![]() All that maybe the slightly better ones do is sort of get inside your head and leave something there, but just because they do, just because they know how to leave something, it doesn’t have to be a poem, for heaven’s sake. The ones you’re talking about don’t leave a single, solitary thing beautiful. I mean you’re supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. “If you’re a poet, you do something beautiful. “I was only trying-” “I know this much, is all,” Franny said. I’m feeling very peculiar and funny, and I can’t-” “All right, all right-O.K. It might only have meant that the room was too warm, or that her stomach was upset, or that the Martinis were too potent in any case, Lane didn’t seem to notice it. I really would.” There was a faint glisten of perspiration high on Franny’s forehead. ![]() Just tell me first what a real poet is, if you don’t mind. I’m feeling absolutely lousy, and I’m getting a terrible-” “ I’d be very happy to drop the whole subject- I’d be delighted. I mean do you have to be a goddam bohemian type, or dead, for Chrissake, to be a real poet? What do you want-some bastard with wavy hair?” “No. ![]()
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![]() “Eventually, Vic can no longer suppress his jealousy and tries to win back his wife by asserting himself through a tall tale of murder - one that soon comes true.” Per the book description, Highsmith examined “the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life.” Their characters’ “ loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers as long as she does not desert her family,” according to the novel’s summary. The Tender Barstar and the No Time to Dieactress portray Vic and Melinda, respectively. The literary thriller takes place in the quiet, small town of Little Wesley, where readers meet married couple Vic and Melinda Van Allen, who are stuck in an unhappy marriage. The movie - which premiered on Hulu in March 2022 - brought the pageturner to life. ![]() From book to screen! 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Her portraits of some of the world’s most talented musicians capture more than the performer, they convey the art of making music. ![]() Bring my experience to it.make it a real American tapestry.” Her ambitious idea became AMERICAN MUSIC, a stunning collection of photographs of the musicians, places and people that enrich the landscape of American music.Īs Rolling Stone’s chief photographer for over thirteen years, Leibovitz created a legendary body of work. The impulse to do AMERICAN MUSIC, writes famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, “came from a desire to return to my original subject and look at it with a mature eye. ![]() ![]() ![]() Had I been raised in eastern or southern Africa, with their own insidious inheritances of history, perhaps I might have thought of myself in terms of skin colour. I had never before thought of myself as “Black” I did not need to, because while British colonialism in Nigeria left many cursed legacies in its wake, racial identity was not one of them. It was not a choice – my chocolate-coloured skin saw to that – but it became a revelation. In Nigeria, I had often thought about who I was – writer, dreamer, thinker – but only in America did I consider what I was. This plurality, this mix of those voluntarily and involuntarily American, living on land that did not belong to them, gave birth to a churning that magnified rather than diminished identity. I was struck by the excess and the newness, by the flagrant contradictions, but mostly by how identity as an idea shaped so much of American life.Īmerica is indeed unlike any other country in the world, not in the kind of triumphalist manner of those who speak of “exceptionalism”, but because while it was created from violence like many other modern nations, it also claimed plurality, an unusual notion for founding a nation. ![]() From my first days, I watched and read and learnt. Yes, it is hackneyed but America truly was, for me, about chasing and catching my dreams. Nineteen years old and fleeing the study of medicine at my Nigerian university, I longed to be a writer, to live a life of the mind. ![]() America fascinated me as America fascinates every newcomer. ![]() ![]() And they did.Īfter immersing myself in the Silverwing trilogy, it was neat to take a step back in time with Darkwing and catch a glimpse of the world that came before Shade and Marina. I got a letter from them, saying they wanted to take me on, and try to sell my story. ![]() I never heard back from Roald Dahl directly, but he read my story, and liked it enough to pass on to his own literary agent. We had a family friend who knew Roald Dahl - one of my favourite authors - and this friend offered to show Dahl my story. ![]() It turned out to be quite a long story, really a short novel, and I rewrote it the next summer. I started out writing sci-fi epics (my Star Wars phase) then went on to swords and sorcery tales (my Dungeons and Dragons phase) and then, during the summer holiday when I was fourteen, started on a humorous story about a boy addicted to video games (written, of course, during my video game phase). ![]() and on the opposite coast, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.At around twelve I decided I wanted to be a writer (this came after deciding I wanted to be a scientist, and then an architect). ![]() I was born in 1967 in Port Alberni, a mill town on Vancouver Island, British Columbia but spent the bulk of my childhood in Victoria, B.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. 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Zblewska was jailed for six years and six months.Ĭorbett was jailed for three years and nine months. Stephen Worthington was jailed for six years and six months. Lee Worthington was jailed for three years and five months. Lee Worthington admitted money laundering.Ĭox was jailed for five years and five months. ![]() The pair, as well as four other defendants including Worthington's 33-year-old brother Stephen, were all jailed for their involvement in the dealing of heroin and cocaine in Salford.Ĭox, of Littleton Road, Salford Horrocks, of Valencia Avenue, Salford Stephen Worthington, of Alfred Street, Worsley Zblewska, of Mulberry Road, Salford and Corbett, of Fram Street, Salford admitted conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine.Ĭox also admitted converting criminal property and concealing criminal property. ![]() He helped to launder drug money, using associates he knew from jail. Her former partner Lee Worthington, 36, previously jailed for 10 years for drugs offences, used illicit phones to remain involved in crime from prison. (Image: GMP)Ĭox ran a Salford beauty salon and enjoyed having 'luxury' items, including expensive cars and designer clothes, through her involvement in drug dealing. They have all been jailed for their involvement in the dealing of heroin and cocaine in Salford. ![]() Clockwise from top left: Christopher Corbett, Darren Horrocks, Stephen Worthington, Samantha Cox, Lee Worthington and Joanna Zblewska. ![]() ![]() ![]() His science fiction imagined time travel, alien invasion, invisibility, and biological engineering before these subjects were common in the genre. A futurist, he wrote a number of utopian works and foresaw the advent of aircraft, tanks, space travel, nuclear weapons, satellite television and something resembling the World Wide Web. In addition to his fame as a writer, he was prominent in his lifetime as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on a global scale. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and has been called the "father of science fiction." His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography and autobiography. Prolific in many genres, he wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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