![]() Ultimately, Rudy’s work rises above the chaos to offer a fresh and positive perspective of shared humanity and beauty. Helium is filled with work that is simultaneously personal and political, blending love poems, self-reflection, and biting cultural critique on class, race and gender into an unforgettable whole. Rudy’s poems and quotes have been viewed and shared millions of times as he has traveled the country and the world performing for sell-out crowds. Helium is the debut poetry collection by internet phenom Rudy Francisco, whose work has defined poetry for a generation of new readers. Rudy was the first spoken word poet to perform on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and was most recently seen on ABC’s The Bachelorette as the contestant’s poetry coach. Pre-order a SIGNED copy before they sell out!Īs seen on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon! Francisco is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Helium (Button Poetry, 2017) and I’ll Fly Away (Button Poetry, 2020). We’re also thrilled to announce Rudy’s third book of poetry, EXCUSE ME AS I KISS THE SKY ,forthcoming November 7, 2023. ![]() It’s the 5-Year Bookiversary of Helium by Rudy Francisco!ĪND 50% OFF paperbacks, eBooks, & audiobooks with code HELIUM5. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The ship is as sleek and empty as a modern office space, like the white hallways of the TV show Severance, and all we see of New Discovery is a long valley that the crew members sometimes visit. The ambience is that of a spaceship, called the Six Thousand on a distant planet called New Discovery, but there is little conventional world building. So we can’t feel like we’re getting to know individuals. ![]() We can only guess if any of the crew are behind more than one statement and, if so, what that indicates about the changes they are experiencing. That is perversely appropriate since the corporation they serve, as the preface makes clear, only sees them as functionaries and tools of corporate processes, who seem to be gradually failing in fitness for purpose in their workflows. Though vividly brought to life through their statements that reveal more and more extreme responses and dramatic changes, the characters are without names or histories enabling readers to identify with them. That is all there is for a plot in The Employees, and it’s hard to identify with the anonymous speakers. ![]() ![]() It used to be called, and then I wanted to remove my name from it, because it seemed a bit grandiose. Oh, it doesn’t mean anything! I needed a title for the comic. This is embarrassing but I’ve never really known what Hark! A Vagrant meant. ![]() Me and my peers kind of rode hard on those coattails. People like me really benefited from the work that was put in between the late 90s and the mid 2000s, by those guys, establishing a business model that works. I can remember writing a story for Time about PvP and Penny Arcade and these webcomic things people were doing. ![]() That was when webcomics were still a new thing. And I put the comics online, and they spread through word of mouth, and when they reached a certain point I thought, well, I’ll give this a shot. You could see that cartooning was something you could kind of keep up. But I did comics for the student newspaper, and this was like the early 2000s, when graphic novels were becoming a bigger thing. ![]() I didn’t think there was going to be any money in that, so I went to school for history and anthropology, and I was going to work in museums. And was encouraged to do so by my parents. My grandfather was the person you’d call if you wanted to slaughter one of your animals, so he kind of grew up the old-school butcher way, then he worked in a grocery store. There’s only one store in my town, and he was kind of the meat manager. ![]() ![]() In this collage of characters, a few main story lines head for convergence. The people are poor, the towns are tiny, and suffering and darkness are usually at hand. There’s Willard, who comes back from fighting in the Pacific and falls in love with the waitress who serves him bad meatloaf when he’s nearly home. There’s a good preacher and a couple of lousy ones. In “The Devil All the Time,” there’s a female bartender who offers sexual favors to make extra money, because her boyfriend doesn’t work. ![]() It’s fair to say these places are underrepresented in literary fiction, as are the characters that people them. It’s set partly in Knockemstiff and in nearby West Virginia in the decades after World War II. Pollock’s first novel, “The Devil All the Time,” should cement his reputation as a significant voice in American fiction. Pollock was a high school dropout and worked for 32 years in a paper plant - an unusual entry into publishing - before getting an MFA and racking up writing awards. ![]() ![]() It was also the name of his literary debut, a widely acclaimed short-story collection that came out in 2008. It’s hard to believe there was once a real town called Knockemstiff, but it’s the place in southern Ohio where writer Donald Ray Pollock was born in 1954. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Records of Hopkins’ early career in the art of witch hunting are a tad vague, however it appears to stem from when he moved to Manningtree, Essex in 1644. Within the political and religious chaos that reigned throughout the period of the English Civil Wars, one previously unheard of Matthew Hopkins emerged. Such a background led to a heightened public anxiety about witches that would slowly fester in the decades that followed, inspired in no small part by similar concerns across The Channel in mainland Europe. He was so obsessed with the ‘black arts’ that he even convinced Parliament to pass the Witchcraft Statute of 1604, which ruled witchcraft as a crime punishable by death. James certainly had a strange fascination with all things associated with the occult: shortly after assuming the throne, he released his best-selling book, 'Daemonologie' which explored the areas of witchcraft and demonic magic. The kingdoms of Scotland and England were united in 1603, when King James VI of Scotland also became James I of England. ![]() ![]() ![]() I've read other books regarding basketball history (the Larry-Magic book, a Pistol Pete biography, a book about the ABA, and, of course, The Book of Basketball, to name a few). ![]() I picked this book up last summer (got a first edition at a book store last year for a couple of bucks), and it was one of the best all-around books I have read in a long time. ![]() New Post Game Thread Bam Adebayo with 22 points, 17 rebounds, 9 assists, and only 1 turnover as the Heat take a 2-0 lead on the road after a 111-105 win against the Celtics Top Team Subreddit PostsĢ One more - Full uniform set based on the upcoming brand refreshģ Seeing Monk, Caleb, Plumlee, and even Zeller thrive during these playoffs have made me sad, but also very proud.Ĥ [Kevin Huerter pinpoints the start of the Atlanta Hawks' 'downfall'ĥ How many of y’all still have your limited edition slam Duncan o’sĮDIT: Meant to write "I recommend it to everyone here." Haven't recommended it here on /r/NBA previously, so I wanted to clear that up. ![]() ![]() ![]() “An engaging, nuanced and literate take on the alternately dynamic and diffident decade.” - Washington Post ![]() It’s a fascinating trip down memory lane.” - Time “In The Nineties, Klosterman examines the social, political and cultural history of the era with his signature wit. The result is a multidimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis so smart and delightful that future historians might well refer to this entire period as Klostermanian. In The Nineties, Klosterman dissects the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the pre-9/11 politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan, and (almost) everything else. Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job. The ’90s brought about a revolution in the human condition, and a shift in consciousness, that we’re still struggling to understand. It was the last era with a real mainstream to either identify with or oppose. Landlines fell to cell phones, the internet exploded, and pop culture accelerated without the aid of technology that remembered everything. ![]() In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. From the author of But What If We’re Wrong comes an insightful, funny reckoning with a pivotal decade ![]() ![]() ![]() MediaType eBook shortDescription Robert B. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages He finds he must test his mettle and powers of command to emerge a local hero-or the deadest of dupes. Against all this, Jesse stands utterly alone, with no one to trust-even he and the woman he’s seeing are like ships passing in the night. For what is on the surface a quiet New England community quickly proves to be a crucible of political and moral corruption-replete with triple homicide, tight Boston mob ties, flamboyantly errant spouses, maddened militiamen and a psychopath-about-town who has fixed his violent sights on the new lawman. ![]() ![]() Once on board, Jesse doesn’t have to look for trouble in Paradise: it comes to him. He can’t help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he can’t refuse. So he’s shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. Parker introduces readers to police chief Jesse Stone in the first novel in the beloved mystery series-a New York Times bestseller.Īfter a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, thirty-five-year-old Jesse Stone’s future looks bleak. ![]() ![]() The sense of loneliness that had plagued me since childhood became even more acute, but I consoled myself with the vague hope that I was cut out for a special destiny that someday would be revealed to me. In my adolescence, I would have given anything to belong to the boisterous clique that danced to rock ‘n’ roll and smoked behind adults’ backs, but I didn’t try, because I knew I wasn’t one of them. ![]() At times I had moments of terrifying lucidity and believed that I could divine the future and the remote past, long before I was born it was as if all times were occurring simultaneously in one space, and suddenly, through a small window that opened for a fraction of a second, I traveled to other dimensions. I never saw the world as they did to me, things and people tended to become transparent, and dreams and stories in books were more real than reality. Indice 1 Trama 2 Analisi 3 Edizioni 4 Collegamenti esterni Trama Lopera scaturisce dal desiderio dellautrice di entrare in contatto con la figlia ventottenne Paula, ammalatasi di porfiria, una malattia rara e gravissima, che lha condotta in un coma irreversibile. ![]() In that period of my life, I felt different from my brothers, and other children. Paula è un romanzo della scrittrice cilena Isabel Allende, pubblicato nel 1995. Desde 2004 es miembro de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Letras. ![]() “The idea of becoming an anonymous nun came to me much later. Isabel Angélica Allende Llona ( Lima, 2 de agosto de 1942) 4 es una escritora chilena. ![]() ![]() The story goes that the Cockney workers created it as a kind of secret code so their upper crust bosses wouldn’t know what they were talking about. What is Cockney rhyming slang you ask? Exactly what it sounds like-using a rhyming phrase to stand for another word. He has a passion for British sports cars and a soft spot for his border collie Shep, as well as a fondness for using Cockney rhyming slang. He’s methodical and always speaks his mind, not that anyone ever listens to him. ![]() ![]() Ian Dodge lives in a small town of Tobias, somewhere in Brunswick County, North Carolina. He’s still a fish out of a water, the guy who’s from Some Place Foreign, and damn proud of it. Even though he’s lived in the States for more than half his life, he refuses to be Americanized. ![]() The inspiration for Ian Dodge, the private investigator featured in my book Sportsman’s Bet, was inspired by my curmudgeon of a British ex-pat husband, Nigel (Yes, his name really is Nigel. You make him a character in your latest e-book. What do you do when your husband thinks your writing is just a misguided hobby and constantly drops hints about giving it all up for a nice steady job at Target? ![]() |