![]() ![]() ![]() Grimes, meanwhile, used to get called “waifish” so often in profiles that she railed against it in a viral 2013 Tumblr post. “I was like, ‘I feel like he’s going to be a peaceful giant.’ ” She was right. When Grimes was pregnant with X in 2020, she had a clear sense of the boy he’d turn out to be. I don’t know what I was thinking.”Ĭongratulations to Grimes and Elon Musk on the birth of their second child together! It’s a girl! “She’s a little colicky too.” She laughs again and buries her face in her hands. Now we both start laughing.ĭid she really think I wasn’t going to hear a baby? It’s a calming period that breaks with a sitcom punch line: full-blown infant screams upstairs, followed by the voice of a woman pleading SHH. I suggest we pause for a moment to discuss the surreal professional ethics at play, which are that I can’t pretend I don’t know she’s got a secret baby with the world’s wealthiest man hiding upstairs. She’s rattled, and I’m mortified by even accidentally making a woman-a new mother, no less-feel exposed and vulnerable. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In particular, there has also been a continuing theorisation of the selection of literary texts for study which has had considerable resonance for the teaching of literature and for its interfaces with the language classroom. Literary theory has embraced many topics, including the nature of an author's intentions, the character and measurement of the responses of a reader and the specific textuality of a literary text. Literature, language and education: some background The last twenty years have seen significant advances in linguistics, education and literary and cultural theory, a development that has provided a strong basis for exploring texts using a diverse range of methodologies (see Hall, 2005 for a comprehensive survey). ![]() ![]() The chapter begins with some theoretical background to issues of curriculum design and development and then illustrates the different pedagogic possibilities that different methodologies for stylistic analysis entail. Necessarily, too, the introduction discusses stylistics itself as a methodology. This makes the analysis transparent to others and enables readers to retrieve how analysts have reached their interpretive decisions. Methodology is very important in any form of text analysis and analysts themselves also have a responsibility to say what they are doing and how they are doing it. This chapter explores a selected range of methodologies used in stylistic analysis with a particular focus on applications to stylistics in the classroom. ![]() ![]() In After Henry Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. Salvador is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the "contemporary wasteland" of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 19 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. As featured in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. ![]() ![]() ![]() About the Book For the first time, all of Didion's nonfiction writing on place, politics, lifestyle, and cultural figures from the 1960s to 2003 have been gathered together in one volume.īook Synopsis From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, this collection includes seven books in one volume: the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem The White Album Salvador Miami After Henry Political Fictions and Where I Was From. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And there are so many levels of meaning in this densely written book.Īll the hype has been true in this case: Wroblewski has crafted a masterpiece of American literature. ![]() ![]() The novel is truly not about dogs, on its deepest levels. It hasn’t converted me from being a “cat person,” but I did enjoy it. Despite its being so descriptive of the breeding and training of this family’s dogs, and about their relationship to Edgar, I still was able to appreciate the novel. Not being a dog person in the least, I was hesitant to read this novel but gave in because of all the glowing reviews it has received since it came out earlier this summer. It’s about his relationship with those dogs and with the father who dies young and possibly mysteriously and is displaced by the uncle who has been out of the picture for years. It’s about a boy born mute to parents who breed and train specialized dogs. How many books in this genre pattern themselves after Shakespeare’s Hamlet? And that’s just the very bare bones of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. But in the case of David Wroblewski’s debut novel, the story of a boy and his dog(s) is anything but common. The story of a boy and his dog is a common theme in literature. ![]() ![]() A frequent contributor to the New Yorker, and a recipient of the prestigious Rea Award for the Short Story and the PEN/Malamud Award, Wolff is also the author of the best-selling memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army. ![]() Often heralded as one of America’s great contemporary short story writers, Tobias Wolff is the author of several celebrated collections, including In the Garden of the North American Martyrs and The Night in Question, and his fiction has been widely anthologized. ![]() This interview was originally published on April 5, 2009. In today’s feature, Travis Holland sits down with literary luminary and master of the short story Tobias Wolff. ![]() Editor’s Note: For the first several months of 2022, we’ll be celebrating some of our favorite work from the last fourteen years in a series of “ From the Archives” posts. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is currently at work on a fifth and final volume about Lyndon Johnson A former investigative reporter for Newsday, Robert Caro is the author of The Power Broker (1974), a biography of the urban planner Robert Moses which he won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize. Obama said, "I'm sure it helped to shape how I think about politics." Caro has also written four biographies on Lyndon Johnson, including The Path to Power (1982), Means of Ascent (1990), and Master of the Senate (2002), and The Passage of Power (2012), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. ![]() President Obama said that he read the biography when he was 22 years old and that the book "mesmerized" him. A former investigative reporter for Newsday, Robert Caro is the author of The Power Broker (1974), a biography of the urban planner Robert Moses which he won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Among the least remembered of his output are his noir-tinged romans durs, or strong novels. Simenon was a really prolific writer - those 75 Maigret novels alone would guarantee that - of books in many genres. E-readers increase your options, of course, and this is the moment of escape! Start something vacation-y, something new, something really fresh. Mysteries are the traditional beach reads, and with Memorial Day fast approaching, we’re all packing, packing, packing for that first taste of summer somewhere else.īut what about the ride, the flight, the train trip to Paradise? Beach books are already in the suitcase, and are generally too fat to be comfortable short-to-medium travel companions. The series ran for 75 books, after all, and from my experience with it, you can pick up any one of them and go from there, with no loss of understanding. Most really serious mystery readers are familiar with Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret. ![]() ![]() She became the youngest member of the Queens County Aquarium Society. Eugenie kept notebooks filled with shark facts. Next, she dove into books in order to learn all that she could about such species as whale, tiger, nurse, and lemon sharks. On later trips to beaches in Atlantic City she dove as deeply as she could and marveled at the incredible diversity of marine life. Making the most of her vivid imagination on this occasion, she pretended that she was walking on the bottom of the ocean where she could dream of swimming with sharks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2019.Įugenie Clark (1922-2015) began her love affair with sharks at the age of nine years, when she first visited the New York Aquarium at Battery Park in 1931. Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean’s Most Fearless Scientist. ![]() ![]() This journey through life sure has its bumps. So I put on some music while I was setting up class, and then lay on the floor to meditate. The result I clicked was this article on the Mind, Body, Green website. So by Thursday I was googling “How to get out of a funk”. The week in between I lost my balance a bit. An apt description, don’t you think?īut life is never perfect. ![]() The minute we arrived at the beach, the sand, the sun, and the sea air were instantly “a happiness oplader”, in my daughter’s words (Excuse the English and Dutch mix – an oplader is a charger usually for batteries). We arrived after lunch and were enjoying ourselves so much we stayed as late as we could. The weekend before we head to Bergen aan Zee for a day at the beach. On the other hand, I also love a good nature fix. Life goes slower when I remember to live life like this, taking time to enjoy the simple things: sun, kids, and some fresh bread. One of the highlights was sitting on the front steps in the sun and eating our lunch with our plates balanced on our knees. ![]() ![]() But this weekend we were pretty lazy around here. We have been trying to make the most of the good weather. ![]() ![]() ![]() What starts as a carefree fling becomes a lusty game of seduction. Sawyer doesn’t know if Lana can heal his broken heart, but spending time with her might at least make Ashton jealous. Ashton’s cousin has always been sweet and soft-spoken, but now she’s drop-dead gorgeous as well. He’s lost his best girl to his best friend. If only he’d get over Ashton-because Lana is sick of second-best. Lana has a chance to make Sawyer see her, and she’s taking it. And she’s always had Sawyer Vincent-the only boy Lana’s ever wanted-wrapped around her finger. Ashton always made perfect grades, had tons of friends, and looks model-perfect. ![]() ![]() Lana has lived her life in her cousin’s shadow. Especially when he’s been in love with your cousin for as long as you can remember. Getting a boy to fall head-over-heels in love with you isn’t easy. Sawyer and Lana’s romance just got steamier in this exclusive eBook-only companion to the printed original that includes scandalous, heart-pounding scenes. ![]() |