"An incredibly satisfying reading experience. Comparisons have been made to Denis Johnson, Karen Russell, Carmen Maria Machado. Wisdom and humor are so thick on the ground you could find a sentence worth quoting on every page. "Just keeps getting better as you turn the pages. Lit Hub, "The Best Queer Debuts of 2019" The writing sings at an undeniably pleasing pitch, with many of the sentences hitting such high notes that it feels breathtaking." "Kimberly King Parsons' weird, intimate, enchanting debut does a service to the short story form. Every story in this collection is beyond remarkable, and Parsons proves herself to be a gutsy country-punk poet with a keen eye and a stubbornly unique sensibility." writes with the unpredictable power of a firecracker, bringing flashes of illumination to people who struggle with disappointment, both in themselves and others. " wild and compassionate debut collection. It's good luck that in this case Parsons is slated for at least one novel." Occasionally a debut collection lands with such a wet, happy thud that you immediately start imagining the rest of the writer's long career. Add the full-throated roar of weird Karen Russell, plus the deft sparkle of Denis Johnson and all of the gesturing and spooky direction of Carmen Maria Machado. Imagine the punk rock stylings of the criminally underappreciated Jeff Parker. Parsons' is an exhilarating, enchanting, charming and irresistible new voice. enchanting yowls from a big and wild Texas.
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To read the full story, go to Īnd Before we go, here are a few stories that you should know about today:Ī Boulder police officer was legally justified when he shot a gunman targeting a King Soopers in Boulder in March, according to the district attorney. Reporter Kevin Simpson talks with Lucy Haggard about how one Eastern Plains town has been trying to keep its head above water and stay around for the next generation. The housing market in Colorado and across the country has gone haywire in recent years - especially since the coronavirus pandemic began - as people are working from home, losing jobs and shifting life priorities. And although the 1897 crisis proved limited, it presaged the fatal failure of Castlewood Dam. Eight years earlier there was a similar flood that killed a thousand people in Pennsylvania. Today, we take you back to May 7th 1897 when a 100 foot wide breach in the Castlewood Dam threatened to inundate communities below - including Denver. Today - The housing market in Colorado has gone haywire - but how has one Eastern Plains town kept its head above water.īut before we begin, let’s go back in time with some Colorado history adapted from historian Derek R Everett’s book “Colorado Day by Day”: It’s Friday May 7th, and even though there’s a lot of turmoil right now we’re feeling lucky to start the day with you. Good Morning, Colorado, you’re listening to the Daily Sun-Up. He hid escaping slaves in his Concord home in defiance of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which made it a crime to help slaves fleeing from slavery. "It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong," Thoreau wrote, "but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support." 12 Thoreau continued to oppose slavery, and unjust laws. If the government would not improve itself, he argued, it was a just man's duty to refuse to support it. Thoreau was not an anarchist he did not believe that there should be no government, only a more just one than currently existed. The following year his essay on the topic, "Civil Disobedience," was published. He spent a night in jail for this offense in 1848, and was released the next morning when a friend (against his wishes) paid the tax for him. In protest, Thoreau refused to pay his poll taxes. He was an outspoken opponent of slavery and bitterly opposed the Mexican-American War, which he viewed as an act of American aggression. Thoreau had some serious problems with the way the United States was run. Henry David Thoreau: "Civil Disobedience" They were eventually persuaded to publish by HarperCollins, their father’s publisher. The manuscript was found by Fraser’s three children when they cleared out their parents’ home following the death of their mother. “Indeed, we thought long and hard before allowing it to be published, and are only doing so because we believe that, as an early work, Captain in Calico is a delightful curiosity, one which we hope will provide fans of GMF with a fascinating insight into the inspirations and creative impulses that turned him into such a fine novelist.” “Captain in Calico would probably be even less likely to find a publisher today than 60 years ago, and we do not want readers to be deceived into thinking it is vintage George MacDonald Fraser, and of the standard of the Flashman novels, or the McAuslan short stories,” said the author’s daughter, Caro Fraser. Vintage Fraser it is not, the author’s family candidly admit, though “Captain in Calico”, about real-life pirate John “Calico Jack” Rackham, is still a “cracking little story”. Seven years after his death, a forgotten novel, written 60 years ago and found locked away in a fireproof safe in his old study, is finally to make it into print. Specifically, DuBois introduced in this work his well-known concept of “double-consciousness,” which characterized the black experience in America as one of “warring” dual identity. This provocative collection of essays helped establish him as a leading progressive critic of the “color line” which was still dividing Americans at the turn of the twentieth century despite the wartime destruction of slavery and the post-war constitutional promise of equality. DuBois authored The Souls of Black Folk 1903 when he was 35-years-old. He later helped expose racism in the US military and supported African nationalist in their quests for independence from European colonial powers. For many years, DuBois served as editor of the NAACP journal, The Crisis. DuBois then became a noted academic working at several universities, and during the early twentieth century, helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which soon emerged as the nation’s premier civil rights organization. Born in Massachusetts following the Civil War, he was the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard. DuBois (1868–1963) was a famous scholar and activist who fought for civil rights for black people in both the United States and Africa. The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line It might puzzle some why Lorde, a gay Black woman, would move from Harlem, the neighborhood of her birth, so closely associated with her work, to Staten Island - then, as now, the whitest and most politically conservative of New York City’s boroughs. All these had come to pass within a social and political climate inscribed with racism, homophobia, and violence. Her connections to the place were complex, bringing together her love of nature, her need for a place to write and work, to be with her lover and her children, as well as with other poets and activists. In the poem, “On My Way Out I Passed Over You and the Verrazano Bridge,” Lorde contemplates leaving Staten Island where she had lived for nearly thirteen years. And it seemed, for me, very symbolic-one of the ways in which we are both connected and letting go.Ĭharacteristically, Lorde challenged her listeners: “What you get from this poem, I ask that you hold and use.” On a trip to San Francisco, not too long ago, I happened to look down and realized that the plane was circling the bridge and therefore, circling my house. I live quite close to the Verrazano Bridge, which is the bridge that connects Staten Island with the rest of New York City…. Lorde introduced one of the poems she would read this way: In May 1985, Audre Lorde participated in a daylong event sponsored by Sisters in Solidarity against Apartheid, a student group at the University of California Berkeley. A sensitive, romantic and precocious boy, his head is soon filled with dreams of escaping the material and cultural poverty of the small, sleepy village, to gain a university education and become a gentleman in the church. He lives with his great aunt who makes it clear how little she wants him around. Jude has been an orphan for less than a year. Before leaving, Mr Phillotson urges Jude to be good, to read all that he can and to call on him if he is ever near Christminster. Mr Phillotson is leaving for Christminster – an Oxford-like town – where he hopes to obtain his degree and enter the church. Jude Fawley, a young boy living in the English countryside, is heartbroken to see his beloved schoolmaster leave. Jude, though, is a far darker and more provocative novel from Hardy, inviting scandal for its attacks on social and religious conventions. In it you will find all of Hardy’s trademarks – an intelligent, frustrated heroine encroaching modernity and tragedy in love. Jude the Obscure was Thomas Hardy’s final novel. Ossian Sweet bought a house in an all white neighborhood. Arc of Justice was a Pulitzer Prize Award finalist in History in 2005 and the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Nonfiction.īoyle’s story of the police investigation and subsequent courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial form an unforgettable tapestry of history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s. So began a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, to Sweet’s defense.īoyle is a professor of history at Ohio State University. A mob gathered outside his house, shots rang out and Sweet, or one of his defenders, accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave, had successfully escaped the ghetto and moved to a home in a previously all-white neighborhood. The introduction of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for jobs in assembly lines, and racial tensions flared with members of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1925, Detroit swung to the beat of jazz and men congregated in speakeasies. Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle is an electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that ignited a civil rights struggle while dividing a city. until one dangerous night, when she steps innocently into his arms and passion proves stronger than even the most wicked of secrets. Michael dares not speak to her of his love. Now Michael is the earl and Francesca is free, but still she thinks of him as nothing other than her dear friend and confidant. For Michael Stirling, London’s most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca. Unfortunately for Michael, however, Francesca's surname was to remain Bridgerton for only a mere thirty-six hours longer-the occasion of their meeting was, lamentably, a supper celebrating her imminent wedding to his cousin.īut that was then. A moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one’s life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton.Ī fter a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his heart to become engaged, he took one look at Francesca Bridgerton and fell so fast and hard into love it was a wonder he managed to remain standing. Ī moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one's life will never be the same. Final speaker of the evening will be journalist Arjen van Veelen of De Correspondent, who has written a book on his experiences living in in the city of St Louis in the US, where he reported on the unrest in Ferguson. Matthew Desmond, a 2015 MacArthur Genius, offers a heartfelt, heartbreaking detailed portrait of the desperate situations of poor American renters. Desmond shows evictions from both sides: He illuminates the reasoning and tactics used to remove tenants from their homes, those that seem both sensible and dubious. After his talk, Desmond will be joined by Cody Hochstenbach, postdoctoral researcher in urban geography at the University of Amsterdam, to reflect on the changing Dutch housing market in the light of developments in America. Milwaukee, one of the most segregated cities in the US, is a telling example. Praised by former president Barack Obama, Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation and provides fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century America’s most devastating problems. In his book, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond follows the fortunes of eight families as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. What if the dominant discourse on poverty in the United States is wrong? What if the problem isn’t that poor people have bad morals, or that they lack the skills and smarts to fit in with our shiny 21st-century economy? What if the problem is that poverty is profitable? These are the questions at the heart of Evicted, Matthew Desmond’s extraordinary study of tenants in low-income housing in the de-industrialized city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |