![]() ![]() " The remark is not unfrequently made, that slaves are the most contented and happy labourers in the world. His District of Columbia home is a national historic site. marshal of the District of Columbia in 1877, and was later appointed minister resident and consul-general to Haiti. He was nominated for vice-president by the Equal Rights Party to run with Victoria Woodhull as presidential candidate in 1872. In 1870 Douglass launched The New National Era out of Washington, D.C. Douglass and Stanton remained lifelong friends. ![]() As a signer of the Declaration of Sentiments, Douglass also promoted woman suffrage in his North Star. Douglass was the only man to speak in favor of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's controversial plank of woman suffrage at the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Delany to publish a weekly anti-slavery newspaper, North Star. In 1847 he moved to Rochester, New York, and started working with fellow abolitionist Martin R. His first of three autobiographies, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, was published in 1845. Douglass traveled widely, and often perilously, to lecture against slavery. Having escaped from slavery at age 20, he took the name Frederick Douglass for himself and became an advocate of abolition. After his escape from slavery, Douglass became a renowned abolitionist, editor and feminist. Frederick Douglass (né Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) was born a slave in the state of Maryland in 1818. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I lived in Texas until I was 26 years old, then I moved to New York City with $600.00 in my shoe ('cause muggers won't take it out of your shoe, y'know. TEN THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME by Libba Brayġ. Or that I made everyone call me "Bert" in ninth grade for no reason that I can think of. ![]() Or that I once sang a punk version of "Que Sera Sera" onstage in New York City. That doesn't tell you that I stuck a bead up my nose while watching TV when I was four and thought I'd have to go to the ER and have it cut out. ![]() I could tell you the facts–I lived in Texas for most of my life I live in New York City with my husband and six-year-old son now I have freckles and a lopsided smile I'm allergic to penicillin.īut that doesn't really give you much insight into me. I think what gets me feeling itchy is all that emphasis on the facts of a life, while all the juicy, relevant, human oddity stuff gets left on the cutting room floor. What is it about writing an author bio that gives me that deer-in-headlights feeling? It's not exactly like I'm going to say "I was born in Alabama…" and somebody's going to jump up and snarl, "Oh yeah? Prove it!" At least I hope not. ![]() ![]() ![]() The most jarring element, however, comes in the intermittent narration by Sebastian Faulks, which can seem like snatches of an audiobook latched on to a play. ![]() ![]() There are musical moments, too, from soldiers playing the flute to violins and song, and this brings theatricality but also slows down the pace of the drama which, at two-and-a-half hours, feels long. The male camaraderie of war is much more poignant and the strongest scenes come with the storyline of sapper Jack Firebrace, who is played by Tim Treloar with just the right mix of voluble comedy and silent despair. 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There are people turning up dead in the Texas desert, killed in a horrible fashion, and too many for anyone to ignore now. As with all Lora Leigh stories, the sexual attraction is mind blowing and the sex scenes leave nothing to the imagination. ![]() And i was not disappointed, i loved it, couldn't put it down. But this one had a mystery/thriller kind of base story to it so i gave it a chance. I don't usually like government, spy, or political based stories. I have read Lora Leighs Breed series, so i gave this one a chance. ![]() ![]() And again and again in a story that divulges itself so unhurriedly that the motivation and modus operandi of even seemingly minor characters create thrilling moments of revelation. But Hendricks and Pekkanen flip expectations when they reveal exactly why Vanessa wants to stop the wedding. When Vanessa learns that Richard is newly engaged to a woman she thinks of as her “replacement,” it seems like the novel is headed straight for bunny-on-the-stove territory. The Wife Between Us tells the tale of Vanessa, whose hot, hedge-fund husband Richard abandons their marriage, spinning her into wine-soused financial straits. “Since I was living Girl on the Train at that moment, I was already sort of fever-dreaming - thinking about unreliable narrators and women characters who aren’t great to each other or to themselves,” she adds. ![]() Bario was ripe for reading a female-centered thriller. ![]() ![]() ![]() That's certainly not the answer fans had in mind. Instead, it told him of the existence of three different Jokers. ![]() As it turns out, the Mobius Chair didn't give Bruce a name. ![]() Hal Jordan asks Batman for the truth about the Joker, only for Batman to say it doesn't matter. In addition, Batman speaks up about exactly what he learned that day when he asked the chair about Joker's real identity. Wonder Woman learns she has a twin brother. Justice League #50 marks the end of the long-running Darkseid War arc, and a whole number of major events go down that will forever change the DC Universe. Spoilers for Justice League #50 and DC Universe: Rebirth #1 below! Well, Justice League #50 is finally here, and with it, the revelation of what exactly the Mobius Chair told Batman. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() In her first short story collection, McSweeney’s columnist Susan Schorn presents six tiny epics, each featuring an unlikely, everyday hero. Here are six short stories, exploring themes of danger, courage, and triumph: Small Heroes. The photos and videos page has more links to readings I’ve done.Īnd now and then I write fiction. Here’s a podcast I did with the Smart People folks, about my book, Smile at Strangers.Īnd here’s the first chapter of Smile at Strangers, read by yours truly, at Poets & Writers. ![]() Here’s a short piece I wrote about my encounter with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam, whom I did not kill. And my friend Jennifer and I wrote about Classic Film Heroines who Suck at Personal Safety. DrewĪt The Hairpin, I’ve written The Shark has Pretty Teeth, Dear. Threat Assessment and Risk Analysis for N. Midterm Exam On Kelly, The Woman With Whom My Husband Had An Affair ![]() NFL Players Whose Names Sound Vaguely Dickensian, and the Characters They Would Be in an Actual Dickens Novel Secret Service Emergency-Response Protocol 1127B: If the President Falls Down a Well All the columns are indexed here.Īnd here are some other things I’ve written for McSweeney’s: I’ve written two columns-Bitchslap and Fear, Inc.-for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Some bits and pieces from my far-flung media empire: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In many ways, Let the Great World Spin is a novel about loss, the leitmotif of Petite’s reckless display of mortality on the high wire is mirrored in each character’s narration. While the event is hardly the focus of the novel, the walk is what links the narrative strands together rather than Petite himself, who is never even named, the day is a pivotal moment for each of the characters. McCann’s novel begins with Philippe Petite’s tightrope walk from the North to the South tower of the World Trade Center, a largely forgotten event until the Oscarwinning documentary, ‘Man on Wire,’ which came out in 2008. It is this careful prose, tightly crafted, that fills Let the Great World Spin: a novel preoccupied with the sounds of voices, bound together to create a vision of New York on August 7, 1974. They decided to leave the sentence as it was. McCann thought about the suggestion, and then said that if he changed that single word, he would not only have to change the whole sentence, but rewrite the paragraph as well. ![]() The Senior Editor of the Review introduced McCann by saying that when they were working on the excerpt for publication, the editors had suggested a change in the wording of one sentence-a small thing. At the Paris Review’s Salon in February 2009, Colum McCann read an excerpt from Let the Great World Spin that was printed in the magazine’s Fall 2008 issue. ![]() |