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This is not just the story behind a classic queer book, but of a queer artist who was deeply flawed. However, one of those very affairs and a chance encounter in a department store give Pat the idea for her soon-to-be beloved tale of homosexual love that was the first of its kind-it gave the lesbian protagonists a happy ending. Her brain churns with images of the great novel she could and should be writing-what will eventually be Strangers on a Train- which would later be adapted into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951.Īt the same time, Pat, a lesbian consumed with self-loathing, is in and out of conversion therapy, leaving a trail of sexual conquests and broken hearts in her wake. A drinker, a smoker, and a hater of life, Pat knows she can do better. Flung Out of Space opens with Pat begrudgingly writing low-brow comics. Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this story through Highsmith’s eyes-reimagining the events that inspired her to write the story that would become a foundational piece of queer literature. A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEARĪ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICEĪ fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Saltįlung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. READ MORE: 'Fear is not freedom': Centenarian shreds Florida book bans as Nazi behavior Solona Beach parent Kaia Alexander's 11-year-old son Atticus is a student at Skyline Elementary School, where a teacher objected when he brought a copy of "Cujo." The teacher was disturbed by a description of "Cujo" as a book that "depicts pretty graphic violence, and has fairly explicit sexual acts." Many of the heated debates over reading material for K-12 schools have occurred in red states, where MAGA Republicans have raged against "critical race theory" and books they consider "woke" - which could be anything from "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" to Alice Walker's "The Color Purple."īut in Solona Beach, California, a different type of parent/teacher debate recently took place: one involving Stephen King's 1981 horror novel "Cujo" and Suzanne Collins' series of dystopian novels "The Hunger Games." In turn, the people, culture, customs and heritage are woven into the rich tapestry of this gorgeous record, one that joins Solange’s ‘When I Get Home’, Alabama Shakes’ ‘Boys and Girls’ and more in detailing the Black Southern experience. You can leave Hillarville, it seems, but Hillaryville never leaves you. ‘ Wait Til I Get Over’, the first solo outing for the frontman of soul heroes Durand Jones and The Indications, is dominated by the town, a place founded by freed slaves in the late 1800s, and where the 33-year-old grew up. Hillaryville, a small community on the banks of the Mississippi River in Louisiana, looms large on Durand Jones‘ debut album. Another recent English biographer, Anton Gill, author of The Devil's Mariner (1997), was equally at sea (so to speak) until 1988, when a footnote on Dampier "caught my eye" while researching another subject.Īppalled by their own ignorance, the wife-and-husband team of Diana and Michael Preston have written a biography that comes across, despite its catalogue of Dampier's flaws, as an entertaining act of hero-worship. The Oxford-trained authors of the biography A Pirate of Exquisite Mind "knew nothing of him when we found his portrait in a book of pirates". as the person who described the coast's inhabitants as "the miserablest people in the world".Įven less is known about Dampier in his native land, where, although his fame and notoriety survived for many decades after his death, he seems to be barely remembered today. And, given a TV quiz multiple-choice question (a. They know that he was an English sailor who had something to do with the "discovery" of the west coast of Australia. William Dampier is a name that rings at least faint bells with most broadly educated Australians. A PIRATE OF EXQUISITE MIND: THE LIFE OF WILLIAM DAMPIER, EXPLORER, NATURALIST AND BUCCANEER By Diana and Michael Preston, Random House, $32.95 He’s a tall man, his hair like pepper, clad in sweats, with a yellow timer hanging from his neck. Hopping on to a bus and hopping off thirty minutes later, I scan the mix of both commercial and apartment numbers down the block, then knock on my last door. I sling my backpack over my shoulder and scratch another name from my list. Meet Maverick “The Avenger” Cage in Legend, the newest stand alone in the Real series releasing February 9th!įour cities in two days, and more doors slammed in my face than I can count. But Maverick fights for the woman in his heart, and the monsters in his blood. The world’s eyes are on them and the victor will go down in history as the ultimate fighting champion the ultimate Legend. A girl who's supposed to root against him and a girl he's supposed to stay away from. As Mav trains, he meets a young girl-the only other new person in the town-and sparks fly. When things get heated between them, he finds out she's none other than Reese Dumas, the cousin of Remington Tate’s wife. He's got a personal score to settle with the Underground's one and only Remington "Riptide" Tate. Though he keeps his identity well guarded, he's known on the fighting circuit as the new kid with a chip on his shoulder and a tattoo on his back that marks him as trouble. Maverick “the Avenger” Cage wants to rise to the top and become a legend in the ring. Genre: Contemporary Romance, Erotic Romance “Tower of Babylon”, which tries to invent a plausible way to construct a miles-tall tower with Bronze Age technology and ties it into the old Biblical model of the firmament, is a fun way to start the collection, and “Seventy-Two Letters” mashes up various bits of Medieval esoterica ( homunculi, golems, Kabbalah and the true name) with Malthusianism, quines and Victorian social worries into a very believable melange. The other is more Gaiman-esque, taking a germ of an idea from religion or mythology and building a consistent universe around it.įunny as this may sound coming from me, I think the latter are a lot better. The first is the classic Asimov-style stuff, about how a scientist or scientifically-minded person comes to terms with a discovery that turns reality as we know it on its head. Stories of Your Life and Others is a sci-fi short story collection, semi-punningly named after it’s most famous story “Story of Your Life” – you might know it as the movie Arrival.Īlthough they are all more-or-less about alternative and impossible scientific systems, the stories can be roughly divided into two classes. Dove also wrote her thoughts on this one, and hers are better, but here’s mine. This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude’s secret. They’re just not sure they’re ready to share that with the world. Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess. He’s five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. This is how children change…and then change the world. This is how a family lives happily ever after…until happily ever after becomes complicated. This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secret ends up keeping them. Please see Disclosures for more information. That means if you click and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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