![]() ![]() Soto has been the editor of Feminist Formations since August 2011 (co-editor with Adela Licona for 2011–12) at the University of Arizona. Her current research focuses on narratives of rescue, migration, and motherhood in the global South. ![]() Her work has been published in Women’s Studies Quarterly, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, The Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (JMI), and Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice, as well as many anthologies. ![]() of Iowa Press, 2004), co-producer/director of the documentary film, Finding Face (2009), and co-editor of Mothering in East Asian Communities: Politics and Practices (Demeter Press, 2014). She earned her PhD in Women’s Studies at Emory University, and she is the author of Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech (Univ. We're proud to announce that on August 15, 2016, Feminist Formations transitions to Oregon State University under the new editorship of Patti Duncan. Patti is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University where she specializes in women of color feminisms, transnational feminisms, queer studies, feminist media studies, and motherhood studies. Soto Passes the Editorship to Patti Duncan ![]() Announcing the New Home of Feminist Formations: Editor Sandra K. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Where did the idea for The Hike come from, and how different is the final book from that original idea? I’m a big fan of anything where someone gets lost and is trapped somewhere strange and imposing: desert islands, distant planets, Oz, anything. It’s a fellow who goes on a hike and gets very, very, very lost. So, in a general sense, what is The Hike about? ![]() To find out more about this cautionary tale, I spoke to Magary about the impetuous and influences behind this freaky and oddly semiautobiographical story. ![]() But for those who aren’t afraid of the great outdoors, might I recommend you read Drew Magary’s weird new horror/sci-fi novel, The Hike ( hardcover, digital), in which a guy has a terrible, no good, very bad day because he decided to take a walk in the woods. There are a lot of reasons to stay indoors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There they took on new momentum, intermingling with each other and with New World or European styles of singing and dance. Since the Atlantic slave trade, ancient African organizing principles of song and dance have crossed the seas from the Old World to the New. Listening to rock, jazz, blues, reggae, salsa, samba, bossa nova, juju, highlife, and mambo, one might conclude that much of the popular music of the world is informed by the flash of the spirit of a certain people specially armed with improvisatory drive and brilliance. “… Introduction: The Rise of the Black Atlantic Visual Tradition by Robert Farris Thompson. ![]() ![]() How to Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn BrophyĪll That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Iveliz Explains It All by Andrea Beatriz Arango ![]() Wash Day Diaries by Jamilla Rowser and Robyn Smith Raquel Vasquez Gilliland is a Pura Belpré Award-winning Mexican American poet, novelist, and painter. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna ![]() Until then, feast upon this plethora of links! The podcast feed will be in hibernation until February 7th, 2023, when we’ll be back to fortnightly releases with an episode about The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake. Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets. Thanks for sharing spacetime with us in 2022 data:image/png base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAKAAAAB4CAYAAAB1ovlvAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAnpJREFUeF7t17Fpw1AARdFv7WJN4EVcawrPJZeeR3u4kiGQkCYJaXxBHLUSPHT/AaHTvu. Buy a cheap copy of Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning. ![]() It’s that time again! We’re hitting your airwaves with a recap of our year in media. Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything By Raquel Vasquez Gilliland Trade Paperback LIST PRICE 12.99 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER Get a FREE ebook by joining our mailing list today Plus, receive recommendations and exclusive offers on all of your favorite books and authors from Simon & Schuster. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of the writing on Holiday has focused on the tragic details of her life-her prostitution at the age of fourteen, her heroin addiction and alcoholism, her series of abusive relationships-or tried to correct the many fabrications of her autobiography. Her voice weathered countless shifts in public taste, and new reincarnations of her continue to arrive, most recently in the form of singers like Amy Winehouse and Adele. When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia’s studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in twentieth-century popular music. ![]() Published in celebration of Holiday’s centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer’s extraordinary musical talent ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet here Sam is, the same charming, confident man she knew, but even more alluring than she remembered. ![]() When she steps onto the set of her first big break, he’s the last person she expects to see. So when it became clear her trust was misplaced, her world shattered for good.įourteen years later, Tate, now an up-and-coming actress, only thinks about her first love every once in a blue moon. Sam was the first, and only, person that Tate – the long-lost daughter of one of the world’s biggest film stars – ever revealed her identity to. Including her first heartbreak.ĭuring a whirlwind two-week vacation abroad, Sam and Tate fell for each other in only the way that first loves do: sharing all of their hopes, dreams, and deepest secrets along the way. ‘You can never go wrong with Christina Lauren!’ Paige Toon ‘ E motional, sweet, and surprising novel about first loves and second chances‘ Shondaland ![]() ![]() ![]() This age-appropriate horror story takes children’s fears seriously and then offers them an escape through genuine comic relief. Little does he know that the carrots are cheering on the other side of the fence at the success of their plan to keep the herbivore out. ![]() Panels in varying sizes and multiple perspectives keep pace with Reynolds’s tongue-in-cheek narrative as Jasper solves his problem by building a fortress, complete with an alligator-filled moat, around the offending plants. The scenes are rendered in black, white, and gray-except for the carrots and the objects that stand in for them when Jasper does his double takes: these are all orange. Brown’s panels-bordered in black, drawn in pencil, and digitally composed and colored-cleverly combine the mood of film noir with the low-tech look of early children’s television staging for an aesthetic that is atmospheric, but not overwhelming. Jasper’s eyes play tricks on him (or do they?), as he sees the veggies’ menacing reflections in the bathroom mirror, silhouettes on the bedroom wall, shapes on the shelves in the shed. Carrots seem to be “creeping” up on him everywhere he goes. Everything changes when he senses that he is being followed. He “pulled,” “yanked,” and “ripped” them out before greedily gorging. ![]() He raids Crackenhopper Field several times a day, and his manner shows no regard for the vegetables’ feelings. Jasper Rabbit’s craving for carrots is insatiable. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nilah is the author-illustrator of M.L.K., a middle grade graphic novel that won the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity, and How to Find a Fox, a picture book. She also illustrates children's books, including the Dactyl Hill Squad series by Daniel Jose Older. She has written and storyboarded for studios such as Disney and DreamWorks. From her early days she developed an eternal love for three things: nature, books, and animation. Follow him on Twitter at Magruder is a writer and artist based in Los Angeles, California. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife and two sons. Rick is also the publisher of an imprint at Disney-Hyperion, Rick Riordan Presents, dedicated to finding other authors of highly entertaining fiction based on world cultures and mythologies. Rick collaborated with illustrator John Rocco on two #1 New York Times best-selling collections of Greek myths for the whole family: Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods and Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes. Rick Riordan, dubbed “storyteller of the gods” by Publishers Weekly, is the author of five #1 New York Times best-selling middle grade series with millions of copies sold throughout the world: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Heroes of Olympus, and the Trials of Apollo, based on Greek and Roman mythology the Kane Chronicles, based on Ancient Egyptian mythology and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, based on Norse mythology. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bombarded by all this, the people are driven into spiral-induced madness, or warp into warped curving forms and even the town itself begins to change to resemble the spiral.Īs was pointed out by Vice’s art editor Nick Gazin, it resembles the work of H. That's how it starts, as with individuals but as the curse gets stronger people start turn into snails, lighthouses burn people alive, and whirlpools trap them all there with the spiral. Shuchi explains that his father has become obsessed with spirals and that he thinks, “The town is contaminated with spirals.” He is proven to be all too right when his father turns up dead in a wooden tub contorted in on himself. The story starts in Kurouzu Cho a small seaside town in Japan where Kirie, a high school girl, finds the father of her friend Shuichi squatting in an alley transfixed by a snail crawling up a wall. It is a fantastic work of art and Junji proves, what many people have long suspected, that if you want true horror you need an ex-dentist to create it. In the words of the American film critic Bob Chipman “comics are weird”, and none-more-so than Junji Ito’s Uzumaki (Spiral). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 8 books 1 voter Cthulhu Mythos Horror From Lovecraft And Beyond. 8 books 6 voters Live Action Role Playing (LARP) And Table Top Games. Lovecraft: The Best Mythos Stories and Collections of Tales. This volume collects 23 of Lovecraft's greatest weird tales, including "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Colour out of Space", "The Dunwich Horror", "The Shadow over Innsmouth", and "The Shadow out of Time". The Cthulhu Mythos is the name given to a shared fictional cosmology inspired by the works of H.P. Publisher picture included in photo display. Also includes the COLLECTIBLE POSTER "Cthulhu Rising" by cover artist John Coulthart, which measures 16 x 20 inches and is suitable for framing. Gold gilt to page edges is bright, unmarred and pristine. Bound in bonded leather with distinctive gilt edging, decorative endpapers and a ribbon bookmark. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, stamp or markings. Unread, pristine book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp corners and clean unmarred boards. Small hole in the shrinkwrap at top front edge. Sealed in publisher's fragile shrinkwrap. ![]() |