![]() ![]() ![]() Bernice turns over a new leaf, and we get to see that even those who may not seem to deserve our admiration actually do.Īnything you didn’t like about it? No, although some may find that Bernice’s family is a bit stereotypical or borderline caricature, and references to religion/church life may not be some individual’s cup of tea. Thankfully, with a little love and attention, she begins to see the error of her ways. (Just one of many fun and laughable cheeseball references!) When she gets shipped off to her Aunt (a nun) while her mom unfairly heads to Hollywood, it would seem all bets are off for Bernice the Bully. But in the meantime, she is wearing teachers and students to a nub and feeling like a booger on a cheeseball. ![]() Bernice wants one thing, and that is to go to the Hollywood Hills Stunt Camp. What did you like about the book? Bernice is the bully you will find yourself cheering on! Yes, cheering on! As the tagline for the book suggests, “Even a Bully Deserves a Second Chance”. Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 5 Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen – Niki Lenz, Random House, 9781524770440, 2019 ![]()
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![]() ![]() He was really glad there were no trees he had grubbed so many sprouts from his clearing in the Big Woods, every summer. This sun almost makes a fellow want a bunch of sprouts to make a shade, he joked. Then he corked it, and setting it on the ground he covered it with cut grass. Ah! that hits the spot! he said, and tipped up the jug again. He got down from the mowing machine and drank a mouthful. ![]() ![]() Pa was glad to see Laura with the water-jug. But all the little gophers were safe in their holes. Then Laura saw a swift shadow and looked up at the eyes and the claws of a hawk overhead. All at once they ran for their lives and dived into their holes. On the stubble of cut grass the striped gophers were scampering. A dragon-fly with gauzy wings swiftly chased a gnat. ![]() Swarms of little white butterflies hovered over the path. Then she filled it with the fresh, cool water, corked it tightly, and started with it to the hayfield. She rinsed the brown jug till it was cool to her hand. Laura drew up a pailful of water from the well at the edge of the Big Slough. But Pa had hours of mowing yet to do before he could stop for the night. Half-way down to sunset, the sun blazed as hotly as at noon. The sky was high and quivering with heat over the shimmering prairie. The mowing machine’s whirring sounded cheerfully from the old buffalo wallow south of the claim shanty, where bluestem grass stood thick and tall and Pa was cutting it for hay. ![]() ![]() ![]() Editor Vincent Fago's Pendulum Now Age Classics, published by Pendulum Press, began adapting literary classics into black-and-white comics beginning in 1973. Thirty-six issues of Marvel Classics Comics were published, 12 of them being reprints of another publisher's work.Ĭlassics Illustrated, created by Albert Kanter, began publication in 1941 and finished its first run in 1971, producing 169 issues. It was Marvel Comics' attempt to pick up the mantle of Classics Illustrated, which stopped publishing in 1971. It specialized in adaptations of literary classics such as Moby-Dick, The Three Musketeers, and The Iliad. Marvel Classics Comics was an American comics magazine which ran from 1976 until 1978. Cruz, Dino Castrillo, Jess Jodloman, Yong Montaño, Rudy Mesina Otto Binder, Kin Platt, Irwin Shapiro, Doug Moench, John WarnerĪlex Niño, Rudy Nebres, E. Science fiction, horror, suspense, adventure ![]() ![]() ![]() To listen to the whole archive of Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine, subscribe and listen on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or wherever else you find your favorite podcasts. Today romance author Sarah MacLean launches her latest historical romance series: Hell’s Belles, centered on a tight-knit group of early Victorian-era women who creatively bend. 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We keep our daily episodes short and sweet, with audiobook clips to give you a sample of our featured listens. ![]() Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile’s editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. ![]() ![]() ![]() Surely Gombrowicz is one of the more important and intriguing writers in the non-mimetic, novel-of-ideas tradition that Milan Kundera - who considers Gombrowicz one of the greats - has traced from Rabelais to Diderot, Kafka and Of the original and gives the reader a good, zesty flavor of Gombrowicz's inspired idiosyncrasy. So we must admire the courage of Danuta Borchardt, who offers us the first English text of the novel that is taken directly from Polish, and that, while hardly perfect - how could it be? - is faithful to the substance Since then, the common wisdom has been that ''Ferdydurke'' is untranslatable. ![]() The first English version of ''Ferdydurke,'' published in 1961, was put together from French, German and possibly Spanish translations. In addition, it comes with the burden of a previous, abridged translation, which has removed this work from readers of EnglishĮven as it was entering the canon in several languages as an acknowledged modernist classic. Parody and irony, much of it aimed at aspects of prewar Polish culture quite gone today. It is a book that bristles with indefatigable resources of satire, ![]() In Polish in 1937, presents its would-be linguistic intermediary with a style that is unabashedly idiolectic and irregular even in its native tongue. This irreducibly, brilliantly original novel, first published Ity the poor translator of ''Ferdydurke,'' by Witold Gombrowicz. A first translation directly from the Polish of Witold Gombrowicz's classic novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I would like to examine Abbott's work, and Mailer's advocacy of Abbott, to demonstrate that the latter was based on dubious premises, and that to some degree what is most important about Abbott's letters is the way in which they demonstrate the nature of the modern penitentiary as Erving Goffmann has described it - the "totalizing" institution. It is clear that Mailer hoped to do what Jean-Paul Sartre had done in France some four decades before, on behalf of the writer and convicted criminal Jean Genet: yet Mailer's attempt at a public role would backfire badly, when Abbott killed a restaurant worker in lower Manhattan on the day before the New York Times published its favorable review of In the Belly of the Beast. The book is comprised of letters sent originally to the novelist and chauvinist Norman Mailer, in an effort to give Mailer some corroborative detail for his non-fiction book about death-row inmate Gary Gilmore Mailer, who described Abbott as a "phenomenon" for his articulate prose, then led a push to have Abbott paroled from prison. Jack Henry Abbot's In the Belly of the Beast is an unusual literary document. ![]() ![]() Tiger Woods embodies a now popular idea that the key to success in life is to specialize, get a head start and practice intensively. ![]() Later that same year, he entered and won his first tournament in the under ten category. At two, he showed off his golf drive on national television. Starting early and specializing is fashionable, but has dubious merit.Īt the age of ten months old, Tiger Woods picked up his first miniature golf club. why you should be a Roger, not a Tiger.how the complexity of modern life has changed the way we think and. ![]() ![]() what comic books have to tell us about the ingredients of success.They also show that experts often judge their own fields more narrowly than open-minded, intellectually curious amateurs do. This makes them more innovative and, ultimately, more impactful.ĭrawing on examples from medicine to academia to sport, these blinks explore how breadth and range are far more powerful than specialized expertise. Generalists may take a little longer to find their path in life, but they are more creative, can make connections between diverse fields that specialists cannot. But delve a little deeper, and it becomes clear that it’s generalists, not specialists, who are primed to excel. ![]() Many successful people, such as Tiger Woods, start to focus on one path early in life. In our complex and cutthroat world, there’s a lot of pressure to get a head start and specialize early. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can find his stimulating blog-mostly essays, creative non-fiction, and poetry - at adamtritt. He is equally at home speaking in lecture halls, giving public readings in bookstores, and visiting elementary school classrooms, where he can be found surrounded by children begging him to read Bud the Spud just one more time (while their parents and teachers beg him to stop).Īdam lives and writes-often simultaneously-in Melbourne, Florida, with a dingo, and a ridiculously large alligator, all under a very big tree. He continues that passion today in the healthcare clinic he and his wife, Lee, dreamed of and created together-the Wellness Center. In 1995 he was awarded an honorary doctorate for his work in religious tolerance and for the creation of TurningPoint, a nonprofit program providing alternative medicine to low-income individuals. Read 'Songs from the Well A Memoir of Love' by Adam Byrn Tritt available from Rakuten Kobo. ![]() Tritt is the author of The Phoenix and the Dragon: Poems of the Alchemical Transformation, several works of nonfiction, Tellstones: Runic Divination in the Welsh Tradition and his newest book, the delightful (and slightly disturbing) Bud the Spud.Īdam won the 2006 EPPIE Award for Poetry in an Anthology, and his first children's book, Bud the Spud, won the P&E Award for best Children's Book of 2012. Adam Byrn Tritt is an international bestselling and award winning poet, essayist, screenwriter, teacher, social activist, and humorist. ![]() ![]() ![]() His mother Marie-Charlotte-Amelie (1860-1960 née Perret) was a musician. In 1900 he began an apprenticeship as an engraver and chaser at the École d’Art in La Chaux-de-Fonds. His father Georges-Édouard (1855-1926) was an enameller of watch cases with his own workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds, then the centre of the Swiss watch industry. Le Corbusier, Vers une architecture (1923) Youth and Early InfluencesĬharles Jeanneret came from an old-established and widely ramified family. “Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.” Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities, Le Corbusier also was influential in urban planning. Le Corbusier was one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture. On October 6, 1887, Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, and writer Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was born. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, aka Le Corbusier (1887 – 1965) ![]() ![]() The works he produced were the subject of a survey held at New York’s Fort Gansevoort gallery last year.ĪRTnews in Brief: Frieze Los Angeles Cancels 2021 Edition, Changes Locations for 2022-and More from April 9, 2021 In poetic and often piercing detail, Rembert recounts being lynched by a mob and miraculously surviving, being made to perform prison labor, and being enchanted by art-making relatively late in his life. ![]() ![]() Kelly, an academic who teaches at Tufts University, worked with Rembert to turn his spoken memories into this book. prison system, and explores how he came to his signature technique of painting and carving leather, a medium that he grew to love while he was incarcerated. Meanwhile, Raven Chacon, a participant in the current Whitney Biennial, won in the music category for his composition Voiceless Mass.Ĭhasing Me to My Grave, which was published last year, details Rembert’s experiences with racism and the U.S. ![]() The painter Winfred Rembert, who died in 2021, posthumously won in the biography category for his memoir Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, which was co-authored with Erin I. In a rarity, two artists won Pulitzer Prizes this year alongside a slew of acclaimed writers, journalists, and critics. ![]() |