![]() She’s been there for female readers her entire career, as well. This style made her a perfect match for the Wonder Woman mini-series that she did with Kurt Busiek, which, in my opinion, both evoked and improved on the classic WW Golden Age art in a manner that has never quite been equaled. At a time when many artists saw to draw the world in as ugly a manner as possible, Trina produces work that was classic and sleek and stylish, reminiscent of earlier eras of design. ![]() I first fell in love with Trina’s clean, lovely art from reprints of her black-and-white underground comics. She has some eye-opening things to say, and while she and I might disagree on a few matters, my respect for her is immense. I could talk about this tough, smart, talented lady forever. She put the welfare and decent treatment of others above her own career. Like other great trailblazers like Neal Adams, she put her ethics above her own interests. Trina is a big part of the reason why women creators even made the effort in an industry that was at best hostile to them and at worst downright dangerous. ![]() I hadn’t realized how much many of the great Wonder creators have really influenced me through the years. ![]()
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![]() The number came in, and it was like 1,200 bucks. The first money he made was on a number - he bet the number. ![]() "He was extremely articulate, he was funny, and he was an easy interview," Pileggi tells NPR's Steve Inskeep. ![]() The other key part of Hill's appeal as a subject, Pileggi explains, is that he was no dummy. ![]() "And I said, 'You know, if you're going to do a book about Napoleon, it might be interesting to see that world from the point of view of the soldier.' " "He was sort of a soldier in Napoleon's army," Pileggi remembers. Adapted by Pileggi and director Martin Scorsese into the 1990 film GoodFellas, it follows the rise and fall of true-life Brooklyn gangster Henry Hill - "a little cog" in the Lucchese crime family who turned FBI informant after a drug arrest. ![]() Twenty-five years after its initial publication, Nicholas Pileggi's Wiseguy remains one of the signal narratives about life in the Mafia. Hill is the central figure in Wiseguy, the 1986 Nicholas Pileggi book that became the movie a 25th-anniversary edition is out with a new foreword from director Martin Scorsese. Ex-mobster Henry Hill (left, with Ray Liotta, who played him in the movie GoodFellas) met for a little Italian on the occasion of a DVD release. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Before Trumbo appeared before the committee and invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination and protested the bullying technique of the committee, he had been a successful screenwriter in Hollywood, though his greatest screenplays would come later. Among them was Dalton Trumbo, easily the biggest name and arguably the greatest talent among the ten. When the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) turned its attention to Hollywood in the late 40s (to generate lots of publicity and boost their own popularity in America’s Heartland by going after an easy target-Hollywood leftists-let me be clear, the left in Hollywood was never any threat to America the greater threat was intimidation of those exercising their right to free speech and association), there were 10 men, popularly known as the Hollywood Ten, who boldly stood on their constitutional rights and refused to play the committee’s game. Before going any further, I must confess that Dalton Trumbo is one of my heroes. ![]() ![]() ![]() This ebook is a digitally remastered copy from the first edition of the publication. In each leg of the journey, Fogg and Passepartout have frustrating, exciting, and sometimes dangerous encounters that threaten to prevent them from completing the trip on time. ![]() In Egypt, Fogg is mistaken for a bank robber by Scotland Yard detective Fix and is thereafter followed by Fix. ![]() on October 2 in order to win the wager, Fogg must return to the club by this hour on December 21, 80 days later. They leave from London by train at 8:45 P.M. ![]() In the novel, rich British gentleman Phileas Fogg and his French Valet Passepartout try to circumnavigate the world in 80 days to win the £20,000 wager (equal to about £2 million in modern terms) put up by Fogg's friends at the Reform Club. This novel is widely acclaimed and considered one of Verne's greatest works. Around the World in 80 Days is a classic adventure novel by the French author Jules Verne, published in 1873. ![]() ![]() When his brother's boyfriend is used as a pawn in a mysterious plot to draw Angel out, Angel is once again drawn back into the old hostilities that fueled the Blood Wars and led to his family's death. Now, years later, Angel struggles to balance his career as a teacher of the higher magical arts, his role as big brother, and a tenuous relationship with an Elder vampire from the local clan. ![]() ![]() He and his brother Isaac are the lone survivors of an attack by an army of the undead, in which Angel used a spell so powerful it forever marked his place in history. In a world where magic is real and evil walks amongst humanity, a young sorcerer is beset upon by enemies, both old and new.Angelus Salvatore is the only necromancer in all of Boston, and his name is whispered warily by the undead and fellow sorcerers alike. Now, years later, Angel struggles to balance his career as a teacher of the higher magical arts, his. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The detective, an intruder, provides the friction. This is part of the genre’s allure: the windows it opens onto the street life of Victorian London, the sordid fringes of postwar Hollywood, the doldrums of Sweden’s welfare state, and the sooty haunts of working-class Edinburgh. ![]() Fictional detectives make handy protagonists because they have license to explore milieus that are off limits to other characters. ![]() Even the detective fiction that seems most untethered from real-world concerns-those British country-house puzzles in which ladies in drop-waisted frocks and gentlemen in evening dress gather in the drawing room to hear a sleuth dissect the murderer’s devious plot-murmurs of class and history: the wealth necessary to staff such a house, the far-off lands where Colonel Mustard earned his insignia. They can’t help it without a society to define, condemn, and punish it, crime itself wouldn’t exist. Photograph by Ciarán Óg Arnold for The New YorkerĪll crime novels are social novels. French’s Dublin Murder Squad series inspires cultic devotion in readers. ![]() ![]() But all it takes is one look at his longtime crush, and the ache is stronger than ever. Now, with their college teams set to face off at the national championship, he’ll finally get a chance to apologize. Ryan Wesley’s biggest regret is coaxing his very straight friend into a bet that pushed the boundaries of their relationship. ![]() So what if things got a little weird on the last night of hockey camp the summer they were eighteen? It was just a little drunken foolishness. Four years ago, his tattooed, wise-cracking, rule-breaking roommate cut him off without an explanation. ![]() Jamie Canning has never been able to figure out how he lost his closest friend. Him (Him #1) by Sarina Bowen, Elle KennedyĪlso in this series: Us (Him, #2), Us (Him, #2)Īmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books ![]() ![]() ![]() Two young women go missing decades apart. Part puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this kaleidoscopic novel spins half a century of Vietnamese history and folklore into a "brilliant, sweeping epic that swaps spirits and sheds time like snakeskin" (Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Survivor Song). There will also be an option to snag the book during the event. Click here to register for the event with a donation of any amount of your choice or you can order the book below to be added to the event's registration list. Donations will go to B LM DC. ![]() ![]() Loyalty is thrilled to celebrate the release of Build Your House Around My Body with Violet Kupersmith and Ruth Ozeki! This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast. ![]() ![]() Irby’s debut essay collection is uproariously funny. Meaty: Essays by Samantha Irby, read by the author Despite the many years that have passed, June has never been able to forget about that rocket stranded in space, nor about the issues with her uncle's fuel cell. As an adult, June becomes an astronaut and engineer, working closely with her uncle's protégé James. Her aunt sends her to space training school, where June is thrust into classrooms with students far older than her. June thinks they're still alive and has discovered evidence to prove it, but no one listens to her. 12-year-old June's beloved uncle created a fuel cell for a rocket that ultimately failed, leaving the crew stranded and presumed dead, though her uncle died before learning of his failure. ![]() This inventive retelling of Jane Eyre is set in space. ![]() In the Quick by Kate Hope Day, read by Rebecca Lowman ![]() ![]() "Right, and now people are even worried about food." It's like what you said, life means death." And without our code, there's no computers, no finance, no banks, no money, no exchange value, no value." "Which by the way it's your turn to clean the toilet." Viruses, bacteria, all the way up to us." All life wants things and goes after them. Value resides in life, and life is coded, like with DNA." W hoever writes the code creates the value." ![]() ![]() Lastly there are the coders, temporary residents on the roof, whose disappearance triggers a sequence of events that threatens the existence of all - and even the long-hidden foundations on which the city rests. Then there are two boys who don’t live there, but have no other home - and who are more important to its future than anyone might imagine. There is the internet star, beloved by millions for her airship adventures, and the building’s manager, quietly respected for his attention to detail. There is the detective, whose work will never disappear - along with the lawyers, of course. There is the market trader, who finds opportunities where others find trouble. ![]() For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson returns with a bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century.Īs the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. ![]() |