![]() Imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, these stories speak with passion and wisdom to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner. ![]() ![]() In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession. A latchkey kid with a single working mother finds affinity with a woman from Calcutta. An Indian American girl recognizes her cultural identity during a Halloween celebration while the Pakastani civil war rages on television in the background. With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide.Ī blackout forces a young Indian American couple to make confessions that unravel their tattered domestic peace. With a new foreword by Domenico Starnone, this stunning debut collection flawlessly charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. ![]()
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![]() Their goal is to facilitate anonymous Internet banking using electronic money and (later) digital gold currency, with a long-term objective to distribute Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod (HEAP) media for instructing genocide-target populations on defensive warfare.Ĭryptonomicon is closer to the genres of historical fiction and contemporary techno-thriller than to the science fiction of Stephenson's two previous novels, Snow Crash and The Diamond Age. The second narrative is set in the late 1990s, with characters that are (in part) descendants of those of the earlier time period, who employ cryptologic, telecom, and computer technology to build an underground data haven in the fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta. ![]() One group of characters are World War II-era Allied codebreakers and tactical-deception operatives affiliated with the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park (UK), and disillusioned Axis military and intelligence figures. ![]() Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson, set in two different time periods. ![]() ![]() ![]() Check out the full interview in the video, above! The 24-year-old actor also spoke about working with his co-star Josephine Lanford, revealed his favorite Hardin and Tessa moment, dished on filming sex scenes and more. TooFab caught up with Fiennes Tiffin, who opened up about the movie's shocking conclusion, and shared whether or not he thinks Hardin gets his own happy ending. However, unlike the book version of "After Ever Happy," Hardin and Tessa don't get their happily ever after - and the two seem to break up for good. ![]() "After Ever Happy," which is an adaptation of Anna Todd's book of the same name, was believed to be the final film installment, not counting a previously-announced adaptation of the prequel novel, "Before," in addition to a sequel film focusing on Hardin and Tessa's children. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moore, who acknowledges everyone from Oscar Wilde to P.G. "MacHomer," with Homer Simpson in the title role, has made several visits to the Bay Area. ![]() Tom Stoppard saw "Hamlet" through the lens of two minor characters, in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," and also produced a 15-minute version of Shakespeare's play. Playing fast and loose with Shakespeare is a long-standing practice, as Moore notes in a postscript, aptly titled "You Cheeky Git." Nahum Tate's 1687 version of "King Lear," which appended a happy ending to the play, held the stage for several centuries. The result is a Bardic stew liberally seasoned with slapstick, sex, groaner puns, anachronisms and plenty of cheerfully curdled Elizabethan wordplay. Some of the other appropriations are slyer. Lifts from "Macbeth," "Hamlet," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," " Julius Caesar," "Romeo and Juliet" and "Love's Labour's Lost" are overt. ![]() ![]() Not content to restrict himself to that capacious and penetrating tragedy itself, Moore rummages around in a dozen or so of Shakespeare's other plays for characters, plot points, imagery and dialogue. In "Lamb" (2003), he set out to narrate Jesus' coming-of-age story in a "Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal." In his rambunctious new book, "Fool," Moore undertakes nothing less than a prose retelling of "King Lear." Give San Francisco comic novelist Christopher Moore full marks for plunging into deep waters. By Christopher Moore ( William Morrow 311 pages $25.95) ![]() ![]() ![]() On the other hand, another study called " Reading habits and purchase of Books in Spain – 2021" published by the Federation of Publishers' Guilds of Spain revealed that 67.9% of the Spanish population reads books of which 64.4% read books for leisure. ![]() The leader hopes that the analysis will serve to highlight multidisciplinary research and social issues that can be addressed. However, when they do that, they tend to see a more realistic view of society. ![]() In addition, it suggests that Artificial Intelligence tools identify plural words, like them. The experts have access to data containing 3,000 Books in English from Project Gutenberg and seek to mitigate the bias of researchers. Mayank Kejriwal, research leader at USC's Institute of Information Sciences, believes that work on gender bias is implicit in her own experience. ![]() The report's findings show that there are large discrepancies between male and female characters, however, measurement methods to identify female representation. Recently a report called " Artificial Intelligence (AI) Study Finds That Men Are Represented Four Times More Than Women in Literature" by Maya Abu Zahra and published by researchers at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering revealed that they use Artificial Intelligence technologies to conclude that male characters are four times more prevalent in literature than female characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() There, she would often indulge in discussing about the interesting books to read with her neighbors. She moved to New Jersey from Ohio along with her family. It was in her year 1976 that Susan began developing some interest towards reading and writing books. Later, she remained at home for many years, taking care of her family as a homemaker. After that, she began teaching English, drama, and speech at one of the local high schools until she got married and gave birth to her first child. Before going on to become one of the popular authors of her time, Susan received her B.F.A from the Ohio University in theater arts. ![]() Susan was born on Decemin Cincinnati, Ohio, United States to her parents named Louesa Coate Titus and John Aller Titus. She is very well known for writing her novels based on the Romance and Literature & Fiction genres. Susan Elizabeth Phillips is one of the prominent authors of The United States who has written a number of highly successful novels in her writing career. ![]() ![]() In DELIVERING HAPPINESS, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh shares the different lessons he has learned in business and life, from starting a worm farm to running a pizza business, through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more. After debuting as the highest-ranking newcomer in Fortune magazine’s annual “Best Companies to Work For” list in 2009, Zappos was acquired by Amazon in a deal valued at over $1.2 billion on the day of closing. Sound crazy? It’s all standard operating procedure at Zappos, the online retailer that’s doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually. Help employees grow-both personally and professionally.Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business.Focus on company culture as the #1 priority.Make customer service the responsibility of the entire company-not just a department. ![]() ![]() ![]() UA kept the cartoons after the Transamerica Corporation purchased the studio in 1967. The motion picture studio United Artists (UA) acquired AAP in 1957 and kept all 337 cartoons in syndication. However, syndicated television depended on the standards of individual stations instead of one national network, and many stations had no qualms about airing the eleven cartoons. ![]() ![]() African and African American characters appear in eleven of the 337 films as the main characters (not counting the Inki series), depicted largely as nearly-naked African natives, antebellum southern slaves, and northern jazz-lovers.Īfrican Americans protested the theatrical circulation of some of these cartoons upon their original releases, and television networks refused to show similar cartoons from other studios. AAP immediately offered the cartoons for television syndication, and in 1957 they made their debut on local stations nationwide. In 1956 the company Associated Artists Productions (AAP) purchased the library of Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies cartoons produced to 1948 and Looney Tunes cartoons made between 1943 to 1948–a total of 337 short films. ![]() ![]() Recently we met for lunch, in the heart of that same K Street corridor, to discuss The Washingtonienne story one year later.įor Jessica, Washington was a stopover – she was a New York girl through and through – on a journey that had yet to be fully charted. If she got lucky her stint on the Hill might even lead to a glamorous K Street job, which in the eyes of a Hill intern was like making the big leagues. As she puts is, “You know what they say, fake it til you make it.” She figured if she met the right people, it wouldn’t matter. She didn’t have a career plan devised that would lead her up the ladder of power on Capital Hill, her new home after three years in New York writing about shoes. ![]() ![]() Jessica Cutler never had grand designs on conquering Washington, DC. ![]() ![]() If you have any ideas on what we could do for this exciting project please get in touch with us at – we’re all ears! Although each book is a self-contained story they read far better in order: If you’ve not experienced the action-packed novels you’re missing out on a real treat! Starting with Under the Eagle our two heroes blaze a trail across Britain before heading to new adventures. If it works as well as we all hope, then we plan to do some more of Simon’s characters or follow our heroes’ fortunes in later books. We will be meeting Simon soon to obtain, from the horses mouth, how he envisages his two heroes to look. Simon Scarrow it would seem is a keen gamer and general lover of model soldiers – huzzah! He mentions on his forums how excited he is about seeing his creations in miniature in the future. ![]() Set in Britain during the Roman invasion it follows Macro, a tough centurion and Cato, a young optio on their adventures – and what adventures they are! Warlord Games have been granted license by Headline Publishing to produce 28mm miniatures of the leading characters in the books. Like us many of you will be ardent fans of Simon Scarrow’s ‘Eagle’ series of novels. ![]() |