![]() Makers award-winning memoir uproariously recounts his extraordinary journey from Bermondsey enfant. ![]() It has one of the best, and unquestionably the most honest title for an autobiography ever: Autofellatio. Autofellatio: A memoir By James Maker Cover Image. Glitteringly epigrammatic, it’s a glam rock Naked Civil Servant in court shoes. “James Maker, former lead singer with cult 80s Indie band Raymonde and 90s drag metal sensation RPLA…is writing a memoir. “Amazingly, this wonderful book began life as a self-published e-book before finding a publisher think Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard finally finding Mr DeMille on her doorstep and you’ve got it. ![]() Please RSVP at Gay’s the Word’s Facebook page. Visiting the adventures of rock group RPLA, the filming of “Middleton’s Changeling”, and the party years of the 1990s, it closes with his relocation to, and observations on, life in Spain.įree event with complimentary refreshments. ![]() It begins with his teenage years in Punk-era London, moving through the counter-cultural 1980s with an account of the Indie group Raymonde and his association with Smiths frontman, Morrissey. James Maker (singer, lyricist, writer & occasional actor) reads from his award winning memoir Autofellatio. We are loving this book – it’s funny, intelligent and full of attitude! – Gay’s the Word Gay’s the Word – 66 Marchmont Street, London – WC1N 1AB ![]()
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![]() Pittman is the author of five nonfiction books about Florida including The New York Times bestseller, "Oh, Florida! How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country" (St. 21 at the Renaissance Resort at the World Golf Village. Pittman’s award will be presented at the FHBF Literary Legend Reception on Feb. And, I thank God every day that I was born here in Florida, the most interesting state, which guarantees I'll never run out of good stories to write about.” “I've been blessed to have some excellent editors over the years, including my wife, who does the first read on every book I write. MacDonald and Carl Hiaasen,” Pittman said of his selection in the release. “I am honored and humbled to be named a Florida Literary Legend, joining the ranks of such heroes of mine as Zora Neale Hurston, John D. ![]() We’re delighted to have someone with his journalistic and creative writing awards join the ranks of the Festival’s Literary Legends.” ![]() "His newest book just tipped the scales further in his favor. “We’ve been considering Craig for a while now and the vote was unanimous this year," she said in a release. In announcing the recipient, Debra Rhodes Gibson, festival president, said Pittman was an obvious choice for the selection committee. ![]() The Florida Heritage Book Festival Board has named Craig Pittman, award-winning Florida author and journalist, as the 2020 Literary Legend. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When we can engineer our future children, massively extend our lifespans, build life from scratch, and recreate the plant and animal world, should we? Look towards a future where our deepest beliefs, morals, religions, and politics are challenged like never before and the very essence of what it means to be human is at play. But as humanity starts retooling our own genetic code, the choices we make today will be the difference between realizing breathtaking advances in human well-being and descending into a dangerous and potentially deadly genetic arms race.Įnter the laboratories where scientists are turning science fiction into reality. After 3.8 billion years humankind is about to start evolving by new rules.įrom leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic-engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives – sex, war, love, and death.Īt the dawn of the genetics revolution, our DNA is becoming as readable, writable, and hackable as our information technology. ![]() ![]() Still, this is otherwise better suited for younger practitioners than Laurent de Brunhoff's more specific and challenging Babar's Yoga for Elephants (2002).-Peters, John Copyright 2010 Booklist From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. A suggestion that children Namaste to the morning at the beginning and Namaste to each other at the end adds an important element of formality but will probably require a bit of exegesis. ![]() ![]() Rather than focusing on finer details of posture or breath control, Yoo has each child demonstrate a basic position and then roar, hop (for the Frog pose), or otherwise express the animal (or in the case of the Mountain pose, the geological feature) after which the pose is named. Illustrated with lightly inked block prints depicting a small group of preschoolers bending and stretching in a serene, woodsy setting with no adults present, this introduction to yoga offers a sketchy but inviting demonstration of seven safe, relatively easy poses. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are tender, funny moments of tentative. ![]() ![]() ![]() Study Abroad Checklists and Packing ListsĪlthough we love the saying "Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport," there is certainly a lot of inspiration to be found in travel-related fiction and non-fiction. In Holiday in Cambodia Laura Jean McKay explores the electric zone where local and foreign lives meet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Afterward, Linnet approaches Poirot and confides that Jacqueline has been stalking them since they were married, which is antagonizing both of them. At their shared hotel in Cairo, Poirot sees an apparent chance meeting between the Doyles and Jacqueline. ![]() Poirot happens to encounter the couple on their honeymoon to Egypt, where he himself is on holiday. Three months later, Simon has broken off his engagement to Jacqueline and married Linnet. The next day, Jacqueline takes Simon to meet her best friend, the wealthy young heiress Linnet Ridgeway, in the hopes that Linnet will offer Simon a job. Poirot also notices that Jackie (a nickname given to her and used by intimates short for Jacqueline) is very much smitten and is in love with Simon. While dining out in London one evening, Hercule Poirot notices a young woman, Jacqueline de Bellefort, dining and dancing with her fiancé, Simon Doyle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Consequently if you are not from a particular place you will always be vulnerable for the reason that it doesn't matter how many years you have lived there you will never have a side of the story nothing with which you can hold the full force of the history of a particular place at bay.Īnd so it comes at you directly, right through the softly padding soles of your feet, battering up throughout your body, before unpacking its clamouring store of images in the clear open spaces of your mind.Īnd shimmered across the pale expanse of a flat defenceless sky.Īll the names mean nothing to you, and your name means nothing to them. And it's as if the history of a particular place knows all about this blankness you contain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her début, Pond (2015), was a collection of linked stories about a woman who abandons her academic career, moves to a cottage in Ireland. You have no stories to relate and compare, you have no narrative to inherit and run with, and all the names are strange ones that mean nothing to you at all. Claire-Louise Bennett’s Women Without a Story. Your connection to certain events that define the history of a particular place is not straightforward because none of your ancestors were in any way involved or affected by those events. Claire-Louise Bennetts startlingly original first collection slips effortlessly between worlds and is by turns darkly funny and deeply moving. “If you are not from a particular place the history of that particular place will dwell inside you differently to how it dwells within those people who are from that particular place. ![]() ![]() (For this reason, the ethereal precision of The Church figures prominently in those 900 songs.) A driving beat or a lovely piano bridge were equally important, but also certain kinds of approaches to guitar. Thus the music I was listening to has at times an operatic feel and at times is stripped down to a post-punk aesthetic. These are big, almost operatic emotions that manifest in the novel in both bold, over-the-top ways and in a minor key, with intricate little eddies and shifts in perspective. Yet pervading everything in Dead Astronauts is a dual sense of anger and defiance mixed with acceptance and loss. ![]() In the case of Dead Astronauts, there are ten sections and ten different perspectives and styles. I have to be in the right headspace to stay within the style and voice of the novel. But loving an album isn’t enough-I write very much by feel and music is essential to that. The 23 songs here are either favorites or representative of albums I love. The Dead Astronauts “mix tape” consists of 900 songs, played on shuffle unless I needed to summon a certain emotion for a particular scene. ![]() ![]() ![]() The writing flows and the characters have a rich depth to them, even with their own secrets that we may or may not find out before this volume ends. ![]() “You won’t want to put this one down: it’s Hogwarts for soul guides, with family rivalries and developing powers aplenty. “Fans of Holly Black and Cassandra Clare will enjoy this series starter.” will keep readers on the edge of their seats, wanting more-which is good, considering this is the first Powers explore the intersections of fear and power in relation to limbo, as Adam and his newfound friends try to become everything they are supposed to be. ![]() “In this intriguing tale of life and death (literally, there are soul guides and a grim reaper), siblings J. A gripping, philosophical paranormal thriller.” They will find themselves questioning what is fact and what is fiction and cheering Adam on as he journeys in this new, strange world. “The Powerses’ worldbuilding and writing will keep hooked. Winner of the Writers’ League of Texas’s Discovery Prize Winner for Middle Grade/Young Adult!. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, with lively wit and humor, she takes us on a mind-bending tour through five of the cosmos’s possible finales: the Big Crunch, Heat Death, the Big Rip, Vacuum Decay (the one that could happen at any moment!), and the Bounce. This revelation set her on the path toward theoretical astrophysics. Katie Mack has been contemplating these questions since she was a young student, when her astronomy professor informed her the universe could end at any moment, in an instant. ![]() But what happens to the universe at the end of the story? And what does it mean for us now?ĭr. With the Big Bang, it expanded from a state of unimaginable density to an all-encompassing cosmic fireball to a simmering fluid of matter and energy, laying down the seeds for everything from black holes to one rocky planet orbiting a star near the edge of a spiral galaxy that happened to develop life as we know it. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY * THE WASHINGTON POST * THE ECONOMIST * NEW SCIENTIST * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY * THE GUARDIANįrom one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an “engrossing, elegant” ( The New York Times) look at five ways the universe could end, and the mind-blowing lessons each scenario reveals about the most important concepts in cosmology. ![]() |