![]() ![]() When John first had the idea for a clothing company for young men, his mother taught him how to sew and supported him by allowing her house to be taken over to grow the business. John started FUBU in his mother's house in Hollis, Queens. When John was 16, his mother had a boyfriend, an attorney, who he considered a stepfather and mentor. After graduating from high school, he started a commuter van service and waited tables at Red Lobster. In high school, he participated in a program that allowed him to work a full-time job and attend school on an alternating weekly basis, which he credits with instilling an entrepreneurial spirit. He began working at the age of 10, when his parents divorced one early job entailed handing out flyers for $2 ($7.42 today) an hour. John was born February 22, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York City, but grew up in the Hollis neighborhood of Queens and attended Catholic school for seven years. Based in New York City, John is the founder of The Shark Group. He is best known as the founder, president, and chief executive officer of FUBU, and appears as an investor on the ABC reality television series Shark Tank. Daymond Garfield John (born February 23, 1969) is an American businessman, investor, and television personality. ![]()
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![]() So Buffy does fight vampires but she also fights monsters and deals with cursed objects and dark magic. Gilly: To lure you in, Buffy is a teenage girl who is one of many teenage girls in a legacy of Slayers, which are chosen ones with superpowers who are on Earth to defeat the supernatural forces set out for evil. Orr: Who’s Buffy Summers, and what draws you to the character? Listen in, or read a transcript of their conversation below.ĭonald Orr: So for those unfamiliar with Buffy, could you give us a brief primer for the uninitiated? She spoke about her new book with OPB’s Donald Orr. Gilly will be signing copies and celebrating all things Buffy at Floating World Comics for Free Comic Book Day. This week she launches her latest book, “ Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Lost Summer,” a standalone comic set in the same world as the cult classic TV show. Gilly has written stories set in the fantasy worlds of Dungeons and Dragons, Star Wars and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. Many comic book artists and authors call Portland home. Saturday is Free Comic Book Day: a day where local comic book stores, publishers and readers around the world celebrate the medium with parties, costumes and of course, free comics. ![]() ![]() A poster advertising Free Comic Book Day at Floating World Comics.Ĭourtesy of Floating World Comics and BOOM! Studios ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many novels combine both Dystopia and Utopia, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take in its choices, ending up with one of the two possible futures.”įor a very long time, dystopian books were just science-fiction novels. It often features different kinds of repressive social control systems, a lack or total absence of individual freedoms and expressions, and a state of constant warfare or violence. Dystopia is often characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government. It is a creation of a nightmare world – unlike its opposite, Utopia, which is an ideal world. “ Dystopia is a form of literature that explores social and political structures. Immensely popularised by The Hunger Games trilogy, this Fantasy sub-genre offers a wide variety of books, some really worth checking out.īefore providing you with a reading list, let’s remind ourselves of what the Dystopian genre actually is. ![]() Today I would like to recommend a few books belonging to the very trendy genre of Dystopian fiction for Young Adults. ![]() ![]() He may be living in New York but he is still somewhat rooted in Winesburg.Īnderson also appears to be exploring the theme of insecurity. The fact that Enoch is painting scenes from Winesburg may also be important as it suggests that he may not necessarily have the ability to let go of his past. They remain none the wiser though Enoch has very little difficulty interpreting his art (paintings of Winesburg). Despite his strong desire for them to see exactly what it is he has painted. Something that is noticeable from the time he allowed some fellow artists into his room. There is also a sense that Enoch is not understood. It is as if he finds peace and solace talking to imaginary people rather than engaging constructively with the real world. He spends most of his time when he is in New York living in his room, talking to his imaginary companions. ![]() ![]() Not only has Enoch ended up back in Winesburg, going full circle but throughout the story he makes very little movement. Taken from his Winesburg, Ohio collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Anderson may be exploring the theme of paralysis. In Loneliness by Sherwood Anderson we have the theme of paralysis, letting go, insecurity, control, freedom, loneliness and connection. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jamie’s nephew Young Ian: his troubled love-life is about to take another sharp left turn.Lord John Grey and his step-son William (Jamie’s unacknowledged illegitimate son), are embroiled in the Revolution on the British side with William in the army and Lord John on the clandestine side of intelligence and.Their daughter Brianna, her husband Roger MacKenzie, and their two children, settled at Lallybroch in the 1970′s (finding their feet after their return from the past-but are unaware that that past is just about to leap out at them again).Jamie and Claire Fraser, are now in the midst of the American Revolution.The seventh-but NOT the last!-novel in the OUTLANDER series, An Echo In The Bone, has four main storylines: ![]() ![]() Lovecraft being generally painted as a fundamentally epistemological writer-consider: protagonists as academics, the implicit objective being comprehension or understanding, lured into perspectivally conditioned encounters with cyclopean alien entities-(from the explorer-academic’s perspective, major, world-erupting/ irrupting/ corrupting from that of the ‘monster’ or monstrous being, minor, insignificant, think the classic we-are-to-them-as-ants-are-to-us trope that has been probably juiced a little too aggressively, if you ask some)-that failurelessly bear no (positive) cognitive or conceptual fruit, but rather a twisting mess of perceptual data that cannot be neatened and structured, madness, loss of doxastic direction, loss of objective value, loss of faith in religion, science, etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of these stories can be found in Set Free in China, Sojourns on the Edge. The run was 17 days of massive whitewater through a canyon inhabited by wolves and snow leopards.Īt the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he received an MFA in fiction and poetry, he won a Michener fellowship for his epic poem “The Psalms of Malvine.” He has worked as a dishwasher, construction worker, logger, offshore fisherman, kayak instructor, river guide, and world class pizza deliverer. The river was known as the Everest of Rivers in the Soviet Union, and the last team that had attempted it lost five of their eleven men. ![]() He was the first man, with a Kiwi paddler named Roy Bailey, to kayak the Muk Su River in the High Pamirs of Tadjikistan. He traveled the world as an expedition kayaker, writing about challenging descents in the Pamirs, the Tien Shan mountains, the Caucuses, Central America and Peru. He attended high school in Vermont and Dartmouth College in New Hampshire where he became an outdoorsman and whitewater kayaker. ![]() He is an award winning adventure writer and the author of four books of literary nonfiction. Peter Heller is a longtime contributor to NPR, and a former contributing editor at Outside Magazine, Men’s Journal, and National Geographic Adventure. ![]() Peter Heller at his home in Paonia Colorado. ![]() ![]() The book has surveillance (not a spoiler, but the director's films are related to this), conspiracies, serial killers, a fixation on the Interstate Highway System, and systems, nodes, and occult "points of power" in general. ![]() One of the book's blurbs mentions Thomas Pynchon, which makes sense, but it's a leaner and more cohesive version of this. ![]() The "obscure" film by a foreign (or is he?) director has the pixelated guy in it, which launches the narrator into a quest to locate the director. He is freaked out, but basically tries to forget it until he attends a film screening with a friend. The narrator of The History of America in My Lifetime works for a shredding company, and on the way back from an "information destruction" conference sees a strange man on his flight with a pixelated face. Plot-wise, this is a linear novel with a series of events that flow into one another (things get weird, but more on this shortly). ![]() ![]() ![]() I think about these scenes much as a playwright might think about character development-through dialogue. ![]() I did think a great deal about Taylor’s family context and I hoped that by showing scenes between her and her parents, we could learn more about her. I especially appreciated seeing Taylor’s relationship with her parents, and in particular, her mother. Here is what Beverley Brenna had to say about the creation of this novel: She needed her mother for so very long, but now she finds that her mother intrudes. It is fascinating to witness scenes from her point of view and to see how she interprets them.īut of course, in addition to being autistic, Taylor is a young woman longing for independence. She has particular difficulty reading the emotions of those around her. Taylor perceives the world differently from those around her, so things that are obvious to the reader are a mystery to Taylor. It is the third book in a trilogy, but it can be read on its own. ![]() This book is nothing short of a tour de force. Beverley Brenna nailed this remarkable teen’s voice. Taylor is a brilliant and autistic young woman whose unique gifts might be overlooked alongside other teens her age, but she is worth getting to know. It is the kind of book cover that might be overlooked alongside flashier covers, and in that way it is emblematic of the story that it encloses. The painting that graces the cover of The White Bicycle was created by a critically acclaimed artist who was diagnosed with autism as a child. ![]() ![]() Despite the buildup about tying into the illusions of schizophrenics, 13 is only used as the length of a few character's names. ![]() As schizophrenics live in a state of fear, it's considered a significant number for them. Arc Number: In the story, 13 is claimed to be the harbinger of bad luck. ![]() Perhaps one of the most heavily symbolic novels/films in years, to the extent that it will screw with your mind HARD. It is revealed that Andrew Laeddis, the man responsible for Daniels's wife's death, is incarcerated there as well.Īs the marshals investigate further, they begin to uncover hints that Ashecliffe Hospital may be home to a living nightmare of Nazi-esque experimentation on unwilling patients. In 1954, US Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule are assigned to investigate the disappearance of multiple murderess Rachel Solando, who is a patient at Shutter Island's Ashecliffe Hospital, a mental hospital for the most violent of the criminally insane. Shutter Island is a 2003 novel by Dennis Lehane. ![]() |