#jacqueline haynes

[legendarytragedynacho]

The Clash - Sidney, Australia. Feb 4, 1982.

📷 Jacqueline Haynes

#the clas #jacqueline haynes #topper headon #joe strummer #paul simonon #mick jo #mick jones #music #musician #musica #rock #rock music #singer #rock singer #punk rock #classic punk #}

[girlwithinfiction]

It is International Women's Month and a treat for our beloved reading women out there just came out— the 16-book longlist has just been released for 2023's Women's Prize for Fiction and your next favorite book might be in it!

The books are (in alphabetical order of title):

- Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris

- Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova

- Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh

- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

- Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks

- Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo

- Homesick by Jennifer Croft

- I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel

- Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow

- Pod by Laline Paull

- Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes

- The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

- The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie

- The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

- Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

- Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin

Happy reading, folks! 💛✨

ig: girlwithinfiction

#book blog #book recommendations #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #book recs #bookish #booklover #books #women's prize for fiction #women's month #international women's month #international women's day #women in literature #women writers #tbr list

[alexsfictionaddiction]

The Women’s Prize For Fiction 2023 Longlist Is Here!

I’m pretty sure that anyone who was reading my blog around this time last year will know that I follow the Women’s Prize for Fiction very closely. In fact, it’s the only book prize that I ever want to make the effort to read as much of the longlist as I can. So, this time of year is like bookish Christmas to me and I have been SO excited over the last couple of weeks during the build-up to this announcement. 

For those of you who don’t follow it, the Women’s Prize for Fiction is an annual book prize given to a book written in English by a woman over the last year. The eligibility criteria is as follows:

It must be a full-length novel (no short story collections or novellas).

It must have been originally written in English (no translations).

It must have been published in the UK between 1st April of the year before the prize and 31st March of the year of the prize (so, this year’s eligibility period was between 1st April 2022 and 31st March 2023).

So, here is this year’s longlist!

I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel. Published by Rough Trade Books on 9th June 2022. Pod by Laline Paull. Published by Corsair on 7th April 2022. The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie. Published by 4th Estate on 7th March 2023. Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks. Published by Vintage on 2nd March 2023. Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova. Published by Atlantic Books on 7th July 2022. Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo. Published by Vintage on 7th April 2022. The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff. Published by Allen & Unwin on 2nd March 2023. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell. Published by Tinder Press on 30th August 2022. Homesick by Jennifer Croft. Published by Charco Press on 23rd August 2022. Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh. Published by Penguin on 2nd March 2023. Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris. Published by Duckworth on 5th May 2022. Trespasses by Louise Kennedy. Published by Bloomsbury on 14th April 2022. Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow. Published by John Murray on 7th April 2022. Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes. Published by Mantle on 15th September 2022. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Published by Faber and Faber on 18th October 2022.

I’ve watched a lot of prediction videos and I was pretty sure I had a good idea of what books we’d see on this list. Having just watched the official announcement of the 16 books on the longlist, I am FLABBERGASTED at how wrong everyone was! 

Demon Copperhead is the only one I’ve already read and it definitely deserves to be there. Cursed Bread, Fire Rush and The Bandit Queens are on my TBR for this month anyway. I have copies of Trespasses, Stone Blind, The Marriage Portrait, Memphis, Glory, Pod and I’m A Fan, so will be getting to them as soon as I can. There are quite a few books on here that I’ve never even heard of, so that’s very exciting!

While I am quite sad not to see some of the popular predictions on here (Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Nightcrawling, A Spell For Good Things, Birnam Wood, Really Good Actually, The Rabbit Hutch), I am really intrigued to see how I get on with these books.

The shortlist of six books will be announced on 26th April, so I’ll be aiming to get as much of the longlist read before then as possible. The winner will be announced on 14th June, so you’ve got plenty of time to read them all before then, if that sounds like fun!

So, what do you think of the longlist? How many have you read? How many do you plan on reading? Are you as surprised as I am?! Now, go and read all the books, my lovely readers!

-Love, Alex x

#women's prize for fiction 2023 #women's prize for fiction longlist #women's prize for fiction #women's prize #books #bookworm

[byneddiedingo]

Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman in All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955) Cast: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Gloria Talbott, William Reynolds, Conrad Nagel, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, Jacqueline deWit, Donald Curtis, Merry Anders. Screenplay: Peg Fenwick, based on a story by Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee. Cinematography: Russell Metty. Art direction: Alexander Golitzen, Eric Orbom. Music: Frank Skinner.  Pauline Kael called All That Heaven Allows "trashy," and others have called it "campy," but the ongoing reevaluation of the work of its director, Douglas Sirk, has delivered a new respect for the film, leading to, among other things, its selection in 1995 for inclusion in the Library of Congress's National Film Registry. Some would still call it a triumph of form over content, because no one today seriously questions Sirk's brilliant exploitation of the technical resources available to him, specifically his unusually expressive work, in collaboration with cinematographer Russell Metty, in Technicolor, a proprietary medium whose proprietors had rigidly fixed ideas about what could be done with it. Sirk called on Metty for, among other things, more shadows and more use of reflections than were conventional in Technicolor. See, for example, the near-silhouetted figures of Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman in the still above, with its subtle backlighting. And notice how the television set that's an unwelcome gift to Wyman's Cary Scott from her children is used in the scenes in which it appears: It's never turned on, but instead its blank screen reflects Cary's face, almost as if the set is a cage in which she's trapped. In another scene, it reflects the flames in the fireplace, becoming a little bit of hell. But that symbolic use of the TV set also suggests why we ought to take All That Heaven Allows more seriously for its content, as filmmakers like Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Todd Haynes have done by echoing it in their films. Because ATHA is the epitome of the "woman's picture" as ironic commentary on what women experienced in the 1950s. For all her masculine name, Cary undergoes a constant reminder of her vulnerability as a woman: She is nearly raped by the drunken Howard Hoffer (Donald Curtis). At or near 40 (Wyman was 38), she is thought by her children to be beyond remarrying for love or even sex: Hence their tolerance of a proposal from the asexual or possibly closeted Harvey (Conrad Nagel), who admits he can't offer her much beyond "companionship." The television set is pushed on her by everyone who thinks it will provide relief from loneliness. The children only come round to something like acceptance of their mother's independence after she has broken off the engagement to the handsome, virile (and younger) Ron Kirby (Hudson), and they have started new lives of their own: The daughter is getting married and the son is going off to work in Iran --  a reflection of different times. No wonder Cary suffers psychosomatic headaches. I admit to having problems with the film's ending, in which she seemingly finds fulfillment only by devoting herself to nursing the now-vulnerable Ron back to health, as if a woman can only be useful by serving a man. But Sirk himself had problems with that ending, which was imposed on him by the producer, Ross Hunter. Sirk wanted more ambiguity about whether Ron would live or die. All That Heaven Allows was ignored by the Academy, though Metty's cinematography certainly deserved notice -- it was probably judged a little too unconventional by his peers -- as did Frank Skinner's score, with its effective use of quotations from Liszt and Brahms and its resistance to melodramatic overstatement.

#All That Heaven Allows #Douglas Sirk #Rock Hudson #Jane Wyman

[andsalttheearthbehindyou]

april reading wrap up

1. binding 13, chloe walsh - THIS is my guilty pleasure.. ohhh this is like if normal people was less well written litfic and more in line with sappy trashy romance novels. BUT GOOD. oh it reminds me of like a good quotev story. which is like wattpad for emo middle schoolers

2. the prisoner’s throne, holly black - MASSIVE disappointment, but now that i think about it, idk why i was so let down. i didnt care for the three cruel prince books but i did really like stolen heir which made me excited for this. but this follows a different characters pov and was just a big downgrade from stolen heir. i wont read any more holly black going forward.

3. the boy who was raised as a dog, bruce perry, md, phd - preferred this one over the body keeps the score. i cried three separate times.

4. the salt grows heavy, cassandra khaw - cute and eerie!! save this one for october.

5. the god of endings, jacqueline holland - also cute! i dont know why i read all these spooky adjacent books in the middle of spring but i digress

6. lilith, nikki marmery - i thought id really like this but the writing style and characterizations felt too modern and tongue in cheek for the content itself. might have served better if reworked as an original story as opposed to a retelling but what do i know

7. clytemnestra, costanza casati - this is like circe x 10000000 oh madeline miller WISHES she couldve written this.. this is such a good retelling. maybe im biased because i just love the atreus family and the orestia and everything but content aside the writing was really magnificent

8. keeping 13, chloe walsh - MWAHHHHH AHHHH RAHHH GAHHHH

9. monstrilio, gerardo sámano córdova - the first three fourths were very good but the last act just lost me! another eerie sort of monster book with a maternal lens. good concept and good execution even, i just felt like the ending fell flat and getting thru it was a chore

10. shatter me, tahereh mafi - i dont know why i bother with the booktok book recommendations anymore. this was PISS POOR. and i think theres like eight of these books. oh you couldnt PAY me to read the rest.

11. butcher & blackbird, brynne weaver - EVEN WORSE

12. thirst, marina yuszczuk - if i had one quarter for every monster aligned book with themes of motherhood i read in april then i would have one whole dollar!

13. stone blind, natalie haynes - was scared because this was like my third retelling of the month and i was nervy. it couldve gone lilith bad or clytmenestra good and it was GREAT!!! im so pleased with this and all the perspectives and everything was done so well and right. everything was so lyrical and smart.

wowwww im so proud of my month!!!!!!!! :)

#booklr

[nonfilms]

2023 was a remarkable time for cinema, with amazing titles released almost monthly throughout the year. Here are some theatrical and festival favorites that pushed the boundaries of cinema and absoultely inspired, astonished, and impressed us – films that haven’t left our mind since we first viewed them. 1. Hello Dankness (Soda Jerk)  2. Therapy Dogs (Ethan Eng)  3. Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki) 4. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) 5. Killers of the flower Moon (Martin Scorsese) 6. Anselm (Wim Wenders) 7. Pacifiction (Albert Serra) 8. Open Doom Crescendo (Terry Chiu) 9. Free Time (Ryan Martin Brown)  10. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson) 11. Playland (Georden West) 12. My Animal (Jacqueline Castel) 13. Waiting For the Light to Change (Linh Tran) 14. Cash Cow (Matt Barats) 15. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos) 16. Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo) 17. Birth/Rebirth (Laura Moss)  18. Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis (Anton Corbijn)  19. Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)  20. Passages (Ira Sachs) 21. Hannah Ha Ha (Joshua Pikovsky & Jordan Tetewsky) 22. The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki) 23. May December (Todd Haynes) 24. Dad & Step-Dad (Tynan DeLong) 25. Mississippi River Styx (Tim Grant & Andy McMillan) 26. Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV (Amanda Kim)  27. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Daniel Goldhaber) 28. The Horse Tail (Justyna Luczaj) 29. Onlookers (Kimi Takesue) 30. Divinity (Eddie Alcazar)  31. Enys Men (Mark Jenkin) 32. Cette Maison (Miryam Charles)  33. Sick of Myself (Kristoffer Borgli) 34. A Thousand and One (A.V. Rockwell) 35. Sweetheart Deal (Elisa Levine & Gabriel Miller) 36. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel)

#2023 #favorites #bestof #films #festivals #theaters #streaming #inspiring #filmmaking #supportart #yearend #cinema #movies #documentaries #dramas #comedies #indiefilms #directors #filmmakers #experimental #hollywood #hellodankness #therapydogs #fallenleaves #bestof2023 #indiefilmmaking #docs #supportindieartists #nonfilms

[avaliveradio]

Vern Daysel's Southern Rock Album 'Call of the Wild'

Vern Daysel’s Cougar checks the boxes for me. You’ll enjoy the gritty vocal of this South African turned Florida songwriter as he plays his guitar on the east coast beaches. My favourite song on the album is ‘Cougar’ for that southern swank and comfortable charm. I like the Southern rock style and felt it suited the artist well. Other notable songs on this album that I love are ‘Gold Digger’ for the guitar solos, ‘Feed Me’ for the melody lines and ‘Wild Girl’ for the dynamic guitars and country rock fun tempo.

Review by Jacqueline Jax

Link to your streaming page: https://open.spotify.com/album/6PtYfbc304bsGhE81zMHuI

Vern Daysel - Cougar Album - Call of the Wild Music Genre: Southern Rock/Blues Rock/Rock n' Roll Vibe: Earthy Located in: Fort Pierce Florida Sounds like: Blackberry Smoke, Joe Bonamassa, Warren Haynes, The Steel Woods Video link: https://youtu.be/3q5yZykfUAE

‘Call of the Wild’ is Vern Daysel’s third album and his first solo album since moving to the United States from South Africa.

 An album four years in the making. Between immigrating to the US, a relentless gigging schedule and working with other bands, Daysel has finally finished what he considers his best piece of work to date.

 The 11- track album includes the singles ‘Cougar’ and ‘Feed Me’ that have already received radio play all over the world as well as being featured on Planet Rock Radio - the UK’s biggest rock station.

 Not only is the album self produced by Daysel but he also wrote all the songs, played all the instruments and sang on the recordings. 

 At the core this is a rock n’ roll album but it definitely highlights Daysel’s soulful southern rock, blues and country influences. 

 Between the ‘Blood of a Wolf’ album and this he has performed close to a thousand shows, released an Afrikaans album and a 6-song EP with the Florida band Switch N’ Whisky.

About Vern Daysel

 Vern Daysel is a multi-instrumentalist from Johannesburg, South Africa. Now living in Florida US he is set to release third album ‘Call of the Wild’ on Dec 23, 2022.

Daysel has been a full time musician since 2006 working as a drummer, guitarist and singer. 

In 2014 he decided to take the solo route to focus on his unique bluesy, southern rock sound. 

 He released his debut solo album “Shootin’ the Breeze” in 2016 and in 2017 the follow up “Blood of a Wolf”. 

He’s received global airplay but notably on Planet Rock Radio, the UK’s biggest rock station. He has also been featured in Classic Rock Magazine for his song ‘Shit Creek’.

 It’s been a dream and a goal since he was eighteen to one day move to the US and work as a musician. That dream became a reality in 2019 when he got the opportunity to immigrate to the US where he now resides in Florida.

 While under lockdown in 2020 he started recording the first couple of singles for the new album. Those singles laid the foundation for what would become ‘Call of the Wild’. 

When everything opened back up, Daysel quickly found himself performing live six to seven days a week. In-between all the shows, recording and trying to get established in the US, he is finally ready to release his latest album.

 With this new album and the new year on the horizon, 2023 promises to be the best year yet for Vern Daysel.

Social Links & Website: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/verndaysel

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrP5GGfX2nsKmZZuq-WkxgA

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/verndaysel

Official website - https://www.verndaysel.com

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[capital-radio-three]

The Clash at the Australian Museum in Sydney, April 1982.

(By Jacqueline Haynes)

#wish someone would hold my hand the way joe held the dino #anyways #paul you're leaning...again #that walkman looks great on topper couldn't be more 80s than that #do we need to still to talk about the diva in the room? nah #the clash #joe strummer #mick jones #paul simonon #topper headon #rock #punk rock #punk

[afieldofheather]

prompts 1. a book that’s published in 2021 | Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 2. an afrofuturist book | Binti by Nnedi Okorafor 3. a book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover | Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie 4. a book by an author who shares your zodiac sign | Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell 5. a dark academia book | Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas 6. a book with a gem, mineral, or rock in the title | Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton  7. a book where the main character works at your current or dream job | Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie 8. a book that has won the Women’s Prize for Fiction | A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes 9. a book with a family tree | After the Funeral by Agatha Christie 10. a bestseller from the 1990s | The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester 11. a book about forgetting | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by VE Schwab 12. a book you have seen on someone’s bookshelf (in real life, on a zoom call, in a tv show, etc.) | Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson 13. a locked-room mystery | Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie 14. a book set in a restaurant | The Tourist Attraction by Sarah Morgenthaler 15. a book with a black-and-white cover | Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 16. a book by an indigenous author | Marvel’s Voices: Indigenous Voices #1 17. a book that has the same title as a song | Mrs. McGinty’s Dead by Agatha Christie 18. a book about a subject you are passionate about | Breath by James Nestor 19. a book that discusses body positivity | Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hubbert 20. a book on a black lives matter reading list | 1919 by Eve L Ewing 21. a genre hybrid | The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark 22. a book set mostly or entirely outdoors | Watership Down by Richard Adams 23. a book with something broken on the cover | Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie 24. a book by a muslim american author | Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin 25. a book that was published anonymously | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte 26. a book with an oxymoron in the title | A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen 27. a book about do-overs or fresh starts | Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano 28. a magical realism book | The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 29. a book set in multiple countries | Dracula by Bram Stoker 30. a book set somewhere you’d like to visit in 2021 | Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie 31. a book by a blogger, vlogger, youtube video creator, or other online personality | Librarian Tales by William Ottens 32. a book whose title starts with “q,” “x,” or “z” | Queen of Hearts by Kimmery Martin 33. a book featuring three generations (grandparent, parent, child) | Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren 34. a book about a social justice issue | The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo 35. a book in a different format than what you normally read (audiobooks, ebooks, graphic novels) | Captain America: Winter in America by Ta-Nahasi Coates 36. a book that has fewer than 1,000 reviews on amazon or goodreads | The Power Behind the Throne by Steven Savile 37. a book you think your best friend would like | One by One by Ruth Ware 38. a book about art or an artist | Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson 39. a book everyone seems to have read but you | Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds 40. your favorite prompt from a past reading challenge | Macbeth by William Shakespeare advanced 41. the longest book (by pages) on your TBR list | Written in My Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon 42. the shortest book (by pages) on your TBR list | Forever Wild by KA Tucker 43. the book on your TBR list with the prettiest cover | The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy 44. the book on your TBR list with the ugliest cover | Relativity by James Swallow 45. the book that’s been on your TBR list for the longest amount of time | The City of the Gods by Sonny Whitelaw 46. a book from your TBR list you meant to read last year but didn’t | Hydra by Holly Scott and Jaimie Duncan 47. a book from your TBR list you associate with a favorite person, place, or thing | Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie 48. a book from your TBR list chosen at random | Four Dragons by Diana Dru Botsford 49. a DNF book from your TBR list | Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton 50. a free book from your TBR list (gifted, borrowed, library) | This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El Mohtar & Max Gladstone

completed | December 23, 2021

#reading challenge

[wolveswithoutteeth]

any book recs? ✨

of course! my goodreads has more recommendations and i’ve created shelves for certain themes/time periods/genres but here are some favorites:

fiction:

the secret history by donna tartt

the goldfinch by donna tartt

red, white & royal blue by casey mcquiston

the song of achilles by madeline miller

the hours by michael cunningham

tipping the velvet by sarah waters

deathless by catherynne m valente

the round house by louise erdrich

ghost wall by sarah moss

on earth we’re briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

if we were villains by m.l. rio

normal people by sally rooney (the tv adaptation is now available on hulu!)

conversations with friends by sally rooney

lie with me by philippe benson

girl with a pearl earring by tracy chevalier

homegoing by yaa gyasi

trumpet by jackie kay

tin man by sarah winman

little fires everywhere by celeste ng

everything i never told you by celeste ng

burial rites by hannah kent  

the remains of the day by kazuo ishiguro

the underground railroad by colson whitehead

americanah by chimamanda ngozi adichie

young adult:

we are okay by nina lacour

everything leads to you by nina lacour

the grisha trilogy by leigh bardugo

six of crows by leigh bardugo 

the winternight trilogy by katherine arden

shatter me series by tahereh mafi 

i’ll give you the sun by jandy nelson

19th and 20th century american lit:

moby dick by herman melville

little women by louisa may alcott

behind a mask (and other stories) by louisa may alcott

cecil dreeme by theodore winthrop

the awakening by kate chopin

the house of mirth by edith wharton

ethan frome and other stories by edith wharton

giovanni’s room by james baldwin

all of toni morrison’s books! (i recommend reading her work in publication order if you can but my favorites are beloved and the song of solomon)

victorian:

the moonstone by wilkie collins

lady audley’s secret by mary elizabeth braddon

jane eyre by charlotte bronte

villette by charlotte bronte

wuthering heights by emily bronte

the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde

middlemarch by george eliot

bleak house by charles dickens

british modernism:

wide sargasso sea by jean rhys

good morning, midnight by jean rhys

voyage in the dark by jean rhys

mrs dalloway by virginia woolf

maurice by e.m. forster

the return of the soldier by rebecca west

collected stories by katherine mansfield

rebecca by daphne du murier

poetry:

devotions by mary oliver

crush by richard siken

war of the foxes by richard siken

collected poems by edna st. vincent millay

collected poems by christina rossetti

selected poems by edith wharton

undercurrent by rita wong

the wild iris by louise gluck

useless magic: lyrics and poetry by florence welch (if you’re a fan of florence + the machine, this hardcover book is beautifully published and includes poems, lyrics, illustrations, photography, etc.)

graphic novels:

all of isabel greenberg’s books!

through the woods by emily carroll (very spooky! and the art is beautiful!)

and the ocean was our sky by patrick ness 

short story collections:

the bloody chamber and other stories by angela carter

how to breathe underwater by julie orringer

by light we knew our names by anne valente

st lucy’s home for girls raised by wolves by karen russell

kissing the witch: old tales in new skins by emma donoghue

interpreter of maladies by jhumpa lahiri

the thing around your neck by chimamanda ngozi adichie

the last animal by abby geni

nonfiction/theory:

upstream: selected essays by mary oliver

into the wild by jon krakauer

hunger by roxane gay

braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants by robin wall kimmerer

playing in the dark: whiteness and the literary imagination by toni morrison

in the wake: on blackness and being by christina sharpe

forms by caroline levine

touching feeling by eve kosofsky sedgwick

TBR books i’m excited to read as soon as this semester is over:

the starless sea by erin morgenstern

frankissstein by jeanette winterson

glass town by isabel greenberg

supper club by lara williams

the night watchman by louise erdrich

writers & lovers by lily king

her body and other parties by carmen maria machado

the library book by susan orlean

my life in middlemarch by rebecca mead

my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa moshfegh

the lonely city by olivia laing

the women’s prize postponed their winner announcement to september so i’ll be reading from the longlist this summer (and some previous winners/longlisters to celebrate the prize’s 25th anniversary this year!) this year’s list is really strong but a few books i’m most excited about:

hamnet by maggie o’farrell

girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo

a thousand ships by natalie haynes

weather by jenny offill

red at the bone by jacqueline woodson

lastly, support independent book stores (if you can!) i ordered two books last month that i’m excited to read:

crude by olivia laing

a little book on form by robert haas

#asks #books #recommendations #literaetures #reference #mine

[slovenlyrecordings]

We got some super hot new repros of some seriously rare 60s r&b and garage killers in stock

These are always pressed in limited quantities, and are rarely repressed. Get ‘em so you don’t have to shell out for the originals that you won’t find anyway! THE SPITS 6th album is back in stock at the USA and Berlin stores, and has arrived at Slovenly Mexico, too! Exclusive to the USA store, we just got more copies of the first album by The Muffs. Our love for this record can’t ever be overstated. Check out this new LP by THE TOADS featuring members of MIDNITE SNAXXX / LOLI & THE CHONES + ICKY BOYFRIENDS / HANK IV and a couple punxxx from the staff of MRR. Can’t get better credentials than that. For you CD hounds and bump ‘n grind music aficionados out there, there are new versions of Las Vegas Grind and Jungle Exotica that have been remastered and now include deluxe booklets AND in swank digipak cases! Last, and definitely not least, we’re giving our HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION to the new single from Dutch band THE VANCOOTHS on Certified PR Records. We also have a few copies of their self-released LP that is extremely limited and inexplicably slept on. We’re the only place in the USA to have the LP, which is criminal. Get it now and thank us later!

SPEND $15 AT THE USA STORE AND GET A FREE HEAVY DUTY CANVAS TOTE BAG WHILE SUPPLIES LAST! (Olive aka Dog E. Fresh not included)

NEW ARRIVALS (USA)

MISFITS "12 Hits From Hell: The MSP Sessions" LP (GREEN vinyl)

13th FLOOR ELEVATORS "Psychedelic Sounds Of" (YELLOW vinyl) LP

NERVOUS EATERS "Eaterville Vol. 2" LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS "The Crazy Rhythms Of Mata Hari: DJ Set Vol. 1" (2xLP)

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Trashcan Records Volume 5: Cha Cha Bop" 10"

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Trashcan Records Volume 6: The Natives Are Restless" 10"

THEM "Angry Young Them" LP

MISFITS "Walk Among Us" LP" (CLEAR vinyl)

MISFITS "Walk Among Us" LP" (GREEN vinyl)

MISFITS "Walk Among Us" LP" (BLUE vinyl)

CRAMPS "Bad Music For Bad People" (YELLOW Vinyl) LP

CRAMPS "Bad Music For Bad People" (WHITE Vinyl) LP

JACQUELINE TAIEB "7 Heures Du Matin / 7 A. M." 7"

LITTLE DADDY WALTON "I'm Leaving/ Highway Blues" 7"

JASPER WOODS "Hully Gully Papa" / BARRY LEE "The Way I Like 'Em" 7"

JOHNNY WATSON "I Say I Love You/ You Better Love Me" 7"

OTIS RILEY "The Zebra/ Goodbye Love" 7"

DIRTY SHAMES "I Don't Care/ Makin' Love" 7"

CANDY HAYNES "J-E-A-L-O-U-S Woman / My Love Is Real" 7"

SONNY MOORE "Erase And Replace/ At The Crossroads" 7"

JIMMY PHILLIPS "She Belongs To Me/ Show Me" 7"

HENRY ROE "If It's Loving You Want" 7"

BACK IN STOCK (USA):

NUNS "CBS Demos 1977" LP

ANGRY SAMOANS "Too Animalistic: The 1978 Demos" Mini-LP (RED vinyl)

CRAMPS "Songs The Lord Might Have Taught Us" LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Universe Rocketin'" LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Rockin' Nightmares" LP

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Music From Planet Earth Vol. 3 - Moon Tunes, Signals

From Saturn & The Full Martian Experience" 10"

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Trashcan Records Volume 1: Wild Safari" 10"

VARIOUS ARTISTS "Trashcan Records Volume 4: House Of Horrors" 10"

UNDERTONES "First Album Plus Bonus Tracks" LP (RED vinyl)

MORGUS & THE 3 GHOULS "Morgus The Magnificent" 7"

ABANDONED "Come On Mary" 7"

JADE OF STONE "Little Girl/ Mercy Mercy" 7"

KEN AND THE 4TH DIMENSION "See If I Care" 7"

ADKINS, HASIL "Chicken Walk/ She's Mine" 7"

DAY, SONNY "Beyond The Shadow Of A Doubt" 7"

DIDDLEY, BO "Bo Meets The Monster / Willie And Lillie" 7"

REVEREND CHARLIE JACKSON "Wrapped Up Tangled Up In Jesus / Morning Train" 7"

WILSON, DUSTY "Can't Do Without You" 7"

NEW ARRIVALS (WORLD)

PRISON AFFAIR - 2nd EP

NANCY - Nancy Goes Country LP

VARIOUS - Exotic-o-Rama vol. 3 LP+Cd

NUNOFYRBEESWAX - Stratotoaster LP

IMPOSITION MAN - Resilience 12" EP

VARIOUS - Sweet Times Vol. 3 7"

VARIOUS - Sweet Times Vol. 2 7"

VARIOUS - Sweet Times Vol.1 7"

SWEET CHARIOT - Lean Into The Breeze LP

LES ROBOTS - Big Trouble In Outer Space 7"

VARIOUS - TABU! Vol. 5 LP

THE DOGS - Teen Slime LP

THE VIBRATING BEDS - Sing The Blues 7"

THE ANGRY DRAGONS - Hex 7"

#slovenlydistro #mailorder #records #vinyls #vinylrecords #7inchvinyl #7inchrecord #7inches #7inchrecords #punk #garagepunk #punkrock #rockandroll #bo diddley #sonny day #dusty wilson #cramps #the spits #the muffs #midnitesnaxxx #misfits

[themaninthegreenshirt]

Is This the Greatest Photo in Jazz History?

A quiet Sunday night in 1953. The Dodgers had just won the pennant. J.F.K. and Jacqueline Bouvier had just married. And four titans of bebop came together in a dive bar for a rare jam session.

Charles Mingus, Roy Haynes, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk, Sunday 13th September 1953 at the Open Door on West 3rd Street, pic by Bob Parent 

#Charles Mingus #Roy Haynes #Charlie Parker #Thelonious Monk #bob parent #jazz #new york #jazz club #nyc #photography

[ljones41]

“AIRPORT” (1970) Review

“AIRPORT” (1970) Review

According to many film critics and fans, the 1970 movie, “AIRPORT”, generated what is known in Hollywood as the first in the “disaster film” genre. Is this true? From a certain point of view. “AIRPORT” was not the first Hollywood disaster movie ever made. But it did kick start a whole slew of them that Hollywood churned out during the 1970s.

Based upon Arthur Hailey’s 1968 novel, “AIRPORT” told the story of the manager of a fictional airport near Chicago named Mel Bakersfield, who is trying to keep the airport open during a snowstorm. Bakerfield not only has to deal with the bad weather’s effect upon the airport; but also local suburban residents, who want to permanently shut down one of the runways; an elderly lady who also happens to be a habitual stowaway; a failing marriage; a hostile brother-in-law, who is an airline pilot; and a suicidal bomber who plots to blow up a Rome-bound Boeing 707 airliner in flight. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Not only is Bakersfield’s brother-in-law, Vernon Demarest, is a tool, he is having an affair with a beautiful young English-born stewardess named Gwen Meighen. And both had been assigned to the Rome-bound flight about Trans Global Airline (TGA)’s flagship, the Golden Argosy. Bakersfield’s own marriage is in trouble, due to his long working habits. Even worse, he is attracted to TGA’s customer relations agent, Tanya Livingston. Meanwhile, former demolitions expert D.O. Guerrero has hit hard times due to unemployment and a history of mental illness. In a desperate bid to provide for his long-suffering wife, Inez, he buys life insurance with the intent of committing suicide by blowing up the Golden Argosy over the Atlantic Ocean, so that his wife, Inez will collect the $225,000 insurance money.

I would not be surprised if many movie fans and film critics have dismissed “AIRPORT” after forty-six years. Superficially, it is the type of film that many would either dismiss today as “dated” or simply melodramatic trash. Yes, “AIRPORT” is filled with melodrama. But if I must be honest, I would regard it as classy melodrama. Mature. Yes, the movie is filled with infidelity, strained marriages and unrequited love. But all topics are treated with both class and a brutal honesty by writer-director George Seaton that I found rather surprising.

This especially seemed to be the case in the story line regarding Vernon Demarest and his mistress, Gwen Meighen. Their discussion of her pregnancy and and a possible abortion struck me as very mature . . . and honest. I could also say the same about the story line regarding Mel and Cindy Bakersfield’s failing marriage. What I liked about this story line is that despite Cindy’s bitching about Mel’s working habits, I realized that she had a very good reason to feel bitter. I also felt a good deal of sympathy toward Mel’s attraction to customer relations agent, Tanya Livingston. More importantly, both husband and wife managed to come to the conclusion that divorce was their only option without any overblown angst. Seaton also managed to portray D.O. and Inez Guerrero with an honest eye and show how their money troubles and his emotional instability has been a strain on their marriage. Within all of this melodrama, “AIRPORT” provided some laughs in the story arc about Tanya’s dealings with a charming old widow named Mrs. Ada Quonsett, and her penchant for stowing aboard many of the airline’s flights. But even her story arc takes a serious turn when she decides to sneak about the Golden Argosy’s flight to Rome and finds herself in a seat next to Guerrero.

The movie also benefited from attention paid to the detail of day-to-day airport and airline operations, the response to a paralyzing snowstorm, a runway blocked by a disabled airplane, environmental concerns over noise pollution, and an attempt to blow up an airliner. What I find really interesting is how the film’s plot allowed the main characters’ personal stories to intertwine with scenes that featured decisions being made minute-by-minute by the airport and airline staffs, operations and maintenance crews, flight crews, and Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers. This balancing act seemed to be at its supreme in the story arc featuring D.O. Guerrero’s attempt to bomb the Rome flight. I was amazed at how the other arcs featuring Mrs. Ada Quonsett, Vern Demerest and Gwen Meighen’s affair, and the disabled plane blocking the runway managed to seamlessly intertwine with Guerrero’s story. Not only does one have author Arthur Hailey to thank, but also George Seaton, who made this happen on screen due to his Oscar nominated screenplay and excellent direction.

Was there anything about “AIRPORT” that I disliked? Or found wanting? I had nothing against Edith Head’s costumes for the film. Quite frankly, I found them very attractive. But for the likes of me, I cannot understand why her work for this film was nominated in the first place. Her designs were not that mind boggling. But my real complaint about this movie were some of the performances. I have nothing against the performances by the movie’s stars and major supporting cast members. But I found those performances by many of the minor supporting cast either wooden or hammy. Their performances reminded me of those I had encountered among the minor cast members in the 1982 miniseries, “THE BLUE AND THE GRAY”.

As I had stated earlier, I had no problems with those performances of the movie’s stars and major supporting cast members. The movie featured solid performances from the likes of Gary Collins, Barry Nelson, Lloyd Nolan, and Barbara Hale. Jean Seberg gave an excellent performance as customers relations agent Tanya Livingston, especially in her major scene with Helen Haynes. The latter received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as the charming, yet cunning Ada Quonsett. Star Burt Lancaster held the movie together with a commanding performance and at the same time, was perfectly emotional in his scenes with Dana Wynter, who portrayed his wife. Speaking of Ms. Wynter, she did an excellent job of conveying Cindy Bakersfield’s emotional turmoil as an estranged wife. Jacqueline Bisset was spot on as stewardess Gwen Meighen, who not only found herself pregnant, but also in love with her unborn baby’s married father. Maureen Stapleton received several nominations and a Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award as Guerrero’s long-suffering wife. Although I admired her performance very much, I found her last scene a bit on the hammy side.

However, my favorite performances came from three cast members – Van Heflin, George Kennedy and especially Dean Martin. I am amazed that Heflin did not receive an acting award or nomination as the emotionally damaged D.O. Guerrero, who had decided to solve his problems with an act of violence. Heflin did an excellent job of portraying a man barely able to keep his emotions in check, yet beaten down by the bad luck in his life. George Kennedy received several acting nominations as the gregarious, yet very intelligent airline mechanic, Joe Patroni. In fact, I believe he gave the most entertaining performance in the movie. But if there is one performance I believe deserved an acting nomination or award, it came from Dean Martin. His portrayal of pilot Vern Demerest struck me as the most complex character in the movie. He conveyed the different aspects of Demerest’s personality – arrogance, temperamental, competency, compassion and loving – with such great skill that it seemed a crime that he was never acknowledged for his work.

After my recent viewing of “AIRPORT”, I found myself wondering why I had ignored it for so long. It really is a first-rate movie, thanks to George Seaton’s adaptation of Arthur Hailey’s novel and skillful direction. The movie was also blessed with a first-rate cast that included Burt Lancaster, Helen Haynes, George Kennedy and Dean Martin. “AIRPORT” might have a few flaws, but after forty years or so, I still believe it is one of the best disaster films I have ever seen . . . period. And at the moment, I cannot even think of any other film that might be its equal or superior.

#ross hunter #arthur hailey #airport #airport 1970 #burt lancaster #jean seberg #dean martin #jacqueline bisset #helen hayes #Van Heflin #maureen stapleton #lloyd nolan #barry nelson #gary collins #dana wynter #george kennedy #jessie royce landis #barbara hale #virginia grey #george seaton #old hollywood #classic hollywood #disaster movies

[sapphicambitions]

Laynie Rose’s Library

At the Heart of the White Rose: The Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl. Edited by Inge Jens

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Syltherin Edition by JKR

King Charles III by Mike Bartlett

Edge of Twilight by Paula Christian

This Side of Love by Paula Christian

Serious Money by Caryl Churchill

The Waves by Virginia Woolf

Gay Old Gals by Zsa Zsa Gershick

Men Like That: A Southern Queer History by John Howard

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of The First Woman Poet by Philip Freeman

If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson

Maiden, Mother, Crone: The Three Faces of the Goddess by D.J. Conway

Victorian Sappho by Yopie Prins

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Collectors Edition)

Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare (Collectors Edition)

Collection of Best Loved Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson

The Norton Anthology of Drama Vol.1

The Norton Anthology of Drama Vol. 2

A Noble Treason: The Story of Sophie Scholl & The White Rose Revolt Against Hitler by Richard Hanser

The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri

Strong is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves by Kate T. Parker

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Our Town by Thorton Wilder

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill

My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

How to Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran

The Elements of Style by Strunk & White

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Curly Girl Handbook by Lorraine Massey

Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need by Blake Synder

No Sisters by Aaron Posner

Three Sisters by Anton Chekov

Gmorning & Gnight by LMM

Carry On, Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Original Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Yes, Please by Amy Poheler

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Eleanor Roosevelt: In her Words edited by Nancy Woloch

What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey

Astrology 101 by Kathleen Sears

All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

The Short Life of Sophie Scholl by Hermann Vinke

1984 by George Orwell

feminist theory by bell hooks

The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Their Men for Women editied by Candace Walsh & Laura Andre

Anger by Thich Nhat Hanh

A Moment’s Liberty: The Shorter Diary of Virginia Woolf abridged and edited by Anne Olivier Bell

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez

The 100: Day 21 by Kass Morgan

The Feminist Papers: From Adams to Beauvior: A Collection of Feminist Essays Throughout History edited by Alice S. Rossi

Appeals in Modern Rhetoric by M. Jimmie Killingsworth

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

A Survival Guide for Stage Managers by Mary Ellen Allison

Wonder Woman and Philosophy: The Amazonian Mystique edited by Jacob M. Held

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Entire Harry Potter Series by JKR

the Entire Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus Series 

Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes of the Women’s March by the Women’s March Organizers

The Stage Management Handbook by Daniel A. Ionazzi

Girl Talk: What Science Can Tell Us About Female Friendship by Jacqueline Mroz

Making it On Broadway by David Wienir and Jodie Langel

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Eleanor Roosevelt: Vol. 3: The War Years and After by Blanche Wiesen Cook

A New Earth: Awakening Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson

Eleanor & Hick: The Love Affair that Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn

Adulting: How to Become A Grownup in 468 Easy(ish) Steps by Kelly Williams Brown

Seth’s Broadway Diary by Seth Rudetsky

Stage Management: The Essentials Handbook by Gail Pallin

Is It a Date or Just Coffee? The Gay Girl’s Guide to Dating, Sex, and Romance by Mo Brownsey

Rad Women Worldwide by Kate Schatz

Technical Theatre for Non-Technical People by Drew Campbell

Virginia Woolf: Life and London: A Biography of Place by Jean Moorcroft Wilson

A Collection of Robert Frost’s Poems

All Passions Spent by Vita Sackville-West

The Backstagers by Andy Mientus

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Simon vs. The Homosapien Agenda by Becky Albertalli

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Guyland: The Perilous Wold Where Boys Become Men, Understanding the Critical Years between 16 and 26 by Michael Kimmel

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf

Why I March: Images from the Women’s March Around the World

The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook by Dinah Bucholz

Little Women by Lousia May Alcott

What We Do Now: Standing Up For Your Values in Trump’s America: A Collection of Essasys by an assload of people

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

The Resolutions by Mia Garcia

Next to Normal by Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkley

Wanted: The Book I Wrote in Middle School

The Scottish Play (I WONT WRITE IT) by Shakespeare

Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology and The Solidarity Vice in 19th Century America by April R. Haynes

Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

Orlando by Virginia Woolf

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

Dykescapes: Short Fiction by Lesbians editied by Tina Portillo

The Myth of The Goddess: Evolution of an Image by Anne Barrin and Jules Cashford

On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings ofWilliam Apess, a Peaquot

We Should All be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf edited by Louise DeSalve and Mitchell A. Leaska

At This Theater by Playbill

#lesbianlaynie #holy shit I didn't even realize that I had this many

[businessfrontrunners]

Women’s History Month #ChooseToChallenge Interviews 22 International Women Leaders

https://authoritypresswire.com/?p=34233 LaWanna Bradford of Celebrate You Women Embracing Wellness movement has announced the schedule for Women’s History Month #ChooseToChallenge interviews with 22 women leaders and influencers from around the world including Canada, Jamaica, Ghana, United Kingdom, and the United States. Initial airings are at Celebrate You Women Embracing Wellness Facebook group with replays on YouTube, Women Innovators Radio, AppleTV, SonyTV, and AmazonTV.“We discuss how the celebration the achievement of women throughout history and the women’s right to vote showcases women expressing their voice with boldness and confidence,” said LaWanna Bradford. “Each person talks about her life experiences, what it means to be a part of the rallying cry #ChooseToChallenge and reflects on a woman in her personal life who inspired her.”Speakers include Jacqueline Lulu Brown, Alexa Oliva, Tamara L. Hunter, Nancy Sebastian Rasay DeCastro, Evelyn Appiah-Donyina, Sammy Blindell, Dr. Tamara Patzer, Audra Agen, Sanjay Willis, Wendy Watkins, Dr. Carolyn Stephens, Jozie Edwards, Michele Vismaya Rubin, Toni S. Winston, Penny Haynes, C. Simone Rivers, Serena Bufalino, Gloria Grace Rand, Dr. Derashay Zorn, Shari Alyse, Debra Morrison, and Barbara Beckley.About Celebrate You WellnessCelebrate You was founded by visionary LaWanna Bradford with co-founders Barbara Beckley, Gwen Marshall, and Jacqueline Lulu Brown.“Our Celebrate You Women Embracing Wellness movement is designed for women to truly celebrate their lives spiritually, emotionally, mentally, physically, and financially and to reach for the highest and best version of themselves.  When women are able to do this, they are then able to impact the lives of their family, community, nation, and the world,” said LaWanna Bradford.“It is about standing in your truth and being able to love yourself, embrace yourself, and always celebrate you!”Join the Celebrate You movement at https://www.facebook.com/groups/celebrateyouwomenembracingwellness

[leanstooneside]

EDIBLE RHYME TIME

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• Martha Stewart's grippy belly

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