![]() ![]() One of the challenging things for me in terms of my “brand,” or what I put out in the world on social media, is that because I don’t perform pain in a particular way online, I think there’s an assumption that I’m just thriving all the time and running around town getting blowouts. As someone with a large social media following yourself, what does that feel like, to have other people making assumptions about who you are based on your online presence, and how did this influence how you wrote the book? When Rukmini meets Neela for the first time, she says, “I know everything about you.” Many of us have experienced obsessions with people who have star power where we feel like we know them intimately. So for me, the idea of a book soundtrack felt really exciting and something I’ve never done before. As the music industry has changed, I think musicians have to be creative about how we think about disseminating and releasing music. I’m constantly thinking about new ways to create music outside of the album format. In fiction, the ideas that I put forward can come through fictional characters as opposed to me and my voice, which felt necessary.īecause the novel is so music-centric, it felt like it made sense to have a musical component. And so in thinking about how to have some of the nuanced conversations that happen in the book, fiction became a useful place to do that. I think that one of the things I’ve taken from social media over the past few years is that it feels increasingly impossible to have nuanced conversations online. ![]()
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In addition to White Man's Dog's personal story is an excellent view into the Native American way of thought where their reverence for nature, dreams, kinship bonds, and dis-taste for unnecessary bloodshed and loss become clear through inside thought and vernacular. Within the book is the story of White Man's Dog, a young adult (early twenties) man in the Lone Eater's tribe on the plains of the American Frontier shortly after the American Civil War. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fools Crow is a history based fiction novel written by James Welch. ![]() ![]() ![]() For all its lightness and raucous humor, The 7th Function can sometimes feel a little heavy handed, especially when it comes to the blurring of fiction and nonfiction. But Binet’s cheek is grounded in a serious familiarity with and respect for the theories, if not the personalities, he uses to populate his book. All of this might lead you to think of Binet as a writer of long-form libel. 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The book recounts a harrowing adventure, but ultimately it is the nobility of these men and their indefatigable will that shines through. Lansing describes how the men survived a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean on the globe and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world. ![]() In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. ![]() In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. ![]() ![]() ![]() After all, she'll be turning 13, so she might as well make the best of a bad vacation. Tara thinks it's a good time to start over. As if getting caught weren't bad enough, her parents decide that instead of taking her on their summer trip to Madagascar to study the courtship rituals of the bamboo lemur, she must go stay with her aunt and uncle and her bratty cousin Emily St. When Tara, a self-proclaimed shrinking violet, steals the school mascot (a goat) in order to make friends with the popular crowd, she gets herself in a heap of trouble. Rory Swenson has been waiting to turn 12 her whole life, and in exactly 18 hours, 36 minutes, and 52 seconds, it will finally happen. You can baby-sit little Timmy next door, get a cell phone, and even ride in the front passenger-side seat. You can go to the mall with your friends-without parents. When you're 12, you can pierce your ears. Can she fix it? Only with time, friendship, and a little luck. ![]() ![]() Or is it? Her birthday seems to be repeating itself. ![]() When Amanda turns in for the night, glad to have her unhappy birthday behind her, she wakes up happy for a new day. The worst part of it all is that she and her best friend, Leo, who has the same birthday, are on the outs, and this will be the first birthday they haven't celebrated together. But from the start, everything goes wrong. It's Amanda's 11th birthday and she is super excited-after all, 11 is so different from 10. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only he doesn’t know exactly what he suspects her of, but it seems to revolve around visits to a nearby cottage that has been recently occupied by an unknown and mysterious resident. “The Yellow Face” A man begins to suspect the wife that he’s never had cause to doubt before. The eponymous race horse is favored to win an upcoming race, so Holmes faces a race against time to see that the horse can compete. “Silver Blaze” A race horse goes missing and its trainer is found dead. John Watson.īelow, I’ll describe the premise of each of the stories: It includes eleven adventures of the great detective as narrated by his partner, Dr. This is the second collection of short stories and the fourth book overall in the canon of Sherlock Holmes. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle ![]() ![]() And there's few better than Wesley to knock out a tough James Brown groove, as he and the band do on "Food for Thot" while Dr. ![]() John also invites some friends along, including David "Fathead" Newman, slide guitarist Sonny Landreth, fiddler Michael Doucet, and a tight horn section led by Fred Wesley. John's Gumbo, In the Right Place), right from the spidery electric piano and testifying back-up vocals on the opener "You Swore." Most of his band, the Lower 9-11 Musician Vocaleers, have been playing with him for close to 20 years, and provide solid accompaniment. Creole Moon is also a return to the sound of his classic mid-'70s records ( Dr. Creole Moon rectifies that situation nicely - it's "a personal interpretation of New Orleans" (as he says in the liner notes), and these 14 vignettes of New Orleans life are soaked in Crescent City soul. John's last record of straight-ahead New Orleans R&B. ![]() ![]() Between his various standards albums of the '90s and the heavily collaborational Anutha Zone from 1998, by the end of the millennium it'd been nearly a decade since Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thomas Jefferson considered protecting the public against overly long monopolies on creative works an essential government role. The original term of copyright set by the First Congress in 1790 was 14 years, renewable once. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. Check out a brief summary of Free Culture and download his book below:Īll creative works-books, movies, records, software, and so on-are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible-technologically and legally. This allows for distribution under non commercial purposes. Professor Lessig has made this work, as well as his other books available for free download under a creative commons license. ![]() This week we are showcasing Free Culture by Larry Lessig. ![]() Free Book of the Month: Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture ![]() |