APIRE, a failed student-turned-rebel, returns from his bush exploits to find his wife in the bed of a parish priest, the Rev. Fr. Dila. He executes both of them and hands himself over to the Police. This is the thematic gist of Fate of the Banished - rebellion, religion and despair.
Beaten but unbowed (well: perhaps a little bowed), I delved straight back into the literature of Nobel laureates after my
recent failure. After
falling in literary lust with Melville House’s Art of the Novella series, I was pleased to see them expanding into modern fiction, with the unsnappy but unarguable Contemporary Art of the Novella series.
When Douglas Preston moved from Maine to Florence, Italy, during the summer of 2000, he intended to write his next murder-mystery ...
As I came around the corner from the gents’ lavatory, head down, concentrating on rebuttoning my flies, a manual skill I’ve yet to master completely, I accidentally barged into a man with a hawk perched on his arm. He was a calm, friendly man of about my age. His hawk was magnificently liveried in brown and black. It was a male Harris hawk. The man stroked the bird and spoke kindly to it to reassure it. Did he hunt with it? I asked. Well, he was only two years old, he said, and he’d been ill for a long time.
Mary Pattillo, author of
Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City was interviewed yesterday on WNYC's
Brian Lehrer Show to discuss the gentrification of urban African American communities.
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