![]() His essays are as lyrical as his poems, and, as the chapter on pick-up basketball makes clear, often begin in the physical world before launching into other dimensions. Gay, a 48-year-old poet and professor at Indiana University, has made a career of exploring the wonder to be found in our everyday lives, notably in his bestselling 2019 essay collection, The Book of Delights. “There is only us, ten of us at a time (depending on the court), assembling and disassembling and reassembling, in perpetual negotiation of the rules, in perpetual common wonder of how we’re going to be together today.” “On a pick-up basketball court… aside from what’s fixed (how much a basket counts, what’s out of bounds), there is no fixed law,” he writes. ![]() Over the next eleven pages, Gay, a longtime hoop lover himself, offers a meditation on the beauty of the pickup game, and how a good court is a microcosm of democracy. ![]() There’s an essay in Ross Gay’s new collection, Inciting Joy, that begins with a discussion of his favorite sports book, John Edgar Wideman’s Hoop Roots, a memoir told through the author’s lifelong relationship with basketball. ![]()
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Sophie, an energetic and very tiny mouse, desperately wants the job. ![]() “I am not as spry as I used to be … I have decided it is time to name my successor!” she tells the surprised crowd. In this charming picture book written by Susan Hood, the Tooth Mouse (who replaces the Tooth Fairy in French-speaking countries) has called a meeting to announce her retirement. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These women were not just writing for each other by virtue of rescripting the Gothic to express their own anxieties and desires, they also participated in a conversation of sorts with the masculine tradition of the supernatural tale, and negotiated with cultural expectations concerning the place of women in American culture and the relation of women to writing and professional authorship. In attending to these ghost stories by nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American women, we are eavesdropping on a conversation of sorts - an exchange among women in dialogue with the larger tradition of American and British supernaturalism more generally. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when the Emersons start digging for answers in an ancient tomb, events take a darker and deadlier turn - and there may be no surviving the very modern terrors their efforts reveal. A second sighting of a sinister stranger from the crime scene, a mysterious scrap of papyrus, and a missing mummy case have all whetted Amelia's curiosity. And there is nothing in this barren area worthy of their interest - until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his own shop. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, he and Amelia are resigned to excavating mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses" - and at Mazghunah he demonstrates why. And then it's set in Egypt, to me one of the most fascinating countries in the world. First it has a wonderful cast of main characters, I think Peabody, Emerson and Ramses really do make the book and I would love it no matter which plot was used. ![]() ![]() Ticket information is available on the Liberty Theater Arts website, which can be found through the Liberty Splash page. 1.67, good condition, Sold by Good Books Will Follow rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Blue Springs, MO. Add to Cart Add this copy of The Last Night of Ballyhoo to cart. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at 0.99. ![]() “We have done the other Uhry plays and thought this would be a nice contrasting piece that would fit nicely between our two musicals this fall, ‘Hairspray’ and ‘A Christmas Carol.’” Buy The Last Night of Ballyhoo by Alfred Uhry online at Alibris. The three plays, ‘Parade,’ ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ and ‘The Last Night of Ballyhoo,’ all concern Jewish people living in Atlanta, Ga.,” Director Neal Brasher said. “This play is part of a trilogy of plays written by Alfred Uhry. ![]() The play follows the ups and downs of the family as they struggle to maintain high standing in their elite Atlanta, Ga., country club. The Last Night of Ballyhoo takes place in 1939 and follows a German-Jewish family, the Freitags, who have become so assimilated into American culture they have a Christmas tree in their living room. Ballyhoo from the balcony - “The Last Night of Ballyhoo” give audiences a chance to see how a “smaller, more intimate production works in the Tower Theater,” according to Director Neal Brasher. ![]() ![]() At this time, Korea is under Japanese occupation. The story begins in 1943 in Jeju Island in Korea, during World War II. Many had survived the Second World War only to die in the Korean War.” Author Mary Lynn Brachtt, growing up in Texas with a South Korean mother has based ‘ White Chrysanthemum‘ on the stories from her mother and her community of expat friends who came of age in post war South Korea. Their experiences are different but they are bound by the common thread of love. Hana and Emi’s narratives chart the historical terrain-“ Everyone had suffered during the Japanese occupation of Korea. ![]() Both the protagonists have a different story to tell us. Hana and Emi are the two main protagonists in this book. 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The re-edited version was released in 1998 to wide acclaim and is now considered the definitive cut of the movie. But he did famously specify a series of modifications to the 1958 studio cut of Touch of Evil, changes that weren’t enacted until after his death. Alan Moore (Watchmen) and Eddie Campbell (Bacchus), grandmasters of the comics medium, present a book often ranked among the greatest graphic novels of all time: From Hell. ![]() ![]() Orson Welles never went back and added color to Citizen Kane. Everything that made From Hell great in black and white is still there, and the new elements add a lot more than they subtract. In the end, then, Campbell’s care and craft are succeeding, so far, in threading the needle. ![]() Note the eyebrows and hair in the “From Hell, Netley” panels above, or the details of the woman’s face and her slightly smaller hat in the “Not your brother” panels. In some panels the effect is strikingly new and effective, especially in close-ups of characters’ faces where features had been formerly delineated by masses of black lines. ![]() ![]() The supervising director of Dark & Grimm is Simon Otto, a 21-year veteran of Dreamworks Animation who was head of character animation on the How to Train your Dragon trilogy. Because once upon a time, fairy tales were awesome. As the siblings roam a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind the famous tales, as well as how to take charge of their destinies and create their own happily ever after. The series follows Hansel and Gretel as they run away from home to find better parents…or at least ones who won’t chop off their heads! As Hansel and Gretel leave their own story and venture through other classic Grimm fairy tales, unexpected narrators’ guide us through their encounters with witches, warlocks, dragons and even the devil himself. ![]() ![]() Based on the best-selling book series by Adam Gidwitz, the fairytale mash-up stars Hansel and Gretel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Plot Effia's line Įffia is raised by her mother, Baaba, who is cruel to her. It received the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for 2017, an American Book Award, and the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature. ![]() The novel was selected in 2016 for the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" award, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for best first book, and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2017. Subsequent chapters follow their children and following generations. Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British governor in charge of Cape Coast Castle, while her half-sister Esi is held captive in the dungeons below. Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016. ![]() |