![]() Shapland also began to see her own experience-a childhood in a small town, struggles with chronic illness, evolving queer desire-reflected in the research. In McCullers’s photos, letters, and transcripts, formative relationships with these two women flicker just below the surface, never fully seeing the light of day. ![]() She also began to work through transcripts from McCullers’s therapy sessions with a woman named Mary Mercer. In these letters, Shapland saw a queer side of the Southern author, which has always been known but never explored in depth. ![]() She’d never read any of McCullers’s writing, but upon stumbling across a set of fiercely tender letters between the author and a woman named Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Shapland was transfixed. Her interest in the writer began in 2012, when she was interning at the Harry Ransom Center in Texas, where some of McCullers’s material is archived. Shapland’s memoir accomplishes this by weaving her own process of self-discovery with that of her subject. “To tell another person’s story,” she writes, “a writer must make that person some version of herself, must find a way to inhabit her.” The best of INDY Week’s fiercely independent journalism about the Triangle delivered straight to your inbox. ![]()
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![]() The flight collection itself began with 20 Chinese kites that had been displayed at the 1876 American Centennial Exposition. Secretary Langley’s Aerodrome A is also preserved the collection, along with hundreds of aircraft, spacecraft and related artifacts. Their letter is now exhibited near the original Wright Flyer, one the most famous artifacts in the Institution’s collection. Interestingly, the Smithsonian’s aeronautical reputation was such that the Wright brothers had written to the Institution in 1899 to request information on flight. 17, 1903, the day Orville and Wilbur Wright made history at Kitty Hawk. His Aerodrome A failed for the second time after it was launched from a houseboat on the Potomac just nine days shy of Dec. ![]() Langley, also a physicist as well as an astronomer and inventor, worked to create the world’s first powered, human-carrying aircraft during his tenure. The Institution’s third Secretary, Thomas P. Lowe, for example, occurred in 1861 outside the Institution’s original building, the “Castle.” Joseph Henry, a physicist and balloon enthusiast who served as first Secretary of the Smithsonian, invited Lowe to demonstrate his aircraft, which led to the birth of aerial reconnaissance during the Civil War. ![]() ![]() ![]() The display of a hot air balloon designed for military use by Thaddeus S.C. The Smithsonian’s connection to flight dates from its earliest years. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art. ![]() ![]() Near dusk, before he surfed his last wave of the day, I told him I was going to tell everyone I knew about this day, and he said that everyone says that and no one ever believes them. ![]() I asked him as many questions as there were waves that day, and he answered them perfectly. He said he was serious and to ask him anything, and so I did. I asked him how he got so good at surfing, and he told me that he was God. Soon after, he paddled up next to me and flashed his perfect smile. ![]() Bottom turns, tube ride, foam climbs-it was flawless. I told him to have at it, and I watched him ride with such ease, as if he were the salt, the foam, the crash. A man-with short hair and a long beard-paddled out next to me. It was daybreak and the sky was timid with the coming dawn. Today I surfed in Manhattan Beach, just north of the pier. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through the help of Chukwu, they head to Lagos under the disguise of a road trip and meet Udide who weaves a flying grasscutter in exchange for Sunny's story.Īfter a series of events, Chukwu sees the grasscutter and they escape before the council car comes to pick them. ![]() Sunny and her friends Orlu, Chichi, and Sasha visit Bola, where she tells Sunny to go to Lagos to meet Udide, who will weave a flying grasscutter to take them to Osisi. Her spirit face Anyanwu is separated from her after an attack from Ekwensu, who emerges again. Then, her father threatens to disown her. She disobeys the Leopard rules, and with assistance of Chichi, uses a juju to scare the members of the cult that haunts Chukwu in the university and is sent to the Obi Library basement to face a djinn whom she defeats and reunites with her friends and parents. Sunny Nwazue has recurring vision of a burning city and while picking up tainted pepper, she is given a comb by Mami Wata. Set a year after the events of the first book, it follows Sunny Nwazue, an American-born Nigerian albino girl living in Aba who becomes a member of the secret Leopard society. ![]() ![]() ![]() Harper doesn't planned to celebrate the New Year so she's at home working instead. All opinions expressed within this review are uniquely my own & freely given! ![]() I was granted an ARC of Tracy Lorraine's " Resolution: Exposure (A Resolution Pact Short Story)" via Booksprout I recommend this book to others based upon its own merits. It's got just the Perfect combination of Naughtiness you're looking for! What a wonderful New Year's " Resolution" this " Exposure" turned OUT to be!!Īre ya Lookin' for a little something to fulfill your guilty pleasures?! If Sooo, look NO further than this HOT, QUICK, LITTLE READ. Guess that's something she's not gonna have to worry 'bout.Īs it seems Adonis is Smitten & ready for committin', How's this Shy Li'l Mouse gonna talk to a GOD. However, gettin' there late, may be stroke of FATE. So she's off to " Resolution: Exposure," in MORE ways than ONE!! What could be better than a Photography CLASS, This New Year's " Resolution: Exposure" Is Gonna Be Picture Perfect! ![]() Resolution: Exposure (A Resolution Pact Short Story) By: Tracy Lorraine ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Tabby learns more about this strange world, she discovers that she is destined for something far greater than she ever could have imagined. He has his own dangerous secrets, but he has promised to help Tabby get home. Enter the rich and fantastical world of Rema in the first installment of this middle-grade graphic novel series with sweeping adventure and light romance Tabby Simon is determined to learn what happened to her father, who was found dead after researching a tree that leaks a mysterious mist in her neighborhood. ![]() While Tabby searches for the truth surrounding her father's death, she meets a handsome blue-haired boy named Philip. She is unexpectedly led to Rema, a distant world of magic and beauty that is periodically invaded by a nearby planet desperate for resources. Read Or Download Realm of the Blue Mist (The Rema Chronicles, #1) By Amy Kim Kibuishi Full Pages.Įnter the rich and fantastical world of Rema in the first installment of this middle-grade graphic novel series with sweeping adventure and light romance!Tabby Simon is determined to learn what happened to her father, who was found dead after researching a tree that leaks a mysterious mist in her neighborhood. The Rema Chronicles WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED by AMY KIM KIBUISHI Tabby Simon is determined to learn what happened to her father, who was found dead after researching a tree that leaks a mysterious mist in her neighborhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() The data on life satisfaction is consistent with earlier research specific to work. The curve is gentle but significant: The average contentment gap between age 20 and about 45 is comparable to the drop in life satisfaction associated with being fired or getting a divorce. And it persists when we correct for other variables, such as parenthood. The pattern is robust around the world, affecting both men and women. In 2008 the economists David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald found that self-reported life satisfaction takes the form of a gently curving U, beginning high in youth, bottoming out in our mid-40s, and then recovering as we get older. An abundance of recent research confirms that middle age is, on average, the most difficult time of life. You may have heard the same from mentors or peers. When I shared my plight with friends, they responded with jokes, but also with similar stories of burnout, stasis, and regret in the midst of what seemed like success. ![]() I quickly discovered that I was not alone. ![]() ![]() □ I would not say the fantasy elements were complex. “Boys,’ she says, ‘just aren’t very good at being afraid.” And it did this without trying so hard and without feeling forced, it was just a natural part of the story. I think it really empowers women and discusses the discrimination they face in every day life. □ I shamefully confess that it took me a couple of chapters to realize that Puck is a girl and I thought the Sean and Puck are both boys and we are getting both POVs to see the competition between them! The multiple POV worked well in this book to give us a different look at this world. This does not mean I did not enjoy it because I did. I am not an expert when it comes to horses, my experience with these creatures is riding on the back of one when I was young and that’s it. □ It has been a couple of years since I read a novel by Maggie, I love Maggie’s writing and although it felt a bit different from TRC. “It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.” ![]() ![]() ![]() He coauthored the two textbooks Robotics & Control (New Delhi, India: McGraw-Hill, 2003) and Elements of Manufacturing Processes (New Delhi, India: Prentice-Hall, 2003). He is currently the Dean of the Academic Registration and Counselling Division, BITS. He is the founding Member of the Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CRIS), BITS, which was established in 1992, and was its Coordinator until 2000. ![]() students in Robotics and Software Engineering. For the last 29 years, he has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses, has guided several M. In 1990, he became anĪssociate Professor and, in 1995, a Professor. In 1975, he joined BITS, where he is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science. degree in Software Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, (BITS), Pilani, India, in 1973, 1975, and 1992, respectively. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Ph.D. ![]() ![]() Proud to be BITSian Prof RK Mittal appointed Deputy Director Administration BITS Pilani RK Mittal currently Dean Academic Registration & Counselling Division takes charge as Deputy Director (Administration) with effect from 01 September 2008. Home > Press > Proud to be BITSian Prof RK Mittal appointed Deputy Director Administration BITS Pilani ![]() ![]() I immediately dropped my dreams of becoming a lucrative cartoonist (ahem) and decided instead to adopt the lifestyle of guzzling caffeine and eating cold beans out of tin cans. But it did bad voodoo to this boy’s brain. “Why,” you may ask, “was that such a terrible thing?” Oh, it sounds like a nice idea on the surface. I promptly found as many of the author’s other books as I could get my greasy fingers on, and sucked them down like marrow from bones. ![]() Two weeks later, I was both scared out of my mind and enraptured to the core by this book. Still, I remained undaunted, and chewed through the book like a beaver through pine. On the cover was some mean-looking scarlet-faced fiend not the kind of face I’d seen before, and one that terrified the pee-juice right outta me. Damn thing was over 950 pages long (and could’ve been used to bludgeon an attacking Rottweiler). Lewis, and then suddenly, my sister pressed into my palm a paperback book called Swan Song by Robert R. ![]() I was twelve, still reading Lloyd Alexander and C.S. ![]() I wasn’t yet a teenager when my sister did a terrible thing to me. ![]() |