![]() These vivid vignettes-horrifying and hilarious by turns-are marvelously written and include nightmarish scenes of immolation, two-headed snakes, and other accounts of disappearing young women, as well as a memorable team of ghost hunters and a soul-swapping dog. At this point, the chapters range widely beyond Winnie’s present-day story to the days, months, and years before and after her disappearance. Winnie figures out how to placate her students by helping them learn American terms such as “booty call” and “loaded nachos,” and enters a more or less satisfactory romantic relationship with a fellow teacher, but then disappears. Twenty-two-year-old Winnie, a mixed-race American woman, signs up to teach English in Saigon in an attempt to connect with the Vietnamese part of her heritage, and essentially dooms herself to failure: “her life would continue to be as empty as her luggage, wherever she went,” Kupersmith writes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kupersmith’s exceptional debut novel (after the collection The Frangipani Hotel) offers profound and original insight on Vietnam’s tortured history. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In addition, he was invited to speak at the prestigious TEDx stage at Christ University to present his talk Follow Your Confusion.Īmidst the uncertainties of this amazing, terrible, magical, horrible, yet beautiful, life, as he puts it, Akif Kichloo writes of love, grief, healing and self care, posting a couple of poems weekly to his various social media pages with a huge following of avid readers and poetry lovers from all over the world. ![]() His poems have appeared in Glass, Palette Poetry, Fly Paper Magazine, Obra / Artifact, Sheraza, Nightingale & Sparrow, Homology Lit, Kissing Dynamite, Verse of Silence, and more. ![]() A graduate of JU, Akif holds a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery.Īkif Kichloo started writing at an early age, having contributed for publications like The Huffington Postand The Wire. A graduate of JU, Akif holds a bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery. ![]() Akif Kichloo is a Poet, Doctor of Medicine by profession, and Author of three full length poetry collections: Falling Through Love (Andrews Mcmeel Publishing, 2019), Poems That Lose (Read Out Loud Publishing, 2017) & The Feeling May Remain (Read Out Loud Publishing, 2016). Akif Kichloo is a Poet, Doctor of Medicine by profession, and Author of three full length poetry collections: Falling Through Love (Andrews Mcmeel Publishing, 2019), Poems That Lose (Read Out Loud Publishing, 2017) & The Feeling May Remain (Read Out Loud Publishing, 2016). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Writers and readers both in English and Spanish are my friends, colleagues, and allies, and after living in the UK for over twenty-five years, have returned home, to Barcelona, Spain, searching for inspiration for my stories. In 2020 obtained the CELTA certificate as a language teacher, and offer Spanish and English classes. I started publishing my stories, in English and Spanish, in 2012 and now have over twenty books available in a variety of genres, a blog (in English and Spanish), and translate books for other authors (English-Spanish and vice versa). in American Literature and an MSc in Criminology. ![]() I am a language teacher, writer, bookworm, and collaborator at Sants 3 Ràdio (a local radio station in Barcelona, where I returned in 2018), who lived in the UK for 25 years and worked for many years as a forensic psychiatrist there. ![]() ![]() One of the apparant influences is that of Tel Quel theories (see also the article Noii).Įssay by Gheorghe Iova, Textual Action. ![]() There is also a set of "textualizing" images frequently employed by them: that of the penetrating pen or of the "blind eye" ( George Vulturescu). Although some of the poetic mecanisms (such as intertextuality) are common with that of most postmodernists, the most radical textualists have in common the belief that a text thrives only to the degree it "swallows" its own creator. Their texts are self-referential and contain an extremely high amount of metadiscourse (often crossing the borders between mere poetry or prose and theoretical essay). The extensive use of the generic term postmodernism eclipsed the term textualism per se, now used strictly for the most typical and consistent writers. Textualism was a term used to describe a style that emerged in the second half of the 1970's and was in the spotlight in the 1980's. ![]() Marin Mincu, Ion Barbu: Essay About Poetic Textualization (1981) ![]() ![]() ![]() When they find themselves embroiled in a treasonous plot, can they trust each other with their hearts, their secrets…and their lives? But kissing each other is almost as much fun as arguing, and their affair burns hotter than either of them expects. When she mockingly challenges him to show her what she’s missing by not getting married, Tristan shocks them both by accepting her indecent proposal: one week of clandestine meetings, after which they’ll go their separate ways. ![]() Wickedly proper architect Tristan needs a respectable woman to wed, but he’s never stopped wanting bold, red-headed Carys. There’s only one person who’s never bought her act-the only man who makes her heart race: Tristan Montgomery, one of her family’s greatest rivals. Outwardly confident and carefree, inside she’s disillusioned with both men and love. ![]() For the past two seasons she’s scandalized the ton with her outrageous outfits and brazen ways in a futile bid to deter potential suitors. Staying single is the only way to hide the secret that could ruin her-and her family-if it was revealed. But it’s a thin line between love and hate in Kate Bateman's A Daring Pursuit.Ĭarys Davies is doing everything in her power to avoid marriage. The Davies and Montgomery families have been locked in an ancient feud. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bambi Gottschalk in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. Does at least one of them know the truth? Read more And at its center is the man who has never been forgotten by the five women who loved him: the enigmatic Felix Brewer.įelix Brewer left five women behind. What he discovers is a tangled web of bitterness, jealousy, resentment, greed, and longing stretching over five decades. Now, twenty-six years later, Roberto "Sandy" Sanchez, a retired Baltimore detective working cold cases for some extra cash, is investigating her murder. ![]() ![]() When Julie disappears ten years to the day after Felix went on the lam, everyone assumes she's left to join her old lover-until her remains are discovered in a secluded park. Though Bambi has no idea where her husband-or his money-might be, she suspects one woman does: his devoted young mistress, Julie. But in 1976, Bambi's comfortable world implodes when Felix, facing prison, vanishes. Thanks to his lucrative-if not all legal-businesses, she and their three little girls live in luxury. ![]() When Felix Brewer meets nineteen-year-old Bernadette "Bambi" Gottschalk in 1959, he charms her with wild promises, some of which he actually keeps. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jesse is joined by his gun-toting girlfriend, Tulip, and the hard-drinking Irish vampire, Cassidy, on the rowdy adventures that culminate in the High Noon to end all High Noons. He loses faith in both humanity and God as he witnesses atrocities and improbable calamities during his travels. Now possessing the power of "the Word," an ability to make people obey whatever he utters, Custer sets off on a dark journey. Merging with a bizarre spiritual force called Genesis, Jesse becomes completely disillusioned with the beliefs that he had dedicated his entire life to. But Starr and the Saint of Killers have other plans for Jesse's future. Beginning with the "War in the Sun" story, Texan preacher Jesse Custer goes to Monument Valley, where he plans his showdown with God. ![]() ![]() ![]() We also follow Rebecca's own story as the legacy of slavery shapes her life, both during the time as an attorney and later as a historian seeking the past that haunts her. Using in-depth archival research and a measured approach to historical imagination, Rebecca constructs the likely pasts of women rebels who fought for freedom during the Middle Passage, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in colonial New York. But Rebecca decided to look deeper, and her journey takes her through old court records, slave ship captains' logs, crumbling correspondence, and even the forensic evidence from the bones of enslaved women from the "African burial ground" uncovered in Manhattan. ![]() ![]() The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back seat to men in fighting for freedom. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on ships during the Middle Passage. Abstract:"Part graphic novel, part memoir, "Wake" is an imaginative tour de force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall's efforts to uncover the truth about these warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inīefriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala: The Comic Misunderstanding of Scala's role in preserving the scenarios. Individual scenarios have been dismissed for a variety of reasons.Īccording to Natalie Crohn Schmitt, the foundational issue lies in a While the value of Scala's collection asĮvidence of the tradition has never been questioned, the merits of the The movement's popularity, printed as a single collection in 1611īy Flaminio Scala. To the structure, style, and vitality of the tradition that has beenĬalled the most important theatrical movement of early modern Europe.Īmong these documents, only fifty were published during the height of Yet, significantly, more than 800 extant scenarios attest As any theater student can tell you, there are no ![]() Toronto: University of Torontoįor all of the unique qualities that define the commediaĭell'arte, one of its most distinguishing characteristics is Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte ofįlaminio Scala: The Comic Scenarios. ![]() Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala: The Comic Scenarios. Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala: The Comic Scenarios." Retrieved from Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala: The Comic Scenarios." The Free Library. ![]() ![]() ![]() She thought my current employment was a waste of my “spectacular figure and fresh-faced beauty.” Yeah, yeah. She was a Ukrainian immigrant and high-class escort, making bank I was her cleaning lady. Tempted to bolt, I pulled out my phone to call my hookup, Ivanna. In other words, he was a hobbyist, a routine user of escorts. He’d been not only vetted but vouched for by sister escort agencies all over the world. He was a Russian businessman, here in Miami for a week. Other than that, I didn’t know much about him. Who in their right mind would spend that much money on a hotel? Clearly my first client was loco. ![]() Could I bring myself to ring the bell?Īpparently, this penthouse was one of the largest (more than ten thousand square feet) and the most expensive (thirty-two grand-a night) in Miami. ![]() The entry-a pair of ornate mahogany doors-was just beyond, looming. An open newspaper lay on a coffee table, as if someone had recently left. The elevator arrived too quickly, forcing me onto a private landing with its own lobby and an elegant sitting area. ![]() Was I really about to let some strange man have sex with me? For money? Mi madre must be turning over in her grave right now.Īs I rode the elevator to the penthouse of the ritzy Seltane Hotel-it’d taken two staffers to key me up to the fortieth floor-I chewed on a fingernail. ![]() |