While a couple stories take place in the same universe, each story is unique - some taking place in the present, some in the past, and some in worlds not quite our own. While I was in college, my tastes veered more toward nonfiction and realistic/ literary fiction, so I’m really happy to be diving into the science fiction and fantasy realm - and what a great time it’s been, especially with How Long ‘til Black Future Month? I loved all of these stories, each of them engaging and thrilling, so much so that I read the entire book in a single sitting, despite the stories together comprising almost 400 pages. Jemisin’s fantastic collection of short stories How Long ‘til Black Future Month? would be an excellent way to start off this month’s reviews and posts. Seeing as how February is Black History Month, I thought that reviewing N.K.
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Deesha is the co-author of Co-Parenting 101: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Two Households After Divorce, written in collaboration with her ex-husband. Dee Deesha Philyaw's collection of short stories about Black women, sex, and the Black church, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press in Sept. Her work has been listed as Notable in the Best American Essays series, and her writing on race, parenting, gender, and culture has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, The Rumpus, Brevity, dead housekeeping, Apogee Journal, Catapult, Cheat River Review, TueNight, ESPN’s The Undefeated and The Baltimore Review Essence, Ebony, and Bitch magazines and various anthologies. Deesha Philyaw's collection of short stories about Black women, sex, and the Black church, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press in Sept. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation's future has become a cautionary tale. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties of the homeless. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction - Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism - Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post - Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune - Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment Therapy - Runner-Up General Nonfiction: San Francisco Book Festival - A Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020 - Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice "Tells the story of housing in all its complexity." -NPR Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Only Arcady knows the artifact's magic holds the key to a new life among the nobles at court and a chance for revenge. Desperate, Arcady steals a powerful artifact from the bones of the Plaguebringer, the most hated person in Lumet history. Thief Arcady scrapes a living on the streets of Vatra. But the "gods" remember, and they do not forgive. Centuries later, their descendants worship dragons as gods. Long ago, humans betrayed dragons, stealing their magic and banishing them to a dying world. Long-banished dragons, revered as gods, return to the mortal realm in the first in this magical new epic fantasy trilogy from a bestselling author Mike Brooks, author of The God-King Chronicles “Tight, tense, smoldering, and wonderfully queer. “Dragons have never been so sexy.”-Kate Dylan, author of Mindwalker “Sumptuous epic fantasy. sophisticated.” -Publishers Weekly One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself in exile in his own land. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. We do not enjoy walks down the dark memory lanes of our history, but art will not let us forget. Sufleor: Ana Maria Moldovan, Alina Forna Lighting technicians: Jenel Moldovan, Mădălina Mânzat, Alexandru Corpodean The Clerks: Anca Hanu, Sânziana Tarța, Irina Wintze, Radu Lărgeanu, Radu Dogaru, Adrian Cucu, Cătălin Herlo, Cosmin Stănilă, Miron Maxim The Inmates: Anca Hanu, Sânziana Tarța, Irina Wintze, Radu Lărgeanu, Radu Dogaru, Ioan Isaiu, Cosmin Stănilă, Miron Maxim, Ruslan Bârlea The Investigators: Anca Hanu, Sânziana Tarța, Irina Wintze, Radu Lărgeanu, Radu Dogaru, Adrian Cucu, Ioan Isaiu, Cosmin Stănilă, Miron Maxim, Ruslan Bârlea State Workforce Agency Representative: Anca Hanu Script by Tudor Lucanu, after the novel by Marin PredaĬostumes design: Cristian Rusu, Sânziana Tarța In the first month, I wrote the majority of the book, but it was all out-of-order fragments that wouldn’t have made sense to anyone but me. Then several years later the entire story suddenly appeared in my head. I remember writing down a single sentence, and that was all. The idea for A List of Cages came to me, in a vague sense, about fifteen years ago. How long did it take you from your idea for the book to a book deal? One year and three months-I log all of my writing! I’ve spent much of my life-both personally and professionally-caring for kids who’ve experienced trauma. Adam is ecstatic to be reunited but soon realizes Julian is keeping secrets that could cost both boys their lives. When she asks him to track down the troubled freshman who keeps dodging their sessions, Adam discovers that the younger boy is Julian-the foster brother he hasn’t seen in five years. ROBIN ROE: A List of Cages is about a boy named Adam who’s serving as an aide to the school psychologist during his senior year of high school. For our readers not familiar with A List of Cages, can you tell them about it? LONE STAR LITERARY LIF E: Congratulations on such a strong start with your first novel, Robin. How did she turn real-life experience as a special education teacher into a compelling story of conflict and compassion? Find out more about her path in this week’s interview-via-email. This highly praised book is her first commercial success, but we’re sure it won’t be her last. Postoperative venous thromboembolism rate was 0.5% (666/123,591) in patients without SARS-CoV-2 2.2% (50/2317) in patients with peri-operative SARS-CoV-2 1.6% (15/953) in patients with recent SARS-CoV-2 and 1.0% (11/1148) in patients with previous SARS-CoV-2. Information on prophylaxis regimens or pre-operative anti-coagulation for baseline comorbidities was not available. SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis was defined as peri-operative (7 days before to 30 days after surgery) recent (1-6 weeks before surgery) previous (≥7 weeks before surgery) or none. The primary outcome measure was venous thromboembolism (pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis) within 30 days of surgery. Patients from all surgical specialties were included. We conducted a planned sub-study and analysis from an international, multicentre, prospective cohort study of elective and emergency patients undergoing surgery during October 2020. Since surgical patients are already at higher risk of venous thromboembolism than general populations, this study aimed to determine if patients with peri-operative or prior SARS-CoV-2 were at further increased risk of venous thromboembolism. SARS-CoV-2 has been associated with an increased rate of venous thromboembolism in critically ill patients. Vuong is the author of the poetry collections Time Is a Mother (2022) and Night Sky With Exit Wounds (2016), the winner of the 2017 T.S. The way the poem moves through space, its enjambment or end-stopped line breaks, its utterances and stutters, all work in tangent with the poem’s conceit.” Acknowledging the ever-increasing number of possible directions each new turn in a poem creates, Vuong continued, “I think the strongest poems allow themselves to collapse completely before even suggesting resurrection or closure, and a manipulation of form can add another dimension to that collapse.” Rathke, Vuong discussed the relationship between form and content in his work, noting that “Besides being a vehicle for the poem’s movement, I see form as … an extension of the poem’s content, a space where tensions can be investigated even further. In his poems, he often explores transformation, desire, and violent loss. Born in Saigon, poet and editor Ocean Vuong was raised in Hartford, Connecticut, and earned a BA at Brooklyn College (CUNY). managing all their affairs by speaking with and persuading each other.” This meaning of politics underpins the reflections of our chief editor, Dr Filomeno Aguilar Jr., in a professorial address recently published in Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints. The political theorist Hannah Arendt defined politics as the space where “men in their freedom can interact with one another without compulsion, force, and rule over one another, as equals among equals. (Photo courtesy of the National Library of the Philippines ) Re-electionist President Ferdinand Marcos during his campaign for the Presidential Elections of 1969. |