![]() According to Tinder, there are 3.5 million people in Australia swiping left and right with reckless abandon. ![]() For me, a single woman in her – Christ, I’ll just say it – late 20s, Anna’s comments ring true. “I like his sincerity,” she explains, and the fact that he succinctly articulates what she is finding to be true of dating: bolstered by the banquet of choices available on dating apps, many men are floundering in the commitment category. Next to me is Anna, 23, who discovered Hussey via his popular videos. The room is teeming with hundreds of women, from early 20s hipsters to ladies in their 60s eager to listen to Hussey, whose combination of directness and charm has made him something of an Our Man Behind Enemy Lines. “This is going to change your life!” chirps one, fizzing with energy. Female ushers an army in skinny jeans and white shirts, high-five me as I walk past. ![]() The speakers blast The Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back” and Charlie Puth’s “How Long”. It’s still 30 minutes until showtime but inside the auditorium every seat is full. ![]() ![]() I arrive early to the London event space in which Matthew Hussey is about to regale an audience with his trademarked techniques to “get the guy”. ![]()
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![]() Shaking himself out of those thoughts, he stole a fry off Casey’s plate and popped it in his mouth. The latter he hoped his body would allow him to do for several more years, but with his condition, he might have to quit as early as senior year. And wasn’t that why he was here? To get an education, experience everything college had to offer, and play hockey? Though Ethan suspected bad campus food was simply part of the whole college experience. ![]() Sadly, cafeteria food was also something he was exposed to on an almost daily basis, and it was entirely Casey’s fault. Other than the fries and the chocolate chip cookies as big as his face, everything tasted bland. What wasn’t a great love of his life was Glen Hill College cafeteria food. It was his good luck that he was exposed to both on an almost daily basis. ![]() Ethan Rain had two great loves of his life: hockey and his best friend, Casey Preston. ![]() ![]() His true personality in the book written by J.M. The boy who doesn’t grow up comes off as whimsical, magical, and more than a little mischievous in Disney’s rendition. However, there’s a colder sort of darkness that lies beneath the surface of Peter Pan. Peter Pan is no different in that respect. ![]() It’s no secret that the original Little Mermaid fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen didn’t exactly end in a happily ever after for our main character or that Cinderella’s wicked stepsisters received a much harsher punishment for their cruelty in Charles Perrault’s book than missing out on a prince’s proposal or that the Evil Queen from the adaptations of the Brothers Grimm didn’t simply fall off a cliff. ![]() For decades, Disney has taken their own wholesome magical spin on fairy tales that tend to have incredibly dark origins. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ted is a mordantly funny caricature, interestingly sinister and plausibly self-justifying when most inexcusable. ![]() Ruth, Irving's first female main character, works brilliantly, first as an imaginative, almost Salingeresque child coming to terms with her bewildering family, then as a grownup striving to understand her mother's motives-or at least to track her down. Grief over the boys is why Ruth's mother does not dare to love her. And Ruth becomes the most richly celebrated writer of them all because of her early training by Ted, who not only told her stories, but also helped her craft narratives to explain their home's many photographs of her brothers, who died in a gory car wreck the year before she was born. ![]() Marion abandons Ruth, Ted, and Eddie and becomes a successful pseudonymous novelist. ![]() Ted is a failed novelist who gets rich and famous writing creepy children's stories based on tales he tells Ruth (such as The Mouse Crawling Between the Walls). In the opening scene, 4-year-old Ruth Cole walks in on her melancholy mother, Marion, who is in flagrante with 16-year-old Eddie, the driver for drunken Ted (Ruth's dad and Marion's estranged, womanizing husband).Įddie spends the rest of his life obsessively writing novels like Sixty Times, his roman à clef about his 60 seductions by Marion. John Irving fans will not be startled to find that A Widow for One Year is a sprawling farce-tragedy crawling with characters who are writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() She continues to struggle at home, feeling degraded, and lost in the pain of being loved and loving someone. Mailhot is diagnosed with bipolar II, an eating disorder, and PTSD upon her release on Christmas Day. Like all the other men in their lives, Paul Simon seemed like a savior but failed them. ![]() Before her death by stroke, Mailhot’s mother met Paul Simon and starred in a documentary about an ex-lover and activist named Sal Agador. Mailhot writes about her conflicted feelings toward her mother, who was vicious, neglectful, powerful, and independent. ![]() Speaking with the PBS NewsHour in 2018, Mailhot said an interviewer. She struggles with the dichotomies of White forgiveness-in her culture, “we carry pain until we can reconcile it through ceremony” (26). Heart Berries was a New York Times best-seller, and a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Mailhot takes up the daily activities of the ward-coloring, tidying her room, attending group therapy. She refers to checking herself in as “signing a new treaty” (18). A glowing introduction from Sherman Alexie dubs Mailhot, the Saturday editor for the Rumpus, the biological child of a broken healer and a lonely artist, and her debut memoir undeniably embodies. Reflections on the turbulent life of a Native American writer. ![]() She reflects on the White logic of Casey, who thinks she’s crazy, and the lack of understanding of her ancestral and spiritual values at her therapist’s office. by Terese Marie Mailhot RELEASE DATE: Feb. She writes from a psychiatric hospital where she has committed herself because she is struggling with depression and has no will to live anymore. Mailhot styles this chapter in the form of a letter to her ex-lover, Casey. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She celebrates the plant-based roots of the cuisine in Bootylicious Gumbo and savory-sweet Georgia Watermelon & Peach Salad. She improvises new flavors in Peach Date BBQ Jackfruit Sliders and Sweet Potato-Tahini Cookies. Jenné revives the long tradition of using fresh, local ingredients creatively in dishes like Coconut Collard Salad and Fried Cauliflower Chicken. ![]() The result? Her first cookbook, SWEET POTATO SOUL, offering 100 vegan recipes that riff on Southern cooking in surprising and delicious ways, beautifully illustrated with full-color photography. As a chef, she instead spent years tweaking and experimenting to infuse plant-based, life-giving, glow-worthy foods with the flavor and depth that feeds the soul. Jenné Claiborne grew up in Atlanta eating classic Soul Food-fluffy biscuits, smoky sausage, Nana's sweet potato pie-but thought she'd have to give all that up when she went vegan. In Sweet Potato Soul, Jenn revives the long tradition of using fresh, local ingredients creatively in dishes like Coconut Collard Salad and Fried Cauliflower Chicken. ![]() ![]() Turning briefly down the road to Splatterpunk (as the extreme end became known), I began picking up anthologies that introduced me to a lot of new writers. In 1985, he threw his support behind Clive Barker who published six slim volumes from Sphere as The Books Of Blood - I loved them, intelligent but nasty tales that appealed to the teenaged-me and made me want more. In the mid-80s, using King's non-fiction study Danse Macabre as a guide, I was slowly discovering books and writers that would develop and sustain my love for horror. ![]() Ironically, it was the extreme end that got me into Grant. ![]() Grant was a key proponent of what’s called ‘quiet horror’, which editor Alan Ryan describes as “subtle, dark, with a lingering, bitter aftertaste.” In the horror boom of the late 70s and into the 80s that followed Stephen King’s breakout success, the genre broadened and grew until, by the mid-80s, there was a wide spectrum of styles with the extreme (in terms of gore, violence and sex) at one end, counterpointed by quiet horror at the other. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Household also published an autobiography, 'Against the Wind' (1958), and several collections of short stories, which he himself considered his best work. In his later years, he lived in Charlton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, and died in Wardington. After the War he lived the life of a country gentleman and wrote. During World War II, Household served in the Intelligence Corps in Romania and the Middle East. ![]() in English from Magdalen College, Oxford, and between 19 worked in commerce abroad, moving to the US in 1929. Household's fast-paced story foreshadowed such international bestsellers as Richard Condon's thriller 'The Manchurian Candidate' (1959), Frederick Forsyth's 'The Day of the Jackal' (1971), and Ken Follett's 'Eye of the Needle' (1978). Among his best-know works is' Rogue Male' (1939), a suggestive story of a hunter who becomes the hunted, in 1941 filmed by Fritz Lang as 'Man Hunt'. Household's flight-and-chase novels, which show the influence of John Buchan, were often narrated in the first person by a gentleman-adventurer. British author of mostly thrillers, though among 37 books he also published children's fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But I really miss my childhood dog named Dog and a cat with a big personality named Mookie. How do dogs communicate? Why do dogs sniff each other? Are dogs just tame wolves? These and other questions are answered by the author, along with some extra information provided by the dogs themselves in this second book in The Truth About series.Ĭolor? My favorite color is probably green…but not all shades! I like muted colors that often have a touch of gray or brown. ![]() Get to know Annette and explore her resources for writers at her website: Featured Book: She’s the author of ten fact-filled children’s books including The Laura Ingalls Wilder Companion: A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide (Chicago Review Press) and The Truth About series (Reycraft Books) including Whooo Knew? The Truth About Owls and Scurry! The Truth About Spiders. Facebook: Whipple celebrates curiosity and inspires a sense of wonder while exciting readers about science and history. ![]() ![]() Years later, in 1909, Maurice is attending Cambridge, where he strikes up a friendship with two fellow students: the aristocratic Viscount Risley and the rich and handsome Clive Durham. The story follows its main character, Maurice Hall, through university, a tumultuous relationship, struggling to fit into society, and ultimately being united with his life partner.ĭuring a trip to a windswept beach, Maurice Hall, an 11-year-old schoolboy, receives instructions about the "sacred mysteries" of sex from his teacher, who wants to explain to the fatherless boy the changes he would experience in puberty. It is a tale of gay love in the restrictive and repressed culture of Edwardian England. The film was produced by Ismail Merchant via Merchant Ivory Productions and Film Four International, and written by Ivory and Kit Hesketh-Harvey, with cinematography by Pierre Lhomme. The supporting cast includes Denholm Elliott as Dr Barry, Simon Callow as Mr Ducie, Billie Whitelaw as Mrs Hall, and Ben Kingsley as Lasker-Jones. The film stars James Wilby as Maurice, Hugh Grant as Clive and Rupert Graves as Alec. ![]() Maurice is a 1987 British romantic drama film directed by James Ivory, based on the 1971 novel Maurice by E. ![]() |