![]() ![]() ![]() While preparing for her bat mitzvah, she was introduced to an entire set of arcane laws and quickly made it her mission to follow them perfectly. Jennifer's childhood mania was the result of her then undiagnosed OCD joining forces with her Hebrew studies-what psychiatrists call scrupulosity Recalling the agony of growing up an obsessive-compulsive religious fanatic, Traig fearlessly confesses the most peculiar behavior like tirelessly scrubbing her hands for a full half hour before dinner, feeding her stuffed animals before herself, and washing everything she owned because she thought it was contaminated by pork fumes. Jennifer Traig's memoir Devil in the Details paints a portrait of a well-meaning Jewish girl and her good-natured parents, and takes a very funny, very sharp look back at growing up with obsessive-compulsive disorder. ![]()
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![]() To help the cast with their character, director Moisés Kaufman wanted the cast to read the full trilogy. That was five to one." This time it got complicated. "I made a deal with the original cast: For every line I cut of theirs, I cut one of mine. And now that a lot of ground has been broken, it is comfort food for the theatergoer's soul.įierstein says that cutting lines are never easy but it had to be done, even when Trilogy was four hours long. ![]() ![]() ![]() Torch Song is still three related one-acts, but it's down to a relatively bite-sized two hours and 45 minutes. This has been a banner year for iconic, groundbreaking gay-themed plays on Broadway: Angels in America and The Boys in the Band received stellar revivals in the spring, and now Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song makes it a trifecta. It had five characters, and the closest it got to the spectacle was Fierstein. Trilogy was composed of three related one-act plays on the life of Arnold Beckoff, a drag queen looking for love. Even Trilogy tried to get in on the action a little: Its subtitle was The Life and Adventures of Arnold Beckoff, and it clocked in at about four hours. ![]() Tickets to Nickelby cost a then-exorbitant $100 the show had over a hundred characters, and it ran eight hours. When Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein debuted off-Broadway in 1982, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby, which had opened in late 1981, was all the rage and size mattered. ![]() ![]() ![]() But that’s the good thing about Christianity. And what if they never liked you? Part of growing up in the South, you learn that you burn in hell for the rest of your life if you don’t do this or that. It just doesn’t make sense if you think about it. It’s like billions and billions of people, and what are the odds of even finding them. I thought, with all the people in heaven, all the people who have lived on Earth, how do you even find your family. My sister Amy went to a psychic who said my mom, who is dead, was with my sister who committed suicide and they are all together now spending time with grandma and grandpa. I think when you die, it’s like unplugging the TV. ![]() ![]() What do you think happens after you die?Ī: I don’t think I believe in an afterlife. Q: “Happy-Go-Lucky” documents your father’s death. He’ll read from “Happy-Go-Lucky” Sunday at the Balboa Theatre downtown. Sedaris has penned a dozen previous books, contributes regularly to “The New Yorker” and his “Santaland Diaries,” which first aired on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” in 1992, remains an annual tradition. ![]() “The best you can say with any degree of certainty,” he writes, “is that my father’s in another place, meaning not the only restaurant in town that could accommodate a party of eighteen with five hours’ notice, which, hint, it could do only because nobody wants to eat here, especially me - it’s just that I need to keep my strength up. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After reading the first 3 books I can say that I'm liking this series better than GOT, O.K. I confess that I bought this book because of George RR Martin's saying that this series were the original 'Game of Thrones'. This bundle collects the first three novels of The Accursed Kings: THE IRON KING, THE STRANGLED QUEEN and THE POISONED CROWN. Bent on the persecution of the rich and powerful Knights Templar, Philip sentences Grand Master Jacques Molay to be burned at the stake, thus drawing down upon himself a curse that will destroy his entire dynasty… He governs his realm with an iron hand, but he cannot rule his own family: his sons are weak and their wives adulterous while his red-blooded daughter Isabella is unhappily married to an English king who prefers the company of men.Ī web of scandal, murder and intrigue is weaving itself around the Iron King but his downfall will come from an unexpected quarter. The Iron King – Philip the Fair – is as cold and silent, as handsome and unblinking as a statue. ![]() “Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!” Martin.Ī collection of the first three books in Maurice Druon’s epic historical fiction series, The Accursed Kings. “This is the original Game of Thrones.” George R.R. ![]() ![]() ![]() The film, starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler, began production in October 2006 and was released in the U.S. This novel success continued and soon was adapted into a film. It was also number one bestseller in the U.K, U.S and across Europe. This novel was published in 2004 and was Ireland’s number one bestselling novel for 19 weeks. This novel became her first best-seller: “PS. International success P.S I Love You movie coverĬecelia Ahern’s writing success began in 2002 when she was 21-years-old. She is married to David Keoghan and they have two children: Robin and Sonny. She began working towards a masters degree, however, dropped out to begin her career as a writer. Before becoming a writer, Cecelia attended Griffith College Dublin and studied Journalism and Media Communications. ![]() LifeĬecelia Ahern was born in Dublin on 30th September 1981. Cecelia AhernĬontinue reading to discover the life and novel success of i Irish novelist Cecelia Ahern. Cecelia Ahern is a contemporary author who has had major book and film success throughout her ongoing career. Here at Connoll圜ove, we take pride in all the famous writers Ireland has produced. ![]() ![]() ![]() Characteristically, the author suggests major historical themes without ever arguing them as such. “Ohio fever” spread throughout a New England crippled, after the war, by economic depression, but Southerners also moved west, fomenting the conditions that would, at the end of McCullough’s vivid narrative, end in regional war three generations later. ![]() Manasseh Cutler, one of his principal figures, “endowed with boundless intellectual curiosity,” anticipated the movement of his compatriots across the mountains well before the war had ended, advocating for the Northwest Ordinance to secure a region that, in McCullough’s words, “was designed to guarantee what would one day be known as the American way of life”-a place in which slavery was forbidden and public education and religious freedom would be emphasized. ![]() McCullough ( The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For, 2015, etc.) isn’t writing about the sodbusters and hardscrabblers of the Far West, the people whom the word “pioneers” evokes, but instead their predecessors of generations past who crossed the Appalachians and settled in the fertile country along and north of the Ohio River. A lively history of the Ohio River region in the years between the Revolution and the Civil War. ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Burns' birthday, January 25, is traditionally celebrated across the world with Burns Suppers. Hi poetic style is marked by spontaneity, directness and sincerity with injections of humour and tender intensity which had a great influence on Romantic poets such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridgeand Percy Bysshe Shelley. ![]() Celebrating the Scots dialect in his writing, Burns was celebrated as a pioneer of the Romantic movement and became renowned for collecting and adapting traditional Scottish folk songs. As a rose is the flower most connected to romance, this is a strong simile. As Burns Night approaches we thought no better time to start celebrating than with our weekly Featured Poem, My love is like a red, red rose by Robert Burns.īorn in 1759, Robert "Rabby" Burnsis perhaps Scotland's most famous poet and lyricist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Olga falls in love with her neighbor, Herbert, the son of a local aristocrat, her life is irremediably changed. Smart and precocious, endearing but uncompromising, she fights against ingrained chauvinism to find her place in a world run by lesser men. “A brilliant novel about history and the nature of memory.”- Evening StandardĪ sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the international bestseller The Reader about a woman out of step with her time, whose life is witness to some of the most tumultuous events of modern age.Ībandoned by her parents, young Olga is raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village in the early years of the twentieth century. “Two world wars and the passage of more than a century do not overshadow story of lovers who never fully belong to each other, just as they never fully belonged to the world.”- Booklist ![]() ![]() ![]() I was curious to see how the rest of the story looked so when I saw this Absolute Edition had both versions AND Alan Moore's script, I pre-ordered this. I read Brian Bolland's blurb and how he recolored it but I did not expect THAT big a difference. It wasn't until years later that I saw pictures online of The Killing Joke in its original colors and it floored me. It did not disappoint and time has done little to tarnish my love for it (it probably works best as a finale to Batman rather than just plopped as normal in the timeline but it still works as is for me :) ). I knew of its reputation and bought it and read at home. I'm not the biggest reader of comics so it wasn't until I was 20-21 when I read The Killing Joke when I saw the then new edition on a bookstore shelf in 2008-9. ![]() ![]() ![]() “In The Murderer, the Monarch and the Fakir, Appu Esthose Suresh and Priyanka Kotamraju mine fresh sources to uncover startling, and hitherto unknown, facts about the heinous conspiracy to kill the Mahatma. It also examines the role of princely states and extremist right-wing hypermasculinity in the dreadful murder of the Father of the Indian Nation and the connection between the two.Įxecutive Editor at HarperCollins India, Swati Chopra said that Gandhi’s assassination was a cataclysmic event for a newly independent India and it continues to resonate to date. The book deals with the circumstances that led to what became the most influential assassination of recent history and the investigation that followed right after the incident. In the announcement tweet, Harper mentioned that the book is based on unseen intelligence reports and police records that expose a deeper conspiracy behind the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. ![]() Read more: #TheMurdererTheMonarchAndTheFakir /LVzRtL7ry6- HarperCollins India August 30, 2021 ![]() ANNOUNCEMENT| Based on previously unseen intelligence reports and police records, new book revisits #MahatmaGandhi’s murder and unearths a conspiracy that runs far deeper than a hate crime. ![]() |