After a misunderstanding leads Isaac’s former teammates to convince Marco he could be their middle school basketball team’s next Muggsy Bogues (the smallest player in NBA history), Marco and Isaac dedicate themselves to getting him a spot on the team, even though he’s never played before. Isaac knows how to talk Marco through his panic attacks and discussions of his absent father, and Marco calmly listens to Isaac’s fears about his father’s not-so-secret alcohol abuse. Despite their apparent differences-Isaac’s a talented basketball player who struggles academically, while Marco’s a supershort straight-A student who prefers chess to contact sports-they have been inseparable besties since kindergarten. Together, neighbors and friends Isaac and Marco navigate the challenges of middle school, divorced parents, and basketball tryouts.īrand-new sixth graders Isaac Castillo and Marco Honeyman are more like family than friends.
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Cain spoke with me on a warm Saturday morning about her evolving relationship to art, unanswered questions, and what it’s like working with two editors at once. By no means a craft book, one could still learn some things from A Horse at Night, namely, how a person might create a meaningful artistic life for themselves, forming and re-forming one’s aesthetics over time. In A Horse at Night, Cain meditates on art and literature-what she most desires from the work of others and her own-and also wanders into ancillary subjects like authenticity and solitude. “Mostly I want to go too far, but with a light touch,” she writes in A Horse at Night: On Writing (Dorothy), her second book with Danielle Dutton and Martin Riker’s vaunted independent press, and first work of nonfiction after two collections of short stories and the 2020 novel Indelicacy. 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Article 231 of that treaty laid sole responsibility for the war’s outbreak on Germany and its allies, thus supposedly settling the issue once and for all. The question of the causes of the outbreak of the First World War-known for many years during and afterwards as the Great War-is probably the most hotly contested in the whole history of historical writing.Īt the Paris Peace Conference, the victors compelled the vanquished to accede to the Versailles Treaty. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark, HarperCollins, New York 2013, 697pp. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction-from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja-finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. 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Today we’re looking at Herbert WestReanimator, written between June 1921 and October 1922, and first published in the February-June 1922 issues of Home Brew. The book Science Fiction-The Early Years calls "Herbert West-Reanimator" "wretched work". He also had to begin each installment with a recap of the previous episode. Moreover, he disliked the requirement that each installment end with a cliffhanger, which was unlike his normal style. Lovecraft claimed to be unhappy with the work, writing it only because he was being paid five dollars for each installment. 1-6, an amateur magazine published by his friend George Julian Houtain. Lovecraft originally serialised the story in Home Brew Vol. It is also notable as one of the first depictions of zombies as scientifically reanimated corpses, with animalistic and uncontrollable temperament. Lovecraft from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK. The story is the first to mention Lovecraft's fictional Miskatonic University. Buy Herbert West-Reanimator and Kindred Night Spawn by H.P. The story was the basis of the 1985 horror film Re-Animator and its sequels, in addition to numerous other adaptations in various media. Herbert West: Reanimator is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. |