![]() ![]() He survived, but met a violent death soon enough, killed in a brawl over a prostitute or, some say, a cigarette. Her satanic father, incarcerated after he and four other men abducted a girl, was so terrifying that Mailhot’s maternal grandmother saved up money to hire a hit man to kill him. Her affectionate but absent mother brought home men who preyed upon her children. Mailhot’s early life was pocked with poverty, addiction and abuse. She wrote her way out of the chaos of her past, asking: “How could misfortune follow me so well, and why did I choose it every time?” She began working on it when she had herself committed after a breakdown. These phantoms speak throughout Mailhot’s book - they speak through her. ![]() So many children reportedly starved to death there, the nuns ran out of places to bury them their bones were hidden in the walls of a new boarding school under construction. Mailhot’s grandmother went to one such school. Members of her family had passed through Canada’s brutal residential school system, which separated indigenous children from their families and cultures, and, in some cases, subjected them to physical and sexual abuse. She grew up on Seabird Island Indian Reservation in British Columbia. In a book slender enough to slide into your back pocket, Mailhot reckons with the wages of intergenerational trauma. Terese Marie Mailhot’s memoir, published under the romantic, rather forgettable name “Heart Berries,” is a sledgehammer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Caitlin Blasdell, Liza Dawson Associates. Read the first four chapters and become a fan of the Powder Mage trilogy on Facebook for news and updates. ![]() While the villains are too obvious, they’re balanced by sympathetic portraits of dutiful folks caught up on both sides of the rebellion. Read a sample from PROMISE OF BLOOD by Brian McClellan From debut author Brian McClellan comes a thrilling fantasy about politics, kingdoms, and the retribution that falls swiftly on broken promises. McClellan neatly mixes intrigue and action, effectively showing the tensions among uneasy allies (military, church, underworld) in a society where new forces like labor unions, gunpowder-armed soldiers, and explosion-causing “powder mages” clash with traditional magics, mores, and beliefs. Tamas’s son, Taniel Two-Shot, meanwhile chases a rogue sorceress to the Kez-besieged Holy City, Kresim Kurga, to stop her from summoning a vengeful deity. Concerned by their cryptic final oaths about “Kresimir’s Promise,” Tamas hires former inspector Adamat to learn the phrase’s meaning. Field Marshal Tamas leads a coup to prevent his country from being handed over to the hated Kez, sending profligate King Manhouch and his nobles to the guillotine. Borrowing from the French Revolution, McClellan’s debut (the first in a planned trilogy) is a gritty tale of political overthrow complicated by divine retribution. ![]() ![]() Many details of Maier's life remain unknown. Her life and work have been the subject of books and documentary films, including the film Finding Vivian Maier (2013), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 87th Academy Awards. Maier's work subsequently attracted critical acclaim, and since then, Maier's photographs have been exhibited around the world. In October 2009, Maloof linked his blog to a selection of Maier's photographs on the image-sharing website Flickr, and the results went viral, with thousands of people expressing interest. Maier's photographs were first published on the Internet in July 2008, by Slattery, but the work received little response. A Chicago collector, John Maloof, acquired some of Maier's photos in 2007, while two other Chicago-based collectors, Ron Slattery and Randy Prow, also found some of Maier's prints and negatives in her boxes and suitcases around the same time. ĭuring her lifetime, Maier's photographs were unknown and unpublished many of her negatives were never developed. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people and architecture of Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles, although she also traveled and photographed worldwide. ![]() Vivian Dorothy Maier (Febru– April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer whose work was discovered and recognized after her death. ![]() ![]() He never received a word of acknowledgment from the strange patron. He did not want to touch upon any of the material he planned to write about for his real work, so he was condemned to force his inventions and his mood. ![]() ![]() He entered into it as an experiment, and it seemed easy at first. He invented wild stories which we laughed over. He could not tell much about his client except that he was interested in erotica. He bought a manuscript from Henry and then suggested that he write something for one of his old and wealthy clients. He rebelled because his mood of the moment was the opposite of Rabelaisian, because writing to order was a castrating occupation, because to be writing with a voyeur at the keyhole took all the spontaneity and pleasure out of his fanciful adventures. It seemed like a Dantesque punishment to condemn Henry to write erotica at a dollar a page. ![]() Postscript (literary analysis &c.) - § - PrefaceĪ book collector offered Henry Miller a hundred dollars a month to write erotic stories. ![]() |