![]() She describes a few specific episodes that highlight her love for theatre and creativity. Coel recounts growing up Black in London, from the racism she experienced at school (from both the students and the staff) to her time at drama school. Honest and incisive, this talk is definitely a must-listen/read. That talk, transcribed here in Misfits, is powerful indeed. I would recommend Misfits to those who haven’t watched Coel's MacTaggart Lecture. If you haven’t watched it, do yourself a favour, and do it ASAP. It made me cry, it made me laugh, it gave me friggin goosebumps. ![]() While I liked Chewing Gum well enough, I May Destroy You blew my mind. Our words-even when spoken from a position so powerless that all that’s produced is a moth-like squeak-can be loud enough to wake the house: a house that is often sleeping peacefully and does not want to be disturbed a house in which perhaps you’ve found a home. ![]() ❀ blog ❀ thestorygraph ❀ letterboxd ❀ tumblr ❀ ko-fi ❀ ![]()
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![]() ![]() No sooner, however, does the artist transgress the law of his medium than we realize with a start that there is a medium to obey. For the time being, he, and we with him, move in the artistic medium as a fish moves in the water, oblivious of the existence of an alien atmosphere. ![]() 2 The material “disappears” precisely because there is nothing in the artist’s conception to indicate that any other material exists. The artist has intuitively surrendered to the inescapable tyranny of the material, made its brute nature fuse easily with his conception. The formal restraints imposed by the material-paint, black and white, marble, piano tones, or whatever it may be-are not perceived it is as though there were a limitless margin of elbow-room between the artist’s fullest utilization of form and the most that the material is innately capable of. In great art there is the illusion of absolute freedom. ![]() Yet some limitation there must be to this freedom, some resistance of the medium. The possibilities of individual expression are infinite, language in particular is the most fluid of mediums. 1 Art is so personal an expression that we do not like to feel that it is bound to predetermined form of any sort. ![]() When the expression is of unusual significance, we call it literature. They are invisible garments that drape themselves about our spirit and give a predetermined form to all its symbolic expression. LANGUAGES are more to us than systems of thought-transference. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fish modeled on anyone in particular?ĭebbie: Mr. I started writing The Pout-Pout Fish that same day.īianca: Is Mr. He smiled and then pouted right back, and as we pouted back and forth, it struck me that the two of us looked like fish. I was trying to tease him out of his grumpy mood, so I made an exaggerated pouty face. And wait until you read the description of her next book to be published, it sounds hilarious – but you’ll have to read the interview to find out more …īianca: The Pout-Pout Fish is such a fun book, what was the inspiration behind it?ĭebbie: The story grew out of an actual pout! My elder son, who was about four at the time, was having a grouchy afternoon. ![]() Recently, I posted a book review of The Pout-Pout Fish, by Deborah Diesen, and now here comes the fun part … an exclusive interview with the lovely author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, producer, and director. She lives in rural New England, and her studio is in a barn with perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America. King, “Alligator Stroll” starring Josh Turner, and “Tyrannosaurus Funk” (animated) sung by Samuel L. Boynton has also directed twelve music videos of her songs, including the award-winning “One Shoe Blues” starring B.B. Three of her six albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold) and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has been certified Platinum (over 1 million copies sold). She has also written (with Michael Ford) and produced six albums of renegade children’s music. More than 85 million of her books have been sold, “mostly to friends and family,” she says. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over seventy-five children’s books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Source: htt Bruce Pascoe was born of Bunurong and Tasmanian Aboriginal heritage in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond and graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Education. He won the Fellowship of Australian Writers´ Literature Award in 1999 and his novel Fog a Dox (published by Magabala Books in 2012), won the Young Adult category of the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Bruce has had a varied career as a teacher, farmer, fisherman, barman, fencing contractor, lecturer, Aboriginal language researcher, archaeological site worker and editor. He is a member of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative of southern Victoria and has been the director of the Australian Studies Project for the Commonwealth Schools Commission. Bruce Pascoe was born of Bunurong and Tasmanian Aboriginal heritage in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond and graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Education. ![]() ![]() ![]() Needless, to say he too loves Doella, if he is capable of what most of us know as love that is. The typical villain, but I can’t give too much away and spoil the story. She took off her bloodied clothes, washed up in our bathroom, then put on some of Julies’ clean garments.įlawed Gods, the first book in the Flawed Gods series by Angela B. She stabbed her thirteen times about the face, neck, and chest. Once Julie was asleep, Susan came out from the closet armed with a butcher knife she’d taken from our own kitchen, and attacked Julie. She hid in a closet until late afternoon, when Julie often took a nap before meeting Jessica at the bus-stop after school. ![]() Jed Trumbull: Allowed his father to dominate his life long after the father’s death, even to the point of a pretty serious murder attempt. On The Eighth Day, God Created Trilby Richardson by Douglas Kolacki It still didn’t stop him from coming back. After this, he committed suicide and succeeded. The Reverend Masterplan: Burned down his church, with everyone inside, after tricking them into drinking poison. ![]() ![]() But Carle's immigrant parents decided to return home to Germany - his mother was homesick - and they arrived just in time for World War II.Īuthor Interviews The 'Blue Horse' That Inspired A Children's Book The elder Carle pointed out foxholes, spiderwebs and bird nests, opening his son's eyes to the beauties and mysteries in a child's landscape. He took me for long walks and explained things to me," he told NPR in 2007. ![]() ![]() Born in Syracuse, N.Y., Carle remembered an early life filled with art, light and walking through nature holding his father's hand. He didn't get started on that path until he was nearly 40, but he found great inspiration in his own childhood. Over the course of his career, Carle illustrated more than 70 books for kids. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - probably Carle's best-known work - came out in 1969 and became one of the bestselling children's books of all time.Īccording to a family statement, Carle "passed away peacefully and surrounded by family members on at his summer studio in Northampton, Massachusetts." He was 91 years old. ![]() Spiders, lady bugs, crickets and of course, that famous caterpillar, all as colorful and friendly as Carle himself. Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesĮric Carle's picture books were often about insects. Eric Carle with a cutout of his famously hungry caterpillar at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, Mass. ![]() ![]() ![]() With much passion and persuasion, Carter succeeded in convincing Carnarvon that the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun must still be located somewhere in the Valley of the Kings. The following years were extremely tough, until a fateful encounter with the wealthy nobleman, Lord Carnarvon, changed everything. Carter became chief inspector of antiquities for upper Egypt and was highly praised for his achievements, until his career came to an abrupt end when defending Egyptian site guards in a confrontation with French tourists. In 1891, at the young age of 17, he went to Egypt as an archaeological draftsman without any professional training, and there he forged an amazing career as an excavator. Howard Carter's biography as an archaeologist is remarkable. Only Howard Carter believed that there was still a sensational discovery to be made, and the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb was entirely due to his unwavering belief and sheer tenacity. At the beginning of the 20th century, some scientists thought that the Valley of the Kings had already been completely excavated. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a classic study of a misunderstood woman that offers a unique view of how well the medieval world, that often seems so distant from us, can touch and inform a modern sensibility." - Bill Burgwinkle, Professor of Medieval French and Occitan Literature, University of Cambridge, UK Pérez has all the scholarly apparatus down and she also visibly loves her material. She understands the Celtic origins and the French and English versions in which the story has come down to us and she brings to bear on the material a balanced feminist reading plus a rich understanding of the complexity of the character. ![]() "Pérez hits all the right notes in her work on Morgan la Fey and she does so with an irresistibly light touch. ![]() This book is recommended for anyone interested in the ethics of gender, the development of ideas about women and the feminine, and the long history of the Arthurian legends." - Sarah Kay, Professor of French, New York University, USA Most importantly, it shows how many aspects of modern culture which we take for granted have their roots deep in Celtic mythology and its medieval elaboration. This book draws authoritatively on many disciplines to throw new light on our ideas about love, power, and motherhood even today. "This fascinating and readable book traces the figure of Morgan la Fey from her origins in Irish Sovereignty legends via her development in medieval Arthurian romances through to her representation in modern popular culture, showing how the fairy serves as a focus for deep-seated anxieties about women and the feminine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Psychotherapy Book Club selection BOMC and QPB alternates. Pipher offers concrete suggestions for ways by which girls can build and maintain a strong sense of self, e.g., keeping a diary, observing their social context as an anthropologist might, distinguishing between thoughts and feelings. About the author (2005) Mary Pipher, Ph.D., is a psychologist and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Women Rowing North, Reviving Ophelia, The Shelter of Each Other, and Another Country, as well as Seeking Peace and Writing to Change the World. ![]() With sympathy and focus she cites case histories to illustrate the struggles required of adolescent girls to maintain a sense of themselves among the mixed messages they receive from society, their schools and, often, their families. ![]() From her work as a psychotherapist for adolescent females, Pipher here posits and persuasively argues her thesis that today's teenaged girls are coming of age in ``a girl-poisoning culture.'' Backed by anecdotal evidence and research findings, she suggests that, despite the advances of feminism, young women continue to be victims of abuse, self-mutilation (e.g., anorexia), consumerism and media pressure to conform to others' ideals. Mary Pipher, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and author of The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding our Families and Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of our Elders. Reviving Ophelia is an excellent introduction to the victims that our children (all of our children, not just girls) have become to the consumer culture. ![]() |