![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of the novels and stories that Evenson has written in the decades since deal in this kind of creeping uncertainty. ![]() That’s an experience that I’ve remained uncertain about to this day.” Yet the impression that someone had been there was so powerful, so strong, that it wasn't something I could deny. Nor could he see the figure’s face, though he was sure it belonged to “someone malevolent.” “Eventually, and seemingly suddenly,” Evenson told me by e-mail, “it was morning, my door was closed, and nobody was there. As the figure stood there, “motionless, mostly enshadowed,” Evenson couldn’t move. The sliding door was jerry-rigged between bookshelves to create a small bedroom for Evenson within the living room of the house he shared with his parents and four siblings, in Provo, Utah. When Brian Evenson was seventeen, he awoke one night to a figure sliding open the door to his room. Photograph by Maurizio Cogliandro / contrasto / Redux Brian Evenson left the Mormon Church sixteen years ago, but he continues to look back, writing tales of the macabre that interrogate the language of religious belief. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Part of me was afraid Marbles was going to be yet another exercise in romanticising mental health issues in the name of ~art~. Ana recommended it in a comics round-up post last year, and what caught my eye in the review was this: Marbles is a memoir of Ellen Forney’s diagnosis with bipolar disorder and her subsequent struggles to understand and manage it. That could be a good way of keeping things currentish while also giving myself a joyous feeling of accomplishment. ![]() Maybe once a month, I’ll make it that I have to fish or cut bait on the oldest book currently sitting on my TBR spreadsheet. I feel like such an efficient reader now! I may make a habit of it. (Currently all that stuff is on another spreadsheet.)Īnyway, Marbles, by Ellen Forney (affiliate links: Amazon, B&N, Book Depository), was the very first book added to my new TBR spreadsheet, and I have already read it, although it is only February. Maybe some weekend when I’m bored, I’ll set it up so that I can track when I read/review one of the books on the list, and it’ll make automatic pie charts of my percentages of gender, nationality, and whether the American cover was better or the British one. I started keeping a new TBR spreadsheet a few months back, with different tabs for pleasure reading, research reading, and forthcoming books. ![]() ![]() All three of them escape from WICKED with the help of Brenda and Jorge before their chips are removed.īrenda and Jorge are revealed to be working for WICKED. ![]() Only Thomas, Minho, and Newt choose not to undergo the surgery, as they do not trust WICKED and Thomas does not want to know who he was when he helped create the maze. The Gladers are offered the chance to remove the mind-control chips in their heads, thus restoring their memories, but at the cost of Thomas' ability to communicate telepathically with Teresa and Aris. Thomas is devastated to hear his friend Newt is not immune. Janson tells the Gladers (Group A) and Group B that most of their number are immune to the Flare while some are not, reading out names of people who are not immune to the Flare. ![]() ![]() After being held in solitary confinement, Thomas is eventually released by Janson (Rat Man in the prior novel), the assistant director of WICKED. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the overall comic tone, Philbrick makes serious points about the evil of slavery, the horrors of war, inexplicable bravery, ethical decision-making and the need to move forward in one’s life. Bursting with vividly voiced characters and descriptions so crisp they practically crunch, the story is trenchantly narrated in the first person by Homer, a resourceful, sharp-witted child who is never without a lie in his pocket. On the way, Homer is kidnapped by some nefarious slave-catchers, joins a traveling medicine show and holds up the Union colors during the Battle of Gettysburg. After finding out that their avaricious uncle sold his underage nephew to substitute for a richer neighbor in the Civil War, 12-year-old Homer takes off on a rescue mission. Shortly after this lively comic yarn opens, Homer, a half-starved orphan boy who lives in rural Maine with his mean-spirited uncle and 17-year-old brother Harold, helplessly watches as Harold is sworn into the Union Army. ![]() ![]() The British prime minister, who rallied his nation in its darkest hour, standing alone against Adolf Hitler, was always somewhat insecure about his place in FDR’s affections-which was the way Roosevelt wanted it. ![]() Theirs was a kind of love story, with an emotional Churchill courting an elusive Roosevelt. In their own time both men were underestimated, dismissed as arrogant, and faced skeptics and haters in their own nations-yet both magnificently rose to the central challenges of the twentieth century. Sons of the elite, students of history, politicians of the first rank, they savored power. Amid cocktails, cigarettes, and cigars, they met, often secretly, in places as far-flung as Washington, Hyde Park, Casablanca, and Teheran, talking to each other of war, politics, the burden of command, their health, their wives, and their children.īorn in the nineteenth century and molders of the twentieth and twenty-first, Roosevelt and Churchill had much in common. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one-a president and a prime minister spending enormous amounts of time together (113 days during the war) and exchanging nearly two thousand messages. ![]() The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history’s towering leadersįranklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() Star Wars Volume 4: Flight of the Harbingerīy Jason Aaron, Jorge Molina, Matt Milla, Mike Mayhew et al.īy Jason Aaron, Kelly Thompson, Salvador Larroca, Emilio Laiso, Edgar Delgado et al.īy Kieron Gillen, Jason Aaron, Marco Checchetto, Salvador Larroca, Andrea Broccardo et al.īy Jason Aaron, Dash Aaron, Jason Latour, Salvador Larroca and Michael Walsh et al.īy Kieron Gillen, Salvador Larroca and GURU-eFX et al.īy Kieron Gillen, Andrea Broccardo, Angel Unzueta and GURU-eFX et al. Star Wars Volume 2: Showdown on the Smugglers’ Moonīy Jason Aaron, Stuart Immonen and Simone Bianchi et al.īy Jason Aaron, Kieron Gillen, Mike Deodato, Salvador Larroca et al.īy Jason Aaron, Kieron Gillen, Leinil Yu, Angel Unzueta and Mike Mayhew et al. 5 If you enjoyed this… At a glance – an overview list of Star Wars comics in order Titleīy Jason Aaron, John Cassaday and Laura Martin et al. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The way they acted - and the way I did, to be honest - was a source of inspiration later.”Įxhibit B: Hellraiser, if you slice just below the surface, is queer as fuck. “I met a lot of people you’ll know and some you won’t: publishers, captains of industry. “I worked as a hustler in the 1970s,” Barker told The Guardian in 2017. He was honoured by GLAAD in 2004, so all of his creative output, it could be argued, should be considered “gay culture.” Barker’s sexuality underpins all his work. He came out when he was 18 and lives in Beverly Hills with his partner. This a blood-splattered hill I will gladly die on.Įxhibit A: Clive Barker, author of The Hellbound Heart, then director and writer of the film it inspired, Hellraiser (1987), is gay. Unbelievably, some people at Attitude HQ have questioned Hellraiser’s credentials as gay culture. MJ Rodriguez joins American Horror Story season 12.Florida Governor Ron DeSantis praises UK Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch over ‘anti-woke’ stance.This article first appeared in Attitude issue 304, January 2019 Read next ![]() ![]() Rosie Xalbadora (whose name means 'horse savior') is drastically different from the usual superheroes I write. As I researched the horsemeat shadow-industry, a human character started whispering to me who shared a similar story, about being abandoned by the people who were supposed to love you and the overwhelming human need to find someplace to call home. The concept for The Auction came from a story a friend shared about a real-life white pony who was rescued from a slaughterhouse after nearly being starved to death and her journey to find a forever home. Since I find self-promotion to be boring (Zzzzz.), how about I share a little of the inspiration behind the book? And then if you have questions, just drop a comment in the box below and I'll be happy to answer it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Goodreads encourages authors to review their own books and then pins it to the top of the page for readers to read first. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Speaking out for the first time about his adventures in the Alice Cooper group, Dunaway reveals a band that was obsessed with topping themselves, with their increasingly outlandish shows and ever-blackening reputation. Their wild, impossible journey took them from Hollywood to the ferocious Detroit music scene, and along the way they discovered the utterly original performance style and look that would make them the stuff of legend. "Before the world heard of KISS, the New York Dolls, Marilyn Manson, or Ozzy Osbourne, there was Alice Cooper, the original shock-rock band." -Rock and Roll Hall of FameĪs teenagers in Phoenix, Dennis Dunaway, bassist and co-songwriter for the Alice Cooper group, and lead singer Vince Furnier (who would later change his name to Alice Cooper) formed a hard-knuckles band that played prisons, cowboy bars, and teens clubs. ![]() ![]() Maybe the most important thing that winning the Printz Honor Award did was make me feel legitimate in my own eyes. Looking back, in what ways did that recognition change your career? How about your own attitude and approach to your books and publishing? For more information go to her website: We last spoke in February 2000, shortly after the announcement that your YA novel Hard Love had been named a Printz Honor Book. Read a February 2000 Cynsational interview with Ellen Wittlinger. ![]() Her most recent novel is Sandpiper (Simon and Schuster, 2005). Many of her books are on the ALA Best Books lists. Printz honor award and a Lambda Literary Award. She’s published ten novels, one of which, Hard Love (Simon & Schuster, 1999), won a Michael L. ![]() Ellen Wittlinger wrote poetry and plays before settling on writing fiction for teenagers. ![]() |