![]() ![]() I felt I had to find the world, so I broke with the church intellectually when I was at college.”Īll the same, shades of her faith remain very intact in her. It’s also quite conservative, at least it was when I grew up, and rigorous. “It’s very intellectual, it takes a lot of study to understand it. Gyllenhaal grew up in a close-knit family with five siblings, in a community completely steeped in Swedenborgian beliefs. She looks Scandinavian too, with her blond hair and delicate features. “The culture of Bryn Athyn has very Scandinavian overtones, and of course the name helps.” “I always felt that I was Swedish,” she continues. A town that is not only something of a seat for the Gyllenhaal family, but also the Episcopal seat of the General Church of the New Jerusalem, a church based on the works of Swedish theologian Emanuel Swedenborg. The town she’s referring to is Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. But my values, all my values, go straight back to that town.” I don’t think one explanation is going to cover it all. “Today I believe in everything, I believe in nature, I believe in things we cannot comprehend. “I think we all have something deeply embedded in us that keeps us going,” Liza Gyllenhaal says over coffee at Bryant Park in New York. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Greg Capullo began drawing at an early age, and remembers that he drew his first drawing of Batman when he was 4. He was also part of the crew who worked on the animated sequences in the 2002 film The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys. These were two three-issue miniseries.Īpart from comics, Capullo has been involved in several projects such as pencilling for the Iced Earth albums The Dark Saga and Something Wicked This Way Comes, the Korn album Follow the Leader and the Disturbed album, Ten Thousand Fists. Greg Capullo also published his own creator-owned comic, The Creech, published through Image Comics. ![]() ![]() ![]() Woodward documents the conduct as well as the harmful impacts. The unauthorized wars, and disinformation, coupled with clandestine relationships with both domestic and foreign powers created "time bombs" with both immediate and long-term effects. The book covers the period of Casey's service from 1981 to 1987 when he was forced to resign.Casey was DIA Director and responsible for the dramatic expansion of programs unprecedented in American traditions: He conducted (1) Covert wars, involving actual boots on the ground, and (2) Disinformation campaigns, which deliberately lied to the American people and destroyed the Congressional oversight required by the Constitution. Casey as DCI ("Director of Intelligence"). ![]() President Ronald ("Nancy") Reagan appointed William J. Woodward provides deep journalism on the work of the US Central Intelligence Agency, "CIA". ![]() ![]() Ready to leave the past behind him, Leo wants nothing more than to reconnect with his first and only love. Leo Grady knew mirages were a thing in the desert, but they’d barely left civilization when the silhouette of his greatest regret comes into focus in the flickering light of the campfire. Frankly, Lily would like to take him out into the wilderness and leave him there. ![]() It pays the bills but doesn’t leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch her father sold years ago, and definitely not enough to deal with the sight of the man she once loved walking back into her life with a motley crew of friends ready to hit the trails. But Lily is resourceful, and now uses Duke’s coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the red rock canyons of Utah. ![]() Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession.or much money in the bank. The “reigning romance queens” (PopSugar) and New York Timesbestselling authors of The Soulmate Equation and The Unhoneymoonerspresent a charming and laugh-out-loud funny novel filled with adventure, treasure, and, of course, love. ![]() ![]() Jennifer Haigh, The New York Times Book Review She has a gift for aphorism, the observation that astonishes.” Joan’s voice is so sharp and magnetic that the reader will follow her anywhere. ![]() “ propulsive, fiercely confident debut novel. “Like if Joan Didion got into hard drugs and carried a switchblade everywhere.” The result is as intimate as it is explosive.” “With skill and insight, Taddeo examines how the savagery of men fuels female rage. This book is a raging, funny and fierce thriller with a protagonist whose life force, against extraordinary odds-always in the gaze and sometimes the grasp of predatory, abusive men-is a thing of wonder.” ![]() “ Animal will confirm Taddeo’s status as a pre-eminent channeller of women’s interior lives. “A provocative exploration of what happens when women are pushed beyond the brink, and what comes after the reckoning.” ![]() ![]() ![]() The ancient Stoics were philosophers and psychologists of the most ingenious kind, and also highly practical they offered ways to think about the problems of everyday life, and ideas about how to overcome our irrationalities, that are still relevant and helpful today. Some of you already know all about Stoicism, but let me say a few general words about it for those who don't. In other posts this week, I'll talk about what the Stoics said more specifically. Today I'll explain the purpose of the book generally. This time it's a book about the philosophy of the Stoics. ![]() ![]() Over the years I've had the pleasure of rolling out some past projects in this space (involving law, or rhetoric, or chess-all here for those interested). My thanks to Eugene and the rest of the crew for allowing this visit. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also included are ten QR codes linked to Jenna's most popular YouTube tutorials for painting flowers, trees, leaves, cats, and creating unique patterns and color palettes.įorty sheets of premium Italian watercolor paper are mostly blank, with a few pieces of Jenna's art sprinkled throughout to inspire you. ![]() ![]() This sketchbook from bestselling author Jenna Rainey is your portable playground-whatever your experience level.Ī letter of encouragement from Jenna, tips on choosing pigments and brushes, and a list of prompts for sketching and painting will help get the creative juices flowing. Experimentation and practice lead to discovery and mastery. Part of the joy of painting with watercolor is that the medium necessitates play. Strengthen your watercolor skills with this inspirational sketchbook featuring premium-quality paper, QR codes linked to video tutorials, and prompts to elevate your art, from the author of Everyday Watercolor. ![]() ![]() I will correlate these representations to tropes aligned with transgressive fiction. The male fetishist will be examined, firstly as a participant in fetishist behaviour, and secondly as a dominant in BDSM practise. Secondly, I will discuss fetishism using a two-fold approach – focusing on fetishism as a collective term for sexual deviances, then looking at BDSM. I will discuss male homosexuality firstly, looking at the representation of homosexuality as a transgression relative to social surroundings, and creating a link between these representations and the genre of transgressive fiction. ![]() The male sexual deviant will be examined across four sexual deviances homosexuality, fetishism, masturbation, and paedophilia. ![]() ![]() In this dissertation, I will discuss the representation of sexual deviance in transgressive fiction, and its relation to the social norms and standards instilled on men between 1910 and the present day. ![]() ![]() Both sides feel hatred, distrust, and resentment. The situation and events that Orwell describes underscores the hostility between the administrators of the British Empire and their “native” subjects. The narrator does not want to shoot the elephant, but feels compelled to by a crowd of indigenous residents, before whom he does not wish to appear indecisive or cowardly. The story (which some critics consider an essay) concerns a colonial officer’s obligation to shoot a rogue elephant. ![]() The story and novel share the same setting, and draw on Orwell’s experience as a colonial official in India and Burma, two regions of the British Empire, in the middle of the century between the two world wars. “Shooting an Elephant” functions as an addendum to Burmese Days. The British public already knew Orwell as the socially conscious author of Down and Out in London and Paris (1933), a nonfiction study of poverty, homelessness, unemployment, and subsistence living on poorly-paying menial jobs, and Burmese Days (1934), a novel of British colonialism. ![]() George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” first appeared in 1936. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Darkover milieu may be considered as either fantasy with science fiction overtones or as science fiction with fantasy overtones, as Darkover is a lost earth colony where psi powers developed to an unusual degree. Her 1958 story The Planet Savers introduced the planet of Darkover, which became the setting of a popular series by Bradley and other authors. Though relatively tame by today's standards, they were considered pornographic when published, and for a long time she refused to disclose the titles she wrote under these pseudonyms. For example, I Am a Lesbian was published in 1962. When she was a child, Bradley stated that she enjoyed reading adventure fantasy authors such as Henry Kuttner, Edmond Hamilton, and Leigh Brackett, especially when they wrote about "the glint of strange suns on worlds that never were and never would be." Her first novel and much of her subsequent work show their influence strongly.Įarly in her career, writing as Morgan Ives, Miriam Gardner, John Dexter, and Lee Chapman, Marion Zimmer Bradley produced several works outside the speculative fiction genre, including some gay and lesbian pulp fiction novels. ![]() Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series, often with a feminist outlook.īradley's first published novel-length work was Falcons of Narabedla, first published in the May 1957 issue of Other Worlds. ![]() |