Together, they make a new memory of watercress.Īndrea Wang tells a moving autobiographical story of a child of immigrants discovering and connecting with her heritage, illustrated by award winning author and artist Jason Chin, working in an entirely new style, inspired by Chinese painting techniques. Why can't her family get food from the grocery store? But when her mother shares a story of her family's time in China, the girl learns to appreciate the fresh food they foraged. Grabbing an old paper bag and some rusty scissors, the whole family wades into the muck to collect as much of the muddy, snail covered watercress as they can.Īt first, she's embarrassed. Gathering watercress by the side of the road brings a girl closer to her family's Chinese Heritage.ĭriving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's parents stop suddenly when they spot watercress growing wild in a ditch by the side of the road.
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Brief Summary of Book: Anne Boleyn: A King’s Obsession (Six Tudor Queens, #2) by Alison Weir He revolutionized the illustrated book narrative with his multimedia use of real objects, art, and photography collages, and elaborated some of the most amazing box art to present entire worlds on a cover, a single page, or a sequential art layout. "My admiration for Dave McKean has many facets: as an artist, as a storyteller, and as an innovator. This book is a must have for anyone interested in the cutting edge of comics and visual storytelling."-Jeff Lemire (Black Hammer) And now, contained between these beautiful covers, is a thrilling tour of his entire career, his process and his art. "Dave McKean has been a peerless and unstoppable force in the world of comics and graphic design for decades. Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean will contain 600 pages measuring 10.5 x 14", and you can get an up-close look on the next slide. The new collection will also feature never before seen artwork with commentary from McKean, and the hardcover will also include a foreword by David Boyd Haycock. Edited by Samm Deighan, it’s 437 pages long, with a foreward, 16 essays, and an afterword. The third is to consider more generally the experience of reading about film, especially films one has not seen. The second is that I think it’s worth writing a bit about Rollin, who I had not heard of in 2017, who does not seem to have been previously mentioned on this web site, and whose films of the fantastic are (to judge by this book) worth covering here. The first is simply because I dislike yielding to fatigue permanently. Although the book’s currently sold out, I’m reflecting on it now for three reasons. The book launched at Fantasia and I asked for a pdf, then was too wiped out after the festival and for some time beyond to write a review. In 2017 publisher Spectacular Optical put out Lost Girls: The Phantasmagorical Cinema of Jean Rollin, a collection of essays by women scholars. For my last Fantasia post of 2020, I’m again going back to cover something I was too fatigued to get to in a previous year. Lysistrata is a wonderful play for the stage. Even when we are reading, we need always to bear in mind the staging invited by the text. But Athenian comedy is in many ways a far more physical medium than tragedy. This is true of tragedy as well as comedy. Though we (mostly) meet him on the page, he wrote with live theatre and a live (and demanding) audience in mind. Stage action in Lysistrata, by Professor Chris CareyĪristophanes was first and foremost a dramatist. The play was written against the backdrop of the final years of the Peloponnesian War (a long and destructive war between Athens and Sparta): Athens had suffered major military setbacks, and shortly after the performance of the play there was an anti-democratic coup in the city which installed a brutal oligarchic regime (the historical background is given in Thucydides' History, book 8). Aristophanes, the great comic dramatist of Athens, wrote the Lysistrata for performance in February 411 BC, probably at the Lenaia. A recent injury has forced Tristan to leave his distinguished position, but Elisabeth is determined to make him see he's every bit the man he once was-and more than man enough for her. *Bewitching in Boots*: Elisabeth de Roussel, daughter of the King, is accustomed to getting what she wants-and she wants Tristan de Tiersonnier, Comte de Saint-Marcel, an ex-commander of the King's private Guard. 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On her way home late one night, April encounters an armored humanoid figure, which turns out to be alien in nature-“And I don’t mean alien like ‘weird,’" she says. It’s endearing how fully he occupies his narrator, a 20-something bi artist named April May who is wasting her youth slaving at a Manhattan startup. Luckily, he applies wit, affection, and cultural intelligence to a comic sci-fi novel suitable for adults and mature teens. A young graphic artist inspires worldwide hysteria when she accidentally makes first contact with an alien.įamous multimedia wunderkind Green is brother to that John Green, so no pressure or anything on his debut novel. It was broadcast on Radio 4 as a Book at Bedtime in April 2017, is being translated into eleven languages, and has been chosen for the Richard and Judy Summer Book Club 2017. It was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2017, and was longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2017, the Wellcome Book Prize, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the New Angle Prize for Literature. It was a number one bestseller in hardback, and was named Waterstones Book of the Year 2016. Her second novel, The Essex Serpent, was published by Serpent's Tail in May 2016. In January and February 2016 Sarah was the UNESCO City of Literature Writer-in-Residence in Prague. It won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award 2014, and was longlisted for the 2014 Guardian First Book Award and nominated for the 2014 Folio Prize. Here she completed the final draft of her first novel, After Me Comes the Flood, which was published by Serpent's Tail in June 2014 to international critical acclaim. In January 2013 she was Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library. In 2004 she won the Spectator's Shiva Naipaul Award for travel writing. Having studied English at Anglia Ruskin University she worked as a civil servant before studying for an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Creative Writing and the Gothic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979, and was raised as a Strict Baptist. For example, we know virtually nothing other than mythology about the founding of the city of Rome. In any event, his decree “changed the Roman world forever,” and this is why the author chose to end her story at that point.īeard’s book is almost as much historiography as history, as she repeatedly relates the nature and limitations of our actual knowledge of the ancient world. ” Overnight, more than 30 million became legal Roman citizens! Nevertheless, she writes, Caracalla is remembered most as the sponsor of the largest set of public baths then built in Rome. This was a revolutionary step, she avers, since it “removed at a stroke the legal difference between the rulers and the ruled. “SPQR” is the abbreviation used by the ancient Romans for “the Senate and People of Rome.” SPQR is Mary Beard’s recounting of the foundation and growth of the Roman Empire up to the year 212 C.E., when Emperor Caracalla made a full Roman citizen of every free inhabitant of the territory ruled by the Empire. “Chaganti’s book is methodologically innovative, in that it is one of the first major explorations of the relation between material culture and literature in the field. Her approach yields fresh and insightful readings of key texts.[and will be of interest to a wide range of readers, not only specialists in Middle English literature and drama, but all who are concerned with theories of poetry and the relationship between material objects and literary meaning.”-Cathy Sanok, Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan “Chaganti offers us a new way to understand how material culture informed medieval poetics. “This is an ambitious foray into far-reaching territory that offers provocative new angles on medieval literary works.”-Elizabeth Robertson, Professor of English, University of Colorado at Boulder "Her work is crucial to thinking about how reliquaries and material culture in general shape poetic practice and given the ubiquity of relics in late medieval religious culture and practice, such a study is long overdue."-Robyn Malo, The Medieval Review “ The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary is stimulating and provocative, full of insightful analyses of material culture and literary artifacts of the late Middle Ages in England it will certainly be assigned reading in my graduate seminar next spring.”- Speculum |