![]() ![]() The Cardinals, by contrast, were one of the best-integrated teams in baseball. ![]() With fading superstars such as Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Whitey Ford, the Yankees stood for the established order, both symbolically, in the minds of baseball fans, and in reality, in their dependence on power over speed and in management's reluctance to sign black players. For the Yankees, it was the last hurrah of their near-total baseball dominance that began in 1949 Halberstam contends that they were emblematic of the era coming to an end. Louis Cardinals and the New York Yankees, reflected opposing currents in a deeply conflicted American society. Halberstam's premise is that vast changes had occurred in American society in the 15 years that divided those two baseball seasons, and the teams that played in the 1964 World Series, the St. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Halberstam (The Fifties, 1993, etc.) looks at America's baseball diamonds in this volume, a bookend to his earlier Summer of '49 (1989). The riveting story of how two very different baseball teams, reflective of the times in America, got to the 1964 World Series. ![]()
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![]() "An unusually brilliant first novel," The New York Times called it, one of many raves. IReport: Tell us what 'Catcher' meant to you Caulfield is mistrustful of authority, railing against corrupt adults and "phonies," and plans to decamp for the west. The book is narrated by a teenage boy, Holden Caulfield, who is expelled from a private school, Pencey Prep, in Pennsylvania, and spends the next three days wandering around New York. Though he wrote more than 30 short stories and a handful of novellas - many published in The New Yorker and collected in works such as "Nine Stories" and "Seymour: An Introduction" - Salinger's fame rests on "Catcher," his only novel. ![]() ![]() "The family asks that people's respect for him, his work, and his privacy be extended to them, individually and collectively, during this time." Salinger has long been known for his reclusiveness, and "in keeping with his life long, uncompromising desire to protect and defend his privacy there will be no service," the statement said. "He was not in any pain before or at the time of his death." "Despite having broken his hip in May, his health had been excellent until a rather sudden decline after the new year," the statement said. The author died Wednesday of natural causes at his home in New Hampshire, according to a family statement that his literary agent, Phyllis Westberg, provided Thursday. ![]() Salinger, the famously reclusive author whose 1951 novel, "The Catcher in the Rye," became a touchstone for generations of readers, has died. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of all the authors planning to attend RT which three would you most like to hang out with and why? Next for me is another novella, and then Duncan and Aaron's book, which is technically the very last in the A Matter of Time universe.īeth: My most recent book is Shades of Earth, which came out this past January, and is the conclusion of the NY Times best-selling YA science-fiction Across the Universe series. Mary: My most recent release by the time RT comes around will be Still, a contemporary novella. 10 in the series, Real Vampires Know Size Matters, will be out this December, both are from Berkley. Gerry: Real Vampires Know Hips Happen just came out this March. Welcome to HEA! What is your most recent release and what's coming out next for you? ![]() For information about the event, visit its website, Today, we're talking with Gerry Bartlett (author of Real Vampires Know Hips Happen), Mary Calmes ( Still) and Beth Revis ( Shades of Earth). ![]() HEA contributor Jessie Potts does the second of eight quick Q&As with romance authors who will be attending the reader-centric RT Book Reviews' Booklovers Convention, happening May 1-5 in Kansas City. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Partridge’s chapbook Spyder was one of Subterranean Press’s inaugural titles, while his World Fantasy-nominated collection, Bad Intentions, was the first hardcover in the Subterranean book line. His first short story appeared in the second issue of Cemetery Dance, and his debut novel, Slippin’ into Darkness, was the first original novel published by CD. ![]() Partridge’s career launched a series of firsts during the indie press boom of the early nineties. His compact, thrill-a-minute style has been praised by Stephen King and Peter Straub, and his fiction has received three Bram Stokers and two IHG awards. Norman Partridge’s fiction includes horror, suspense, and the fantastic-“sometimes all in one story” says his friend Joe Lansdale. ![]() ![]() ![]() They talk to each other, and some of them run. Putting them in a special school seemed to be an excellent way of monitoring all of the teens as they come into their talents. So all of these children who have been enhanced, have different gifts and varying levels of the same "gift" finally come to a special school run by the people who enhanced them. So if you can see ghosts, and ghosts can see you, do you admit it? Seeing things that are not there and admitting it can lead to institutions. These kids are having to deal with more than growth spurts and spots. These teenagers have been genetically altered to enhance certain paranormal gifts, and they were lied to. ![]() The three major characters in this book are learning to deal with things more difficult than first love and how to ace an algebra exam. This is the second book in an excellent series of coming of age novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now she brings her body-positive, emotionally uplifting approach to yoga in a book that will help every reader discover the power of yoga and how to weave it seamlessly into his or her life. Jessamyn Stanley, a yogi who breaks all the stereotypes, has built a life as an internationally recognized yoga teacher and award-winning Instagram star by combining a deep understanding for yoga with a willingness to share her personal struggles in a way that touches everyone who comes to know her. Most of all, it’s a book that changes the paradigm, showing us that yoga isn’t about how one looks, but how one feels, with yoga sequences like “I Want to Energize My Spirit,” “I Need to Release Fear,” “I Want to Love Myself.” It’s a book that challenges the larger issues of body acceptance and the meaning of beauty. It’s a how-to book: Here are easy-to-follow directions to 50 basic yoga poses and 10 sequences to practice at home, all photographed in full color. It’s a book for readers already doing yoga, looking to refresh their practice or find new ways to stay motivated. It’s a book of inspiration for beginners of all shapes and sizes: If Jessamyn could transcend these emotional and physical barriers, so can we. From the unforgettable teacher Jessamyn Stanley comes Every Body Yoga, a book that breaks all the stereotypes. ![]() ![]() The members of this new clan explore their differences and feelings gently and respectfully, and readers will likely enjoy the hints of new romances budding between characters. Though at times a bit heavy-handed, Nik and Mari’s aspiration to build a community founded on the principle of inclusion is both noble and refreshing. Unfortunately, others, namely the leader of the Skin Stealers, have a much darker and more dangerous vision for the future. Despite centuries of prejudice, hatred, and fear that make it difficult for the two clans to trust one another, they quickly find strength in their differences and vow to unite and build a better, new world together, with Nik and Mari as their guides. ![]() What they didn’t expect was that more than their superficial cuts and burns would be mended. With fire still ravaging the City in the Trees, 23-year-old Nik and 18-year-old Mari, along with a band of wounded canine and human companions, reluctantly agree to flee to the home of Mari’s Earth Walker clan to heal and regroup. ![]() The second in the Tales of a New World series picks up only hours after Moon Chosen (2016) left off. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While not required, working with dreams and amplifying the mythic components can hasten along the process. It’s easiest to think of individuation as the mind’s quest for wholeness, or that quality of applied wisdom that separates elders from grumpy old men. Instead, he suggested that dreams are doing the work of integrating our conscious and unconscious lives he called this the process of individuation. Because Jung rejected Freud’s theory of dream interpretation that dreams are designed to be secretive, he also did not believe dream formation is a product of discharging our tabooed sexual impulses.Īnd surprisingly enough, Jung did not believe that dreams need to be interpreted for them to perform their function. They are a natural expression of our imagination and use the most straightforward language at our disposal: mythic narratives. The basic idea behind Jungian dream theory is that dreams reveal more than they conceal. Popular applications directly based on Jung’s research include the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator, the polygraph (lie detector) test, and 12-step addiction recovery programs. While depth psychology has fallen out of favor in neuroscience, Jung’s ideas are still thriving in contemporary psychoanalytic circles. ![]() Except for Dr Freud, no one has influenced modern dream studies more than Carl Jung.Ī psychoanalyst based in Zurich, Switzerland, Jung (1875 -1961) was a friend and follower of Freud but soon developed his own ideas about how dreams are formed. ![]() ![]() The main characters do not directly interact with one another but their lives are infinitely connected and affected by the actions of the others. ![]() Each story segways into the next through character connections via letters, books, films, etc. No two stories are set in the same location, ranging from the English countryside to a futuristic Korea. The stories are vastly different in style, plot, and perspective, encompassing the lives of a nineteenth century notary, a post WWI musician playboy, a strong willed journalist in 1970s California, an aging literary editor in the early 21st century, a clone who sets out to instigate a rebellion, and a primitive youth surviving in a post-apocalyptic world. Each story is a completed tale within itself, yet their true significances lies in the connections between them, forming a collective whole. ![]() ![]() Cloud Atlas consists of six interconnected stories beginning with a voyage through the South Pacific in the nineteenth century and ending in a primitive post-apocalyptic Hawaii. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is Dylan (Charlie Plummer, All the Money in the World), who gives her something new to smile about during this bizarre time. Langford plays Mara a little more extravert than her Leah in Love, Simon, and with a wider range of reactions to her crises but just as open-minded, as evidenced in the way she accepts cheeky come-ons and then dates from a slightly geeky guy she’d barely acknowledged before. It is essentially her (granted, unusual) story, with this curse/virus/phenomenon triggering both existential angst and a new relationship. Spontaneous is told from the point of view of Mara (Katherine Langford), who is daydreaming in class when a girl at a neighboring desk explodes. I’ve got no problem with the cast or the characters, so let’s start with those. The film is fun, glossy, deliberately edgy, and woven through with plenty of equally deliberate message. The teenagers are fairly easy to like too, not perfect or uber-cool, but flawed and slightly quirky (though not so quirky as to be Juno-pretentious). Really! And that is about all I need to say to give you the plot. The nutshell premise of Spontaneous is easy to like: a story about a group of teenagers who are losing friends due to them blowing up, combined with a high-school love story. ![]() |