Plett swiftly immerses readers into stories of love, sex, addiction, friendship, family, and identity, saturated with hauntingly realistic dialogue. The characters’ many-faceted personalities are left exposed in a way that refuses a trifling read and defies monolithic conceptions of the trans experience. The stories in A Dream of a Woman are pleasantly gritty. Plett, author of A Safe Girl to Love and Little Fish, centers and explores the lives of trans women in this marvelously complex assemblage, consisting of five short stories and two longer narratives. We’re back with a feature of Casey Plett and her story collection, A Dream of a Woman, released on September 21st by Arsenal Pulp Press. Welcome to May We Present…, a column from Lambda Literary that highlights authors with recent or forthcoming publications. May We Present… Casey Plett’s A Dream of a Woman
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At a time when cinema seeks to isolate the present moment, to determine, through its own techniques, how it is read, resisting the dialogic, theatre offers itself as a genuine conversation with self and society alike.” (Bigsby, 2000, p. “For her, theatre is an authentic dialogue with the culture and with the history of theatre itself (‘Every time you read a play there is a sense in which you are talking to Aristotle’).If they can go along for a ride they wouldn’t ordinarily take, or don’t even know they are taking, then they might see highly charged political issues in a new and unexpected way.” – Vogel (Bigsby, 2000) Teacher of playwrighting at Brown University and Yale School of Drama.Written by Paula Vogel in her Broadway debut, after more than 22 plays including the Pulitzer Prize winning How I Learned to Drive. (l-r): Katrina Lenk as ‘Manke,’ Adina Verson as ‘Rivkele’ in INDECENT, a new play by Paula Vogel, co-created by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman, and directed by Rebecca Taichman, at the Cort Theatre, 138 West 48th Street. Little did she know she would get much more than she bargained for. Now she had come West to meet her hero, hoping that the encounter would bring her the kind of happy ending she wrote in her books. Surely this crude cowboy couldn’t be the legendary gunfighter Stephanie had immortalized in the dime novels she’d written under an assumed name! Proper, pristine, and punctual-that was what people always said about Stephanie Elliott, little realizing that she had a secret she had won fame and fortune writing under the pseudonym of Steven E. Clint Tanner’s first meeting with Stephanie Eliott was more than just awkward, it was a catastrophe! Pretending that he thought her to be the bawdy house’s new girl, he patted the haughty easterner on the posterior and swept her into his arms for a passionate kiss-a welcome to the West. For a prize of fifteen cents per hundred, each March through early May, children were coaxed to collect the teeming nests by the wagonload to be counted and burned by their teachers. Beginning in 1894, the Andover Village Improvement Society (AVIS) paid a cash bounty to boys (alas, no tree-climbing girls were envisioned) to clip the nests and egg “belts” of tent caterpillars, particularly in Indian Ridge. Miss Buck’s annual reports detail the efforts she and the other Indian Ridge trustees took, as fond parents, to protect the Reservation’s trees from fire and especially destructive moths. She didn’t want to be something he just wanted to fool around with. She knew that she was worth more than that. 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I reread This Savage Song just so I could familiarize myself again with Verity, or V-City as it’s known. It picks up six months after This Savage Song ends so if you haven’t read the first book yet, you’re in for some spoilers from the first book! Our Dark Duet is the conclusion to the Monsters of Verity duology. V E Schwab killed me, not for the last time I presume, with Our Dark Duet. Which will be harder to conquer: the monsters they face, or the monsters within? And a new monster is waiting-one that feeds on chaos and brings out its victims’ inner demons. And she’s good at it.ĪUGUST FLYNN once yearned to be human. Read my review of the first book in the duology,īuy from Book Depository, Kinokuniya Malaysia, MPHOnline The Teutons wanton disregard for Polish honor an affront that could not go unanswered, the tale is told from the point of view of two Polish knights, the older Maczko and the younger Zbiszko, each symbolically representing facets of Polish history, the honor of the past and the hope for the future. The Teutons to be kept at bay, Sienkiewicz portrays the crusaders as the blackest of villains, despite that they were knights templar and played a marginal role in the Catholic church. Forgivably biased to his fatherland, The Teutonic Knights tells the the story of Poland’s fight to retain its independence under threat of its Templar neighbors in the 13th century. Awarded for the historical spirit in which he wrote the novel, the same devotion can be found in all other of Sienkiewicz’s books, including The Teutonic Knights (also known as The Knights of the Cross). Henryk Sienkiewicz won the Nobel Prize for his novel Quo Vidas, a meticulously researched novel about Roman life at the time of Christianity’s onset. Ultimately it reflects a division in the concept of truth itself, which functions as a gatekeeper, ruling Christian principles out of bounds in the public arena. And the study guide in Finding Truth was shaped by questions from readers like you, from teens to college professors, and is ideal for individual or group study. In Total Truth, Nancy Pearcey offers a razor-sharp analysis of the public/private split, explaining how it hamstrings our efforts at both personal and cultural renewal. She brings themes to life with personal stories and real-world examples. Finding Truth displays Pearcey’s well-earned reputation for clear and cogent writing. A former agnostic, Pearcey demonstrates that a robust Christian worldview matches reality-that it is not only true but attractive, granting higher dignity to the human person than any alternative. In Finding Truth, she explains five powerful principles that penetrate to the core of any worldview-secular or religious-to uncover its deepest motivations and weigh its claims. This book is essential reading for all' Becky Norton Dunlop, Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow, The Heritage Foundation. Love Thy Body brings clarity and understanding to the multitude of complex and confusing views in discussions about love and sexuality. Nancy Pearcey, bestselling and critically acclaimed author, offers fresh tools to break free from presumed certainties and test them against reality. Nancy Pearcey once again drills down to truth. That’s the mantra in many circles today-whether the church, the classroom, the campus, or the voting booth. |