How she accomplished this is told through a seamless blending of fact and fiction that kept me hooked throughout the reading.Īt the age of 20, Belle’s life began in earnest when she was introduced to the fierce and fabulously wealthy Morgan by his nephew. In her time - early to mid-20th century - she was famous and celebrated in the international world of fine art and rare books. With meticulous research, the authors have created a fictionalized, intimate portrait of the real-life Belle da Costa Greene, a person you’ve probably never heard of. This is the premise of the recently-published historical novel, “Personal Librarian,” by bestselling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. Imagine this young woman is a light-skinned Black American passing herself off as white. Morgan, to hire you as his personal librarian over candidates with stronger credentials. Imagine being a young woman in the early 1900s with the moxie to convince the American titan of industry and finance, J.P. Authors: Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
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Garrick is now not only evil, but he also possesses all of the scientist's knowledge. He is determined to track Riley down and use the timekey in Chevie's possession to make his way back to Victorian London where he can literally change the world. Together Riley and Chevie must evade Garrick, who has been fundamentally altered by his trip through the wormhole. In modern London, Riley is helped by Chevron Savano, a nineteen-year-old FBI agent sent to London as punishment after a disastrous undercover, anti-terrorist operation in Los Angeles. Riley is saved from having to commit the grisly act when the intended victim turns out to be a scientist from the future, part of the FBI's Witness Anonymous Relocation Program (WARP) Riley is unwittingly transported via wormhole to modern day London, followed closely by Garrick. On one such escapade, Garrick brings his reluctant apprentice along and urges him to commit his first killing. She's supposed to monitor a strange pod while the scientist in charge sleeps - a scientist who's just been staring at it for 30 years. Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims' dwellings. Seventeen-year-old Chevie feels stranded in London on a dull FBI assignment after the government shuts down a young trainee program in the States. In 1919 a decisive telegram was sent to her mother: ‘Opening bookshop in Paris. That a woman should run such an enterprise was rare and impressive, and it galvanised Beach to open one herself. Soon after, she visited La Maison des Amis des Livres, a bookshop on the banks of the Seine that was owned by Adrienne Monnier. She was a europhile after living in France from 1901 to 1905, when her father was assistant minister of the American Church in Paris, Beach travelled back to Europe a number of times and even lived in Spain before returning to Paris at the end of World War I to study literature at the Sorbanne.Īdrienne Monnier, Sylvia Beach and James Joyce at Shakespeare and Company, Paris 1938. īeach was born in the United States in 1887, and lived on Library Street in Princeton, New Jersey. Today, Beach leaves behind two particularly astonishing legacies: not only the world’s most famous bookshop, but also the publication of one of Modernism’s greatest works, James Joyce’s Ulysses. It was celebrated and frequented by exceptional artists and authors, from Simone de Beauvoir to Man Ray, and Beach’s collections helped promulgate English-language writing across Europe. A century ago, she opened a higgledy-piggledy bookshop and lending library on Paris’ Left Bank called Shakespeare and Company. This International Women’s Day, Peter Harrington celebrates Sylvia Beach, the trailblazing bookseller and publisher who helped shape the literary landscape of her age. The Amazon listing also notes that Woodward obtained 25 personal letters between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, including one in which Kim describes their bond as something out of a “fantasy film.” Publisher Simon & Schuster says the forthcoming book follows “Trump’s moves as he faces a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest.” It says Woodward conducted a series of exclusive interviews with the president. 15, less than two months before Election Day, according to a listing on. Veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s new book about President Donald Trump is titled “Rage” and will be released Sept. 'Deep Throat' at 50: Still hard for America to swallowįrom Watergate to whinegate: The Washington Post is a hot mess Trump sues Bob Woodward for nearly $50M over release of interview recordings Bob Woodward says WaPo reporters ignored his Steele dossier warnings: report THE HOT ZONE is based on the game-changing book of the same name by Richard Preston. As the disease caused by a filovirus now known as Reston virus spread through the facility’s monkeys, the facility enlisted the aid of scientists at the nearby United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick. In 1989, several monkeys (Cynomolgus macaques) at a primate holding facility in Reston Virginia, only 20 miles from the center of Washington DC, developed a fatal illness. It is a highly entertaining series that offers a powerful reminder that the ongoing threat of emerging viruses must not be ignored. National Geographic’s series THE HOT ZONE is a thrilling dramatization of the first-known incursion of a filovirus onto American soil. Both Marburg virus and Ebola virus, which was isolated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire) in 1976, have caused outbreaks with fatality rates up to 90%. Monkeys imported for scientific research to Marburg, Germany transmitted a virus to humans that killed nearly a quarter of the 31 animal handlers who were infected. The Hot Zone and the Ongoing Threat of Virusesįiloviruses have been recognized as major threats to pubic health since 1967. Whether you’re looking for a biographical story, a music-inspired comic, a horror tale to grip your mind in fear, or something to introduce your kids to the wonderful world of comics, there’s a graphic novel for everyone on this list. Anyone can pick up most graphic novels without frantically researching characters or continuity. Usually, graphic novels are self-contained stories clocking in around 100+ pages. Graphic novels provide a solution for these individuals, novice comic readers, or people who love the intersection of words and art. Life takes unexpected directions and burnout feels unmanageable lately. Even those who consume comics wholeheartedly sometimes take a break from comic reading or collecting. Staying on top of weekly comic releases can prove a nigh-impossible task for those with busy schedules or limited financial resources. She's included in the GREAT WOMEN MYSTERY WRITERS by Elizabeth Lindsay 2nd editon published in the UK. She received the Medaille de la Ville de Paris for services to French culture. Her nationally bestselling and award nominated Aimée Leduc Investigation series has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, German and Hebrew. She is a San Francisco Library Laureate and a member of the Paris Sociéte Historique in the Marais. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, a bookseller, and their teenage son. A Paris she discovers on research trips and interviews with French police, private detectives and café owners. Her first three novels in the series MU Cara Black frequents a Paris little known outside the beaten tourist track. Cara Black frequents a Paris little known outside the beaten tourist track. Spanning more than fifteen years, the book also collects more recent stories like environmental SF tale "The Water Thief", powerful and moving YA "The Old Man and the Martian Sea" and the brilliant "In Babelsberg". The very best of his more than sixty published short stories are gathered in Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds, a sweeping 250,000 word career retrospective which features the very best stories from the 'Revelation Space' universe like "Galactic North", "Great Wall of Mars", "Weather", "Diamond Dogs", and "The Last Log of the Lachrymosa" alongside thrilling hard science fiction stories like Hugo Award nominee "Troika", "Thousandth Night", and "The Star Surgeon's Apprentice". His short stories have been nominated for the Hugo, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, Locus, Italia, Seiun, and Sidewise Awards, and have won the Seiun and Sidewise Awards. A brilliant novelist, he has also been recognized as one of our best writers of short fiction. With a career stretching back more than 25 years and across fourteen novels, including the classic 'Revelation Space' series, the bestselling 'Poseidon's Children' series, Century Rain, Pushing Ice, and most recently The Medusa Chronicles (with Stephen Baxter), Reynolds has established himself as one of the best and most beloved writers of hard science fiction and space opera working today. The Guardian called Alastair Reynolds' work "a turbulent, wildly entertaining ride" and The Times acclaimed him as "the mastersinger of space opera". The recipient of a 2010 "Discovery" / Boston Review Poetry Prize and a MacDowell fellowship, her poetry appears in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, and other publications. The collection's sense of continuity and coherence comes through recurring poem types, including "still lifes," "instructions," and "symptoms."Ĭamille Rankine is the author of the chapbook Slow Dance with Trip Wire, selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship. Rankine's short, lyric poems are sharp, agonized, and exquisite, exploring themes of doubt and identity. Named "a poet to watch" by O Magazine, Camille Rankine's debut collection is a series of provocations and explorations. "I tell the truth, but I try to be kind about it."-Camille Rankine in 12 Questions There’s honorific nomenclature, but everything is grim military action, internecine butchery that leaves nobody unscarred. (There’s more information on the potential differences in translation in this article but suffice it to say they can be large.)Ĭaroline Alexander’s translation seems to situate the action in a more real-world kind of environment. It’s meant to be epic and lengthy, and Alexander’s translation certainly conveys this: you’ll have that hour-three-of- Ben-Hur twitchiness before you’re half done. I think that’s really meant to be the point, though: we’re reading a tale of both a long-lived military campaign and a gods’ pissing contest. Not an unenjoyable one, mind, just a grind. It could’ve been that younger me didn’t pay much attention to what was going on, but this time around I found it to be more of a grind. I’ve read the poem before – the Martin Hammond translation in Penguin, and parts of the Fagles/Knox version – and seem to remember that it flew by. |