![]() ![]() Children will love Baihu and his adventures! I hope there are more Baihu tales in store for us, James Chalk! I love the settings, the promise of suspense and maybe of romance, a future to be explored. This book is a milder offshoot of The Meat Market, with some of the well known characters like Jonathan and Baihu, but it feels like a teaser for bigger things to come. ![]() The Reverend Mother at the orphanage muses over the way the world is changing, making the line between right and wrong, thinner.Īnd then there is Baihu, the majestic Bengal tiger, ferocious one minute and gentle the next, who is the ultimate hero of this Christmas tale. She is having doubts about the path she has chosen and wonders if God is testing her. Elsie, a nun initiate is coming back to the orphanage after taking the children out for the day. There are three facets to this story which come together at the end. If anyone can create a dystopian Christmas, it has to be James Chalk. This is a short endearing Christmas tale. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Concepts of decadence, ornamentality, and frivolity shape the latter half of this episode where Doris Payne, the West Virginian jewel thief, emerges as an exquisitely improbable modernist heroine. In a stirring discussion of the aesthetic forms and moods of recovery, Ben and Shola sink into the “purpleness” of the fin-de-siècle and explore the critical power of Black sensuousness. It is also inseparable from restoring queerness to the once hypermasculine and “muscular” paradigm of modernism. ![]() Recovering the stories of Black writers and artists is essential to Shola’s literary project. ![]() Shola offers up Richard Bruce Nugent as their current figure of fascination (or “transfixion” to use a key image from LOTE) and wonders what it would have been like to move through Harlem and London by Nugent’s side. This conversation takes listeners back to all yesterday’s parties as Shola, Ben, and host Aarthi Vadde time travel to the Harlem Renaissance and the interwar modernist era. In this episode, Benjamin Bateman, professor of English and head judge of the James Tait Black Prize, reunites with Shola von Reinhold, author of LOTE, the winner of the JTB prize in 2021. This season, we’re partnering with Novel Dialogue, a podcast where a novelist and a literary critic talk about novels from every angle: how we read them, write them, publish them, and remember them. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Students forced to wear the bright red badges have experienced increased bullying, public ridicule, and shaming by other students and teachers. Per the complaint, these badges contrast from the ones worn by their peers, which have a grey background. Students claim this badge has led them to be bullied and ostracized by their peers and teachers. But the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Arizona is arguing that not all badges are the same.Īccording to a December 28 letter sent to the district from the ACLU made available on the ACLU's website, students in the 11th and 12th grade who are missing credits are required to wear a "scarlet badge" with a bright red background. ![]() It often indicates a user profile.Īt Mingus Union High School Cottonwood, Arizona, every student is required to wear an ID badge. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the beautiful shoes come with unexpected side effects, effects that threaten to destroy all that made the girl from Kansas into a bona-fide hero. And the longer she's in Oz, reuniting with old friends like the Tin Woodman and meeting new acquaintances like the powerful Princess Ozma, and the longer she wears those gorgeous shoes, the more convinced Dorothy becomes that Oz needs her, and it's only in this magical land that she'll finally get her due. ![]() Their determination to return to Kansas only fuels Dorothy's desire to stay. ![]() But her return trip has some unintended passengers - Em and Henry - who are, inexplicably, less than thrilled with their marvelous new surroundings. When a gorgeous pair of red heels appear, with a note from "G," Dorothy is thrilled that her old friend Glinda has somehow heard her plea. When her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry's lovingly-planned Sweet Sixteen birthday party goes horribly awry, Dorothy makes a desperate wish to return to Oz. After experiencing the wonders of Oz, the heady flush of power and acclaim, normal in Kansas is the last thing Dorothy craves - and she begins to wonder if fighting so hard to come home was the biggest mistake she ever made. It's been two years since Dorothy returned to Kansas from her adventures in Oz - two years marked by a brief brush with fame as surviving the cyclone made her a local celebrity, followed by normalcy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Working Title’s Andrew Stearn, Liza Chasin, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner also executive produce. Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City is a Working Title Television and NBCUniversal International studios production for Netflix.Armistead Maupin will executive produce Alan Poul returns to direct and executive produce.Lauren Morelli (WGA nominee co-EP and writer Orange is The New Black) serves as showrunner/executive producer and writer.Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG Award nominee Ellen Page will join the cast as Shawna. ![]()
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