![]() The Lit 16: Honoring sixteen emerging literary artists whose works are changing the game. Thank you so very much for joining us in celebration. However, we do encourage all of our artistic peers to advance toward the directive set forth by the iconic and legendary Ancestor Toni Morrison: “If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”īe sure to follow the #Lit16 hashtag on social media and subscribe to Witness to stay up-to-date on upcoming Lit 16 events. ![]() The family we're born into but also our community. Papa Myron selected and placed each stone of the house’s foundation himself, she whispered to me and Mya. Unfortunately, for many reasons, we are unable to accommodate that large of a scope. A review of 'Memphis' by Tara Stringfellow which is at its core a book about family. Mama squeezed my hand as the three of us gazed up at it, our bleary exhaustion no match for the animated brightness before us. We could have easily created a Lit 64 there are so many fantastic recent works that we adore. ![]() In the spirit of community over competition, the Lit 16 reading series is how Deesha Philyaw, Kiese Laymon, and I decided to use our platforms to shine a light on emerging writers whose art has impacted, inspired, and moved us in ways that we wanted to honor and share with you. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In order to restore our inner lives, we must avoid being co-opted by these gigantic companies, and understand the ideas that underpin their success. As these companies have expanded, marketing themselves as champions of individuality and pluralism, their algorithms have pressed us into conformity and laid waste to privacy., They have produced an unstable and narrow culture of misinformation, and put us on a path to a world without private contemplation, autonomous thought, or solitary introspection - a world without mind. These firms sell their efficiency and purport to make the world a better place, but what they have done instead is to enable an intoxicating level of daily convenience. Without pausing to consider the cost, the world has rushed to embrace the products and services of four titanic corporations., We shop with Amazon socialise on Facebook turn to Apple for entertainment and rely on Google for information. This rapid change has imperilled the way we think. Over the past few decades there has been a revolution in terms of who controls knowledge and information. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had to laugh when I read about your distaste for some of the “new age” writing that was once so popular: Richard Bach and Tom Robbins, both of which I did at one point enjoy (granted, I was a teenager, and I haven’t revisited the books since then). ![]() Of course, the paperback version of the first book has to sell well enough to make a sequel remotely viable. I’d like to explore some of them in greater detail, and also include some the editor and I fought over, like JB Priestley, Ursula Curtiss, Algernon Blackwood, and Willa Cather. I have another 300 to choose from! Although 99 made the list for the first volume, the book actually contained many more passing references which need fleshing out. What authors are next on your list for a volume two? I see that The Book of Forgotten Authors began as a column before you made it into this collection of short essays. ![]() ![]() After I reviewed The Book of Forgotten Authors, the non-forgotten author, Christopher Fowler, got in touch we exchanged a few emails about some of our old favorites (including Betty MacDonald, one of my nominees for inclusion in the sequel) and, as I am generally nosy about the creative process, and he is quite courteous, he kindly agreed to answer some questions for NewsWhistle readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfamiliar with the ways of the Others, Ayla misunderstands, and thinking Jondalar no longer loves her, she turns more to Ranec. She finds women friends and painful memories of the Clan she left behind, and meets Ranec, the dark-skinned, magnetic master carver of ivory, whom she cannot refuse-inciting Jondalar to a fierce jealousy that he tries to control by avoiding her. Bringing back the single pup of a lone wolf she has killed, Ayla shows the way she tames animals. Though Ayla must learn their different customs and language, she is adopted because of her remarkable hunting ability, singular healing skills, and uncanny fire-making technique. She has finally found the Others she has been seeking. Riding Whinney with Jondalar, the man she loves, and followed by the mare’s colt, Ayla ventures into the land of the Mamutoi-the Mammoth Hunters. Auel continues the breathtaking epic journey of the woman called Ayla. ![]() With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to The Clan of the Cave Bear and its sequel, The Valley of Horses, Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race. ![]() ![]() ![]() My favorite part, especially, when the boys got in a fight. The action, the adventure, the surprises. I was at the good part too! Well, it's all good. That's the third time this week she took it from me. She told me goodnight and slammed the door behind her. "I don't care! It's two in the morning! Go to sleep!" She snatched the book one of Rangers Apprentice, The Ruins of Gorlan right out of my hands. ![]() "But Mooooom! I'm at the part where he kills-" I will definitely look for the rest of this series. We know what most of the characters are thinking all the time, and yet it doesn’t get confusing. On a purely technical note, this was one of the few books I’ve read that uses third-person omniscient point-of-view and actually pulls it off. The novel was a bit long on the explanations for my taste - a lot of telling about the characters especially at the beginning when showing would have sufficed - but that did not stop me from enjoying the book. ![]() The relationship between Will and his Battleschool rival is particularly well portrayed, and Will’s training as a ranger makes for great reading. In Flanagan’s world, young wards of the state have to choose professions, and Will is reluctantly recruited to become a ranger. It was a believable, well-grounded alternate medieval earth. In fact, it had no sorcery at all, which was kind of refreshing. It’s been a while since I read a classic sword and sorcery fantasy novel, but I enjoyed this one a lot. ![]() ![]() His interpretive claim therefore challenges the customary thought of what woke Kant. In this book, Omri Boehm rigorously and engagingly argues that they indeed represent a Spinozistic threat.īoehm interprets the antinomies in the Critique of Pure Reason as evidence that Kant aims exclusively to refute Spinoza, so that the critique of reason just is a critique of Spinozism (pp. These antinomies don't signify a Humean threat. Yet in a 1798 letter to Garve, he says what first shakes his slumber is the need to resolve "the antinomy of pure reason", specifying the first antinomy regarding the world's beginning and the third antinomy regarding freedom (AA 12:257-8). Kant claims as much in the Prolegomena after singling out Leibniz's metaphysics: "the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber" (AA 4:257, 260). ![]() We are accustomed to thinking that the pre-critical Kant, among the rationalist positions, is closest to Leibniz and, amid various problems, responds chiefly to Hume. ![]() ![]() ![]() He eats some of the food he’s scavenged and stored, hears voices from the past in his head, and interacts with the Crakers, who ask him to tell stories from the past. ![]() The novel opens with Snowman going through his daily routine. The second storyline follows Jimmy (this was Snowman’s name before the plague hit) and describes how the Crakers, the plague, and Snowman’s lonely existence came to be. ![]() The first follows Snowman’s endeavors after the human population of Earth has been wiped out by a massive deadly plague, when all that apparently remains are the Crakers (a genetically manipulated group of beings who are similar to but not the same as humans and survive easily in this environment) and Snowman himself, who watches over the Crakers and struggles himself to survive. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whichever view of this at times too-sprawling tale readers take, along the way there is plenty of delightfully funny dialogue (“Okay, Balder? Could you and your Norse goodness do me a solid and take a hike? I need a minute here”) and enough real character development, in spite of all the purposefully zany details, to cause genuine concern for their respective fates.įans of the author’s previous works will not be disappointed, and it may appeal to science-fiction and fantasy fans with a taste for dry humor as well.Īfter surviving a suicide attempt, a fragile teen isn't sure she can endure without cutting herself. ![]() Or possibly Cameron is just hallucinating his way through his last days in a hospital bed. This decidedly fantastical premise mixes with armchair physics and time-travel theory as they make their way from Texas to Florida. In a marked departure from her Victorian-era Gemma Doyle trilogy, Bray offers a novel about a road trip undertaken by surly Cameron, a 16-year-old mad cow–disease sufferer, Gonzo, his hypochondriac dwarf hospital roommate, and a sentient garden gnome who is actually the Norse god Balder. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Initially, Blay engaged somewhat halfheartedly in heterosexual activities after his transition, sometimes participating in threesomes with females and Qhuinn at the clubs they visited. He was the first of the trio to go through his transition. They joined the Brotherhood's training program together where they met John Matthew. Īs pretrans, he and Qhuinn became best friends and Qhuinn was treated as a member of the family. Blaylock is the only child of Rocke and Lyric who raised him to be rather down to earth compared to other members of the glymera when Rocke once caught him stealing cigarettes from a doggen, he made Blay smoke an entire pack of unfiltered Camels until he was sick and never wanted to touch another cigarette again. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Rachel delves deeper into Nick’s family history, she is encumbered in jealousy and classism perpetuated by Nick’s relatives. ![]() In fact, many call him the Prince William of Asia. To her astonishment, when both of them arrive in Singapore for a wedding, Rachel quickly realizes that Nick’s standard of living is on an entirely different level. The story follows Rachel Chu, a professor of economics, who falls in love with her boyfriend, Nick Young. ![]() In the case of most book-movie adaptations, the book has more substance it provides more context to plot points, lets the reader glimpse the thoughts of characters and let’s not forget that the reader gets to inhale the smell of books everytime we open the front cover.Ĭrazy Rich Asians is written by Kevin Kwan, who is Singaporean American. As one who devoutly supports this well-known phrase and hates to be wrong, reading Crazy Rich Asians after seeing the movie was agony. “The Book is Better than the Movie” is printed on t-shirts, laminated on pins, and even plastered on coffee mugs. ![]() |