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![]() Like those works, Ballingrud’s stories delve into the damaged psyches of American men, with a distinctly twenty-first-century awareness of the world we now inhabit, itself as damaged as the shellshocked figures that populate it. Nathan Ballingrud’s North American Lake Monsters is an exceptional fictional debut: It deserves a place alongside collections like Peter Straub’s Magic Terror, Scott Wolven’s Controlled Burn, Dan Chaon’s Stay Awake, Raymond Carver’s Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son. ![]() Personalizations upon request! You’ll be supporting a great local bookstore in the bargain. ![]() You can order signed copies of Wounds and North American Lake Monsters from Malaprop’s Bookstore. Here you’ll find occasional blog posts, interviews and reviews, and a bibliography. ![]() My novella “The Visible Filth” was recently made into a movie called Wounds, written and directed by Babak Anvari, starring Armie Hammer, Zazie Beetz, and Dakota Johnson. I’m Nathan Ballingrud, author of Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell, and North American Lake Monsters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Can the Roman state really have been in constant decline for more than a millennium?Īn orgy of Tiberius on Capri, Henryk Siemeradzki, 1881 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia). Obviously, the theory of Roman degeneracy had quickly become something of a literary cliché, and it sometimes seems ridiculous. And the tradition was carried on into the Byzantine period by the likes of Procopius (AD c.500–c.565), Michael Psellus (c.1017–78), and Anna Comnena (1083–1153), whose histories suggest a very dim view of contemporary people and events. Later we find Ammianus Marcellinus (AD 330– 95) rehearsing scathing criticisms of luxury, greed, idleness, pretence, exaggerated devotion to the circus, and so forth. Imperial biographies, such as those found in Suetonius’ Twelve Caesars (written AD c.120) and the Historia Augusta (written in the 4 th century AD), are tales of vice and folly. Tacitus (AD 56-c.120) thought he saw a long descent from virtue and freedom, and felt sure that nothing was left of the old Roman morality. Polybius (c.200–c.118 BC) and Sallust (c.86–c.35 BC) believed that the decline of Rome had begun immediately after the final destruction of Carthage in 146 BC. ![]() Commentary on Roman decadence is so pervasive in Classical literature that there was no period of Roman history that was not considered degenerate by its own historians. Livy’s idea that something was wrong in his own time (c.59 BC–AD 17) was not unique. A Roman orgy in Caesar’s day, Henryk Siemeradzki, 1872 (Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia). ![]() ![]() This is a place where two continents meet, a place where eastern and western cultures collide. To the west is the Mediterranean and to the east is the Black Sea. The currents in the Bosphorus are powerful and strong. A body of water that separates Europe from Asia. ![]() ![]() Istanbul sits on the shores of the Bosphorus. The novel ‘Museum of Innocence’ portrays a carefree life for the wealthy young socialites of Istanbul in the 60s and 70s and yet…. He writes about love and yearning and passion and social structures that cannot be breached. A city proud of its Turkish and Stambuli culture and traditions and yet at the same time a city that yearns to be ‘western’ and more open in its approach to modern life. He writes about growing up in a city of tradition and pride. Orhan Pamuk writes about his city, the city of Istanbul, in a lyrical and poetic way. I was enthralled and engaged in a way that doesn’t happen very often. ![]() Each day I found myself compelled to sit down and read as much as I could. I’m actually quite sad that I’ve finished it. It is one of the most powerful novels I’ve read. I’ve just finishing reading Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence. ![]() ![]() They enter the Despair Event Horizon as ghosts overtake the town. after he seemingly sacrificed his life to stop Pretty Boy once and for all.
![]() ![]() Just as Chasing the Scream transformed the global debate about addiction, with over twenty million views for his TED talk and the animation based on it, Lost Connections will lead us to a very different debate about depression and anxiety-one that shows how, together, we can end this epidemic. They lead to solutions radically different from the ones we have been offered up until now. Hari’s journey took him from the people living in the tunnels beneath Las Vegas, to an Amish community in Indiana, to an uprising in Berlin-all showing in vivid and dramatic detail these new insights. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate this question-and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong.Īcross the world, Hari discovered social scientists who were uncovering the real causes-and they are mostly not in our brains, but in the way we live today. ![]() He was told-like his entire generation-that his problem was caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, a startling challenge to our thinking about depression and anxiety.Īward-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking antidepressants when he was a teenager. ![]() ![]() I'm not looking forward to all the backlash and everything else." I really don't think I'll enjoy this at all. I really believe the Lord wanted me to do this, but there is a wrestling on that point because I thought, "Gosh, that's just not me. Several times in the middle of the night I couldn't even sleep. Some of it was concern, but some was doubt: Am I sure of what I believe? Let me go back and study. And yet reading Love Wins set a lot of things spinning in my mind. ![]() I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing. In several places in your book, it's clear that you are conflicted about even addressing this topic. ![]() (Chan's coauthor, Preston Sprinkle, is associate professor of biblical studies at Chan's Eternity Bible College.) Christianity Today senior managing editor Mark Galli is the author of another of the response books, God Wins, and interviewed Chan last week. Francis Chan, whose books Crazy Love and Forgotten God are still on bestseller lists, is a somewhat surprising addition to the pack with Erasing Hell. ![]() Few books have generated as much theological conversation as Rob Bell's Love Wins-and fewer still have sparked several response books within months of their appearance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Redundancy and economic woes had coincided with the arrival of a first child. In 2011, things were grim in the Adil-Smith household. ![]() ![]() Martin Adil-Smith’s “A Gathering of Twine” The rest is history, but it was only with the success of “IT” and “Misery” that saw a new edition published in 1990, with the original material re-inserted.Ģ. It was only when King voluntarily cut more than FOUR HUNDRED PAGES from his longest tome that Double Day agreed to consider it. The marketing team couldn’t figure out how to pitch it to the public, and his editor refused to touch it. How crushing it must have been to have had his fourth book – “The Stand” initially rejected by his publishers, Doubleday. In 1978, Stephen King was riding high – “Carrie”, “Salem’s Lot”, and “The Shining” had all been bestsellers. Stephen King’s “The Stand” The Stand – Stephen King A list of our favourite horror books that nearly never were.ġ. ![]() ![]() ![]() The bosses set him up in a modest high-rise across from the court where his fellow hired gun will be making an appearance after being extradited on a murder charge. We find him accepting his final job at the start of the book, killing another hitman, entering deep-cover as a novelist looking for a bit of quiet in a small city. The titular character, a hitman who only kills “bad people,” is an avid reader who often plays dumb to lull his bosses into a false sense of security. King has a long history of writing books with plots about writing or starring writers, and, despite being essentially a rip-roaring heist novel, Billy Summers is no different. ![]() ![]() And little by little, the story started to spin out from that.” “I started to ask myself, ‘How is he going to do that?’ And I put myself to sleep, many a night, thinking about different possibilities, different ways that that might work. “I started to think about this problem, of a who had to take a shot and get away from the fifth floor, or the high floor, of a building,” he tells Rolling Stone. Stephen King lit upon the idea for his new book, Billy Summers, while telling himself bedtime stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved the MC Seb right from the start, he was laidback, ambitious and enthusiastic about his new cafe. I really hope the author continues this series as there were so many interesting characters we were introduced to, even just in the last few chapters. The story of the opening of Rainbow Place and the community was beautiful. Has a positive storyline and the romance seems real. Enjoyed the story of a romance and the honest struggle of the demons of coming out to yourself. He hires a deeply closeted builder, Jason. This is a lovey low angst story about being proud and out and being proud about coming out. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Review this product Share your thoughts with other customers. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. How are ratings calculated? Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. ![]() |
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