5/21/2023 0 Comments Pat conroy book south of broad![]() It would be many years before I learned that your fate could scuttle up behind you, touch you with its bloody claws, and when you turn to face the worst, you find it disguised in all innocence and camouflaged as a moving van, an orphanage, and a drug bust south of Broad. ![]() ![]() I was eighteen, with a reputation as a slow starter, so I could not feel the tectonic shift in my fate as my history began to launch of its own volition. Jude’s Orphanage behind the cathedral on Broad Street and the News and Courier recorded that a drug bust had taken place on East Bay Street at the Rutledge- Bennet house. On June 16, 1969, a series of unrelated events occurred: I discovered that my mother once had been a Roman Catholic nun in the Sacred Heart order an Atlas moving van backed into the driveway of a nineteenth- century Charleston single house across the street from ours two orphans arrived at the gates of St. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His essays have been published at, in the New York Times Magazine, in The Other Writing Against a Singular Identity, in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Los Angeles Magazine, and as part of the historic Chicano Chapbook Series. His fiction has appeared in several anthologies and journals, including Inlandia: A Literary Journey Through California’s Inland Empire, The Southern California Review, Flaunt, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. His second novel, The Five Acts of Diego León, was also published by Random House in March 2013. The book was released simultaneously in Spanish, under the title Los santos de Agua Mansa, California, translated by Lilliana Valenzuela. His first novel, Still Water Saints, was published by Random House in 2007 and was named a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. He holds a BA in Creative Writing from the University of California-Riverside and an MFA from UC-Irvine’s Program in Writing. Alex Espinoza was born in Tijuana, Mexico to parents from the state of Michoacán and raised in suburban Los Angeles. ![]() ![]() PRIDE is back for Season Two! To celebrate the last day of Pride Month, and to kick off the rest of Pride Year, Levi Chambers sits down with queer historian, author, and professor Alex Espinoza to explore the intimate and radical history of gay cruising. Today's four part episode will: Cover the basics of cruising Explore its long history Unlock its secret code And consider the impact of COVID and dating apps on this enduring sexual practice. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The jungle sinclair![]() Working in the meat-packing industry is the most dangerous job in America. ![]() Since half of his flock were involved in some way in the meat-packing industry, it didn't take long for him to work out the root of the problem.Ī century after Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, arguably one of the most politically influential American novels of the past 100 years, the ethnicity of the protagonists and the location of the story have changed, but the basic narrative of poor working conditions for immigrant labourers in the meat-packing industry and public concern over food quality remains constant. Some would wince others would shift their torsos awkwardly so as not to trouble a painful shoulder a few even had fingers missing. When he went to shake the hands of his congregation at the end of the service, he noticed their grips were not as firm as they might have been. Around 1995, Father Damian Zuerlein noticed a disturbing trend among his mostly Hispanic parishioners at Our Lady of Guadalupe church in south Omaha, Nebraska. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments City of Quartz by Mike Davis![]() An attack on corporate power, specifically the power of large energy and extraction companies, leads to some strongly worded proposals to reclaim control over social production from large corporations. Climate science crosses over from necessary information into fetishized and desensitizing spectacle, with litanies of scientific facts that detail our planetary ecosystem's decline projecting out towards grim apocalyptic scenarios of a world completely out of balance. ![]() Climate change politics have become a prominent marker of this post-political ascent, colonizing spaces of political activity with a depoliticized state of nature best left to technocratic control. ![]() This lends itself to a populism that pits an undifferentiated humanity against a common, reified foe, in this case carbon disequilibrium, and conceives of this struggle within a framework that naturalizes the capitalist economy. Swyngedouw defines the post-political condition as a managerial consensus sustained by apocalyptic fears, where technocrats and scientists are presumed to know what is good for the world. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Tanya tagaq book![]() ![]()
5/21/2023 0 Comments Make Me Yours by Tia Louise![]() ![]() But as bad as I want to be good, I’m not sure I can fake it… Now he’s given me the chance to pay off my debts and take control of my life. He needed help, and he offered me a ridiculous salary. And when he scoops up his adorable four-year-old daughter Lillie and blows raspberries on her tummy while she squeals with delight, I totally swoon.īumping into him at our local pub that night slightly drunk and overly frustrated was a total accident. Ruby Banks: Remington Key is distant, brooding, and drop-dead sexy. So what if I’ve been alone since forever? I’m focused on launching my new business, not bedding the sexy siren who sleeps down the hall.Īt least that’s what I keep reminding myself… I was clearly drunk the night I offered a gorgeous girl in a bar $500 a day to be my live-in nanny. Happily ever after, right?įast-forward four years, and I’m alone, raising my daughter, caring for my mother-in-law, and trying to keep my stuff together. Remington Key: I left the Navy, scored a billion in tech, got married, and had a baby. He’s a billionaire single dad who needs help. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Zayne harbinger series![]() ![]() ![]() While there is still grief about the loss of Misha, we've got a whole new drama dealing with her newly appointed Protector, Zayne, who was almost her boyfriend right before the last conflict. In Rage and Ruin, Trinity has a new Protector, since the first book ended with her finding out about the double-crossing by her first Protector, Misha. That dialogue got me right into the old conversations and characters from the first book. I admittedly giggled at the first lines - a conversation with Trinity's ghost friend, Peanut. ![]() I was so excited to get this second book in the Harbinger series, and it definitely did not disappoint. Strengths: Characters, fantasy world setting, steamy sex ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Lord byron don juan poem![]() ![]() Having accumulated enough money he left piracy and returned to reclaim his wife and be re-baptized. Beppo explains that he has been captured and enslaved, and was freed by a band of pirates that he subsequently joined. When the two of them attend the Venetian Carnival, she is closely observed by a Turk who turns out to be her missing husband. According to Venetian customs she takes on a Cavalier Servente, simply called "the Count". ![]() ![]() The poem tells the story of a Venetian lady, Laura, whose husband, Giuseppe (or "Beppo" for short), has been lost at sea for the past three years. The poem contains 760 verses, divided into 95 stanzas. It is the precursor to Byron's most famous and generally considered best poem, Don Juan. Beppo marks Byron's first attempt at writing using the Italian ottava rima metre, which emphasized satiric digression. JSTOR ( October 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īeppo: A Venetian Story is a lengthy poem by Lord Byron, written in Venice in 1817.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification. ![]() ![]() "Linkinen's book is comprehensive and he exhausts the relatively small number of texts, their actual statements, and their identifiable silences, and gets a lot out of them through his methodology of multiple frames. "Linkinen demonstrates the benefit of opening analysis up to a wider variety of sources and performs a valuable service by gathering those materials together within the pages of a single volume." - Robert Mills in Mirator ![]() "Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture is a rigorous yet warm-hearted book that provides an excellent systematic guide to a variety of possible conceptualizations of, and reactions to, same-sex sexual desire, sexual activity, and love. The combined image of the plural and somewhat contradictory voices and shared understanding appears as something entirely new.'" - Professor Jonas Liliequist, University of Umeå, Sweden. "Linkinen's work goes beyond previous work on same-sex relations in medieval Europe in several ways. ![]() ![]() "Tom Linkinen's study focuses on a variety of definitions, attitudes, beliefs and emotions about same-sex sexuality in England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries." - Professor Ruth Mazo Karras, University of Minnesota. Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture is a rigorous yet warm-hearted book that provides an excellent systematic guide to a variety of possible. 5/20/2023 0 Comments Jude deveraux highland series![]() ![]() ![]() But when the earl threatens his wife with serious, bodily harm if Judith doesn’t go through with the marriage, she capitulates. Judith’s mother, on the other hand, has trained her to become a prioress to protect her from the same sort of abusive marriage she herself suffered. All his sons are dead, and though he’s left with this puny and worthless daughter, the least she can do is give him grandsons. Judith is the daughter of an abusive and powerful earl who sees this marriage as his way to continue the family line. ![]() Gavin sees the marriage as a way to re-establish his tarnished family name. We meet Gavin Montgomery in Velvet Promise in which he marries, sight unseen, the outrageously gorgeous, red-headed, golden-eyed Judith Revedoune. In these books, Deveraux introduces us to the wonderful, proud and gorgeous Montgomery brothers. Of all of her wonderful books, the four titles in Jude Deveraux’s Velvet series are classics and particular favorites of mine. ![]() |