![]() The publication of Faith Ringgold’s Tar Beach in 1991 launched her career as a children’s author, and it was an auspicious debut. The song is about escaping the “hustling crowd” and “rat race noise” by climbing “up to the top of the stairs” and spending time in the “trouble proof” space “up on the roof.” This summary of the song equally applies to Ringgold’s Tar Beach, but Ringgold’s story goes beyond the theme of escape to explore ideas of imagination and empowerment. In that moment, I was reminded of an old Motown hit by The Drifters called “Up on the Roof” that I listened to when I was young. ![]() Wanting the students to experience this picture book in the same way that young children usually do, I opened the book and started reading out-loud about eight-year-old Cassie Louise Lightfoot and her love of spending time on the roof of the tenement building where she lives with her family. I was looking at Ringgold’s two Tar Beach quilts when I flashed back to a graduate seminar I taught on urban children’s literature, where I devoted an entire class session to picture books set in cities, including Ringgold’s Tar Beach. I recently visited Faith Ringgold: American People, the New Museum’s retrospective exhibit of Ringgold’s art. He is especially interested urban children’s literature. West is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he teaches courses in children’s and young adult literature. ![]() ![]() Claiming New York in Faith Ringgold’s Tar Beach ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Whitehead will be chatting with MashReads IRL on Oct. We hope you'll join us!Īlso, if you are looking for something new to read, check out our official MashReads October book club selection: Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead. Next week we'll continue the theme by chatting about our favorite Halloween books. "I picked up this book because the cover is beautiful and what I found inside this book are completely beautiful, devastating poems about loneliness." You can check out a preview here (opens in a new tab). MJ recommends Sarah Jean Alexander's poetry collection Wild Lives. "It's very interesting and dark and fun." She also recommends two web series: Edgar Allen Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party (opens in a new tab) and Carmilla (opens in a new tab). "It's very atmospheric."Īliza recommends The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis. ![]() ![]() Peter recommends The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley. Then, inspired by the fact that Something Wicked is a lesser-known Bradbury novel (compared to Fahrenheit 451), we talk about lesser-known books by famous authors - including Stephen King's fantasy novel The Eyes of the Dragon, After Dark by Haruki Murakami and The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan.Īnd as always we close the show with recommendations. ![]() ![]() ![]() You may not be astonished if I tell you that there is Something Out There in the mist. ![]() Carmody ( Marcia Gay Harden), a would-be messianic leader, and the store assistant Ollie ( Toby Jones), who, like all movie characters named Ollie, is below-average height and a nerd. Inside the store, we meet a mixed bag of locals and weekenders, including Brent Norton ( Andre Braugher), the Draytons' litigious neighbor Mrs. They leave mom behind, which may turn out to be a mistake. When the electric power goes out, David Drayton ( Thomas Jane) and his young son Billy ( Nathan Gamble) drive slowly into town to buy emergency supplies at the supermarket. In "The Mist," based on a Stephen King story, a violent storm blows in a heavy mist that envelops that favorite King locale, a village in Maine. Combine (1) a mysterious threat that attacks a town, and (2) a group of townspeople who take refuge together, and you have a formula apparently able to generate any number of horror movies, from " Night of the Living Dead" (1968) to " 30 Days of Night." All you have to do is choose a new threat and a new place of refuge, and use typecasting and personality traits so we can tell the characters apart. ![]() ![]() ![]() He takes part in a dream-like bone dance with hundreds of swirling skeletons and as all the spirits come out at midnight, he sees the spirit of his grandmother and she tells him what she loves most of all. ![]() Even though he is saddened because he is without a meaningful gift, Beto is swept up in the celebration. As Beto and his father travel through the market, picking up all the things that they will need, Beto sees many things that he would like to give her, but from candles to bread to soda pop, everyone else seems to have taken care of it all. Beto loves laughing at the crazy skeletons and eating the sugary treats on el Día de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead), but he is troubled that he cannot think of anything to place on the altar for his grandmother’s return. ![]() Freschet returns to the theme of Mexican holiday she celebrated so well in Naty’s Parade (2000). ![]() ![]() From there, Dagon’s blasphemous spawn spread out across the globe, while the offspring of that decaying fishing town undergo their own, often bizarre, metamorphoses.Īs the world changes, so through eldritch rituals and human sacrifices the Deep Ones’ masters-the terrifying Great Old Ones themselves-prepare to escape their prisons when the stars are right, so that they may once again reclaim the Earth as their own.Īs the waters continue to rise, mankind begins its ultimate struggle for survival against a pantheon of dark gods and their batrachian foot-soldiers. ![]() Once again taking Lovecraft’s original 1931 novella as inspiration, we are introduced to the Massachusetts seaport and its ichthyoid denizens years before that fateful FBI raid. Lovecraft and a “posthumous collaboration” between the author and August Derleth. Kiernan, Brian Lumley, Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver, Angela Slatter, Michael Marshall Smith, Simon Kurt Unsworth and Conrad Williams, along with an Innsmouth poem by H.P. ![]() The final volume in the trilogy that began with the World Fantasy Award-nominated Shadows Over Innsmouth (1994) and Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth (2005), containing stories by Ramsey Campbell, Adrian Cole, John Glasby, Brian Hodge, Caitlín R. ![]() ![]() ![]() Paparazzi hoping to catch him in the immigration arrivals hall will likely be disappointed in past trips, he has been whisked from the aircraft directly into a car waiting for him on the tarmac. The Duke of Sussex just departed London Heathrow onboard British Airways flight BA269 at 3:45 PM local time and will touch down in Los Angeles at 7:14 PM, about 20 minutes behind schedule due to strong headwinds, arriving in the Tom Bradley International Terminal. 12:15 PM ET UPDATE: Speculation as to what flights Prince Harry would choose for the historic coronation of his father in London have now been fully answered: he flew American Airlines for the outbound and is now flying British Airways home to Los Angeles. ![]() ![]() ![]() That posting has had major consequences and now Cooper and his buddies have stolen her private notebook and won't give it back until she performs all the things on her list in one night. Eliza got her revenge by posting some pretty nasty (and only sort-of true) stuff about Cooper online. But this was more than your average breakup.turns out the sweet and cute Cooper was only dating her as a hazing stunt by a secret society. Now it's two years later, and in that time Eliza has had and lost her first boyfriend. But Eliza kept adding her goals and secret fears to the list in the notebook. New town, new Eliza, right? Well, she'll never know because the transfer fell through and they didn't move. ![]() Having always been shy and not so confident about her body, Eliza took that opportunity to start a list in her private notebook of all the things she planned on doing when she moved but had always been afraid to-like wearing a miniskirt and asking guys to dance singing karaoke in front of strangers posting a photo of herself on her Facebook wall in a bikini.you get the idea. ![]() Two years ago, when Eliza Sellman was in ninth grade, her dad found out he was being transfered and the family was going to move. ![]() ![]() ![]() All three share a long term camaraderie and all three share goals of ridding France of the current corrupt practices by the monarchy, but at the same time are not above indulging in their own form of corruption.The progression they and the other characters in this absorbing historical fiction make towards scheming, planning and then the execution of their plans to build a republic is gripping. Robespierre is a austere lawyer whose ideals are lauded by many. ![]() Desmoulins writes incendiary pamphlets that are distributed around the country to expose corruption of the monarchy and injustices, but is seen as flighty bisexual. Danton is an ambitious lawyer, charismatic, lusty and full of purpose. This is the beginning of the French Revolution, and amongst the many characters who played a part in the fall of the monarchy, are 3 men, George-Jacques Danton, Camille Desmoulins and Maximilien Robespierre.The relationship of these 3 men is fascinating. In the late 1700s, the growing unrest in France by the populace leads to some men and women pushing their ideals towards the forming of a republic to great heights and for some, to great falls. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re interested in King on different platforms, look to our guide of Stephen King TV Series, Miniseries, TV Movies Ranked. (This is a guide to theatrically released King adaptations. So let’s get this fire started with all rated Stephen King movie adaptations by Tomatometer! - Alex Vo In recent years, it’s been about cats ( Pet Sematary), clowns ( It Chapter Two), and kids ( Doctor Sleep, new adaptations of Firestarter and Children of the Corn). But nope, there was also Misery and The Green Mile! As for the ’90s, well…it’d be the best decade ever for just The Shawshank Redemption. The 1980s saw a slew of adaptations, the highlights being The Shining, Stand by Me, and The Running Man (the book for which was published under pulp fall-guy name Richard Bachman). el tema es que me gust, Stephen king no defrauda. el final no lo entend pero porque empec a disociar y se me fue el avin. juega con lo psicolgico y la percepcin de la realidad, miedos y escepticismo. ![]() ![]() First came 1976’s Carrie, two years after he published that first novel, which made household names of the author, Brian De Palma, Sissy Spacek, and the humiliating viscosity of pig’s blood. '1408' (Netflix) del libro con el mismo nombre de Stephen king. (Photo by Warner Bros/courtesy Everett Collection) All Stephen King Movies Rankedįor as long as King’s been been publishing, Hollywood’s been knock-knock-knockin’ on Stephen’s door for more. ![]() ![]() ![]() Detective Erika Foster will catch a killer, whatever it takes. Watch out for more from DCI Erika Foster. If you like Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbot and Karin Slaughter, discover Rob Bryndza's new series today. The Girl in the Ice - Robert Bryndza Her eyes are wide open. But will she get to him before he strikes again? A page-turning thriller packed with suspense. on-line notice The Ice Pdf as without diculty as evaluation them wherever you are now. With her career hanging by a thread, Erika must now battle her own personal demons as well as a killer more deadly than any she's faced before. The last investigation Erika led went badly wrong. What dark secrets is the girl in the ice hiding? As Erika inches closer to uncovering the truth, the killer is closing in on Erika. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet when Erika begins to dig deeper, she starts to connect the dots between the murder and the killings of three prostitutes, all found strangled, hands bound and dumped in water around London. The victim, a beautiful young socialite, appeared to have the perfect life. When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder investigation. Description A young London socialite is brutally murdered by a notorious serial killer in this compelling page-turner of dark secrets and deadly investigations (NYT bestselling author Jeffrey Deaver). ![]() |