But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can describe only as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. At first Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: The cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie's works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. From New York Times best-selling author of the "twisty-mystery" ( Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware - this time set at sea.
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John Waters’s tacky-aluminum-TV-tray city is one, where the fringe people are the soul of the place. If you’re searching for Lost Baltimore, the city you find depends on the one you were thinking about beforehand. It was a factory town with aspirations, one that was built to house nearly twice its current population with great civic imagery to match - the Beaux-Arts monuments and crab houses, Pimlico races and rowhouses with white marble steps. Her latest book, Lady in the Lake , takes place mostly downtown in the mid-’60s, and today she and I are headed out to find some places that used to be here.īaltimore is layered with loss. She was a reporter for more than a decade at the Baltimore Sun, and in the past 22 years has set 23 crime novels and thrillers in and around the city. Lippman ought to know because she, apart from several years away in her 20s, has spent her entire adulthood in town. Lippman at a union rally in 1996, when she was a reporter at the Baltimore Evening Sun.īaltimore is a city where they give directions according to what’s not there anymore,” Laura Lippman says, quoting an old newspaper colleague of hers named Linell Smith. She is intelligent, calculating, ambitious and in many ways not an easy person to be around. It is the story of a remarkable woman in a time when not much is know about many individual women. The story of Hild follows the titular character as she finds herself as a seeress to the king of Northumbria, her uncle. And just in time – 2023 will see the publication of Menewood, an immediate sequel to Hild, and I for one am excited. I’d vaguely been aware of the book, but it was my love for Nicola Griffith’s Spear, a brilliant Arthurian novella published earlier this year (my book of 2022 as per this roundup, and you can read my full review of it here) that made me pull the trigger and dive in. Published 2013, this historical novel is based on the early life of Hild of Whitby, a seventh-century saint and abbess of the monastery of Whitby, mainly known thanks to the work of the Venerable Bede in the eight century. Nicola Griffith’s Hild has deservedly become a classic of its genre. If you want to spend a little more time at the Cash-Presley nexus, I’d encourage you to listen to Million Dollar Quartet, a recording that captures Cash and Presley’s impromptu jam session with Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. Two characters just having a good ol’ time whilst simultaneously creating the genre of rock and roll.” Cash was the opening act Presley, the headliner. And each night, “Cash would impersonate his friend and touring partner, and then Elvis would come out and do the same. He was that charismatic.” Which brings us to the short, completely amusing clip found above.Īccording to the Pig River Records web site (a “comprehensive guide to music as it was 50 years ago”), this footage dates back to a 1959 tour. Every show I did with him, I never missed the chance to stand in the wings and watch. Cash admired Presley’s rhythm guitar playing and his showmanship. That’s the first time I met him.Īlthough the two musicians were “never tight,” they liked one another. With just one single to his credit, he sang those two songs over and over. The first time I saw Elvis, singing from a flatbed truck at a Katz drugstore opening on Lamar Avenue, two or three hundred people, mostly teenage girls, had come out to see him. In his autobiography, Johnny Cash recalled meeting Elvis Presley in Memphis, circa 1954: Impatient, I stopped and turned around to see Tommaso addressing someone’s front door. “Wake up! You can’t sleep out here tonight!” “Paolo!” he called out, in that piping baby voice of his. We were barreling down a side street with tall narrow houses crammed side by side, uninterrupted walls of stone and stucco on either side of us, when Tommaso yelled something that finally made me slow. Our chances of cutting a single fat purse were better there I wanted to be home and warm fast as a blink. I didn’t make our usual stop at the Fico Tavern, where the marks were plentiful if not wealthy, but headed straight for the Buco Tavern instead. I ignored him, of course, and increased my pace until he was too breathless to complain. Because of the cold, I walked so fast I may as well have been running Tommaso gasped and whined because his little legs couldn’t keep up. So out we went, Tommaso and I, onto mostly quiet cobblestone streets in the pale blue light, the moon huge and glorious in a clear star-riddled sky, the air perfectly still and burning where it touched my exposed face. I would have stayed inside if we hadn’t been out of food and coin, or if the moon, whose light I could never bear to waste, hadn’t been full. The night I was caught with my hand in a gentleman’s pocket-the night my life completely changed-it was burning cold, so bitter I’d never felt anything like it before or since. Nationwide, the average time it takes to earn a PhD in a humanities field, including philosophy, is more than seven years. They also have the patience and dedication to stick to their goals. Successful PhD students are independently motivated, set their own goals and are comfortable working with their own deadlines by themselves for significant stretches of time. Success as a PhD student in philosophy requires talent and preparation, as well as a tremendous amount of hard work. Philosophy PhD students at USC also begin to practice and develop as teachers of philosophy and develop the concrete skills that will come in handy in a career as a college or university professor.Ī philosophy PhD is not for everyone. USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies InstituteĪ PhD in philosophy offers students the highest form of training in rigorous thought and analytical writing, and guidance in the development of a productive, active research program, contributing to the advance of the field. Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies Huntington-USC Institute on California and The West Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American LifeĬenter for Islamic Thought, Culture and PracticeĬenter for Latin American and Latinx Studies I recruited Segal for Fun with Dick and Jane, as its producer, and vividly recall his calm and tactful handling of a hyper Jane Fonda. He then went on to films including Bye Bye Braverman, co-starring Jessica Walter - who also died this week - and directed by Sidney Lumet (1968) Where’s Poppa? (1970) for Carl Reiner and The Owl and the Pussycat, in which he played a nerdy writer opposite Streisand in 1970. He won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for the film. Segal first received wide attention as Nick, the edgy young husband in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), adapted from the Edward Albee play. “I always sensed I would end up playing a grandfather named Goldberg,” he said. It began with Segal cast as a conniving American prisoner of war in King Rat and ended with The Goldbergs. “I always sensed my career would be surreal,” Segal once told me. ‘Just Shoot Me!’ Creator Steve Levitan Remembers George Segal, “One Of The Greats” “He looks real,” the dour Kramer once commented. His remarkable range was reflected in the list of directors who hired him, from Stanley Kramer to Carl Reiner, from Robert Altman to Mike Nichols. Segal, who died this week at age 87, was a gracious, thoughtful man, who, while a star for over 60 years, never resorted to bluster or name-dropping. Never again will you worry about what song your heroine should be singing in 1869! (Little Brown Jug is a good choice.) Each chapter includes numerous quotes from magazines and novels of the era, illustrating proper word usage. McCutcheon even includes helpful chronologies of noted books, magazines, innovations, popular songs and special events. There is also a special section on types of crime, crime terms and criminal statistics. Of particular interest are the sections on the Civil War and life on the range. This dictionary-style reference guide includes details of every facet of life- fashion and clothing, courtship and marriage rituals, slang terms, popular foods, common occupations, health and medicine, and much more. Few reference books include as many fascinating, informative facts as this one does! Packed with details of nineteenth-century life, Marc McCutcheon leaves no stone unturned. Now I wasn’t a comic book virgin before our trip but I never read a series regularly, collected, or anywhere close to obsessed over a comic book series before. In return I got a stopover in San Fransisco, a trip to the zoo, and a new obsession with comic books. In a moment of weakness, and perhaps excessive sleepiness, I agreed to Jim’s idea that we go to San Diego Comic Con as our summer vacation (yes, that was when you could decide to go three months out and still get a good hotel and a 4 day pass). Sunday Comics articles will be written by the Bookish Ladies and feature guest posts by Jim, our Bookish Gentleman aka the Hijacked Hubby, who you’ll meet in this Sunday’s official first post. I know it’s not Sunday but I wanted to kick off the new feature with an extra post focusing on one of my all time favorite series, Mouse Guard by David Petersen.įlashback to April 2009. I’m happy to introduce our newest ongoing feature, Sunday Comics, a semimonthly series focusing on comic books, graphic novels, and other stories told through a combination of visual and written media. Alobar and Kudra move from place to place and live together for thousands of years. Air represents the controlled breathing, water the ritual bathing, earth the simple diet, and fire the desire and sex between two partners. Together they come across a group of Bandaloop Doctors and discover the secrets to immortality: the elements of air, water, earth, and fire. Alobar meets a woman in India, Kudra, that later becomes his wife. along his journey he meets the Greek god Pan ( ), who is losing his powers due to mass conversion to Christianity. The first character in the novel is King Alobar, a man that fakes his own death ritual and travels on foot throughout Eurasia. The story that Jitterbug Perfume tells is told through the eyes of four main characters. Robbins explores life and death through the eyes of human and god alike, all while telling an epic story that is both humorous and contemplative. The epic story takes place in various parts of the world, starting in the 8th century and spanning until 9:00 p.m. The novel Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins was published in 1984. |