5/31/2023 0 Comments Owlcrate our violent endsChildren have held signs reading “I’m 9” in solidarity with those who were killed in the shooting. Since this horrifying event, thousands have protested at the Tennessee State Capitol for stricter gun laws. Not only does it harm the LGBTQIA+ community, but it distracts from the real issue affecting children: gun violence.įor those unaware, on March 27, an assailant armed with multiple assault weapons entered The Covenant School and killed six people, three of whom were young students. This new narrative is incredibly dangerous. It comes as no surprise that conservative news companies are jumping on the transphobic bandwagon, as the shooting occurred only weeks after the Tennessee drag ban. Instead of focusing on the assault weapons used to commit the shooting and how the attacker obtained them, reporters have instead pointed their attention towards the gender identity of the assailant. Amid the flood of reports containing updates on the terrible shooting that occurred on March 27 in Nashville, certain media outlets have begun reshaping the event as an example of impending “trans violence” in the United States.
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Second place cuskBut he brings with him a younger, pretty companion Brett, and so too arrives Justine and Kurt, M’s daughter and her boyfriend, which overwhelms M’s fantasy of some private intimacy with the painter.Ĭusk loves to make metaphors out of a space’s vastness, where a landscape illuminates the drama of the narrator’s life: an unending sky that makes miniatures of airplanes, an ocean that drops its contents off at the horizon. To M, both the marsh and L’s landscapes hold “the quality of something remembered, that shares and is inextricable from the moment of being.” When he arrives during a global quarantine (making this one of our first COVID novels), M hopes that he will see it the way she does and capture the truth it stows. So she invites L to stay with her and her husband Tony at a second cottage on the land. It reminds the narrator, M, of a famous painter’s works, so much so that she imagines her very viewing of it as “half-creations”, paintings of his, created by her. Rachel Cusk’s latest novel, Second Place, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, is set by a marsh. Second Place by Rachel Cusk Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Laird Barron, Mira Grant, and many others. Now, with the fourteenth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. From Ellen Datlow- the venerable queen of horror anthologies per the New York Times-comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, the best horror stories available.įor more than four decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. 5/31/2023 0 Comments Lin hamiltonImagining Miranda as the steward of an alternate Marvel universe – Comic-Con, but for musical theatre geeks – restores him to what, prior to the opening of Hamilton in 2015, was his quieter role in the cultural landscape: as the champion of a much-loved, much-mocked art form that rarely troubled mainstream popular culture. “I don’t know that I’m the guy you hire to make your next Marvel movie,” Miranda says, speaking via video from his office in uptown New York, “but I am the guy you hire to make this musical about a guy who wrote musicals.” It is simultaneously funny, moving and monstrously self-indulgent – or, as Miranda puts it, “about as musical theatre nerdy as it can get.” Boom!), to Jim Nicola (artistic director of the New York Theatre Workshop) to a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shot of Joel Grey, chasing the waiter for the bill. Andrew Garfield is extraordinary in the lead, but it’s the people around him who make this particular scene as the number unfolds, it becomes apparent that every extra in the diner is a legend of musical theatre, from Bernadette Peters, to Brian Stokes Mitchell (a veteran Tony award winner), to Roger Bart (original cast, Tick, Tick. The movie, Miranda’s directorial debut, is based on the autobiographical stage show of the same name by Jonathan Larson (creator of Rent) and tells the story of Larson’s late 20s as a struggling writer and waiter. Boom!, the new movie directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the patrons of a diner in 90s New York all turn to the camera and sing. 5/31/2023 0 Comments How to sit by tyrese colemanI remember vividly the way my subsequent exploration of that poem floored me. Alfred Prufrock” because it was the longest, and, frankly, because we were smartasses. For the summative assessment at the end of the unit, we were asked to work in pairs to explicate in front of the class one of the “Poems For Additional Reading” in the back of the book. What was an early experience where you learned that language had power?ĪP English Lit, senior year: We were using Perrine’s “Sound And Sense” as a text. The great shout stuck in all our throats needs to articulate itself. It felt appropriate to try to articulate the absurdity and incessant fear of the last several years, as much for myself as for others. Poetry is a medium for us to examine the conflicts of the human condition, and the conflicts over our reactions to the pandemic have redefined all of our lives these last few years. The conversation related in the poem is an amalgam of various conversations over the last year, but frustrating in person as they are in the poem. My son really did have a Darth Vader bike, red and black. “Darth Vader” is a fairly autobiographical piece. Tell us about your poem “Darth Vader.” How did it come about? What sparked or inspired it? See what he had to say about his poem “Darth Vader,” what inspires him, and what poetry means to him. Judd answered some of our favorite questions for writers. |