![]() ![]() ![]() Some details as well as names have been changed for storytelling purposes. ![]() The Silence of Our Friends Author Q&A How much of this book's story is based on real events? Mark Long: Creating a book like this one required us to find a balance between factual accuracy and emotional authenticity. With art from the brilliant Nate Powell (Swallow Me Whole) bringing the tale to heart-wrenching life, The Silence of Our Friends is a new and important entry in the body of civil rights literature. Semi-fictionalized, this story has its roots solidly in very real events. The Silence of Our Friends follows events through the point of view of young Mark Long, whose father is a reporter covering the story. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston’s color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman. This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights. As the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas, two families-one white, one black-find common ground. ![]()
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McDowell lived in Medford, Massachusetts, and maintained a residence in Hollywood with his sister Ann and the filmmaker Peter Lake. ![]() from Harvard College, and a Ph.D in English from Brandeis University in 1978, based on a dissertation entitled "American Attitudes Toward Death, 1825–1865". ![]() McDowell was born in 1950 in Enterprise, Alabama, and graduated from T.R. His best-known work is the screenplay for the Tim Burton film Beetlejuice. Michael McEachern McDowell (J– December 27, 1999) was an American novelist and screenwriter described by author Stephen King as "the finest writer of paperback originals in America today". ![]() ![]() Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.Ĭasino Royale was written by Ian Fleming in Jamaica over a period of around two months, largely from his own experiences and imagination he also devised the artwork for the cover. From The Author.” With a letter of provenance from the original owner, who was a bilingual secretary to the Foreign Manager of Kemsley Newspapers, who was Ian Fleming.” When Fleming was writing Casino Royale, Smith notes that “this copy was acquired on the first day of its publication.” Fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with the lightest of rubbing to the extremities. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Edwina who helped in the birth-pangs. ![]() ![]() ![]() First edition of the first novel in Ian Fleming’s James Bond series. ![]() ![]() Though Superman comics of the time sold literally millions of copies, it was the radio show that brought the character to adults as well as children, and firmly entrenched him as a household name.Įarly Superman was always a left-leaning, populist rabble-rouser, and as World War II wore on, his opposition to fascism and bigotry became more pronounced. ![]() In brief, it ran from 1940 to 1951, with over two thousand episodes to its name, and created crucial aspects of Superman’s mythology, from Jimmy Olsen to kryptonite to Superman’s power of flight. I’ve written before about The Adventures of Superman, the wildly popular radio serial starring Bud Collyer and Joan Alexander. Not to ruin the book or movie for anyone, but this is one of my favorite real-life stories about Superman, so I’m very happy to have an excuse to talk about it. the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate, which is surprisingly almost exactly what it sounds like. ![]() This spring, Deadline announced a forthcoming movie adaptation of Rick Bowers’ YA nonfiction book Superman vs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What is the best way to balance the risk of inflation against the benefits of a society that is more broadly prosperous, safer, cleaner, and secure? Rather than asking the self-defeating question of how to pay for the crucial improvements our society needs, Kelton guides us to ask: which deficits actually matter? Everything that we've been led to believe about deficits and the role of money and government spending in the economy is wrong, especially the fear that deficits will endanger our long-term prosperity. Stephanie Kelton shows how misguided this question really is by using the bold ideas of modern monetary theory (MMT), the radically different approach to using our resources to maximize our potential as a society. Supporting the economy, paying for healthcare, creating new jobs, preventing the a climate apocalypse - vital challenges which inevitably raise the question: how can we pay for it? 'Convincingly overturns conventional wisdom' New York Times 'This book is going to be influential' Financial Times 'The tools we desperately need to build a safe future for all. ![]() ![]() Wanting more from life, she quickly latches onto Mountain Brook’s affluent lifestyle, where Old Money meets new. ![]() Jane is a fish-out-of-water, an averagely attractive young woman from out West with a mysterious past, a beat up car and a dubious living situation in a skanky apartment near strip malls. John River becoming John Rivers, a church employee from her past who tries blackmailing our heroine. Reed switching from Jane’s aunt to her employer and St. Despite the playfulness of the reworked names (Jane Eyre’s charge Adèle surfaces as Eddie’s Irish setter puppy), some of the more sinister characters from the classic bring their shadows with them to “The Wife Upstairs”: cold and aloof Mrs. ![]() ![]() In Hawkins’ version, admirers of “Jane Eyre” may smile as they encounter “Eddie” Rochester, zipping his sports car through the neighborhood called Thornfield Estates, the storied English names somehow fitting in quite well in this modern-day South. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. ![]() Clarke Award, the Kitschie, and the Bailey's Women's Prize.įollow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe-in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star. ![]() The acclaimed modern science fiction masterpiece, included on Library Journal's Best SFF of 2016, the Barnes & Nobles Sci-Fi Fantasy Blog Best Books of 2015, the Tor.com Best Books of 2015, Reader’s Choice, as well as nominated for the Arthur C. Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series! #7 in Bestselling LGBTQIA+ Fiction Audiobooks ![]() ![]() Then a month later, Nimona was announced to have landed at Netflix, and production for the movie restarted in early 2022, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Īs mentioned above, Nimona is an adaptation of ND Stevenson’s best-selling graphic novel of the same name, which was published as a webcomic from 2012 and then finally released as a graphic novel book in 2015. There had been rumblings of a Nimona resurrection for months, and in early February 2022, Netflix filed a copyright for the word “Nimona.” ![]() That led to lots of speculation about the future of Nimona, and at the time, employees working on the project said the movie “will likely never see the light of day.” Shortly after, news came that production on Nimona would be halted, and the film would not be released. Production was already underway when Disney acquired Fox, and in February 2021 it was announced that Disney, which already has Pixar and Walt Disney Animation, would shutter Blue Sky. It was initially intended for a 2020 release which was then pushed to a 2022 release. The project was originally produced by Blue Sky Studios, a part of the animation division of then 20th Century Fox. ![]() ![]() Up until it’s Netflix creation, Nimona has had a bumpy production history as it was previously developed for Fox, and later Disney starting in 2015. Here’s what else we know about Netflix’s Nimona: ![]() ![]() ![]() "The fight against racism that was pursued during the war years laid the foundation for the civil rights movement in the coming decade. ![]() "One of my students' biggest takeaways from Matt's book was that they did not realize how many obstacles African Americans had to overcome to even participate in the war effort," Sandoval says. ![]() (She also shared a link to her assignment.) Sandoval shared eight submissions from the class on Twitter, where Delmont saw them. They were tasked with selecting a page, circling words that relate to their idea, and sketching a design or image that supports their poem or statement. history teacher, Amanda Sandoval, to create "blackout poetry" that captures a "big idea" that others should know about. Students at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Eastvale, Calif., listened to and read the book's introduction and were asked by their U.S. Since Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad was published in October, author Matthew Delmont has received praise from such outlets as PBS, NPR, and the New York Times for bringing to light Black Americans' heroism during the war and experience of racism.īut one response to the book left him "completely amazed and blown away." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There the family leads a mildly eccentric middle-class existence-until the Iraqi invasion drives them first to Egypt and then to Texas. Born in 1970s Boston, the rebellious Nidali-whose name is a feminization of the word “struggle”-soon moves to a very different life in Kuwait. Randa Jarrar’s fresh, funny and fearless debut novel chronicles the coming-of-age of Nidali, one of the most unique and irrepressible narrators in contemporary fiction. “A Map of Home,” a novel about a childhood in the Middle East and America, from an exciting new voice. A coming-of-age story that’s both singular and universal-an outstanding debut.”Ĭo-presented with the English Department at Normandale Community College. ![]() Jarrar is a funny, incisive writer, and she’s positively heroic in her refusal to employ easy sentimentality or cheap pathos. ![]() |