![]() ![]() Ruby Dee and Sidney Poitier in the original Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun, 1959. To celebrate this revival, The New York Public Library presents materials from the Lorraine Hansberry Papers held by NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. ![]() This spring, A Raisin in the Sun returns to Broadway in a production starring Denzel Washington. The play focuses on the struggle of a black working class family for a better life in 1950s Chicago. The title of the play is taken from Langston Hughes’s famous poem “Harlem.” In 1959, 28-year-old Chicago native Lorraine Hansberry won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for her first play, A Raisin in the Sun. Hansberry (1930–1965) was the first African-American playwright to win a Critics’ Circle Award, and A Raisin in the Sun was the first play by an African- American woman to be produced on Broadway. ![]()
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![]() Things change when Great Great Aunt Rose comes to visit. Her uncle's reaction, unfortunately, discourages Rosie and causes her to hide her love of gadgets and gizmos and making. She made her uncle, the zookeeper, a clever hat to keep the snakes off his head, a contraption that involved fan parts and spray cheese. She hides them, it turns out, because when she was younger, a family member laughed at something she made especially for him-something she engineered to solve what she perceived as a problem. Rosie is always on the lookout for castoff odds and ends that she can add to her "engineer's stash" and then, alone in her attic, she makes things. Told in a singsong rhyme, this is the story of Rosie, a little girl who loves to build and tinker. ![]() If you pick this book up, be prepared to read it out loud. ![]() For boys and girls alike, Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty and illustrated by David Roberts offers an exciting story of the engineering process and the importance of working and reworking designs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her best features are her green eyes and her beautiful hair and is growing into quite the beauty, quite in danger of falling prey to young men. One of several children, Angelique is high spirited, and lives her life amongst the villagers and in the marshlands around her home. Young Angelique is born into a noble but impoverished family in the mid 1600's. Somewhat unusually this book doesn't have any kind of synopsis at all on either the inside or back cover so I hope that I can do justice to the plot without giving too much away. The first I remember hearing about the series is when Ana did an Author Spotlight about Serge and Anne Golon at Historical Tapestry. ![]() ![]() I am not quite sure how I managed it, but some how I have managed to spend the last twenty five years of my reading life in complete ignorance about the Angelique series, and yet having just finished reading the first book (well actually first two books) in the series, I am confident in saying that this book has everything that I love in a book. ![]() ![]() Can you talk about that? ML: Sure! The I Ching is a foundational book of Chinese philosophy that has deeply shaped and influenced Chinese society over thousands of years. It’s about the first huntress in the Kingdom, so it’s kind of an origin story.ĪE: You’ve said that the Chinese text The I Ching influenced Huntress. I started to wonder what exactly Kaisa meant by that, so I began to flesh out the story that is now Huntress. She tells Ash that, in the past, the King’s Huntress was kind of like an ambassador between the human kingdom and the land of the Fairy Queen. Huntress kind of snuck up on me because I had to write a second young adult novel – I had a two-book contract – and I found myself thinking a lot about one thing Kaisa says to Ash. How did you come to write the books in that reverse order? Malinda Lo: When I wrote Ash I didn’t have any intention of writing anything else set in that world. ![]() : Huntress is the prequel to your debut novel Ash. We recently spoke to Lo about her book, the state of queer YA literature and her participation in the upcoming Diversity in YA tour. Lo’s follow-up novel, Huntress, is set in the same world as Ash, only centuries before. ![]() In 2009, Ash was a Kirkus Best Book for Children and Teens and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Children’s/ Young Adult. ![]() With her debut novel Ash, a queer retelling of Cinderella, former editor Malinda Lo immediately established herself as an exciting new voice in Young Adult literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1970s, Leiter planned to make a book of his nudes, but never realized the project in his lifetime. Often illuminated by the lush natural light of Leiter’s studio in New York City’s East Village, these black-and-white images uncover the mutual and empathetic collaboration between the artist and his subjects. These wonderful pictures are currently on view in a new exhibition in New York, at the Howard Greenberg gallery, and most of them are on public view for the first time.įed by thrilling recent discoveries from Saul Leiter’s archive, the exhibition titled In My Room reveals the world of the artist and the women in his life through his studies of the female figure. Deeply personal and contemplative, many of these images share tender moments underscored by the subjects’ trust in the photographer. ![]() Photographer Saul Leiter, who is famous for his abstracted forms and radically innovative compositions, took intimate photographs of his muses over three decades. ![]() ![]() If you - I mean, if you think closely about the incarceration system and just how willing we are to lock human beings in cages, it's really not hard to imagine all the other ways we might administer inhumane circumstances to people. ![]() SIMON: I often ask a novelist, where'd you get this idea from? But, I mean, where did you not get this idea from (laughter)?ĪDJEI-BRENYAH: Right. NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH: Thank you for having me. "Chain-Gang All-Stars" is the new novel from Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, the bestselling author of "Friday Black," and he joins us now from Eugene, Ore. That's a trademarked enterprise of Criminal Action Penal Entertainment. ![]() "Chain-Gang All-Stars" is a novel that drips with blood and violence from the first scene, but also with love between Loretta Thurwar and Hurricane Staxxx, the two top-rated gladiators of the Chain-Gang All-Stars. ![]() ![]() ![]() I don't know how Kresley Cole's 'Immortals After Dark' series keeps getting better, but it does. ![]() NOOOOO, now I have to wait for the next one!! Yet just when he earns Holly's trust, will Cade be forced to betray the only woman who can sate his wildest needs-and claim his heart? Synopsis Yet just when he earns Holly's trust, will Cade be forced to betray the only woman who can sate his wildest needs - and claim his heart? Synopsisįrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole, an electrifying standalone tale of a ruthless demon mercenary and the lovely young halfling who enchants him, set in the Immortals After Dark universe.Ī seductive beauty he can never have, yet can't resist.Ī tormented warrior she should fear, but can't deny. Thrust into a sensual new world of myth and power, with him as her protector, she begins to crave the demon's wicked touch. ![]() Raised as a human, Holly never knew that some frightening legends are real until she encounters a brutal demon who inexplicably guards her like a treasure. ![]() But once he secures the key to his redemption, the halfling Holly Ashwin, Cade finds that the woman he thought he could use for his own ends and then forget haunts him as much as his past. RITA Award-winning author Kresley Cole continues her bestselling Immortals After Dark series with this electrifying tale of a ruthless demon mercenary and the lovely young halfling who enchants him.Ĭadeon Woede will stop at nothing to atone for the one wrong that will haunt him forever. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() All valid concerns, but I try to ignore them until the editing and revision stages. When the brain is too engaged, the writer worries about whether he or she is being too boring, too flippant, too sentimental, too stilted, too revealing-too everything. John Grogan: I really just try to turn off my brain and open my heart. What techniques do you use to draw the reader in? You have a gift of explaining memories that evoke emotion even from those of us that never knew Marley, your children, your wife. Superstition Review: Marley and Me brought tears to my eyes at many different moments. ![]() Grogan for providing me with an experience I will always cherish." I loved reading Marley and Me and recommend it to anyone who has not yet picked it up. It is captivating and moving in ways I cannot even describe. ![]() I kept going back to his words to try and find something new to ask, something that we could all learn from. Questions were crossed out, rephrased and rearranged. ![]() I do have to admit that I had a tough time coming up with the right queries to ask Mr. It's such an achievement to have your first book be number one on the New York Times bestseller list for twenty-three weeks and then made into a Hollywood film shortly after. She says of the experience, "when I got the reply that John Grogan had agreed to be interviewed, I couldn't believe it. Superstition Review Editor Britney Gulbrandsen conducted this email interview with John Grogan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sarah McCaffrey, fleeing arrest for her part in a failed rebellion, finds herself alone and on the run. Women hunger, and women die, so women must also fight. ![]() Survivor.Ī warm, intelligent and powerful novel, rich in history but deeply relevant to today's world, perfect for fans of Kate Grenville and Hannah Kent. 47 great books to support positive mental health this Mental Health Awareness Week and every week.Which Domestic Noir Novel Should You Read? Take Our Quiz to Find Out!.Best Domestic Noir Novels – 20+ Brilliant Books about Household Horrors and Domestic Just Desserts.The 2023 Pulitzers Are Announced: See the Books, Drama and Music Award Winners. ![]()
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