".Sun captures the spirit of Charlie Parker so much so that young hipsters won't know the originals from the covers." – Midwest Record "It is clear Sun has spent some serious time thinking about his approach to Parker’s work." - London Jazz News "Finally, a jazz tribute album that doesn't try to put arms on the Venus de Milo." – Jay Harvey Upstage ".Birding it up all so ingeniously." - Marlbank “.radically inventive original compositions inspired by Charlie Parker.” - Jazziz ".tremendous compositional acuity and flawless execution." - JazzTrail "Of all the centennial tributes to Charlie Parker that did or did not happen, I can’t think of one that honors the protean and soaring spirit of Charlie Parker more appropriately than Kevin Sun’s does here" - Let's Call This ".an engaging, delightful excursion into Birdology" – Hot House Jazz Guide ★★★★☆ - DownBeat Magazine (December 2021) Highly recommended.” – Miguel Zenón, saxophonist/composer The spirit of Charlie Parker is very much alive on this one, an album that seems to bring new discoveries with every listen. "An outstanding recording.The album acknowledges the past, lives in the present and looks to the future.
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Not six months later, Gessen fled Russian for the second time along with her wife and their three young children, citing both fear of government retaliation for her book and concern about the rise of anti-LGBT sentiment spurred on by Putin’s regime. This scathing biography of Putin was published while Gessen was still living and working in Moscow. In 2012 Gessen released her controversial book, The Man Without a Face. She hoped to chronicle the death of the totalitarian state of her childhood, but instead Gessen found herself covering Vladimir Putin’s meteoric rise to power. Despite having no formal training, Gessen began working as a reporter. Masha, however, would return to Russia just a decade later following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December of 1991. The Gessens, fearing for their lives, emigrated to the United States. During the latter years of tight Soviet control, prior to Gorbachev’s reforms, anti-Semitism was at an all-time high in Russia. In addition to being political dissidents themselves, Gessen’s family were also Ashkenazi Jews. Born during the height of the Soviet Union, Gessen first fled her native Russia as a teenager in 1981 along with her family. Like many political dissidents from totalitarian states, at least the living ones, Masha Gessen fled her homeland – twice. From that point of view, it’s probably not the best book for the general public who are relying on vague memories from school. So I had to go and do quite a bit of Googling here and there to understand the wider picture. I think, however, that Stephen Greenblatt expects his audience to know the sketchy outlines of Shakespeare’s life and also to be au fait with the arguments of contemporary scholarship about his life and work. Which is perhaps unsurprising given that so little is known about the Bard’s life. The first thing I realised was that I know a lot less about Shakespeare than I thought I did. This book was recommended to me as the best of a multitude of books about Shakespeare, and so I delved into it with a great sense of expectation. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright. The Blurb (from Goodreads): A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. After a slow start, Wesley does a good job bringing these two together through some fun tropes, though their chemistry remains a bit tepid. Proximity pushes their relationship to become more real than fake, but familial baggage could cost them their happy ending. When the tabloids mistake Jada and Donovan for a couple, Jada goes with it in order to save face, and Donovan, seeing an opportunity to increase sales for his failing cupcakery, agrees to fake a relationship. Jada must prove her ability to be responsible and hold down real work in order to gain access to her trust fund. She’s working to restore her image when her grandmother, the owner of a San Diego football team, ropes her into working at Sugar Blitz bakery, which is owned by the team’s star, Donovan Dell. Jada Townsend-Matthews is infamous for turning down the proposal of a fan favorite contestant on a reality-TV dating show. Opposites attract in this low-angst rom-com from Wesley ( Make the Play), which follows a self-centered reality star and a rule-following, cupcake baking football player who fake a relationship to save his bakery. Other travel books include the massive bestseller Notes From a Small Island, which won the 2003 World Book Day National Poll to find the book which best represented modern England, followed by A Walk in the Woods (in which Stephen Katz, his travel companion from Neither Here Nor There, made a welcome reappearance), Notes From a Big Country and Down Under.īill Bryson has also written several highly praised books on the English language, including Mother Tongue and Made in America. It was followed by Neither Here Nor There, an account of his first trip around Europe. In The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson's hilarious first travel book, he chronicled a trip in his mother's Chevy around small town America. He and his family then moved to New Hampshire in America for a few years, but they have now returned to live in the UK. He lived for many years with his English wife and four children in North Yorkshire. He settled in England in 1977, and worked in journalism until he became a full time writer. William McGuire "Bill" Bryson, OBE, FRS was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. Between disturbing - but super cool - hallucinations of mutilated bodies, medieval battles, and rivers of blood, he meets Dr. It opens with Langdon waking up in a hospital in Florence, unsure of why he’s there. Inferno stars Tom Hanks in his recurring role as the famed symbologist Robert Langdon. This latest film doesn’t look like it’s going to be any different. The books have been quite successful, unlike their cinematic counterparts, which have seen diminishing returns at the box office. Inferno is the third installment in the film adaptations of author Dan Brown's Robert Langdon series, which has four books with a fifth due out next year. Mark Hamill and His Return of the Jedi Prop Lightsaber Reunite in Pop Culture Quest Clip And of course, from what we know of the series and comics history, Batman and Ra’s al Ghul are not far behind. What I especially like is that Adams is playing with the layouts much in the same way he did in Strange Adventures in the late ’60s - the oversize faces, the odd angles, images bleeding into one another. ( Click here to read more about that.)īut now, with the new series in the offing, we have an EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK at Adams’ uncolored, inked pencils for Issue #1. One of the projects I’m most excited about this fall is Neal Adams’ new Deadman series, which debuts 11/1 - coinciding, fittingly, with the Day of the Dead.Īdams has been popping in here with his Deadman Tales - tidbits about his original Deadman covers from the Silver Age, which were among the most groundbreaking in the history of comics. Setin 1992 and foreshadowingthe mysteries and follies of the following twenty years, "Numero Zero"is ascintillating take on our times from the best-selling author of"The Name of the Rose"and"Foucault's Pendulum."" And then a dead body that suddenly appears in a back alley in Milan. The murder of Pope John Paul I, the CIA, red terrorists handled by secret services, twenty years of bloodshed, andevents that seem outlandish until the BBC proves them true.Ī fragile love story between two born losers, a failed ghost writer, and a vulnerable girl, who specializes in celebrity gossip yet cries over the second movement of Beethoven s Seventh. From the best-selling author of "The Name of the Rose" and "The Prague Cemetery, " a novel about the murky world of media politics, conspiracy, and murderĪ newspaper committed to blackmailandmud slinging, rather than reporting the news.Ī paranoid editor, walking through the streets of Milan, reconstructing fifty years of history against the backdrop of a plot involving the cadaver of Mussolini's double. Wherever he goes he finds Australians who are cheerful, extroverted, and unfailingly obliging, and these beaming products of land with clean, safe cities, cold beer, and constant sunshine fill the pages of this wonderful book.Īustralia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide. The result is a deliciously funny, fact-filled, and adventurous performance by a writer who combines humor, wonder, and unflagging curiousity.ĭespite the fact that Australia harbors more things that can kill you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else, including sharks, crocodiles, snakes, even riptides and deserts, Bill Bryson adores the place, and he takes his readers on a rollicking ride far beyond that beaten tourist path. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather, and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. Given she has the survival skills of a gnat, she’s relying on Arionrhod to help her survive the zombie apocalypse. She also enjoys knitting, reading, cooking, and playing video games. McKay is an English teacher who has been writing for one reason or another most of her life. She is currently preparing for the zombie apocalypse. Mother of two human children and two dachshunds who think they are human, she is a voracious reader with wildly eclectic tastes, devouring romance novels, military science fiction, horror stories and Shakespeare with equal glee. Recently, they’ve begun collaborating on designing and creating costumes to wear and compete in at Sci Fi conventions, and they share a love of yarn and cake.Īrionrhod is an avid costumer, knitter, and all-around craft fiend, as well as a professional systems engineer. They began writing together in 2004 and finished their first original full length novel in 2011. Ari McKay is the professional pseudonym for Arionrhod and McKay, who collaborate on original m/m fiction. |
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