![]() ![]() So while there are explicit references to possession movies from Evil Dead to The Exorcism Of Emily Rose, there are also subtle nods to classics like Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived In The Castle. Tremblay definitely knows the audience that he’s writing for, and exactly how genre-literate they are. But what was fact, and what was fiction? As Merry’s story moves towards the show’s grand finale, we start to uncover the tragic truth. While a horror blog breaks down the show in intricate detail, Merry remembers how Marjorie’s psychological issues grew worse and worse. Her tale is already famous: the subject of a reality TV show based on the apparent possession and subsequent exorcism of her older, then-teenage, sister Marjorie. Things get off to very meta start, as Meredith ‘Merry’ Barrett agrees to regale her story to an author for a tell-all book. ![]() ![]() Terrifying, intelligent and surprisingly affecting, this is horror to shout about. You may have heard of Paul Tremblay’s latest horror novel, as it won the Bram Stoker Award last year, but it’s finally been released here in the UK, and it is absolutely worth the wait. ![]()
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Formatting by Freya Barker at Rebel Edit & Design.Īll rights reserved. ![]() All rights reserved.Ĭover Design by Freya Barker at Rebel Edit & Design. ![]() ![]() ![]() The debut novel from Marko Kloos, Terms of Enlistment is an addition to the great military sci-fi tradition of Robert Heinlein, Joe Haldeman, and John Scalzi. and that the settled galaxy holds far greater dangers than military bureaucrats or the gangs that rule the slums. But as he starts a career of supposed privilege, he soon learns that the good food and decent health care come at a steep price. ![]() With the colony lottery a pipe dream, Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces for a shot at real food, a retirement bonus, and maybe a ticket off Earth. ![]() For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements: You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world. The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. His Frontlines series is a worthy successor to such classics as Starship Troopers, The Forever War, and We All Died at Breakaway Station.” -George R. “There is nobody who does better than Marko Kloos. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 70 years later, it is perhaps a good time to remind ourselves what post-Hiroshima fantasy writers like the humanist Ray Bradbury tried to bring home – (SPOILER ALERT!) that total annihilation is all too easy.īut whatever the future may bring - in the hands of Zarelli, the apocalypse has never sounded better! With his Farfisa Pro 110 Organ, Roland SH1000 and Juno 106 synthesizers, Rhodes Electric Piano, Suzuki Omnichord, Apple iPad and acoustic guitars to hand, Zarelli has taken the 1975 vocal recording of Leonard Nimoy reading Ray Bradbury's unsettling but vital short story There Will Come Soft Rains (taken from The Martian Chronicles, 1950), and amped up the sensations with an original composed soundtrack that is (like the story) beautiful, fiery, tragic and tense. This project, Soft Rains, is an altogether different prospect. Zarelli is the alter-ego of Carwyn Ellis – a much-coveted tour de force producer/multi-instrumentalist who has earned plaudits as the man behind the music for the 2014 award-winning documentary about Edwyn Collins, The Possibilities Are Endless, spearheaded the lauded Rio 18 project which is the first Brazilian record sung in Welsh, and frontman of Colorama. ![]() ![]() Jose Rizal and his connection with The Netherlands. ![]() ![]() Jaime Victor Ledda, the Ambassador of The Philippines to The Netherlands.Īmbassador Ledda held an interesting expose about Dr. Last year during the embassies Independence Day reception Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere was presented to H.E. The Order of Knights of Rizal together with the Embassy of the Philippines in The Hague launched Gerard Arp’s Dutch translation of El Filibusterismo, written in the 19 th century by Jose Rizal, the national hero of The Philippines. In the picture, Knights of Rizal with H.E. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When he died in 1892 Whitman was still rewriting the epochal Leaves of Grass, first self-published in 1855. The poem wants to accompany us in the direction of awakening’. This genre-crossing book leads us on an exploration of Whitman’s work, regarding ‘Song of Myself’ as ‘a call to change our way of seeing self and other, a persuasive text that aims to revise our understandings of the most basic things. There certainly couldn’t be a more appropriate explorer than Doty, as both a leading North American poet and a memoirist and prose writer of exceptional grace and depth. Arguably there couldn’t be a more apt context for Doty’s book about his lifelong exploration of - and through - the great American poet Walt Whitman. William Wordsworth’s 250th anniversary has provoked media reflections on his consolatory power a recently established Poetry Pharmacy is receiving attention and social media brims with poems and poets attempting to make sense of what’s happening to us. Poetry has a tendency to come into its own at exceptional times such as our own. ![]() It’s not just that Doty is an extraordinarily fine writer whose every word sings on the page. Yet Mark Doty’s What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life is exactly that. To describe a new book as ‘eagerly awaited’ is almost unpardonable. ![]() ![]() ![]() In reckoning with her unique heritage, as well as providing new insights into the life of one of our most important poets, Calhoun offers a brave and hopeful meditation on parents and children, artistic ambition, and the complexities of what we leave behind. ![]() Also a Poet explores what happens when we want to do better than our parents, yet fear what that might cost us when we seek their approval, yet mistrust it. ISBN: 9780802159786 Category: Poetry Tags: Ada Calhoun, Grove Press. The result is a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves compelling literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond. Ada Calhoun’s ‘Also a Poet’ is a biography, memoir and deep dive into a complicated relationship. ![]() When Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier.Īs a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not just O'Hara's past, but also her father's, and her own. A staggering memoir from New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poet ![]() ![]() ![]() He originally intended it to be one book, United States of Japan, which focused on the conflict with the terrorist organization, the George Washingtons. ![]() In particular, the contrast between the way histories often “censor” the horrific elements, presenting a glorified account of them, alarmed him. The book is strongly inspired by books like The Man in the High Castle, 1984, Moby-Dick, as well as the works of Hideo Kojima like Metal Gear Solid II. ![]() The series began as "a story revolving around the tragic events on the Asian side of WWII." Tieryas, who spent several years in Asia, experienced a different perspective on the war versus what he studied in schools in America. The first title in the series was published by Ace Books in 2016, with the latest title being released in 2020. The series has been the recipient of several awards, twice receiving the Seiun Award for speculative fiction. ![]() Each book in the series is a standalone novel in the same shared universe, featuring different protagonists, antagonists, and conflicts. The novels explore themes such as government propaganda and the blurring of fact and fiction. The stories focus primarily on Asian communities since the war, depicting the struggles of survivors in a new authoritarian regime. The series centers around an alternate America, known as the United States of Japan, after the Nazis and Japanese Empire emerged victorious in World War II. The Mecha Samurai Empire series is an alternate history, science fiction book series written by American author Peter Tieryas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Quichotte’s road trip is instigated by an assignment to deliver under-the-table doses of fentanyl to Salma, who’s breaking under the strain of the spotlight. ![]() More: David Koepp's debut thriller 'Cold Storage' unleashes killer fungus (and fun) on humanity And, of course, Rushdie is conjuring the spirit of Cervantes’ picaresque 17th century classic, “Don Quixote,” with its questing, half-mad hero. ![]() We soon learn that Quichotte’s story is conjured up too, written by a spy novelist with an estranged son. Hoping for a son, he conjures one, Sancho, effectively out of thin air. The title character, Quichotte, the cousin of a corrupt Indian pharma executive, is crossing the country to win the heart of Salma, an actress turned talk-show queen. ![]() Rushdie’s path through this brokenness involves strata of shaggy-dog storytelling. Still, Rushdie insists his novel requires this chaos: “So many of today’s stories are and must be of this plural, sprawling kind,” he writes, “because a kind of nuclear fission has taken place in human lives and relations… Such broken families may be our best available lenses through which to view this broken world.” Fentanyl, gun culture, mastodons and a portal to an alternative universe all figure in the plot, though like puzzle pieces from a missing box, they’re difficult to connect. Early in his 14th novel, “Quichotte,” (Random House, 416 pp., ★★½ out of four stars), Salman Rushdie concedes that his story is a bit of a mess. ![]() ![]() ![]() He chose to return to his hotel bed - at the Loews Regency on 61st Street and Park Avenue - and to room-service, wine, and the food network - instead of going out on the town for a night of debauchery following his work commitments. They may have been disappointed with the answer. Nor did he miss it.ĭ has reached out to Easton Ellis's agents and book publisher for further comment.įans who attended his recent talk with Naomi Fry of the New Yorker at a downtown Brooklyn high-rise wondered what hip spot the high-talent, high-society novelist might swing by after his discussion. The interview notes that, in late January, Ellis drove through the downtown Astor Place neighborhood - his old stomping ground - and didn't recognize anything. 'I talk to a lot of people who just simply agree - to be youngish and living in New York during that period, and to be involved in the magazine world, the glorious magazine world.' ![]() 'It was a glorious time to be in New York,' he said. Ellis is currently promoting his new novel, The Shards, which is loosely based on his experience at an elite Los Angeles day school in the 1980sĭespite American Psycho, and the subsequent film based on the book, being set in New York City and making Ellis extremely famous, the author says the town hasn't been the same since the 1990s. ![]() |