She knows that if she can complete the list she’ll become the kind of artist she’s always dreamed of being. And now she’s been rejected from an art show because her work “has no heart.” So when she gets another opportunity to show her paintings Abby isn’t going to take any chances.Ībby gives herself one month to do ten things, ranging from face a fear (#3) to learn a stranger’s story (#5) to fall in love (#8). She hasn’t been able to manage her mother’s growing issues with anxiety. She has a not-so-secret but definitely unrequited crush on her best friend, Cooper. Seventeen-year-old Abby Turner’s summer isn’t going the way she’d planned. An idea to broaden one’s horizons for the sake of art – great idea, flat delivery.
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Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company’s monetization strategy, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter. One of Silicon Valley’s most audacious chaos monkeys is Antonio García Martínez.Īfter stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, García Martínez joined Facebook’s nascent advertising team, turning its users’ data into profit for COO Sheryl Sandberg and chairman and CEO Mark “Zuck” Zuckerberg. Tech entrepreneurs are society’s chaos monkeys, disruptors testing and transforming every aspect of our lives, from transportation (Uber) and lodging (AirBnB) to television (Netflix) and dating (Tinder). Infrastructure engineers use a software version of this “chaos monkey” to test online services’ robustness-their ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur. Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacenter powering everything from Google to Facebook. Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it. Investors are people with more money than time.Įmployees are people with more time than money.Įntrepreneurs are the seductive go-between. The reality is, Silicon Valley capitalism is very simple: Liar’s Poker meets The Social Network in an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble, from industry provocateur Antonio García Martínez, a former Twitter advisor, Facebook product manager and startup founder/CEO. Turner’s painting “The Slave Ship” to Zinedine Zidane’s head-butt during the 2006 World Cup final. Like Rankine’s last book, “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely” (2004), which shares its subtitle, “Citizen” is part documentary, part lyric procedural, submitting to its painstaking frame-by-frame analysis everything from J. M. “Citizen,” which has been short-listed for the National Book Award, suggests that a contemporary “American lyric” is a weave of artfully juxtaposed intensities, a quarrel within form about form. Rankine has called it an attempt to “pull the lyric back into its realities.” Those realities include the acts of everyday racism-remarks, glances, implied judgments-that flourish in an environment where more explicit acts of discrimination have been outlawed. The poet Claudia Rankine’s new volume, her fifth, is “Citizen: An American Lyric” (Graywolf), a book-length poem about race and the imagination. Claudia Rankine Illustration by Patrick Morgan / Reference from Margarita Corporan Artful, intensely emotional work from one of our finest writers. What are the forces that shape our most elemental bonds? How do we make lifelong commitments in the face of identities that are continuously shifting, and commit ourselves for all time when the self is so often in flux? What happens to love in the face of the unexpected, in the face of disappointment and compromise-how do we wrest beauty from imperfection, find grace in the ordinary, desire what we have rather than what we lack?ĭrawing on literature, poetry, philosophy, and theology, Shapiro writes gloriously of the joys and challenges of matrimonial life, in a luminous narrative that unfurls with urgent immediacy and sharp intelligence. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning-a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time-abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Mayfair Witches is the second Rice novel to become a TV series, following Interview With the Vampire. Fletcher) as Jojo.Įsta Spalding ( Masters of Sex) serves as showrunner, writing and executive-producing alongside Michalle Ashford ( John Adams). Mayfair Witches’ recurring cast includes Annabeth Gish ( The X-Files) as Deirdre Mayfair, Beth Grant ( The Mindy Project) as Carlotta Mayfair, Erica Gimpel ( God Friended Me) as Ellie Mayfair and Jen Richards ( Mrs. The series also stars Jack Huston ( Boardwalk Empire) as Lasher, a “powerful, shape-shifting entity who has been bound to the Mayfair witches for hundreds of years” and is considered to be one of Rice’s “most mysterious and sensual characters” Harry Hamlin ( Mad Men) as Cortland Mayfair, the “current reigning patriarch of the Mayfair clan with a voracious appetite for more money, more power and more life” and Tongayi Chirisa ( Palm Springs) as Ciprien Grieve. “As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.” Rowan Fielding, “an intuitive young neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches,” per the official logline. AMC has conjured up a first look at its forthcoming adaptation of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches books, and we’re definitely feeling the magic.īased on Rice’s trilogy of novels, the series stars Alexandra Daddario ( The White Lotus) as Dr. I bet there are many of you who have that one favorite book, the one whose allure you can't resist, whose pages are dog-eared because of the numerous times you pored over its pages. My soul feels restless if I ignore its yearning. I simply HAVE TO pay my regular visit to them, going so far as to reading it once or even twice every year. The Axel-Bayden pair works just the same for me. It is almost like an old picture that you like to look at time and time again just because you love to look at it, because it reminds you of good times. I am deeply in love with the simple yet attention-riveting writing of this story, the strong yet vulnerable characters. As if I don't already remember every detail and subconsciously complete all the dialogues already! "Just one more time." it whispers always, almost lovingly. I have lost count of the number of times this book has lured me back to itself, cooing like a siren and grabbing me in its velvet clutches, not letting me go until I succumbed to the temptation and reread it. It’s a multiple-perspective novel about schoolyard bullying, malicious gossip, and domestic violence. That gentleman may be even more cross with Big Little Lies. “He seemed quite cross with me for trying something different.” “I had one gentleman ask me when I was going to go back to writing my funny books,” she says. Not all of her readers were pleased with the author’s more serious tone. But with The Husband’s Secret, Moriarty explores more serious issues, including hit-and-run deaths, marital miscommunication, and a parent’s grief. Instead, the novel jumps ahead to 12 years after the outbreak started, showing us a pandemic-altered world through the eyes of a sheltered 24-year-old named Rosemary Laws. If Pinsker was only interested in capturing our cultural malaise, Song for a New Day would have little insight to offer readers right now. When people say to me, ‘I read your book and it gave me hope,’ that is the highest compliment. When, days later, she finds out her bandmate has died, a baffled friend remarks, “Who dies of the flu? I thought that was old people and babies.” As lockdowns and social-distancing are enacted, Luce and her roommates create a list on their kitchen dry-erase board titled, “Don’t Forget Normal.” They catalog things like “pride parades, school assemblies, outdoor movies, outdoor concerts, baseball games, crowded trains, roller derby bouts.” The list takes over the whole wall, creating a mural that one roommate turns into an interactive online exhibit. One unnerving passage has the central character, rock musician Luce Cannon, trying to convince her sick bandmate to go to the hospital, before anyone has fully grasped the gravity of the disease. Pinsker masterfully avoids clichés of medical thrillers and movies like Contagion, instead opting to present a gradual eating away of society’s sense of stability. In Pinsker’s book, a fictional disease known simply as “the Pox” doesn’t lead to some apocalyptic sci-fi scenario. It’s a short, to-the-point book without any filler or unnecessary details. Unsure of whom he can trust and slowly losing his mind, Stacks Fischer doggedly pursues his own retirement plan.įrom the creative mind of author Chris Pourteau comes OPTIONAL RETIREMENT PLAN, a fast-paced, high-stakes sci-fi yarn full of action. As bounty hunters pursue Fischer through the solar system, a disgraced military official offers Stacks protection and a way to halt the progression of his “Oldtimer’s disease” if he can pull one last job. Fischer, though, has no intention of going quietly he’s determined to retire on his own terms. But thanks to a dementia-like illness, Stacks has been getting careless, which prompts SynCorp to grant him the ultimate retirement gift-placing a bounty on his head. For thirty years, Stacks Fischer has been SynCorp’s number-one hitman. In the not-so-distant future, the Syndicate Corporation rules all. Piper, an Instagram model and socialite with a wealthy stepfather who paid all her credit card bills, pretended not to care because she did not want a bad photo of her to end up online. Her boyfriend of three weeks, Adrian, broke up with her in the middle of the party and accused her of being a bimbo with nothing at all unique or interesting about her. The story begins with 28-year-old Piper at a fancy Hollywood party. However, as their relationship begins to progress, the narrator brings the two characters closer together and narrates both of their perspectives in the same chapter, though usually the narrator still uses chapter breaks to distinguish between their vantage points. In the beginning, the narrator only presents Piper’s narration in her chapters, and Brendan’s narration in his chapters. The novel is narrated in the past-tense by a third-person narrator who switches back and forth between Piper and Brendan. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Bailey, Tessa It Happened One Summer. |