5/23/2023 0 Comments Eyes that kiss cornersThe story is a celebration of diversity, and it aims to teach young readers to be confident and to not judge others who look different.ĪsAmNews recently recruited parents and their young children to share their thoughts and opinions about the book. Drawing strength from the powerful women in her life, she recognizes her own beauty and discovers a path to self love and empowerment. It is also ranked on the top of Amazon’s Best Seller List in the Children’s Asian & Asian American Book category.Ī powerful, poetic picture book, it tells the story of a young Asian American girl who notices that her eyes look different from her peers and that they are shaped more like the women in her family. That’s why it’s exciting to see the newly released Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, written by Joanna Ho and illustrated by Dung Ho, on the New York Times bestseller list. Even today, it’s still unusual to see a picture book featuring an Asian American child on a bestseller list.
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5/23/2023 0 Comments A christmas gone perfectly wrongIn the mega-successful 50 Shades of Grey, Christian Grey is a stalkerish, egotistical, controlling ass. In The Spectacular Now, from earlier this year, the hero is a pitiful little commitment-phobe so afraid to declare his love that he won't even go to his girlfriend's father's funeral for fear she might think they're serious. Guys in mainstream romance seem like they're always jerks. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Echo muñoz ryan novelRichly imagined and masterfully crafted, Echo pushes the boundaries of genre and form, and shows us what is possible in how we tell stories. And ultimately, pulled by the invisible thread of destiny, their suspenseful solo stories converge in an orchestral crescendo. All the children face daunting challenges: rescuing a father, protecting a brother, holding a family together. Decades later, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California each, in turn, become interwoven when the very same harmonica lands in their lives. Lost and alone in a forbidden forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and suddenly finds himself entwined in a puzzling quest involving a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica. Music, magic, and a real-life miracle meld in this genre-defying masterpiece from storytelling maestro Pam Muñoz Ryan. Reserved Seating is available.Only books purchased from Warwick's will be signed. Pam Muñoz Ryan is the author of Esparanza Rising and The Dreamer. This event is free and open to the public. Warwick's is hosting Pam Muñoz Ryan on Thursday, May 7 at 6:30pm to present her latest young adult novel, Echo. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Brain on fire memoirNor do the misdiagnoses of bipolar disorder or schizophrenia later on. Following a seizure, Stephen takes her to the hospital, where the doctors’ guesswork about stress, lack of sleep and excessive partying doesn’t quite explain her lapses into a vacant-eyed trance state. Her boyfriend Stephen ( Thomas Mann) is an aspiring musician who describes his sound as The Smiths-meets-Tom Waits (in your dreams, dude), while Susannah’s deadpanning work chum Margo ( Jenny Slate) calls him “that budget version of Joey Ramone.” Susannah’s editor, brusque but encouraging Richard ( Tyler Perry), thinks she’s ready to tackle bigger stories.īut suddenly, she starts zoning out at random moments, suffering from headaches, missing deadlines and meetings, and imagining things that nobody else can see or hear, like bedbug bites or leaky faucets. At 21, Susannah is happy in what, with just a hint of irony, she calls her “dream job.” She’s a cub reporter at the New York Post, writing exposés on illegal Russian butt implants. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Woman by Saul LeiterLeiter, who was also a painter, incorporates abstract elements into these photographs and often shows the influence of his favorite artists, including Bonnard, Vuillard and Matisse. Now we are granted a first-time look at this body of work, which Leiter began on his arrival in New York in 1946 and chipped away at over the next two decades. But never realized the project in his lifetime. In the 1970s, Leiter planned to make a book of his nudes. Showing deeply personal interior spaces, often illuminated by the lush natural light of the artist’s studio in New York City’s East Village, these black-and-white images reveal the unique collaboration between Leiter and his subjects. About In My Roomįed by thrilling recent discoveries from Saul Leiter’s vast archive, In My Room provides an in-depth study of the nude, through intimate photographs of the women Leiter knew. PayPal accepted, any questions get in touch. An afterword provides additional information, as well as a list of sources.I enjoyed this brief introduction to the life of Duke Ellington, particularly as I know so little about him, and think that Brian Pinkney's lively illustrations - with their exuberant use of color and motion - were very deserving of the Caldecott Honor they received in 1999. Chronicling the life of an American legend, from his boyhood in early twentieth century Washington, D.C., when he rebelled against the piano lessons imposed by his parents - the sound of the music he was asked to practice led "nowhere worth following," in his view - through his discovery that this was an instrument that could be used in a variety of genres and styles, Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra follows its subject through the creation of his Jazz group (Duke Ellington and his Orchestra) and their ascent to fame, and concludes with the famous 1943 concert at Carnegie Hall, where the piece Black, Brown and Beige was introduced. Husband-and-wife team Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney turn to the story of the great Jazz musician and composer Duke Ellington in this picture-book biography, with very engaging results. Though she is happy to be back in Hope River, time and experience have tempered Becky's cheerfulness-as tragedy has destroyed the vibrant spirit of her former employer Dr Isaac Blum, who has accompanied her. For these mothers-to-be, she relies on an experienced midwife, her dear friend Patience Murphy. While she can handle most situations, Becky is still uneasy helping women deliver their babies. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care for them. Men are out of work women struggle to feed hungry children. The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. The USA Today bestselling author of The Midwife of Hope River returns with a heartfelt sequel, a novel teeming with life and full of humor and warmth, one that celebrates the human spirit. It could have been the latter as I guess it was known I was a fan of a lot of the early work by Blaylock when I was young. I conducted most of my interviews solo but there is a handful that I tag-teamed on for reasons probably involving mutual interest by contributors of a site I co-operated.īrian Lindemuth helped me with this one and though I’m not certain, I want to say he made this interview happen, brought it to us, and either I asked if I could throw out some questions or he asked me, I don’t recall. I’m reposting an old interview I was a part of with author James P. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Walt whitman calamusWhile previous efforts to reclaim Whitman as our great gay poet are understandableparticularly given critical readings of Whitman that denied the homoeroticism of his poemstoday, a reading of Whitman as homosexual threatens to simplify our understanding of the history of homosexuality and to blunt the power of Whitman's poetry to continue to queer normative understandings of sex and gender identity categories and their relationship to politics.ĪB - This article surveys the critical debates around Walt Whitman's Calamus cluster, arguing that a queer reading of Whitmanone that does not see him as, for example, a closeted homosexual who censored his work for fear of being outedis both historically accurate and politically efficacious. N2 - This article surveys the critical debates around Walt Whitman's Calamus cluster, arguing that a queer reading of Whitmanone that does not see him as, for example, a closeted homosexual who censored his work for fear of being outedis both historically accurate and politically efficacious. Copyright 2009 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved. 5/21/2023 0 Comments Mcluhan 1964While a general understanding of the work can be facilitated by a cursory examination of the text, there is such a wealth of information present that critical thinking for analysis would necessitate breaking down the book into more thematic divisions.Īs the first and perhaps most poignant dimension for understanding McLuhan, "The Medium is the Message" is a logical place to start. The tenements of the author’s thesis continue to remain steadfast as the conventional forms of mass media have transformed in the more connected “New Media” that is outlined by authors like Richard Davis and Diana Owen (5). The book, which examines how language, technology and speech shape human behaviour, demonstrated an accurate understanding of the emergent mass media and its potential. Originally published in 1964, Marshall McLuhan’s examination of the media and the implication of it for the future at best can be considered ahead of its time. |