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![]() ![]() The Hemingses interested me because they were a family that lived in slavery at this one place for almost fifty years, with complicated family ties to the people who enslaved them. ![]() Also, in the idea of a person who wrote the Declaration of Independence, but who also enslaved people. I was interested in a person who loved to read as much as I did. I read about the Hemingses when I was about twelve. I read a child’s biography about Jefferson and life a Monticello when I was in the third grade. ![]() What initially drew you to him? And the Hemings? You write extensively about Thomas Jefferson and the Hemings family- many of whom were the former president’s slaves. I think the love of reading set me on this path. What (or who) led you down the path toward your career as an author, historian and educator? How were you introduced to the humanities as a young child? ![]() I taught first at New York Law School and Rutgers-Newark. I practiced law for seven years, then went into academia. I went to Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. I was born in Livingston, TX, and grew up in Conroe, TX. Mass Humanities Associate Director of Development Michelle Wilson interviewed Professor Gordon-Reed via email in August 2021.Ĭan you tell our readers the condensed history of your life so far? ![]() ![]() ![]() James Baldwin." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Ethan Reinhard, Thank you. Signed by Author & Cast.įirst edition of Baldwin's fifth novel, a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970s. Unique copy for the James Baldwin-Beale Street fan or collector. Also comes with a softcover copy of "James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Conversations". Also laid-in is original Time Magazine 2016 essay by Eddie Glaude entitled "Black and whote America look to James Baldwin to unpin us all from history". ![]() Also laid-in is a card SIGNED by FINN WITTROCK (Played 'Howard'). The title page of the screenplay is SIGNED by BARRY JENKINS (film's Director) and cast members KIKI LAYNE (played 'Tish Rivers') STEPHAN JAMES (played 'Alonzo Fonny Hunt') and REGINA KING (played 'Sharon Rivers'). From the 2018 film version of the novel: Comes fantastic Hollywood Foreign Press promotional gift for the film- a the leather bound screenplay with the film's title embossed on the front cover of the three ring binder. ![]() $6.95 price present on DJ flap mylar protected. DJ has small crease on lower front flap and sunning on rear. SIGNED by author on a card affixed to front end page: "Peace! James Baldwin, SV1". ![]() ![]() Many readers enjoy matching their wits against Sherlock Holmes, trying to see if they can solve the mystery along with him. The existence of today's popular detective tales, whether in the form of books, movies, or television shows, are in large part due to Doyle's influence. Further, the Sherlock Holmes stories provided later writers with models for their own work. ![]() Doyle's ingenious plots and captivating central characters, Holmes and his sidekick Watson, brought the author literary success in his own time. Its style and structure make it a nearly perfect example of the modern detective story, first devised by Edgar Allan Poe fifty years previously. It was republished in 1892, along with eleven other Sherlock Holmes stories, in the collection The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. ![]() "The Red-Headed League" first appeared in a popular British magazine, the Strand, in August of 1891. ![]() ![]() Polo was but one of many medieval European travelers, yet certainly the most famous, to venture through what we now consider the Middle East to the Far East during the thirteenth century, helping to create an important cultural connection between the West and the East, with the Middle East as the bridge. In addition, he traveled eastward beyond the Middle East into India and China, lands anciently connected to the West by the Silk Road, yet still mysterious to most Westerners. Polo’s travels brought him into contact with various cultures that make up what we refer to today as the Middle East. Over seven hundred years later, Marco Polo’s tale remains exciting for would-be adventurers and instructive for historians and other scholars. At the time, most Europeans traveled very little, so Polo’s descriptions of Armenia, Baghdad, Tabriz, Persia, Kashmir, the Desert of Lop, Karakoram, and Shangdu (Xanadu) tantalized his audience. The travels of Venetian merchant Marco Polo (lived 1254-1324, traveled 1271-1293) captivated readers when his book was published c. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miss Julia has already traded her late husband's Buick for a sportier model and is ready to settle into a decorous, quiet life when there's a knock at the door. The first novel, "Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind," released in 1999, told the story of Miss Julia Springer, newly widowed after 44 years of decorous, childless marriage to the town banker in the (fictional) western North Carolina community of Abbotsville. Telling the story of the lady with the pocketbook, though, would send her into the regional best-seller lists. Ross, an empty-nester teaching at the University of North Carolina Asheville, had written a couple of murder mysteries and a historical novel, "The Pilgrimage," with modest success. "And I wanted to know that woman's story." Something told me this woman had never had children, and she was feeling rather awkward. "It was of an older woman in a raincoat, with a pocketbook in her hand, and she was holding a little boy's hand. ‘I think the first thing that happened was, I had this image in my head," said Ann B. ![]() ![]() Back in Salzburg between 17, Mozart found his duties at the court of the austere and autocratic Prince-Archbishop Colloredo increasingly irksome. It was triumphantly received and confirmed the 14-year-old as a master of the operatic style of the day. Two years later, on the first of three Italian journeys, he received a prestigious commission for a serious opera, Mitridate, for the Milan carnival. ![]() Already Mozart had a command of the elevated church style. In 1768 his Missa solemnis K.139 was performed in front of the imperial court in Vienna. He wrote his earliest symphonies before he turned ten, perhaps with a little help from his father. On an extended European concert tour he was hailed as a child touched with divine powers. He composed his first works, for harpsichord, when barely out of his cradle. Leopold was ambitious for his son, but Mozart was a true wunderkind. Mozart grew up in a musical family his father Leopold was a composer and noted violin teacher, and his older sister Marianne (‘Nannerl’) a gifted pianist. Yet at the same time we have an image of him as a demonically driven, tragic figure. In the Romantic age, his mature music was either patronised for its prettiness or idealised as the emblem of a lost musical Eden. His teenage works are playful and untroubled, but even here there are richer, subtler shades. He was an entertainer from his early childhood. He excelled in opera and in abstract genres such as the symphony and string quartet. Mozart is the most performed, the most mythologised, the most deconstructed, and the most popular of composers. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ll do my best to note tropes as well, since I know those matter to many readers. ![]() There are so many kinds of love stories out there! So I’ve broken down what I think are the best romances out now into sub-genres. I read widely in romance, and I encourage you to do the same. ![]() This list is not delivering only the best spicy books on Kindle Unlimited, however. (There are also literally always errors in traditionally published books if you look closely enough.) You might encounter some typos or grammatical errors, and to that I say: you can deal. ![]() And bless these authors for delivering what the people want. Without having editors and publishers dictating the bounds of where writers can go, KU is where you can find the nonstop smut, frankly. If you want the best steamy romance novels, Kindle Unlimited certainly has you covered. KU is also where you can find some of the most progressive and diverse romance titles, considering marginalized writers don’t have traditional publishing’s gatekeepers holding them back. Not enjoying a book? Toss it back and find a new one. The value is unmatched, and the risk is quite minimal. For voracious romance readers, there’s nothing better than the best Kindle Unlimited romance books 2023 has to offer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only does the supposed narrator (“beautiful and clever” Serena Frome) look back at an exotic period in politically tense London right after she graduated from Cambridge with a degree in Mathematics, but, better still, with words and phrases like “undoing,” “secret mission,” “ruined,” and “disgraced” appearing in the first paragraph and “MI5,” “recruiting,” “selfless cruelty,” “a journey with no hope of return” closing off the chapter, we’re enticed with the murky color scheme and sullied motivations popularized again last year with Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John le Carré’s 1974 bestseller, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. That beginning is engrossing because it’s so promissory. Adept at the genre, Ian McEwan opens à la John Banville in The Untouchable, with a wily operative recalling a scandalous distant past, though with notable differences: the narrator is female her bit role in minor Cold War machinations was short-lived and we see (and, over the novel’s twenty-two chapters, learn) virtually nothing of her circumstances after 1973. Page-turner thrillers of all stripes trade on nimbly accelerating plot mechanics and narrative sleights-of-hand that highlight the gap between what eventually transpires and what readers (and, often, the intrepid hero) initially believe or anticipate.Īt the onset, Sweet Tooth’s essence appears to be literary thriller. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he tries to save me from my friends, and finds out about shifters, I finally get close enough to the sexy man to smell the truth. Even though I'm sure I would have scented if he was my mate over three months ago when he moved in, my leopard and I are stuck on the man. I'm a boring, serial-white-t-shirt-wearing, plain-looking grease monkey, who can't quite get over this curious obsession with my neighbor. Can I accept this mating, even to the most amazing man I've ever met, if the choice isn't even his? ![]() I've lived a life of people being forced to put up with me, when they didn't have a choice. I can have babies?! WTF? Also, my gorgeous neighbor thinks I'm his mate. And that is how I find out about shifters, mates and chosen. ![]() When I think he is being attacked by wild animals, I run out to save him, shotgun in hand. Like a creepy weirdo, I do it with all the lights in my house off, so he won't know I'm there. ![]() I've been watching my sexy neighbor lounge around his back yard in the nude for like three months now. ![]() |