![]() ![]() Narrated by the daughters of Chinese immigrants who fled imperiled lives as artists back home only to struggle to stay afloat-dumpster diving for food and scamming Atlantic City casino buses to make a buck-these seven stories showcase Zhang’s compassion, moral courage, and a perverse sense of humor reminiscent of Portnoy’s Complaint. A darkly funny and intimate rendering of girlhood, Sour Heart examines what it means to belong to a family, to find your home, leave it, reject it, and return again. In the absence of grown-ups, latchkey kids experiment on each other until one day the experiments turn violent an overbearing mother abandons her artistic aspirations to come to America but relives her glory days through karaoke and a shy loner struggles to master English so she can speak to God. ![]() Her stories cut across generations and continents, moving from the fraught halls of a public school in Flushing, Queens, to the tumultuous streets of Shanghai, China, during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker Ī fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience in America. Finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award.Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize ![]() A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City-for readers of Zadie Smith and Helen Oyeyemi. ![]()
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![]() Accordingly, society has voiced its opinion about the recent domestic abuse allegations and demanded the NFL to impose internal punishments to those players who are facing legal accusations. The NFL is arguably one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the U.S., which puts the league under constant public scrutiny. The NFL has imposed sanctions on the players as some of them await legal ramifications, and the public outcry has been substantial and profound. ![]() At the forefront of most headlines is the National Football League (NFL) with Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson, and a slew of football players who have been “exposed” as domestic abusers. ![]() During the past few weeks, headlines have been filled with declarations, accusations, mea culpas, and the opinions of sports commentators, figures, and fans speaking out about the recent accusations of domestic violence against NFL players. ![]() ![]() ![]() The film gender-swaps the role of Captain Hollister by casting Gloria Reuben but the character is one-dimensional, merely a driver of the plot in her pursuit of the McGees. Its location is left unknown but the compound seen in the movie is a single nondescript building hidden in the woods, where subjects are kept in small cells. The 2022 version of Firestarter is very vague regarding details about its version of The Shop, in comparison to King’s rich characterization in the novel. As adapted for the screen by director Keith Thomas, the Shop is renamed the DSI without any explanation of what the acronym stands for. While held there, Charlie and Andy are provided comfortable living quarters but are separated and not allowed to see each other. Much is learned about Hollister over the course of the novel as he fears losing his job should the McGees escape (like another King character, Andy Dufresne) and expose the Shop for its inhumane treatment of them. ![]() and is helmed by a man named James Hollister. ![]() The agency has a sprawling headquarters complete with a horse barn and lake, located in a Virginia suburb outside of Washington, D.C. But instead of inanimate pieces of metal, The Shop tinkers with people and has little to no empathy for its subjects. In King’s Firestarter, the agency is simply known as “ The Shop”, an ominous title that brings the idea of examining, prodding, and tinkering with machinery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Joe Lynch said, “When I read Dennis Paoli’s adaptation of the story, I felt like there was a fantastic opportunity to update and subvert Lovecraft’s often old-fashioned sensibilities in a way that felt modern, relevant and even dangerous, with a pinch of 90’s neo-noir and a dash of eroticism to spice up the stew. ![]() The film will have its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival this June as part of the “Escape from Tribeca” lineup. The new film is written by Dennis Paoli who wrote Re-Animator and From Beyond.Īfter murdering her young patient, a once-esteemed psychiatrist helplessly watches her life spiral into a nightmarish maelstrom of supernatural hysteria and gruesome deaths, all linked to a seemingly unstoppable ancient curse. The film stars Barbara Crampton, Heather Graham, Judah Lewis, Bruce Davison, Johnathon Schaech, and Jonah Ray. Suitable Flesh is the new film from Joe Lynch (Mayhem, Wrong Turn 2). Posted by Phil on in All, Books, drama, fantasy, Film, horror, News, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you wanted to find a rare book or first edition of a favorite, you had to hunt for it! Oh, the joy of finally locating a coveted treasure by reaching out by letter to a store across the world rather than just through the click of a mouse. ![]() It was published in 1970 and contains twenty years of correspondence that began in 1949 - a time when London was still dealing with post-war rationing and, to state the obvious, the internet did not exist. I often jump straight to the down and dirty of a book, but please allow me to shake things up by presenting the lithe and lovely.Ĩ4, Charing Cross Road is an absolutely delightful epistolary memoir made up of letters exchanged between NYC-based author Helene Hanff and an antiquarian bookseller in London. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for $69 per month.įor cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. For a full comparison of Standard and Premium Digital, click here.Ĭhange the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. ![]() During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. ![]() ![]() ![]() The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon “salt” is the kind of collection of poems that will rip your heart out, toss it a little, turn it a bit, throw it far away, make you realize what you have lost, make you fetch it, repair it and let it heal. I don’t even know if I would be doing the book any justice at all by talking about it. ![]() I don’t know what more to say about this magnificent collection of poems. Each poem comes with a word at the bottom – the poem defines the word – gives it meaning and that is the format of this collection. “salt” is a collection of poems by Waheed on the condition of being black, feeling alienated, how the heart is empty and bereft, how does one heal after all, and of various other matters of the heart and soul. I don’t know why it felt the way it did, but I honestly believe that if any work of art can drive you to this point or to tears (which also happened by the way) then it is an indication that you wake up, smell the coffee and do something about what is going on – in your life and also to perhaps make a better change in someone else’s life as well. I am this close to perhaps even doing that. It made me want to drop everything, leave everything behind and go and find myself. Has that ever happened to you? Have you ever felt so compelled by art? Nayyirah Waheed’s poetry did that to me. It jolts you out of the mundane existence and makes you question everything and everyone around you. Once in a while you read something that shakes your core. Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The most enduring detectives in American crime fiction are back in this electrifying thriller of art and brutality from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J.
![]() It’s hard to believe Hazel is behind these hostile messages. ![]() Then the notes begin to appear on Nella’s desk: LEAVE WAGNER. They’ve only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in the dust. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. ![]() Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. ![]() Get Out meets The Stepford Wives in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She debunks criticism that Nordic countries are socialist “nanny states,” revealing instead that it is we Americans who are far more enmeshed in unhealthy dependencies than we realize. In The Nordic Theory of Everything, Partanen compares and contrasts life in the United States with life in the Nordic region, focusing on four key relationships-parents and children, men and women, employees and employers, and government and citizens. and Finland, Partanen began to look closely at both. To understand why life is so different in the U.S. ![]() But as she got to know Americans better, she discovered they shared her deep apprehension. At first, she attributed her crippling anxiety to the difficulty of adapting to a freewheeling new culture. She found that navigating the basics of everyday life-from buying a cell phone and filing taxes to education and childcare-was much more complicated and stressful than anything she encountered in her homeland. Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary, self-doubting mess. A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children. ![]() |