust beneath the Cowboy Boot of Death that Anton Chigurh's got attached to his foot. It's a vicious story about the international drug trade, and it's a story without a single shred of hope. However, this book isn't really about getting rich quick and dying trying. After he finds over $2 million in drug money-7 million smackers in 2015 money-Llewelyn Moos spends the rest of his life-which ends up not being very long-on the run from a psychopath named Anton Chigurh, who will stop at nothing to get all that money back. This dude chooses the sack of cash behind door number three-that's the door filled with guns and heroin. ![]() What would you do with all that dough?Īctually, the more interesting question is what would you do for all that dough? Buy a bunch of magazines from Publisher's Clearinghouse? Humiliate yourself on reality TV? Or steal it from a gang of drug dealers and run like a bat out of Hades?Īnyway, money is the question facing the main character in Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men. ![]() But whatever you do, your life and the lives of your family would be totally different with that kind of money. ![]() You can even donate a few bucks to a charity of your choice. You can eat at Chipotle every day until you die, or you can finally complete your collection of rare Game Boy games. Seven million dollars can change your life. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have any questions, do not hesitate to PM the mods! Ebooks, Articles, Magazines, Sheet music, papercraft, sewing patterns, audio books or lectures, documentaries or instructional videos, are all allowed currently. We only ask that it's educational or useful in some way. 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The Cushing Memorial Library of Texas A&M University has a "Gordon Eklund Collection" housing the typed manuscript of the story "The Stuff of Time".Įklund has retired from a long career with the U.S. ![]() In his teens, Eklund was a member of a Seattle SF fan club, The Nameless Ones, and in 1977, Eklund was a Guest of Honor at the 1977 SF convention Bubonicon 9, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The two expanded the story into a full-length novel of the same title, published in 1977.Įklund's Star Trek novel The Starless World was the first Star Trek story about a Dyson sphere. ![]() Eklund won the Nebula for Best Novelette for the 1974 short story "If the Stars Are Gods", co-written with Gregory Benford. "Doc" Smith (1890-1965).Įklund's first published SF short story, "Dear Aunt Annie", ran in the April 1970 issue of Fantastic magazine and was nominated for a Nebula Award. He has written under the pen name Wendell Stewart, and in one instance under the name of the late E. Gordon Eklund is a Nebula Award-winning, American science fiction author whose works include the "Lord Tedric" series and two of the earliest original novels based on the 1960s Star Trek TV series. ![]() A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.Jeter 69 copies, 1 review, Order: 7 Caravan by Stephen Goldin 48 copies, Order: 8. 200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001 Serving in Time by Gordon Eklund 69 copies, Order: 6 Seeklight by K. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves-and our world today.įor the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. ![]() ![]() These absent Germans make up one of the many recurring motifs of the book. They are Poles who, after the war, left the old Polish lands of the east - the newly Sovietised territories of Belorussia and Lithuania - and took up residence in the west, occupying houses that had just been vacated by Germans fleeing to the new borders of post-Nazi Germany. Villagers can hear Czech discos are watched by Czech border guards the short cut into town takes them through Czech territory. This being Poland, the village's history is by no means straightforward. In no particular order she pieces together the stories of the local community and the wider history that informs them. The narrator arrives to live with her husband, R, in a small village in the west of Poland. It is not so much a novel as a collection of linked short narratives, found stories, hagiography and incidental observations and is a delight to read - wonderfully inventive and by turns comic, tragic and wise. With House of Day, House of Night, her first full-length work here, Olga Tokarczuk can rightfully take her place among these writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, he argues that Jung's visionary powers and profound spirituality have helped many to find an alternative set of values to the arid materialism prevailing in Western society. ![]() He examines Jung's views on such disparate subjects as myth, religion, alchemy, 'sychronicity', and the psychology of gender differences, and he devotes separate chapters to the stages of life, Jung's theory of psychological types, the interpretation of dreams, the practice of Jungian analysis, and to the unjust allegation that Jung was a Nazi sympathizer. In this concise introduction, Anthony Stevens explains clearly the basic concepts of Jungian psychology: the collective unconscious, complex, archetype, shadow, persona, anima, animus, and the individuation of the Self. Though he was a prolific writer and an original thinker of vast erudition, Jung lacked a gift for clear exposition and his ideas are less widely appreciated than they deserve. He examines Jung's views on such disparate subjects as myth, religion, alchemy, 'sy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As has been the case with all of the other mythological retellings I’ve read, I’m realizing this is best appreciated with an extensive knowledge of the characters and their connections. It made it a smooth read and there wasn’t any confusion. I liked that each of the women had their own section of the book rather than it completely jumping around. Was his story truly one of heroism, or was it merely ego? Each of the women are presented in a different time of his life, starting with his mother Danae and with Medusa and Andromeda following in ways that haven’t been seen before from what I can gather. Through their stories, a different picture of the epic hero is painted. The book follows Danae, Medusa, and Andromeda all relating to and interacting with Perseus in one way or another. I am inexplicably drawn to these stories even though they make me realize how little I actually know of their origins. Of all of the Greek mythology retellings, The Shadow of Perseus has been my favorite. ![]() ![]() Jessica Day George makes a memorable debut in this enchanting tale of dragons, betrayals, and the power of friendship. It's not until later that Creel learns a shocking truth: She possesses not just any pair of shoes, but ones that could be used to save her kingdom, which is on the verge of war, or destroy it. After all, nobody has seen a dragon in centuries.īut when the beast actually appears, Creel not only bargains with him for her life, she also ends up with a rare bit of treasure from his hoard, not gold or jewels, but a pair of simple blue slippers-or so she thinks. It's a ploy to lure a heroic knight so that he will fight the dragon, marry Creel out of chivalrous obligation, and lift the entire family out of poverty. ![]() She can't believe her aunt wants to sacrifice her to the local dragon. ![]() ![]() ![]() The immense illusionistic ceiling painting in the church of San Pantalon fascinated me. ![]() On one of my early trips, I bought the Blue Guide to the city. Venice has been one of my favorite cities – I spent my honeymoon there. I guess you could say it was a typo or lazy editing that was the impetus for the story. Your novel is set in Venice in the early 1700s. An impoverished nobleman asked to unravel the mystery of the artist’s death and disappearance finds himself in the underbelly of the dying Republic and must overcome lies, murder, and the ambition of the powerful to uncover the truth. How would you describe this book and its themes in a couple of sentences?Ī Venetian ceiling painter falls to his death in 1706. He talked to Susan Higginbotham about his new novel, The Three Deaths of Giovanni Fumiani. His poetry and prose have appeared in various literary journals. He is the author of The Forenoon Bride (Severn House, forthcoming 2023). Jeffrey Hantover’s novel The Jewel Trader of Pegu was a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection, Borders “Original Voices” selection, and an Independent Book Sellers BookSense pick. ![]() ![]() Launch: Jeffrey Hantover’s The Three Deaths of Giovanni Fumiani ![]() |