![]() She was named for the wildflower which hadn’t been seen since before her birth, and for ocean life, poisoned and gone. The dress billowed to her knees, over the tops of her boots. ![]() She hid it well in a dress she had found in the road, sun-bleached and mud-dotted, only a little ripped. ![]() But is it possible to choose a future for herself?Ĭoral was pregnant then. When a reporter from a struggling city on the coast arrives in Trashlands, Coral is presented with an opportunity to change her life. She’s stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where women dance for an endless loop of strangers and the club’s violent owner rules as unofficial mayor. Amid the polluted landscape, Coral works to save up enough to rescue her child from the recycling factories, where he is forced to work. In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has turned into, Coral is a “plucker,” pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. ![]() ![]() Scroll down for a look the cover of Trashlands, the forthcoming novel by Alison Stine, and read the first chapter.Ī few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() We began that editing relationship, and you also sent me The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison. I discovered you then, and reached out via email, asking if you would spend some time editing my poems. Yours is the beautiful piece that starts the whole book. Both of our work appears in the anthology Mothering Through the Darkness. ![]() MELISSA UCHIYAMA: I realized that we began our email conversation back in 2015. Keep Moving was borne from the author’s tweets and written, at least initially to herself, as the poet went through a divorce.Īs we talked via Zoom, her evening in Ohio, and my morning in Tokyo, we recounted our previous connection. Maggie was poised for the launch, though this is her second book launch in a pandemic. Indie Books has already placed Goldenrod on the Indie Next List for the month of August, but this is just a drop in the deluge of praise that is to come from her 68,000 Twitter fans alone. Its impact continues to extend the poet’s vulnerable belief in the beauty of a world that also knocks the wind out of us. The poem, written in a coffee shop in Smith’s hometown of Bexley, Ohio, has been translated into well over a dozen languages. Smith is considered a “viral poet” after her poem “Good Bones” filled the hearts and minds of thousands. I SPOKE WITH poet Maggie Smith on the precipice of the publication of her fifth book and fourth collection of poems, Goldenrod, available July 27, 2021. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perlstein grew up in the Bayside and Fox Point neighborhoods of suburban Milwaukee, taking cross country trips with his parents and siblings to national landmarks like Mount Rushmore and Yellowstone National Park. His father ran Bonded Messenger Service, a delivery company founded by his grandfather in 1955. Perlstein was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to a Reform Jewish family, the third child of Jerold and Sandra (née Friedman) Perlstein. Politico has dubbed him "a chronicler extraordinaire of modern conservatism." Early life and education The author of five bestselling books, Perlstein received the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his first book, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. Perlstein (born September 3, 1969) is an American historian and journalist who has garnered recognition for his chronicles of the post-1960s American conservative movement. ![]() ![]() Luna finds herself in the same predicament as bad luck unfolds. But when Donnelly’s two best friends set a time and place for a double-no, a “triple” date-the countdown to finding a date is on.ĭonnelly has no idea who he should bring. ![]() With his life among the security team and his friends at stake, he doesn’t need to make waves among the Hales, especially the notoriously overprotective Loren Hale, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Petty. Paul Donnelly is trying not to be hung up on her. Her brother’s bodyguard, eight years older (okay, sometimes, nine), and the son of meth addicts-the tattooed, shameless bodyguard is the only one her dad really hates. But there is someone who could rival every swoony man inside her imagination.Īnd he only lives three floors below her. ![]() She escapes most days inside the fandoms she loves and the fics she writes, and she’s accepted that real life just sucks more than fiction. Overview: As the eldest daughter of famous parents, Luna Hale is anything but normal. Misfits Like Us (Like Us #11) by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie ![]() ![]() ![]() This is one of several of Fleischman’s novels that reflects his love of music he’s said that as a child, he wanted to write music for orchestras rather than write books. He won the 1989 Newbery Medal for Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices. Fleischman wrote his first novels while he was still in college, though it was the books he wrote in the 1980s that earned him major accolades. ![]() He then went on to attend the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of New Mexico. When Fleischman was 19, he bicycled cross-country and spent several years living in an 18th-century house in New Hampshire, an experience that influenced many of his historical fiction novels. Both of Paul’s parents inspired Seedfolks: his father because he kept a hobby garden to take breaks from writing, and his mother because she volunteered in immigrant communities as well as community and therapeutic gardens. He’s the son of Sid Fleischman, who is also a renowned children’s author. ![]() Fleischman was born in Monterey, California. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fortunately, Ellie has allies in her dad, her therapist, and her new neighbor, Catalina, who loves Ellie for who she is. It's also where she can get away from her pushy mom, who thinks criticizing Ellie's weight will motivate her to diet. ![]() In the water, she can stretch herself out like a starfish and take up all the room she wants. ![]() To cope, she tries to live by the Fat Girl Rules-like "no making waves," "avoid eating in public," and "don't move so fast that your body jiggles." And she's found her safe space-her swimming pool-where she feels weightless in a fat-obsessed world. Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this poignant debut novel-in-verse.Įver since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she's been bullied about her weight. ![]() ![]() A lot happens: Laura and Mary go to school for the first time we meet Laura’s nemesis, Nellie Oleson we learn how utterly repulsive millions, literally, of grasshoppers can be and we begin to understand that Pa has a knack for getting the Ingalls family into precarious situations.īy the time I read FARMER BOY, the story of Laura’s future husband’s childhood, the difference between Almanzo’s dad and Pa convinced me that, although charismatic and devoted, Pa didn’t know what the hell he was doing. ![]() I doubt that I’m the only one who wanted to live in a dugout and eat vanity cakes (“because they are all puffed up, like vanity, with nothing solid inside”) after reading this book. My introduction to Wilder’s world was the fourth book in the series, ON THE BANKS OF PLUM, CREEK and it remains my favorite. To me, Wilder will always be the little girl who ran barefoot through fragrant prairie grasses with her sunbonnet dangling down her back. ), long-legged (“Snipes!”), and sometimes naughty (and excellent at revenge). But in my mind, there is no Laura Ingalls Wilder the grown-up writer, there is only Laura Ingalls: spritely (twinkly-eyed, like Pa), braided (blue bows only, please, except that once . . . ![]() Laura Ingalls Wilder would have turned 150 this year. ![]() ![]() Therapist and martial artist Michele Simoneīessel van der Kolk's book is The Body Keeps the Score. Bessel van der Kolk joined us to talk about his work, but also about the Capitol riots and the effect of the pandemic on connection and touch. It messes with our nervous system, and it short-circuits the part of the brain that van der Kolk describes as the “embodied feeling of being alive.” So an important part of treating trauma, he says, is for victims to have positive bodily experiences - like yoga, dancing, or martial arts. In his book The Body Keeps the Score, he says that we store trauma in our bodies. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma van der Kolk M.D., Bessel on. ![]() And in the past year, Americans have collectively experienced quite a bit of trauma. He says that the body and brain are literally reshaped after a traumatic experience. Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk is an expert on treating trauma. Workbook for The Body Keeps The Score: : Brain, Mind and Body in The Healing of Trauma by Genie Reads Sold by: Services LLC 4. ![]() ![]() Posted Wednesday June, 2nd 2021 Interview with Bessel van der Kolk "How Trauma Lives In Our Bodies with Doug Fabrizio" ( ) This essential book unites the evolving neuroscience of trauma research with an emergent wave of body-oriented therapies and traditional mind/body practices. ![]() ![]() As well as a chronicle of cultural change it is an intervention in it and it has both overt and implicit political aims. This work is, in the words of Stuart Hall, a "moment of self-clarification". No matter how hard you try to talk about somebody else, you are always going to be talking about yourself. In the politics of gender, sex, and the body, the existence of the body is for us all, a statement of gender from the moment of birth. The truth of any "becoming", though, is a falsity, though it maybe true at the level of the text. In studying I politicise and theoretise the culture of gender and irreversibly change it. I become a part of the object of my study as I produce. ![]() It is an active engagement in a pedagogy with the textual producer about whom one is textualising. To participate, to textualise, is to become a historical conjecture. Cultural studies was defined and originated as a political project "it holds theoretical and political questions in an ever irresolvable but permanent tension" (Hall, 1992: 284). In the process, which is not only one of observation but of textualising a version of the observations, one becomes a "cultural contribution". To be involved in cultural studies is undoubtedly a contradictory project. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everything I had known of him was 3rd person. I am an admirer of Apple, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.well, iWOZ an admirer or Wozniak. From the invention of the first personal computer to the rise of Apple as an industry giant, iWoz presents a no-holds-barred, rollicking, firsthand account of the humanist inventor who ignited the computer revolution. Wozniak's life before and after Apple is a "home-brew" mix of brilliant discovery and adventure, as an engineer, a concert promoter, a fifth-grade teacher, a philanthropist, and an irrepressible prankster. But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: what if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen? The result was the first true personal computer, the Apple I, a widely affordable machine that anyone could understand and figure out how to use. They had cryptic switches, punch cards, and pages of encoded output. The mastermind behind Apple Computer sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time.īefore cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. ![]() |