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![]() ![]() Renée has worked in public schools and community organizations as an artist in residence for several years, teaching poetry, fiction, and theater in Oregon, Louisiana, and New York City. ![]() When Renée is not writing and performing, she is teaching. Her poetry and articles have been published in Rethinking Schools, Theatre of the Mind and With Hearts Ablaze. Renée’s one woman show, Roses are Red, Women are Blue, debuted at New York City's Lincoln Center at a showcase for emerging artists. Her middle grade novel, What Momma Left Me debuted as the New Voice for 2010 in middle grade fiction by The Independent Children's Booksellers Association. Renée Watson is the author of the children’s picture book, A Place Where Hurricanes Happen (Random House, June 2010), which was featured on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was the inspiration behind the counselor in There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom. When he first met her, she was a counselor at an elementary school. Then his books started selling well enough so that he was able to quit practicing law. For the next eight years he worked part-time as a lawyer and continued to try to write children's books. His first book was published while he was in law school. He attended Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. ![]() ![]() Almost a year later, he was fired from the job. He was working at a sweater warehouse during the day and wrote at night. The next year, he wrote his first book, Sideways Stories from Wayside School. He went to college at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated in 1976, as an economics major. When he was nine, he moved to Tustin, California. Louis was born in East Meadow, New York, in 1954. Louis Sachar (pronounced Sacker), born March 20, 1954, is an American author of children's books. ![]() ![]() He was very frustrated with his life in the refugee camp. I could feel from Aras’ letters that he was suffering from depression. I don’t know precisely when and why, but something connected us, and we started exchanging long messages on Facebook-letters. ![]() I guess we were the same age however, I never asked him. He was a Sunni Muslim by birth, though he seemed very secular and also far left. My friend-Aras-was born and raised in Marivan-a city in Kurdistan province in Iran. ![]() We were Facebook friends-friends of friends-though sometimes I wondered about our connection on Facebook because all his posts were written in Kurdish, which I barely understood. Years ago, I had a pen pal, a man who wrote to me-in Tehran-sporadically for about a year, from a refugee camp in Turkey. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Because I would just naturally-I can really skulk down a hallway, you know, really slip into a door. “He would say, Okay, she doesn’t know what she’s doing,” she says, laughingly, of reminders from showrunner Singer during action sequences. Though she’s been playing in more family-friendly waters in recent years, Garner found it easy to slip back into action mode, to the point where a director would have to remind her that Hannah isn’t actually a pro at the whole espionage thing. Once I sort of tapped into that, after many, many iterations, I figured out what Hannah’s journey really was.”įittingly, with Garner’s screen pedigree, including the long-running spy thriller Alias and the hard-hitting Peppermint, Hannah’s journey involves high-stakes chases, shady figures, and deeply guarded secrets. “It wasn’t until I had my son in 2016 when I realized, Oh, this is a love story, but not the love story I thought I was telling. ![]() ![]() “I thought it was the love story of the two of them ,” Dave says. ![]() ![]() His other books include “Chinese Socialism Before 1907” (1976) and “Cadmean Letters: The Westward Diffusion of The Semitic Alphabet Before 1400 B.C.” (1990).īorn March 10, 1937, in London to writer Margaret Gardiner and scientist J.D. The series was translated into several languages, became the subject of conferences, radio and television programs, and earned honors including a 1990 American Book Award for the first book and the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun’s 2004 Book of the Year for “Black Athena 2.” He began as an associate professor in the Department of Government and was named a full professor in 1988.īernal argued that Egypt, not Greece, was the root of ancient culture in his three-volume work “Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization.” Considered controversial by many, Bernal’s first volume, “The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985" (1987) was followed by further research in “Black Athena 2: The Archaeological and Documentary Evidence” (1991) and “Black Athena 3: The Linguistic Evidence” (2006), and a volume in response to his critics, “Black Athena Writes Back” (2001). ![]() He was 76.īernal taught at Cornell from 1972 until his retirement in 2001. ![]() Martin Gardiner Bernal, professor emeritus of government and Near Eastern studies at Cornell and author of the widely read and debated "Black Athena” books on classical civilization, died June 9 in Cambridge, England. ![]() ![]() For instance, at times, Olivia seems to be attracted to Cesario because "he" is such a womanly-looking man, while Orsino at the end of the play seems as attracted to Cesario as he is to Viola. ![]() Twelfth Night also shows how gender-switches make the characters' sexual identities unstable. Even more radically than this, however, it also suggests that gender is something you can influence, based on how you act, rather than something that you are, based on the sexual organs you were born with. The play features many pranks, disguises, and mistaken identities as it tells the tale of the separated and shipwrecked twins Viola and. The play stresses the potential ambiguity of gender: there are many instances in which characters refer to Cesario as an effeminate man. Twelfth Night is a five-act comedy by William Shakespeare. ![]() Orsino thinks he wants Olivia, until he falls in love with Viola (dressed as Cesario. Several characters begin the play believing they want one thing, only to have love teach them they actually want something else. On a more serious note, however, Viola's transformation into Cesario, and Olivia's impossible love for him/her, also imply that, maybe, distinctions between male/female and heterosexual/homosexual are not as absolutely firm as you might think. Twelfth Night is a play about desire’s power to override conventions of class, religion, and even gender. That Viola has disguised herself as a man, and that her disguise fools Olivia into falling in love with her, is genuinely funny. In connection with the themes of deception, disguise, and performance, Twelfth Night raises questions about the nature of gender and sexual identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() But he will die before he gives up on winning her hand. ![]() Three, his nightmare of a bride has wild magic that will probably kill him before their wedding day. Two, the union will give his people the farmland they desperately need. If she becomes the weapon they need instead of her not-if-she-can-help-it husband, they'll send the mountain elf packing, right?įilip is certain of three truths: One, he is bound to wed a stubborn mule of a princess. She heads to the magic military order to get her rune-marked staff and learn everything she can. ![]() They claim she's a mage too, but she has yet to prove it. If they think she is going to marry some vicious elven warrior mage, they have another thing coming. Aury can't escape her newly revealed royal parents quickly enough. And three, a brutal mountain elf is on his way to the kingdom for their marriage. Today, Aury learned three things: One, she is a princess. ![]() ![]() In the company of Saul Steinberg, a simple Italian restaurant on Sullivan Street could feel as gravely melancholy and precisely ordered as one of his drawings, while a day spent with Bruce McCall has a hallucinatory atmosphere in which everything in Manhattan seems to have been transplanted from a midsize Canadian city in the nineteen-fifties-to the point that he seems able to find parking spaces at will, as if carrying them in his Torontonian pocket. ![]() ![]() Certain comic artists carry an aura that makes everything around them look like their work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Welcome to fine print 2 this is where it gets weird. Join us in this tale of gods and mortals, love lust, and death, and one woman’s bad choice that starts it all with a simple bite on a golden apple. In this game of carnal delights and absolute stubbornness lives may be at stake, especially when an ex fury is put in an uncomfortable position that compromises the well being of her family. To everyone's surprise this is a contested title and what was supposed to be a simple routine transaction becomes a mess of divine legalities, competitiveness and harsh decisions that involve a higher power, and the higher power is not happy about it. When Lauren signs the divine contract promising bliss for the price of love, she expects to be granted the services of the highest ranking god of desire. Stjepan Šejić To Get A Second Volume Of Fine Print From Image Comics Fine Print Volume 2 – December 19, 2023 Published in November 2021, two years on, it will be getting a sequel, Fine Print Volume 2 for December 2023. ![]() And Fine Print was a collection of Stjepan Šejić's short stories, put together and published by Top Cow/Image Comics, and some of them were a little on the naughty side. ![]() But in 2020, Šejić announced his departure from the mainstream comic book industry, choosing instead to focus on his creator-owned works. Stjepan Šejić is a Croatian comic book writer and artist, known for his work on the likes of Witchblade, Aphrodite IX, Sunstone, and The Darkness. ![]() |