During that time, he aggressively fought and conquered much of Gaul, enrolling many of the Gauls into what became his own private army. He won the consulship in 59, and served as proconsul governor of Gaul from 58-50. Caesar, a brilliant orator, formed a political alliance with Pompey and Crassus in 60 BCE. Why did the conspiracy form? Why was Julius Caesar killed on this particular day? Why was he killed in the Senate House located within the Theater of Pompey complex (and not the Senate House in the Forum or elsewhere)?įirst, a brief historical overview. The fifteenth of March, 44 BC- the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar– has gone down in history as one of the most consequential dates in Roman history.
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Additionally, Beam’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atavist, The Huffington Post, The Awl, Out, and on This American Life, among others. Her books have received many awards, including a Lambda Literary award and a Stonewall Honor for Transparent, and a Kirkus and American Library Association Best Book honor and a Junior Library Guild Selection for I Am J. Bartels speaks with Cris Beam.Ĭris Beam has written two books of nonfiction– Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers (Harcourt, 2007) and To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care (Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt, 2013)–and a young adult novel, I Am J (Little, Brown, 2011). In the fourth of her series of interviews with women who write nonfiction, E.B. The effectiveness of Ringgold’s insistence that her quilts be understood as art rather than craft remains unclear. After hearing Ringgold recount this experience, I found a new appreciation for her story quilts, exemplified in works such as Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima? (1983), Slave Rape Story Quilt (1985) and The Purple Quilt (1986), which mark a particular phase in her career. This ‘rejection’ precipitated Ringgold’s turn to the textile as an alternative surface upon which she could publish. During a public dialogue in 2019 African-American artist Faith Ringgold described her original publisher’s disappointment that the biography she had written did not recount experiences of subjugation – experiences Ringgold suspected were an expectation of her gender and race. There is a simple narrative but it covers a lot and in addition there are footnote type facts as well, smaller in print and separated from the main text. Davies’ words are lyrical and poetic and tell the fascinating and amazing journey from a baby turtle to a full grown Loggerhead. The focus is on one small female turtle as she survives in the sea and we follow her as she grows and explores the ocean. Nicola Davies’s lyrical text offers fascinating information about the journey of the tiny, endangered loggerhead, while charming paintings by Jane Chapman vividly illustrate one turtle’s odyssey.ĭavies has written a beautiful book about the majestic nature of sea turtles and while she doesn’t mention the human impact on their environment or habits, there is no doubt when you finish reading it makes you think about what that impact has been. Then, one summer night, she lands on a beach to lay her eggs-the very same beach where she herself was born. For thirty years she swims the oceans, wandering thousands of miles as she searches for food. Far, far out at sea lives one of the world’s most mysterious creatures, the loggerhead turtle. Duff includes stories about his own family life. His discussion of Detroit politics includes interactions with Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and political figures including Adolph Mongo and Monica Conyers. His discussion of the crime issue includes interviews with police officers, and there is also a segment about firefighters combating arsonists. The book material originates from news stories LeDuff, a journalist, had covered for The Detroit News. In March 2008 he was living in Los Angeles with his family when he decided to move back to Detroit. LeDuff had grown up in the Detroit suburbs ( Westland/ Livonia), left and become a journalist, working for The New York Times for a decade and winning a Pulitzer Prize while there. In the book LeDuff discusses the present state of Detroit and its economic, social, crime, and political issues. Book by Charlie LeDuff Detroit: An American Autopsyĭetroit: An American Autopsy is a 2013 book by Charlie LeDuff, published by Penguin Books. Is it possible to escape murder charges, charm her ex back into her life, and pull off a stunning wedding all in one weekend?īut things go from inconvenient to downright torturous when Meddy's great college love-and biggest heartbreak-makes a surprise appearance amid the wedding chaos. Readers will die for the delightfully absurd hijinks in this dark comedy. It's the biggest job yet for their family wedding business-"Don't leave your big day to chance, leave it to the Chans!"-and nothing, not even an unsavory corpse, will get in the way of her auntie's perfect buttercream cake flowers.īut things go from inconvenient to downright torturous when Meddy's great college love-and biggest heartbreak-makes a surprise appearance amid the wedding chaos. But this story is filled with mistaken identity, a gaggle of intoxicated groomsmen, five lovably hilarious sisters, and slapstick humor that leans more toward the film Clue. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is accidentally shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding Meddy, her Ma, and aunties are working, at an island resort on the California coastline. When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family? You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue! I love the idea of organising multiple pieces of writing to create a single larger piece that reiterates the same thought. What inspires those themes, and why have you chosen to write about the specific themes you have in the past? I hope to talk more in depth about actual survival through the use of nature imagery, to manifest the beauty of the soul with words and to continue to give people the kind of hope that Your Soul Is A River started. The Water trilogy is all about hope and healing and surviving through grief. Will you tell us more about the trilogy of Your Soul Is A River, and what we can expect from the next two books? And that like them, we shouldn’t question our existence as much as we do. That stars don’t ever anguish over their purpose, they simply shine, as they are meant to do. Coming upon this fact, that human beings are in fact, 93 percent stardust I realised that all this angst I was going through actually had meaning. I think my favourite piece from Your Soul is a Riveris definitely “93 percent stardust” The reason being that when I wrote it, I was actually going through a bit of an existential crisis about my purpose in this world. If you had to choose a favorite piece from Your Soul Is A River, what would it be and why? Now, faced with mounting pressure from her drug dealer, Dom (and his goon, Betty), Frances comes up with a terrible idea: She asks Elaine to move in with her for real. But somehow (it involved a steady stream of beer and weed, as things often did with Frances) Elaine ended up in Frances’s bed and never left. She was, in fact, looking to drown her sorrows in a pint or twelve and nurse a broken heart, shattered by the gorgeous, electric Adrienne. An exuberant dark comedy about love, grief, sex, guilt, and one woman’s harebrained scheme to tranquilize her voraciously amorous girlfriend for a few days so that she might pay off her drug dealer, make soup, and finally get some peace and quiet.įrances was not looking for a relationship when she met Elaine in a bar. In this way he not only distorts his observations, but subverts his own powers, for it is not the riddles of philosophy that bring his talent to life, but the ways of cruelty and humiliation. Albee sees in human nature very much what Maupassant did, only he wants to talk about it like Plato. But this new play isn’t about the problems of faith-and-doubt or appearance-and-reality, any more than Virginia Woolf was about “the Decline of the West” mostly, when the characters in Tiny Alice suffer over epistomology, they are really suffering the consequences of human deceit, subterfuge, and hypocrisy. In Tiny Alice, the metaphysics, such as they are, appear to be Albee’s deepest concern-and no doubt about it, he wants his concerns to seem deep. In Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee attempted to move beyond the narrowness of his personal interests by having his characters speculate from time to time upon the metaphysical and historical implications of their predicament. 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Signet, G2365, 1963, 1st printing, a nice used mass market paperback, tight and square, penmark on cover. |