![]() ![]() Pyle and Scott Cunningham have created an illustrated tour through these cultural freak-outs. “You” being the unsuspecting, vulnerable youth of America, helplessly corrupted by the unseen and malevolent forces of pop culture, the media and technology.Īs the book Bad for You: Exposing the War on Fun explains, what is bad for kids and teens, and bad for society, goes way back to Plato, who worried about a new dangerous trend of his day: the written word. Video games, rock and roll and Dungeons & Dragons are all bad for you. You’ve probably experienced the witch-hunts and moral panics led by the older generations. ![]() You’ve heard of the scares, the parental worries. ![]()
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![]() We get almost half way through the book before “fallen angels” are referred to. His adventures through the selection and training processes are chronicled with quite readable dialogue. He believes that the military just might be a way out of town. Meyers begins as Perry finishes high school and realizes that there is no money in the family for college and that the mean streets hold no future. Yet it is a story free of the angst, bitterness, hatred, and racism so often found in other novels dealing with the same theme It’s a story told by a young black man in a predominately black unit in a decidedly racially mixed war. Though there are a few mechanical and continuity errors-including weapon caliber and nomenclature-Myers gives us a compact, easy-to-read book. ![]() But we easily understand the stories of main character Richie Perry and his comrades who serve in an unidentified unit in Vietnam. In the book, names have been changed to protect the innocent. ![]() While written in the first-person and appearing at first glance to be autobiographical, the story is actually a tribute to Myers’ brother, Thomas Wayne “Sonny” Myers, who died in Vietnam in 1968 and to whom the book is dedicated. ![]() The late Walter Dean Myers’ acclaimed 1988 Young Adult Vietnam War novel, Fallen Angels (Scholastic, 336 pp., $9.99, paper), is today being featured as assigned reading in high school English, history, and social studies classes across the nation. ![]() ![]() Vuong refuses to cede long and complex cultural histories to the flashiness of the only-now. Still, one reason Vuong’s debut collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds feels so exquisite, so necessary, is that he offers another way to hold the present moment. ![]() ![]() The work of Saigon-born, Brooklyn-based poet Ocean Vuong-who at only twenty-seven has received a Whiting Award, been profiled in the New Yorker, and seen his name populate lists like the ones above-seems, perhaps, an unlikely occasion for revising this cultural fixation on novelty. See the proliferation of lists declaring the literary world’s next protégés: Muzzle Magazine’s “30 under 30” Buzzfeed’s “20 under 40 Debut Writers You Need to Be Reading” the New Yorker’s “20 under 40.” There is an ethic of disposability built into this fetish: what is new cannot endure in newness. ![]() We exalt the original, the innovative, the experimental. ![]() ![]() As an adult, she found the success she'd worked so hard for, and with it a prominent place in the hierarchy of celebrity Scientologists, such as Tom Cruise. Indoctrinated into Scientolo-gy as a child while living with her mother and sister in New York, Remini eventually moved to Los Angeles, where her dreams of becoming an ac-tress and advancing Scientology's causes grew increasingly intertwined. Now, in this frank, funny, poignant memoir, the former King of Queens star reveals the in-depth details of her painful split with the church and its controversial practices. That was nev-er more evident than in 2013, when Remini loudly and publicly broke with the Church of Scientology. Leah Remini has never been the type to hold her tongue. ![]() ![]() ![]() The film script started the same way as the book with the arrival of John Beck, but it finished with the Plain and Fancy Dress Ball. Also I had an entire set of characters that I’d lived with for a while, even cast them in my mind, so I was very familiar with them all when I began. I already knew it was going to revolve around one particular whaling season. ![]() Shirley Barrett: Having written it first as a feature film, it gave me a structure to hang the novel on, which helped. ![]() How did you go about approaching that transformation? Peter Meinertzhagen: Rush Oh! began life as a feature film script before you turned it into a novel. I caught up with Barrett to discuss the writing of Rush Oh!, where the story came from, and how her work for the screen influenced her novel. ![]() Rush Oh!, based on a real story, tells the story of a New South Wales whaling community in the early 1900s that worked together with a pod of killer whales that returned each year to Eden bay for whaling season. It’s with the publication of Rush Oh! that Barrett has quickly made her name as a novelist, with her debut featuring on the longlist for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2016 and showing that her vivid and visual storytelling transfers perfectly to the page. Shirley Barrett is best known as a screenwriter and director whose first feature film, Love Serenade, won the Caméra d’Or at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thompson includes an intriguing cast of characters ranging from Captain James Cook and Tupaia, the Tahitian navigator he befriended, to modern explorers such as anthropologist Ben Finney and his Micronesian master navigator, Mau Piailug, who together sailed from Maui to Tahiti in 1976 in a traditional 60-foot canoe using only ancient navigation tools to prove it could be done. In Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, Harvard Review editor Christina Thompson weaves together history, science, folklore and the islands’ ancient oral traditions, archeology and genealogy, creating a mesmerizing, page-turning account of Polynesia. Where did these people come from, when did they arrive, and how on earth did they manage to traverse the mighty Pacific and settle these remote locales? ![]() But much of their lore still remains a mystery. The isolated islands of the Polynesian Triangle have been a source of fascination since European explorers first sailed into their harbors in the 16th century and discovered thriving communities previously unknown to the rest of the world. ![]() ![]() Thanks to the very specific time frame of this provision, audiences, especially horror fans, should expect to see more claims like these being made on behalf of some iconic franchises within the next few years. ![]() The provision requires the creator of an original work to wait 35 years before they can submit a claim to restore their right to the works that they created, at which point the claim must be submitted two years before the termination date. Because of the ongoing battle between Friday the 13th creators Miller and Cunningham, there hasn’t been a new Friday the 13th movie since Marcus Nispel’s reboot in 2009.īoth Barker and Miller are using a change that Congress made to copyright law back in 1976 in order to try and regain their works. ![]() However, if Friday the 13th’s legal battles are any indication, Clive Barker’s claim to Hellraiser is not a sure thing by any means, nor something that can be guaranteed to happen in a reasonable timeframe. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Tad tries to fend off the terror that comes to him at night from his bedroom closet, and as Vic and Donna face their own nightmare of a marriage on the rocks, there is no way they can know that a monster, infinitely sinister, waits in the daylight. They are seeking peace and quiet, but life in this small town is not what it seems. ![]() Meanwhile, Vic and Donna Trenton, and their young son Tad, move to Maine. One day, Cujo chases a rabbit into a cave inhabited by sick bats and emerges as something new altogether. Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting. ![]() Get ready to meet the most hideous menace ever to terrorize the town of Castle Rock, Maine. The #1 New York Times bestseller, Cujo “hits the jugular” ( The New York Times) with the story of a friendly Saint Bernard that is bitten by a bat. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book was another great addition to the Ollie and Mia heart wrenching emotion filled true love/soul mates story. Now Open Your EyesĪn awesome ending to Ollie and Mia’s soul stirring story! I’d go an eternity plus a day past crestfallen. ![]() I’d asked myself this very question countless times.īut never in my wildest dreams thought I’d go back in time,Ĭhasing ghosts from my past for a chance to save our future. I’d paid my dues and suffered long enough.Įven the once-upon-a-damned deserved to be happy too. ![]() I’d allowed everyone to control what my punishment should be for all my wrong-doings. Over the last two years, I’d let all outside forces dictate my life, my feelings, my head. It was so close, I could almost taste it, but the only thing I could taste now was the end. I just never thought she would become an addiction until it was too late.īut there was still one thing left to do, and time was ticking. Perhaps the reason I allowed her to distract my monster to begin with. I’d spent my last two years devising and perfecting this plan.Ī plan Mia was never apart of, but she was a storm.Īnd you can’t expect anything from a storm. ![]() ![]() ![]() van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score offers proven alternatives to drugs and talk therapy-and a way to reclaim lives. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, mindfulness techniques, play, yoga, and other therapies. In The Body Keeps the Score, he transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring-specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. ![]() ![]() Renowned trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk has spent over three decades working with survivors. Sadly, trauma sufferers frequently pass on their stress to their partners and children. Such experiences inevitably leave traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat one in five Americans has been molested one in four grew up with alcoholics one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing. ![]() |