![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The outsider through whose yearning eyes we see the Interestings from that first night onward is Jules Jacobson, an aspiring actress with a smart mouth. Like the coeds of Mary McCarthy's The Group and the buddies in Adam Sandler's Grown Ups, the Interestings come together as teenagers and never lose their special connection, something that seems to happen more often in art than life. But perseverance pays off: As their lives unspool over the next 40 years and 400-odd pages, the Interestings do prove themselves often, if not always, quite interesting. ("Gunter Grass is basically God," proclaims a 16-year-old boy.) As the evening wears on they decide that because they are so interesting, they will, only somewhat ironically, name their clique "the Interestings." At that point some readers will want to gently place the book in the nearest trash can. Yes, Gunter Grass, which gives you an idea of the kind of kids Wolitzer is writing about: smart, privileged, pretentious. Meg Wolitzer's fat, talky new novel begins in 1974 at an arts camp in the Berkshires where six teenagers sit around in a teepee smoking pot and discussing Gunter Grass. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Interestings Author Meg Wolitzer ![]()
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![]() ![]() She (plus her ghost best friend, Jacob, of course) are in Paris, where Cass’s parents are filming their TV show about the world’s most haunted cities. Cassidy’s powers will draw her into an epic fight that stretches through the worlds of the living and the dead, in order to save herself. Cass isn’t sure about her new mission, but she does know the sinister Red Raven haunting the city doesn’t belong in her world. But Lara tells Cassidy that as an In-betweener, their job is to send ghosts permanently beyond the Veil. Then she meets Lara, a girl who can also see the dead. In Scotland, Cass is surrounded by ghosts, not all of them friendly. ![]() When The Inspecters head to ultra-haunted Edinburgh, Scotland, for their new TV show, Cass-and Jacob-come along. In fact, her best friend, Jacob, just happens to be one. Cassidy Blake’s parents are The Inspecters, a (somewhat inept) ghost-hunting team. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sisters of Color, which was founded in 1989, became acquainted with Westside when the organization was leaving a community space at West Eighth Avenue and Santa Fe Drive and needed a new home. ![]() ![]() But it just didn’t really seem like that," says Adrienna Corrales Lujan, executive director of Sisters of Color United for Education, a Denver organization promoting health, wellness and education that had been leasing space in the Park Hill Golf Course clubhouse from the developers, Westside Investment Partners and the Holleran Group. "I think we were in an idealistic phase thinking that, 'Oh, maybe these developers really do think that community can work together. The Denver Planning Board is slated to hear plans for the future of the defunct Park Hill Golf Course at a meeting today, but a community nonprofit didn't wait to sound off about a lawsuit it had filed against the developers back in May. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But as she was walking down the hallway of the Russell Senate Office Building, she learned something else. For McGhee, the disaster was an education in the limits of research, which is often no match for the brute power of big money. When Congress finally took action in 2005, it made the problem worse, passing a bankruptcy bill that made escaping unsustainable debt harder than ever. “Few politicians in Washington knew what it was like to have bill collectors incessantly ringing their phones about balances that kept growing every month,” McGhee writes in her new book, “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.”ĭemos’s explanatory attempts failed. When Heather McGhee was a 25-year-old staffer at Demos, the progressive think tank she would eventually lead, she went to Congress to present findings on shocking increases in individual and family debt. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her parents’ behavior toward her only encouraged her foreboding thoughts. The Seduction is a 1982 American thriller film written and directed by David Schmoeller, and starring Morgan Fairchild, Michael Sarrazin, Vince Edwards, and Andrew Stevens. James, appeared unexpectedly at his boyhood friends home, he had but one goal: Find a suitable wife as soon as possible. The fact she was spending time with him made her nervous that somehow her disgrace would rub off on him, as if she was some sort of disease. When the angelic Duke of Tempest, Sebastian St. In fact, it was entirely unfair that she would form such a friendship with a man she could never have. ![]() Why was it that any talk of marriage left Emma with visions of Sebastian’s smiling face? It wasn’t fair. If everything went as planned, they would go to the ball in two days and announce the impending engagement, running off as many would-be suitors as possible, all the while hunting for the type of person she and Sebastian would like to marry. She was grateful Sara had taken it upon herself to iron out the details of the next few days. “James Chapter Nine Emma watched them exchange ideas for the upcoming announcement at the ball as well as the house party. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But they must not obtain redress on their own they must appeal for help to powerful others or administrative bodies, to whom they must make the case that they have been victimized. There’s no more dueling.Ĭampbell and Manning describe how this culture of dignity is now giving way to a new culture of victimhood in which people are encouraged to respond to even the slightest unintentional offense, as in an honor culture. ![]() They foreswear violence, turn to courts or administrative bodies to respond to major transgressions, and for minor transgressions they either ignore them or attempt to resolve them by social means. The first major transition happened in the 18th and 19th centuries when most Western societies moved away from cultures of honor (where people must earn honor and must therefore avenge insults on their own) to cultures of dignity in which people are assumed to have dignity and don’t need to earn it. In brief: We’re beginning a second transition of moral cultures. I just read the most extraordinary paper by two sociologists - Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning - explaining why concerns about microaggressions have erupted on many American college campuses in just the past few years. ![]() Excerpts (all boldface in Haidt’s original): The paper is not by Haidt, but it’s long, so he summarizes it for his readers. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt breaks down an important 2014 study indicating that the Social Justice Warrior phenomenon on campus is not a trend, but instead marks a deep cultural shift. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I imagined wearing fitted shirts, tight pants and pointy polished shoes, tiptoeing across the floor with my hand full of dishes, kowtowing to customers. “Another one wants work out on the floor? Your buddy Dave never stopped bugging Maude to see if he could train out front.” I couldn’t tell where my body ended I’d become part of this rocky, roaring wave of sound and sweating bodies. As the mosh pit grew bigger it sucked me up in its undertow and the craziness and I tapped into the mania swirling all around me. She jumped into the melee, climbed over the swirl of bodies smashing into each other, then let herself be swept along by the crowd, tumbling over the human sea all the way to the foot of the stage. When “Hangar 18” came on, she really went crazy. We had to back up to keep from being sucked into the mosh pit. He has tattoos all the way down to his fingers now, and his hands have grown fatter, hands inscribed with the scars of twenty years in the kitchen, burned daily and gouged by wayward oyster shuckers and subjected to malevolent blades severing tiny chunks of fingertip thousands of shifts spent shelling, peeling, dicing, stirring, gutting, deboning, and chopping the never-ending repetitive handling of foods raw and cooking and cooked the infinite cycle of frying pans and scouring stainless counters with steel wool and industrial-strength degreasers. Bébert’s keeping one eye on the hockey game, and one hand on his big bottle of beer. ![]() ![]() Spy the Lie chronicles the captivating story of how they used a methodology Houston developed to detect deception in the counterterrorism and criminal investigation realms, and shows how these techniques can be applied in our daily lives. Be it hiring a new employee, investing in a financial interest, speaking with your child about drugs, confronting your significant other about suspected infidelity, or even dating someone new, having the ability to unmask a lie can have far-reaching and even life-altering consequences.Īs former CIA officers, Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero are among the world’s best at recognizing deceptive behavior. Imagine how different your life would be if you could tell whether someone was lying or telling you the truth. ![]() Three former CIA officers - among the world’s foremost authorities on recognizing deceptive behavior - share their proven techniques for uncovering a lie. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Beast presents Jean Grey with his advanced sub-basement clinic. The Professor asks them to make a quick turn and investigate the anomaly. He tells them that the all new mutant detector, Cerebra, has located an enormous mutant surge in Ecuador. On their way home in the X-Wing, they are connected to a telepathic conference by the Professor. In Sydney, Australia, Cyclops and Wolverine rescue a mutant known as Ugly John from a residual sentinel attack. Synopsis for "E is for Extinction – Part One of Three"
![]() ![]() Hunt considers her some of her books to be parables." Her books have touched on such diverse topics as cloning, immortality, prion diseases, breast cancer, mental illness, angels, family issues, spouse abuse, stuttering, adoption, divorce, dating, and man's relationship to animals. ![]() Hunt has published over one hundred fifty books since then, most of which have a Christian theme. ![]() In the late 1980s, she received her first recognition as a writer, winning first place in a national competition with a manuscript and sketches that she and a friend submitted. ![]() In those early years as a freelance writer she wrote everything from business letters to catalog copy. Hunt studied English and music at Liberty University and graduated magna cum laude in 1980. In 1976-77 she traveled with Derric Johnson's "The Re'Generation," a ten-member vocal group. She was also one of Brevard County's debutantes in that year. Angela Elwell Hunt (born December 20, 1957) is a prolific Christian author, and her books include The Tale of Three Trees, The Debt, The Note, and The Nativity Story, among others.Īngela Elwell Hunt was born in Winter Haven and grew up in Brevard County, Florida, graduating from Rockledge High School in 1975. ![]() |