King edward viii philip ziegler6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He said: “Ideally the biographer should know everything about his subject and then discard 99% of his information, keeping only the essential. If Ziegler’s patrician, establishment status and urbane charm helped to smooth his path to selection for such monumental biographies, his industry and the punctiliousness of his research meant that they come close to definitive. The foibles of Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India before independence, were such that Ziegler wrote a note on his desk while writing the biography in the mid-1980s stating: “Remember, in spite of everything, he was a great man.” That is not necessarily the view any longer of many British and Indian historians, though it is hard to overlook Mountbatten’s significance to the modern subcontinent and his relatives in the Royal family. ![]()
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To show and to tell by phillip lopate6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What is your overall agenda or literary aim as an essayist? What made me stay the course was finally a propensity to generate questions and try to come up with answers–experimentation, rather than certainty. I did not despair, but neither did I think when I was starting out in my twenties that I would ever be as successful as I have become. ![]() PHILLIP: I was in doubt from the first that I had enough talent or enough to say to be a successful writer, but I figured what the hell, let’s give it a shot. During this period, did you ever face any feelings of severe doubt or despair over your ability or progress as an artist, or was it mostly clear to you that you had enough talent and a momentum within the literary world, and you would find your way? You carried with you a creeping sense of insecurity about your ability as a poet, yet that community was receiving you, and you were publishing your writing. Monkey see, monkey do: I started reading and writing poetry. A few fiction writers, not a single nonfiction writer in the batch. PHILLIP: When I was an undergraduate at Columbia, my writer-friends were mostly poets. You say you had no ambitions toward writing poetry until you were a student at Columbia and suddenly doing it, kind of by accident. Your essay, The Poetry Years (from Portrait Inside My Head) looks back at where and how you started writing professionally. Debora Black Table for Two–An Interview with Philip Lopate categories: Cocktail Hour / Guest Columns / Table For Two: Interviews 6 comments ![]() 1956 by Nick Richardson6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Almeda Riddle's Book of Songs, Louisiana State, Bk (1970), p 44 Randolph 108, "The Frog's Courtship " Eddy 44, "The Frog and the Mouse " Flanders/Olney, pp. ![]() ![]() Sweet Bunch of Daisies, Colonial Press, Bk (1991), p 76 Riddle, Almeda. Eighty English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, MIT Press, Sof (1968), p 95 (Frog and the Mouse) Herren, Ruth Burton. Ballads - Stories in Song., August House, Bk (1988), p. SOURCES: American Ballads and Folk Songs, MacMillan, Bk (1934), p.310 American Folk Songs for Children, Doubleday/Zephyr Books, Bk (1948), p.116 American Songbag, Harcourt Brace Jovan., Sof (1955), p143 (Mister Frog Went A-Courting) Craven, Callie. RELATED TO: Here's to Cheshire, (Here's to Cheese) There Was a Puggie in a Well Sing Song Kitty (Won't You Ki-Me-O) Frog's Wedding It Was a Frog in the Well Kyman-I-Doe Birmingham "Kemo Kimo " “King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O ” "I Ask That Gal" (tune) "The Bear in the Hill" (plot) “Kitty Alone” (text) OTHER NAMES: “Frog Went A-Courting ” “A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go ” “The Frog’s Courtship ” "The Frog and the Mouse " "It was a frog in a well " “There Was a Puggie in a Well ” “There Lived a Puddie in the Well ” “The Frog's Wooing” English, Ballad Air Widely spread both in US and abroad.ĪRTIST: From Negro Tales of Mary RichardsonĭATE: 1909 First appears in 1549 (Wedderburn's "Complaynt of Scotland") ![]() Mansfield park project gutenberg6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Jane Austen's subtle, satiric novel skillfully uses her characters' emotional relationships to explore the social and moral values by which they attempt to order their lives.īy Jane Austen's third novel, she was definitely developing some formulas. 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It's a poignant tale of human neglect and indifference to our natural world, accompanied by Christina's delicate illustrations of this magnificent animal. The zookeeper forgot to let it in for the night and the last of his kind, Benjamin, succumbed to the cold. On a cold winter's night in Hobart Zoo, the star attraction was the last remaining Thylacine, pacing around a cage. My daughter commented that this book reminds her to treasure what she has because you never know how precious something is," said EACL judge Dr Jenny Martin. ![]() "A stunning and heartbreaking story of Benjamin, the last Tasmanian tiger. ![]() ![]() The book took the Picture Fiction award at this year's Environment Award For Children's Literature (EACL) and imagines events around the true story of the final night of the last Tasmanian tiger. It seems prescient that Christina Booth released her children's book One Careless Night in a year that Australia is set to announce a reform of its national nature laws. One Careless night by Christina Booth is published by Walker Books Australia. ![]() The inugami curse by seishi yokomizo6/26/2023 ![]() "(T)his is Golden Age crime at its best, complete with red herrings, blind alleys and twists and turns galore.But Yokomizo has his fun, and the diabolically twisted plotting is top-notch." - Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "For the sake of fair play, Kindaichi scrupulously defines his methods of detection and shares the logic of his reasoning.Yumiko Yamazaki's lively translation is wonderfully readable" - The Japan Times, The Japan Times "While Kindaichi fails to prevent the murders, he remains two steps ahead of the police in identifying the killer.Director Ichikawa Kon has filmed this twice, as The Inugami Family (1976) and Murder of the Inugami Clan (2006)ī : moves along nicely, but over-elaborate.Originally published in English as The Inugami Clan.L'ascia, il koto e il crisantemo - Italia ![]() ![]() La hache, le koto et le chrysanthème - France General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]() As Horas by Michael Cunningham6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() I often wondered if she knew what she did to me. “ The Hours by Michael Cunningham, didn’t they make a film out of it with Kidman?” One martini was going to be more than enough. I was getting about four hours of sleep a night which right now was making me a cheap drunk. ![]() When I was between assignments, which was all too frequent, I would read book after book usually I would be in the middle of at least three at any one time. It made me shiver somewhere in the core of me. Her lips mere millimeters away from my ear. “I hear you are on a reading binge.” She’d leaned in close, as she had a tendency to do with me. It was Charlotte who pressed this book upon me. It’s about the hours right? Those few precious hours over a lifetime when we feel we have a chance to do something special, to prove that we can do something that will forever immortalize us as someone exceptional. ![]() A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills more die by accident and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we’ve very fortunate, by time itself.” We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep-it’s as simple and ordinary as that. ”We throw our parties we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. ![]() Conspiracy ryan holiday review6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Thiel saw their publication of the tape as the opportunity he was looking for. ![]() Only later would the world learn that Gawker's demise was not incidental-it had been masterminded by Thiel.įor years, Thiel had searched endlessly for a solution to what he'd come to call the "Gawker Problem." When an unmarked envelope delivered an illegally recorded sex tape of Hogan with his best friend's wife, Gawker had seen the chance for millions of pageviews and to say the things that others were afraid to say. This post would be the casus belli for a meticulously plotted conspiracy that would end nearly a decade later with a $140 million dollar judgment against Gawker, its bankruptcy and with Nick Denton, Gawker's CEO and founder, out of a job. ![]() Thiel's sexuality had been known to close friends and family, but he didn't consider himself a public figure, and believed the information was private. In 2007, a short blogpost on Valleywag, the Silicon Valley-vertical of Gawker Media, outed PayPal founder and billionaire investor Peter Thiel as gay. A stunning story about how power works in the modern age-the book the New York Times called "one helluva page-turner" and The Sunday Times of London celebrated as "riveting.an astonishing modern media conspiracy that is a fantastic read." 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