![]() ![]() Dante attributed all the heavenly virtues to her soul and imagined, in his masterpiece The Divine Comedy, that she was his guardian angel who alternately berated and encouraged him on his search for salvation. In fact, Beatrice married another man, Simone di' Bardi, and died when Dante was 25, so their relationship existed almost entirely in Dante's imagination, but she nonetheless plays an extremely important role in his poetry. He first saw the woman, or rather the child, who was to become the poetic love of his life when he was almost nine years old and she was some months younger. Dante Alighieri was born in the city-state Florence in 1265. Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante (May 14/J– September 13/14, 1321), is one of the greatest poets in the Italian language with the comic story-teller, Boccaccio, and the poet, Petrarch, he forms the classic trio of Italian authors. ![]()
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![]() Inspired predominantly by the Baroque style of the Spanish painter José de Ribera, Samorì powerfully, rapidly upsets every work by mutilating the impressed image each time producing a completely different result. His work was shown at with EIGEN + ART (Berlin/Leizpig) at this year’s Art Basel, and his artistic vision from childhood to the present has – quite clearly – matured, refined by his training at the Accademia Belle Arti Bologna. In fact, in each artwork, sculpture or painting, he harbors a strong and restless sensitivity that takes shape every time he confronts a figure. ![]() Share the post "Between Blood and Painting: The Art Without Eyes of Nicola Samorì"īorn in 1977 in Forlì, in Emilia-Romagna, Italian artist Nicola Samorì describes his work with an exclusively tormented approach. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her enthusiasm for the project was infectious. By the time the coffee finished brewing, I'd agreed to join Andrea and Sandie in the proposal. I just bubbled up and said, “You’ve got to write that! What a killer idea!”ĭEBBY: One morning I woke up, put on a pot of coffee, checked my e-mail, saw Andrea's message about her fabulous devotional idea. SANDIE: When Andrea called and told me the idea she’d had, I didn’t realize she was thinking about inviting me to join her. So I guess you might say it was a God-thing! SIX WHOLE MINUTES I had to wait! Then I recalled the Bible passage in which God tells us, "Be still and know that I am God." And I thought, I need to be still.and let my nail polish dry. Tell us how the idea for this book came about?ĪNDREA: I was at the nail salon getting a manicure, and had to wait a pesky 6 minutes for my fingernails to dry. But friendship doesn’t necessarily lead to writing a book together. Andrea and Debby Mayne co-authored a Christmas novella. Andrea Boeshaar was once a literary agent who represented Sandra D. Though they hadn’t each met, these ladies were well acquainted before they set out to write this book. ![]() ![]() And Veronika, a professional dating coach who feeds her clients clever, flirtatious lines to say during their dates, is seemingly incapable of forging her own deep emotional connections. Desperate to apologize, he works long hours at a factory job so he can afford to visit her at the bridesicle facility and finds himself falling in love. After a very public breakup with Lorelei-who intends the drama to gain her more virtual followers-a despondent Rob accidentally runs over and kills Winter, a young schoolteacher out jogging. Mira is a “bridesicle”: For a steep fee, a man can temporarily revive her frozen, badly damaged (but still beautiful) corpse for a chat if she can charm him sufficiently, he’ll pay the far higher cost to fully restore her to life in exchange for her agreement to marry him. Set approximately 100 years after McIntosh’s previous work ( Soft Apocalypse, 2011), this novel ponders the effect that a 24-hour virtual lifestyle and an almost psychotically appearance-focused culture can have on romance. ![]() ![]() My fingers tightened around the jewelry box. ![]() “You do not know how things work over there.” His eyes came back to mine, seemingly oblivious to the incoming tide that soaked his Italian loafers. It held a tense note, as if the idea of me going to the Russian police had equally amused and disturbed him. Actually, after a few seconds of staring at me, he cast a disinterested look out at the bay and released a breath. “And once you are over there, what will you be able to do if he is?” “What if he’s in some kind of trouble?” I’d met a number of papa’s business partners, and there wasn’t a single one I would be comfortable being alone with. The knowledge released a small weight from my shoulders, but it also added another. What if he’s sick and doesn’t want me to know?”Īt the sincerity in his eyes, I believed him. You know he’s not watching his cholesterol. “Papa practically lives there these days. “The capital of Russia? The place I was born? The-” “Moscow,” he repeated slowly, like he’d heard me wrong. ![]() Had cool and collected Ivan Volkov actually paled at that single word, or was it my overactive imagination? He released my arm, his quiet intensity freezing me to the wet stone. ![]() ![]() “Home” was on my lips, but something entirely different, something that shocked even me, came out. Best Websites to Search for Travel Insurance in Canada ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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In the present day, the main character goes to the school in the hope of solving the case once and for all-and in the process, the events of the past come back in a very dangerous way. The book is set at a remote boarding school called Ellingham Academy, which was the setting of what was called the crime of the century in 1936-the kidnapping of the founder’s wife and daughter and the death of a student. A mystery in a remote place, with a distinct cast of characters. Maureen Johnson: I wanted to write a proper mystery, with a detective. Aurora: What was your inspiration behind your most recent novel/anthology? ![]() ![]() Freedom is a wonderful thing, but it comes at a price that the freelancer pays.īut enough of that rant. ![]() ![]() As someone who has always been a freelancer, I know the story well. Editing used to be a prestige career-something that somebody like Jackie Kennedy Onassis, a former first lady, might do as a second career! Now it’s something 20-somethings do for a few years and then move on, and old-fashioned ideas like pensions no longer apply. On the other hand, it means publishers don’t have to pay health insurance or vacation pay or pensions for those people. ![]() On the one hand, that means that really amazing people are out there for hire. It’s a measure of how publishing has changed that none of those wonderful editors are still in the business! Most of the other top editors who were there at Bantam and elsewhere are now freelance. I’ve been fortunate in my writing career to have worked with some wonderful editors, like Marie Cantlon who edited my first three books, and Linda Gross Kahn who edited The Fifth Sacred Thing. Just upload the damn thing to Amazon and have done with it.īut I’m old-school enough to believe that every book benefits from skilled editing. On the one hand, it’s never been easier to self-publish. So yes, I am going to self-publish City of Refuge. ![]() I’m so grateful to all the people who’ve written in to share how much The Fifth Sacred Thing has meant! And to say variations on “You’re right, Bantam is wrong, there is indeed an audience for a sequel! ![]() ![]() ![]() If the Germans and British work together, the oil can be refined and enable their escape from the island. Off course and running out of fuel in the South Atlantic, the U-boat and its crew happen across an uncharted subcontinent called Caprona, a fantastical land of lush vegetation where dinosaurs still roam, co-existing with primitive man. ![]() Von Schoenvorts has his crew steer toward a safe sea port, but German officer Dietz breaks loose and smashes the sub's radio. Tyler takes command, hoping to sail to a British port. After they confront the Germans on the deck, a fight ensues, and they seize the German U-boat. Along with a few surviving British officers, Tyler persuades the other men to take over the surfacing submarine, this being their only chance for survival. Bowen Tyler narrates.ĭuring World War I, Bowen Tyler and Lisa Clayton are passengers on the ship torpedoed by Captain von Schoenvorts. It floats to the coast of England, where a sailor discovers the bottle and opens it to read the manuscript. It stars Doug McClure, John McEnery, Keith Barron, Susan Penhaligon, Anthony Ainley and Declan Mulholland.Ī bottle with a manuscript inside it is thrown into the sea. The Land That Time Forgot is a 1974 British-American adventure fantasy film directed by Kevin Connor and written by Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn, based upon the 1918 novel The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Keynote speaker, annual meeting of Doric Docents, Great Hall of the State House, Boston, MA, June 15, 2018 Keynote speaker, Boston (Lincolnshire) Heritage Symposium on “Boston’s Untold Story: From the Stump to the Statue,” on “Anne Hutchinson: Founding Mother, American Jezebel,” Blackfriars Theatre and Arts Centre, Spain Lane, Boston, Lincolnshire, UK, September 7, 2019 Speaker, “Anne Hutchinson: Founding Mother, American Jezebel,” Old Colony History Museum, Taunton, MA, November 21, 2019 Speaker, “Above Her Sex: The Problem of Public Women,” Partnership of Historic Bostons, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, June 16, 2021 Speaker, “Rebels, Radicals, and Rejects: Historians Discuss Rebels Against the Puritan Way,” Partnership of Historic Bostons, October 16, 2021 ![]() ![]() Speaker, “Why I Wrote American Jezebel,” Monongahela Chapter of Daughters of American Colonists and of the Revolution, March 2, 2023 Speaker, “Why I Wrote American Jezebel,” Zoom talk, Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 7:30-8:30 p.m., sponsored by Daughters of the American Revolution. Mother’s Day interview about Marmee & Louisa with Haley Solano of The Enchanted Book Club, Tuesday, May 9, 2023, 8 p.m. ![]() |