![]() ![]() ![]() Kafka and Freud, Kafka and Nietzsche, Kafka and Marx but not Kafka and Groucho Marx, or Chaplin – and he was a fan of Chaplin". The novelist and short-story writer Clive Sinclair, who says that he owes a "particular debt" to Kafka and to Prague, regrets that "you don't see any books on Kafka and humour. Crucially, he could have flown out the window, had he wished. In a lecture, Vladimir Nabokov – lepidopterist as well as novelist – brought his expertise to bear and dubbed Gregor "a scarab beetle with wing-sheaths". For Malcolm Pasley, he was a "monstrous insect" for Stanley Corngold, "a monstrous vermin". ![]() To Willa and Edwin Muir, the Scottish bohemians who first translated Kafka into English, Gregor has turned into "a gigantic insect". The readers who must delve into their own many-legged mental bestiary include Kafka's swarm of English interpreters. But Dr Kafka, a promising young claims assessor at the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute in Prague, wrote it in late 1912 at the time, he simply told literary friends about his forthcoming "bug piece" (Wanzensache). The story first appeared in October 1915, in a magazine called Die weissen Blätter, then in December as a slim volume from Kurt Wolff Verlag of Leipzig. "When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself changed into…" What, exactly? Over the century since Franz Kafka published The Metamorphosis – and the original German does have that definite article – readers have had to imagine the hideous beastie for themselves. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Or at least they are in the Charles household, in the Broadway revival of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson,” which opened Thursday at the Ethel Barrymore Theater.įirst staged in 1987 at the Yale Repertory Theater, “The Piano Lesson” made its Broadway debut at the Walter Kerr three years later. These circumstances are more than enough to raise the dead. Four Black men gathered around a kitchen table exuberantly sing a work song (“When you marry, don’t marry no farming man, hoh-ah,” they holler, clapping and stomping their feet), a Black woman girds herself with her grief for the husband and father she lost to the anger of white men, and siblings fight over a seemingly haunted family heirloom that tells a story of generational trauma and loss. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bigger and Jack go back to Doc’s, and Gus arrives later than the other three Bigger threatens Gus with a knife, and Gus runs out of the pool hall, putting an end to the group’s robbery plan. Dalton’s daughter, and Jan, her Communist boyfriend, is shown. Jack and Bigger go to see a movie, in which a newsreel of Mary Dalton, Mr. The four plan the robbery of Blum’s deli, with Gus the least willing to perform it, since the gang has never before robbed a white man, and Gus worries about retaliation. Gus and Bigger go into the pool hall and meet up with Jack and G.H. Bigger tells Gus that he would be an aircraft pilot, if it were possible. On his way to Doc’s pool hall, Bigger runs into his friend Gus, and the two talk about jobs they might enjoy doing if it weren’t for the fact that they are African American, and therefore essentially barred from many professions. Dalton, a rich, white real-estate magnate in the South Side of Chicago. Ma and Vera spot a rat, and Bigger kills it with a frying pan, before heading out for the afternoon-a day in which, as his mother and Vera remind him, he has an interview with Mr. The novel Native Son begins in the Thomas apartment in 1930s Chicago, where Bigger, his sister Vera, his mother ( Ma), and brother Buddy all live, in one room, together. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was nine years old when I wrote my first stories, around the time I learned of my maternal grandmother Ada’s excruciating shunning. The Story of Katie Lapp Continues as an Unexpected, Delightful Musical.īlog by Beverly Lewis, New York Times bestseller author of Amish fiction. In celebration of The Confession Musical coming to theaters nationwide on February 20 th, we are excited to share an exclusive blog written by Beverly Lewis (and the first Fathom guest blog) about the conception of the Heritage series and bringing her story to the big screen. She has added a breath of fresh air to the world of romance novels, offering an Amish flair that is both intriguing and true to their way of life. Bestselling author and remarkable storyteller Beverly Lewis is no stranger to this. It requires dedication, understanding, meticulous research, and most of all, passion. From Bestselling Book Series to the Screen, Meet Beverly LewisĬapturing the essence of a culture is tricky. ![]() ![]() ![]() And, if Rachel is a witch, why hasn't she used her powers to fly away from the jail on the wings of a nightbird? As his investigation draws him into the darkness of a town gone mad, and deeper into its many secrets, Corbett realises that time is running out for him, for Rachel and for the hope that good could possibly win out over evil in Fount Royal. ![]() A number of her accusers appear to gain by her execution. Clues to the crimes seem too convenient and contrived. The testimony against her is fanatical and unreliable. Struck first by her beauty, Matthew believes Rachel to be too dignified, courageous and intelligent for such obscene charges. But Matthew Corbett, young clerk to the travelling magistrate summoned to Fount Royal to weigh the accusations, soon finds himself persuaded in favour of the beguiling young widow. After a disastrous stint as sheriff of a small town in the Southwest, John Grady returns home to. The beleaguered, God-fearing colonial village wants her dead. Signed by author Robert McCammon directly on the title page. She's been accused of murder, deviltry and blasphemous sexual congress. It's 1699 in the coastal settlement of Fount Royal in the Carolinas when Rachel Howarth is sentenced to be hanged as a witch. ![]() ![]() ![]() He can well be called the main character of the mystery series, and maintains an enigmatic presence – but is not the protagonist – in all of the books. Noah Bishop, the leader of SCU periodically spots people with paranormal abilities and asks them to work for the FBI. The unit consists of regularly trained agents with a “psychic edge” to them. ![]() Kay Hooper is chiefly known for the Bishop / Special Crimes Unit (SCU), a series which centers around a Special Crimes Unit in the FBI. Little is known of her life other than what she chooses to reveal. Kay seems to favour a solitary lifestyle, living and writing in a small North Carolina town and sharing her life with a flock of cats and two friendly dogs. Since then she has penned well over 60 novels, including some novellas. ![]() She made her literary debut with Lady Thief, which she sold to Dell Publishing in 1980. Kay and her sister Linda own an independent bookstore, Fireside Books and Gifts. She was born in 1957 or 1958 (sources vary) in a California air force base hospital as her father was stationed there. ![]() Kay Hooper (aka Kay Robbins) is a mystery writer currently residing in North Carolina. ![]() ![]() ![]() He received a host of rejections from publishers, but the novel was eventually acquired by Wynwood Press, with 5,000 copies printed in 1988. Grisham wrote the book in three years, getting up at 5am to work on it before he started his day job. ![]() The novel was written after Grisham – then a lawyer who had been elected to the state House of Representatives – overheard the testimony of a 12-year-old rape victim he was inspired to explore what would have happened if her father had murdered her attackers. Clanton was also the setting for A Time to Kill, in which Brigance defended Carl Lee Hailey, on trial for murder after gunning down his daughter's white rapists. ![]() ![]() Have you listened to any of Carmen Rose’s other performances before? How does this one compare? She did the Scottish accents especially well. The narrator was also enjoyable to listen to. The beginning when Maddie invents her betrothed and the letters she wrote to her imaginary Captain. I found the personalities of Maddie and the Captain inconsistent with the story as it progressed. The story didn't seem to have continuity and the very detailed sex scenes were 'thrown in' to take up space. The beginning was delightful, the letters to the imaginary Captain were comical, but it soon lost it's humor and the story started going downhill after a real Captain MacKinzie appeared on the scene. ![]() She created a love match with a Scottish Captain away at war. ![]() ![]() Not interesting in marriage wanting only to draw her pencil drawings Maddie devised a plan to stay at home. The theme of the story was charming: a shy debutante fearing her first London season and how she avoids it. Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?ĭoubtful. ![]() ![]() The Man.All of his known biographical details are presented here. ![]() A powerful, charismatic singer and one of the greatest ever slide guitarists who influenced all the top blues, gospel, rock and country guitarists who heard his playing. Blind Willie Johnson was a guitar evangelist who sang and recorded his music in the early part of the twentieth century.His music is still much appreciated today, in it' s own right and on Film and TV Soundtracks etc. It' s like the Blind Willie Johnson Rosetta Stone The Music.All his guitar playing from his thirty recordings examined here. The Words.All of his recorded songs, fully explained an deciphered for the first time here. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But set against these tales of woe are the remarkable benefits of phosphorus. Whenever man has wanted to commit evil, phosphorus has often been there to help him. It has for centuries been used as a murderous poison. ![]() During World War II, the Nazis turned phosphorus into chemical agents far more powerful in disabling people than any other war gas. During World War I, the bum damage done by phosphorus was horrific. Although phosphorus matches (called lucifers) were considered "the greatest boon and blessing to come to mankind in the nineteenth century," the women and children who made them endured dangerous and unbearable working conditions and, eventually, the rasping pain of phossy jaw. However, it soon became known as the "devil's element" by causing more curses than cures. First unleashed in the mid-1600s in Hamburg, Germany, when alchemist Hannig Brandt distilled it from human urine, phosphorus was hailed as one of the secret substances of the "philosopher's stone" and a marvelous cure-all. ![]() Now, award-winning author John Emsley combines his gift for storytelling with his scientific expertise to present an enthralling account of this eerily luminescent element. ![]() ![]() For more than 300 years, phosphorus-one of nature's deadliest creations-has continued to fascinate us with the many surprising roles it has played in human history. The 13th Element It was discovered by alchemists, prescribed by apothecaries, exploited by the industrialists of the nineteenth century, and abused by the combatants of the twentieth century. ![]() |