LEVINE: Something like motor oil, perhaps, or maybe molasses, both of which Michael Pollan used liberally during the heinous woodchuck war. I’m going to have to keep an eye on this. Wow, that is too big for a chipmunk, too small for a woodchuck. MICHAEL POLLAN (Author): There’s a new animal. ‘Here’s a gardener,’ you might say to yourself, ‘who really gets it, a guy who’s struck a balance in the wild.’ Despite everything he’s added, the paths and stone steps, the hand-dug pond, the writing house and the fenced vegetable garden, what you see is the Connecticut countryside, a rolling geography of hills and woods. His home is more of a landscape than a carefully defined garden. Michael Pollan gardens with a deft touch. Ketzel Levine spoke with him there for the first of two reports. Much of his writing has drawn from his experiences in his Connecticut garden. Pollan is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. In his new book, “The Botany of Desire,” Michael Pollan suggests that the plant world’s most obliging suitor is man, and the plants that have figured out how best to keep people interested are nature’s greatest success stories. The most obvious is the flower, designed to attract pollinators, typically bees. Plants have evolved complicated strategies to ensure their survival. Evolution of plants as explained in Michael Pollan’s new book, Botany of Desire Morning Edition (NPR), June 4, 2001
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The Rads win, and Byron has become the country's tyrannical Prime Minister, while Disraeli is only a Grub Street hack: "This fellow Disraeli, whose father founded Disraeli's Lord Byron (although the real Lord Byron died in 1824). In the 1830's the Duke of Wellington confronts an Industrial Radical Party, headed by The crucial historical difference generated by this Difference Engine is an acceleration of the process of industrialization and its attendant political strife. Have been in our own time, and the resulting counter-Victorian era is elaborated with a Dickensian density of imaginative detail. The historical, cultural and scientific repercussions are enormous, as they The mathematician Charles Babbage succeeded in constructing an operational Analytic Engine, a clockwork computer powered not by electricity but by steam engines. But then, and it is quite an enormous "but then," the authors have decreed that one crucial datum of history shall be other than it was: sometime in the 1820's Hats, prodigies both of squalor and of nouveau riche excess. Version of Victorian London, circa 1855, with many of its familiar historical features intact: pea-souper fogs pierced with the dim glow of the first gaslight lamps, a war being fought in the Crimea, ladies in crinolines, gents in top His genre-transcending science fiction novel by the co-inventors of "cyberpunk," William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, is set in an alternative MaQueen Victoria's Computers By THOMAS M. The family traced their American heritage to the 18th century. His parents were married in the Unitarian Church, and Alan and his brother, Charles, would receive education in schools based in Unitarianism: the Horace Mann school in Manhattan, the Hackley School in Tarrytown and Harvard University. According to Alan's nephew, folk singer Pete Seeger, the Seeger family was "enormously Christian, in the Puritan, Calvinist New England tradition." In practice, though, Alan's immediate family lived within the precepts of the evolution of Calvinism into Unitarianism. Seeger was born on June 22, 1888, in New York City. Seeger is sometimes called the "American Rupert Brooke". A statue representing him is on the monument in the Place des États-Unis, Paris, honoring fallen Americans who volunteered for France during the war. He is best known for the poem " I Have a Rendezvous with Death", a favorite of President John F. Seeger was the brother of Elizabeth Seeger, a children's author and educator, and Charles Seeger, a noted American pacifist and musicologist he was also the uncle of folk musicians Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, and Mike Seeger. Alan Seeger (22 June 1888 – 4 July 1916) was an American war poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme, serving in the French Foreign Legion. 6/30/2023 0 Comments Cosmoknights comicAnd Pan’s world would have stayed small were it not for two rogue Comsoknights fighting against the patriarchal foundations of their worlds, hiding their sex and their relationship, Cass and Bee, literally showing up on her doorstep asking for help. Pan and Tara in happier times, from Cosmoknights Book 1 None of this would have affected Pan were it not for her friendship with Tara, Princess Tara, who Pan helps to escape her fate, escape being married off to a man she doesn’t even know, and escape into space to who knows where… leaving Pan behind, heartbroken, and hated by her world. The futurism of spaceships and hoverboards that we see in the early pages is in stark contrast to the ancient patriarchal idea of each world’s ruling Royal family offering up their Princesses to other Royals through the Cosmoknights tournaments. The first book of the series introduced us to the world of Pan, whose small-town life on a backwater planet in this wonderfully realised futuristic meets neo-medieval system of planets. 6/27/2023 0 Comments Flash and Bang by Patricia LoganThis is Book 2 in the Death & Destruction series. The sparks will fly in and out of the bedroom in Flash and Bang. The fact is, danger, intrigue, and Jarrett's dubious past seem to follow the men wherever they go.įrom a Marine base at the Mexican border to an explosion in LA's Chinatown, they aren't prepared for a seriously pissed off militia, a smoking hot ex-lover, and more guys who want them dead. When their boss sends them to San Diego to investigate a fireworks accident, he figures Jarrett can't hurt anyone playing with sparkers, not even himself. His lover and new partner at the ATF seems to find ways to throw a monkey wrench into all his fun, especially when Thayne wants to curtail his need to jump off 10 story buildings. Jarrett Evans never stays in one place very long, and being chained to a desk doing paperwork is not his idea of entertainment. He has to figure out how to work with his reckless new partner, a handsome former Marine who seems to have a death wish. If running from a hit man wasn't scary enough, ATF Agent Thayne Wolfe has a new challenge in his life, and this one may be even more dangerous than the last. ".I am telling everyone and anyone who will listen to take a look at this book!. His upper-case cursive letters are particularly impressive. After finally finishing the date from Hell a little thing called the zom D.B.Tarpley has been writing since the age of 5. Take it from me, drop your dollars and enjoy the self generated visuals." - four star customer review on Amazon Penny is having the worst day ever. Tarpley must be a genius, he surprises in (both) big and little ways." - five star customer review on Amazon "Went in with an "I'll give it a chance" and didn't come up for air until completed. I have NO IDEA where Tarpley is going with this!. D.B.Tarpley has been writing since the age of 5. 6/27/2023 0 Comments The rings of saturn sebaldThe author records his reactions to events and the visions or phantasms that he experiences along his journey, waving together a picture of a journey that not only took place in the physical world, but at least in part in the depths of his own psyche. As he journeys the author encounters places and characters of interest both in the present day and from the past on his quest to understand both himself and his surroundings in their correct place in the passage of time and how they all relate to death.Ī meditative work, The Rings of Saturn is curiously written as a continuing monologue with sudden diversions into historical analysis and the author's own interior dream scape as he attempts to come to terms with what he encounters around him in his environment. Sebald is in part a memoir, a travelogue, and a study of the effects of History, Time and the Individual as the author travels on a pilgrimage along the Suffolk coastline in the United Kingdoms. 6/27/2023 0 Comments Rise andrea cremerMedia scrutiny inspired her next album, the hip-hop-flavored Reputation (2017), and its number-one single " Look What You Made Me Do". She abandoned her country image with 1989 (2014), a synth-pop album supported by chart-topping songs " Shake It Off", " Blank Space", and " Bad Blood". Speak Now (2010) incorporated rock influences, and Red (2012) experimented with electronic elements and featured Swift's first Billboard Hot 100 number-one song, " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together". Her next record, Fearless (2008), explored country pop, and its singles " Love Story" and " You Belong with Me" catapulted her to mainstream fame. Under Big Machine, she released six studio albums, four of which to country radio, starting with her self-titled album (2006). Swift started professional songwriting at 14 and signed a recording contract with Big Machine Records in 2005 to become a country musician. Recognized for her genre-spanning discography, songwriting, and artistic reinventions, Swift is a prominent cultural figure who has been cited as an influence on a generation of music artists. Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. 6/27/2023 0 Comments The tell tale heart storyHowever, guilt sets in and the man apparently hears the heart beating underneath him, which drives him crazy until he finally confesses his sins. He even decides to literally sit on top of where he has hidden the dismantled body parts. With his confidence and adrenaline at an all-time high, the man invites the police to sit down and relax, convincing them there is nothing wrong. Eventually, the police arrive at his door because a neighbor heard a scream, so the police then proceed to search the house and ask the man questions. The man is extremely careful to hide the body so that no one will ever find it. The older man’s eye is extremely bothering to the caretaker (who is arguably insane already), so he decides to act on the “vulture eye” and kill the older man. A nameless man is the caretaker of another older nameless man. Understanding the plot is a key factor in comprehending the meaningfulness of this dark story. Furthermore, he uses dark diction to emphasize the self-destructiveness of guilt and how it can fluctuate the confidence of a man. Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” conveys a symbolic way of showing how one man drives himself farther into insanity through his own guilt. The stories coming from the mind of Poe were always dark and riddled with layers of symbolism. He had critiqued and written many classic stories such as “The Raven” and other well-known stories. In the middle of the nineteenth century, Edgar Allan Poe was at his peak of writing poetry for literary magazines. 6/26/2023 0 Comments Four quartets poetConsisting of four poems published over a six-year period – Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding, each titled after the landscape that inspired their writing – Four Quartets is widely considered Eliot’s masterpiece and the culminating achievement of his career as a poet, offering four interwoven meditations on the nature of time and the quest for spiritual enlightenment. Eliot is best known as one of the central figures of the Modernist movement in poetry. One of the giants of modern literature, the poet, playwright, critic, and editor T.S. premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival later this week followed by a theatrical release this spring. Eliot’s seminal poem.ĭirected by Sophie Fiennes, the film will get its U.S. EXCLUSIVE: Kino Lorber has acquired all North American distribution rights to Four Quartets, the film version of the Ralph Fiennes-starring stage adaptation of T.S. |