Although his research ranges across Western Europe, he has a particular interest in Rome and Italy. Professor Stolzenberg studies the history of science and scholarship from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. For the seventeenth-century Bohemian alchemist-poet, see Daniel Stolz von Stolzenberg. This page is about the the contemporary American historian. He co-directs the UC Davis Early Science Workshop. In addition to his primary appointment in the History Department, he is affiliated with the program in Science and Technology Studies and is a member of the Graduate Group in the Study of Religion. M.A., History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, 1998ĭaniel Stolzenberg is a historian of knowledge, specializing in early modern Europe.Ph.D., History, Stanford University, 2004.
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?With Waberi, the juxtapositions?surprising, provocative, and original?form a good part of the thrill themselves. In this compact volume, such ideas live side by side as a rosary for the treasures of Timbuktu, destroyed by Islamic extremists, and a poem dedicated to Edmond Jab?s, the Jewish writer and poet born in Cairo. His poems strongly condemn the civil wars that have plagued East Africa and advocate tolerance and peace. Waberi writes passionately about his country's landscape, drawing for us pictures of ?desert furrows of fire? and a ?yellow chameleon sky.? Waberi's poems take us to unexpected spaces?in exile, in the muezzin's call, and where morning dew is ?sucked up by the eye of the sun?black often, pink from time to time.? Translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson, Waberi's voice is intelligent, at times ironic, and always appealing. In his first collection of poetry, the critically acclaimed writer Abdourahman A. Waberi Translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, which makes The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper all the more seductive. Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, which makes The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper all the more seductive. The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper Abdourahman A. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. And still haven’t told their best friends. Except, now-for reasons they’re still not discussing-they don’t. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. I’m not a huge vampire/werewolf fan, but I’m not opposed to reading about them. I probably should be reviewing Adulthood is a Myth, Sarah Andersen’s first book, before this one, but Fangs just came out last week, so I wanted to be sure I didn’t wait too long before doing so. Filled with Sarah Andersen’s beautiful gothic illustrations and relatable relationship humor, Fangs has all the makings of a cult classic.Ĭlick on this graphic to explore the book page on LibraryThing! Review This deluxe hardcover edition of Fangs features an “engraved” red cloth cover, dyed black page trim, and 25 exclusive comics not previously seen online. This all changes one night in a bar when she meets Jimmy, a charming werewolf with a wry sense of humor and a fondness for running wild during the full moon. Together they enjoy horror films and scary novels, shady strolls, fine dining (though never with garlic), and a genuine fondness for each other’s unusual habits, macabre lifestyles, and monstrous appetites.įirst featured as a webcomic series on Tapas, Fangs chronicles the humor, sweetness, and awkwardness of meeting someone perfectly suited to you but also vastly different. I love Sarah’s Scribbles dearly (and am kicking myself for not having reviewed those books on here yet and will do so next week) and so when I found out Sarah Andersen was doing a new project, I knew I would have to read it!Įlsie the vampire is three hundred years old, but in all that time, she has never met her match. It’s like a solid-waste version of “trickle-down theory”: This nightmare vision can hardly even be seen as symbolic, it’s so directly familiar to us as a variation on the class-based shit-storm we navigate and rationalize every day. One would find - if you’ll permit me the term - human excrement, which fell from above in ever increasing amounts. But later, the nature of the waste started to become - how to put this? - somewhat more challenging and personal. At first I didn’t take much notice: it was old furniture, books, papers, kitchen scraps. What leaves me baffled is that the Administration has begun to use the stairwell shaft as a garbage dump. In one letter, the stranger describes his apartment building as a tall cylindrical tower with a demolished stairwell that necessitates he climb the walls to reach his living quarters.īut the physical exertion isn’t the part that bothers him: The effusions of “the stranger,” a batty anonymous letter writer who sends long, plaintive communiqués to the novel’s unnamed narrator, perfectly express this disturbing tone of dark comedy. The Twenty Days of Turin - Giorgio De Maria’s brilliant and eerily prescient 1977 horror novel, available in a new, vivid translation from Ramon Glazov - has a chipper vein of humor running erratically through its miasma of black dread. The town has a large German population, and because he spoke German, he was hired at the weaving mill, which is now called ReneauxView. He got a job at Industrias Renaux S.A in 1938, working as a shipping assistant at the textile company. Orthmann's career started when he was just 15 years old. He has always been enthusiastic about learning, but started working to help his family, who lived in Brusque, due to financial hardship. He got a job at Industrias Renaux S.A in 1938, working as a shipping assistant at the textile company.Īs a child, he would walk barefoot to school - rain or shine - and was an excellent student. He said it was an honor and a privilege, one he never imaged achieving. Walter Orthmann, 100, set the Guinness World Record for working at the same company for 84 years and nine days. His record-breaking career was verified by Guinness World Records on January 6, 2022. But one man in Brazil has stayed at one company longer than anyone in the world – literally. Some loyal employees hold jobs for decades. Many people hold several jobs throughout their life. Ellmann is tormented by the “conspiratorial manoeuvrings” of inanimate objects. It begins gently enough with the title essay, one of just three not to have already been published elsewhere. She’s out to foment revolution, and this book is nothing less than a manifesto. As she explains: “In times of pestilence, my fancy turns to shticks.” Goofiness notwithstanding, Ellmann is complaining only to the extent that the sans-culottes grumbled about goings-on at Versailles. Aimed at everything from air travel to zips, genre writing to men (above all, men), her ire is matched only by an irrepressible comic impulse, from which bubbles forth kitsch puns, wisecracking whimsy and one-liners both bawdy and venomous. And complain she does, though the verb barely seems adequate for the atrabilious, freewheeling fury that spills from its pages. “L et’s complain”, exhorts Lucy Ellmann in a preface to her first essay collection, Things Are Against Us. The story itself was chilling the arsonist was diabolically smart, planned things well and was horrifyingly sadistic. Is Emmy right and a clever monster on the loose or is she just a grieving sister unwilling to accept it was an accident?Ī very clever plot that proceeded at a breathtaking pace and was full of misdirection and twists I did not see coming. Emmy and Books must find proof that the deaths were murders in order for a full investigation to occur, an almost impossible task as all the evidence looks to be normal fire damage. A research analyst with the FBI who is on unpaid leave after her boss accused her of sexual harassment, Emmy can’t get anyone to take her findings of a serial killer arsonist seriously and investigate.Īfter turning to her former fiancé, former special agent Richard Bookman, for help, Emmy meets with the Director of the FBI who assembles a preliminary investigation. She has uncovered a string of other fires that killed a person living alone and were ruled accidental.
For an instant I thought he had used Frederick’s nickname for me. “You must be very hungry for your freedom, mon fleur du miel.” “You’re so compliant tonight,” he said, almost tenderly. Then he made his stunning offer: her freedom and a fortune to live on if she agreed to his terms - five nights of unquestioning, unrestrained surrender to what he planned to teach her … the exquisite art of love.Īt last Anthony leaned over me, but without touching me. Now, newly widowed, she had reluctantly accepted Sir Anthony’s proposal of marriage, although she remained indifferent to his touch … not noticing the flame that burned behind his cool gray eyes.Īmid the lavish surroundings of the Camwell ancestral estate he was fire, but she was unmelting ice. Reserved and understatedly elegant, Sir Anthony Camwell could not have been more different from the exuberant Frederick Brooks - except in his captivation by the exquisite Fleur. Few knew the secrets behind his untimely death and the terrible betrayal that had left Fleur without a penny and with a heart she felt had turned to stone.Ī DARKLY BROODING NOBLEMAN ENSNARED BY PASSION Because of her young husband’s success as a painter, all of Paris and London’s beau monde recognized the proud, dark-haired woman who had not only been his wife but his most inspiring model. Sadness shadowed Fleur Brook’s lovely, famous face. " -Megan Hart, New York Times bestselling author " Little Darlings is the perfect marriage of taut psychological thriller and nail-biting horror. It will have you checking every shadow for what you hope isn't really there. " -Susan Crawford, author of The Pocket Wife "Dark, compelling and terrifyingly relatable, Little Darlings takes every parent's worst fear and deftly twists it into something even more horrific. A masterfully-told story and a beautiful and nuanced work of art. " -Teresa Driscoll, author of I Am Watching You "I love this book! Compelling from the first page to the very last, Golding took me by the hand and pulled me softly but persistently through mystery and myth. I read this extraordinary book in one breathless gulp. Banner, bestselling author of The Good Neighbor "Deep. The scariest book I have read in many years. " -Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author of I Let You Go "Ingenious, chilling, and completely absorbing, Little Darlings is destined to be the hit of 2019. that touch on our deepest, most instinctive fears and fairy tales." - Foreword Reviews starred review "Chilling story, beautiful prose. Praise for Little Darlings : " Sinister and sickeningly real, Little Darlings is fairy tale-inflected horror. |