Gender and self-determination lie at the core of both “Sour Meat” by Dorothy Tse, translated by Natascha Bruce, and “Flourishing Beasts” by Yan Ge, translated by Jeremy Tiang. Two stories by Enoch Tam, both translated by Jeremy Tiang, dive deep into evocative settings: in “The Mushroom Houses Proliferated in District M” a town plants giant mushrooms for shelter, while “Auntie Han’s Modern Life” revolves around a shopkeeper in a strange, changing district. In “A Counterfeit Life” by Chen Si’an, translated by Canaan Morse, a man becomes the leader of a subtle labor revolution. This remarkable anthology of Chinese speculative fiction offers seven tales of societal responsibility and individual freedom.
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Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, and Christopher Paolini, and defined Tad Williams as one of the most important fantasy writers of our time. The trilogy inspired a generation of modern fantasy writers, including George R.R. Martin * "Groundbreaking." -Patrick Rothfuss * "One of the great fantasy epics of all time." -Christopher Paolini Tad Williams introduced readers to the incredible fantasy world of Osten Ard in his internationally bestselling series Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. New York Times -bestselling Tad Williams' landmark epic fantasy saga of Osten Ard begins an exciting new cycle! "One of my favorite fantasy series." -George R. I always thought Dallas winters were too long and too cold. I got to Texas as soon as I could, having heard from my Texas mother how much bigger and better everything was down there. I was born and raised in McAlester, Oklahoma, a small town in southeastern Oklahoma in the foothills of the Kiamichi Mountains. The good news is…I’m the only Sally Berneathy out there! I was so thrilled to get my real name back, I had to use it. It took me three long years to divorce Mr. So why did I decide to use it instead of an easier pseudonym when I began publishing mysteries in 2011? Of course there’s a story! When I wrote for Harlequin/Silhouette and other traditional publishers in the ‘90s, I used a pseudonym or my married name…Sally Steward. It’s three syllables long, hard to spell, hard to pronounce, and hard to remember. Let’s get you introduced to everyone, shall we? Tell us your name. Hello and welcome to my blog, Author Interviews. Appalled by Grandma Gerd's "live in the moment" philosophy, Vassar gradually jettisons her obsessive-compulsive behavior and emerges knowing who she really is and what she really wants as she travels from the temples of Angkor to the bamboo huts of Laos. Suspecting that Grandma has blackmailed her parents, Vassar is determined to discover their "Big Secret." A novice traveler, Vassar arrives in Melaka with ten pieces of matched luggage, her laptop on which she plans to convert her experiences into a novel for Advanced Placement credit, herGenteel Traveler's Guidesand her Portable Travel Planner. But Vassar's hygienically sealed world capsizes when her parents reluctantly let her spend the summer backpacking through Malaysia, Cambodia and Laos with her bohemian Grandma Gerd. Her life has been carefully scripted by her efficiency-expert father and life-coach mother. Sixteen-year-old Vassar Spore attends a private school where she's prepping to be valedictorian, attend Vassar College, marry a surgeon or judge, write a book and win a Pulitzer by age 37. Suspenseful and wonderfully detailed, the well-crafted story maintains its page-turning pace while adding small doses of cultural insight and humor., A naïve teen learns how to carpe diem after spending an adventurous summer in Southeast Asia. As the setting shifts, so does the story's tone, from Vassar's stilted home life and stuffy parents to a vividly described environment and array of colorful characters. In 1964, a film version of Black Like Me, starring James Whitmore, was produced. The title of the book is taken from the last line of the Langston Hughes poem "Dream Variations". When he started his project in 1959, race relations in America were particularly strained. Griffin kept a journal of his experiences the 188-page diary was the genesis of the book. Sepia Magazine financed the project in exchange for the right to print the account first as a series of articles. He traveled for six weeks throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Georgia to explore life from the other side of the color line. Griffin was a native of Mansfield, Texas, who had his skin temporarily darkened to pass as a black man. Black Like Me, first published in 1961, is a nonfiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin recounting his journey in the Deep South of the United States, at a time when African-Americans lived under racial segregation. Nerilka is the daughter of a Lord Holder who turns her back on her life in an upper-class family and sets out to fight the disease that threatens to kill all humans on Pern. It is set during the events detailed in Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern. Taking a different approach from the previous seven books in the series, Nerilka's Story has a non-dragonrider and non-harper as its major viewpoint character. It was the first work in the series following publication of The Atlas of Pern, and so is not covered in the Atlas. Moreta (1983) and its sequel Nerilka (1985) are companion stories, in that the latter narrates a second perspective on major events of the former. Nerilka's Story became the eighth book in the Dragonriders of Pern volume series. Nerilka's Story is a science fiction novella by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. Provocative, startling, prophetic, The Handmaid's Tale has long been a global phenomenon. Now, her memories and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. But Offred remembers the years before Gilead, when she was an independent woman who had a job, a family, and a name of her own. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are fertile. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us. Tan attended Balcatta Senior High School in the northern suburbs of Perth where he was enrolled in a special art program for gifted and talented students. Tan claims that he had little formal training in the field of book illustration. Drawing was something he'd never stopped doing, claiming ".it was one thing I could do better than anyone else when I was in school." The decision to choose it as a career simply allowed him to make a living from drawing and painting. University studies were taking him along an academic route until he "decided to stop studying and try working as an artist." Tan almost studied to become a genetic scientist, and enjoyed chemistry, physics, history and English when in high school as well as art and claimed that he didn't really know what he wanted to do, even at university. At the age of sixteen, Tan's first illustration appeared in the Australian magazine, Aurealis, in 1990. Of his effort at writing as a youth, Tan tells, "I have a small pile of rejection letters as testament to this ambition!"Įventually he gained success with his illustrations. These stories led to Tan writing his own short stories. Tan cites Ray Bradbury as a favorite at this time. At the age of eleven, he became a fan of The Twilight Zone television series as well as books that bore similar themes. As a boy, Tan spent time illustrating poems and stories and drawing dinosaurs, robots and spaceships. Within Howl, there is a damning of authority, yes, but it lies with a celebration of human life that would provide nutrients for the next generations.Ĭue Patti Smith, on whose work Ginsberg left an indelible mark. “Both movements rejected intellect for sensation, politics for art, and Ginsberg and Kerouac glorified a grassroots America that included supermarkets and cars as well as mountains and apple pie,” she wrote. Willis drew parallels between hippie culture – the bastard child of the Beat generation, born when the beats and the mid-60s San Francisco counterculture cross-fertilised – and folk culture. Ellen Willis, in her 1967 essay Before the Flood, wrote that Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, from his second album, owed much to Ginsberg’s “Biblical rhetoric and declamatory style” – but you could include much of his other work in the debt. Her books have been translated into twenty languages and are available in over twenty countries. Her stories and especially her characters, Henry Huggins and Ramona Quimby, have proven popular with young readers. Her first book, Henry Huggins, was published in 1950. She worked for a short time as Children's Librarian in Yakima, Washington, before moving to California.Ĭleary began her writing career in her early thirties. in library science, was bestowed by the University of Washington in Seattle in 1939. in 1938 from the University of California at Berkeley. Before long however Cleary had learned to love books, and as a child she spent a good deal of her time in the public library.Ĭleary attended Chaffey Junior College in Ontario, Ca. Ironically, this internationally known author of children's books struggled to learn how to read when she entered school. Her family lived on a small farm in McMinnville, Oregon, before moving to Portland. Presents young Henry Huggins and his amiable dog, Ribsy, in episodes involving Henry's efforts to curb Ribsy's canine instincts.ģ sound discs (2:75 hrs.) : digital 4 3/4 in.īeverly Cleary was born on April 12, 1916. |