![]() ![]() She is the best-selling author of more than forty books, fiction and nonfiction, a poet, songwriter, filmmaker and playwright.Ĭommonly referred to as "The Godmother" or "High Priestess" of creativity, her tools are based in practice, not theory, and she considers herself "the floor sample of her own toolkit". Julia Cameron is credited with starting a movement in 1992 that has brought creativity into the mainstream conversation, in the arts, in business and everyday life. Julia Cameron has been Hailed by the New York Times as "The Queen of Change". Seeking Wisdom: A Spiritual Path to Creative Connection Welcome to the #SPAITGIRL Talk Show with Yvette Le BlowitzĮP.157 - Seeking Wisdom with Julia Cameron, International Bestselling Author of The Artist's Way ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Is it just a few people or is it something available to everybody? If it’s just a handful of special people who can turn lead into gold, that implies different things than a story in which there are giant factories churning out gold from lead, in which gold is so cheap it can be used for fishing weights or radiation shielding. If you posit some impossibility in a story, like turning lead into gold, I think it makes sense to ask how many people in the world of the story are able to do this. One way to look at it is in terms of whether a given phenomenon can be mass-produced. ![]() But I think that there does exist an useful distinction to be made between magic and science. Science fiction and fantasy are very closely related genres, and a lot of people say that the genres are so close that there’s actually no meaningful distinction to be made between the two. Avi: You have very specific views on the difference between magic and science. ![]() ![]() ![]() I collected comics for many years from the late '60's until the mid-90's when the blatant commercialism of multiple foil covers for the same book and horrible new art style (Yes, I mean you Liefeld) finally drove me away. ![]() Incorporating more than 100 original interviews with those who worked behind the scenes at Marvel over a 70-year-span, Marvel Comics packs anecdotes and analysis into a gripping narrative of how a small group of people on the cusp of failure created one of the most enduring pop cultural forces in contemporary America. “Sean Howe’s history of Marvel makes a compulsively readable, riotous and heartbreaking version of my favorite story, that of how a bunch of weirdoes changed the world…That it’s all true is just frosting on the cake.” (Jonathan Lethem)įor the first time, Marvel Comics tells the stories of the men who made Marvel: Martin Goodman, the self-made publisher who forayed into comics after a get-rich-quick tip in 1939 Stan Lee, the energetic editor who would shepherd the company through thick and thin for decades and Jack Kirby, the WW II veteran who would co-create Captain America in 1940 and, 20 years later, developed with Lee the bulk of the company’s marquee characters in a three-year frenzy. ![]() ![]() The defining, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and dominant pop cultural entities in America’s history - Marvel Comics - and the outsized personalities who made Marvel, including Martin Goodman, Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bailyn's thesis helps to explain the Revolution's success by pointing out how deep-rooted its founding ideas were the Founding Fathers may have been reading Locke, but the men they led were inspired by shorter, pithier and altogether far more radical works. For Bailyn, these ideas could indeed be traced back to the ferment of the English Civil War – stemming from radical pamphleteers whose anti-authoritarian ideas crossed the Atlantic and embedded themselves in colonial ideology. His influential reconceptualizing of the underlying reasons for America's independence drive focused instead on pamphleteering – and specifically on the actions of an influential group of ‘conspirators’ who identified, and were determined to protect, a particularly American set of values. In The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Bernard Bailyn begged to differ, re-examining familiar evidence to establish new connections that in turn allowed him to generate fresh explanations. ![]() Historians of the American Revolution had always seen the struggle for independence either as a conflict sparked by heavyweight ideology, or as a war between opposing social groups acting out of self-interest. ![]() ![]() ![]() I enjoyed visiting with these characters again - although the second title in the series, this is the fourth I have read - and continue to find Mr. ![]() Like its predecessor, it pairs an entertaining tale with charming, vintage illustrations. Originally published in 1976, Cranberry Christmas was the second of the Devlin's fifteen-volume picture-book series set in this quaint old New England town, located on the edge of a cranberry bog. It's good news for the children in Cranberryport, who like to skate with kindly Mr. Whiskers to clean up his home in time for his somewhat bossy sister's visit, and in the process they discover an old document that proves, once and for all, who owns the local pond. ![]() Whiskers and his friends in Cranberryport return in this follow-up to Wende and Harry Devlin's Cranberry Thanksgiving, this time confronting the Christmas holidays. ![]() ![]() I’ve added two more boards, “Great Movie Posters” and “Great Comic Book Covers” to go along with the literary fiction ones: I feel the motif that unites these boards is Storytelling.įinally, and also as I write, 188 people have entered the Clotho’s Loom Giveaway on GoodReads: I’m hoping to register 1000 before it’s all over!ĮDIT: latest promo blurb by one of many generous sites: Next, there seems to be much buzz around Pinterest these days, and you may have seen our “Casting Call” characters gathering there. ![]() These good folks bring visibility not only to writers/authors with novels, but artists and art of all kinds–so as long as you’re not a robot, and if you’ve got something you created, give them a look at Incredible! Congratulations Emily McDaid! If you haven’t done so yet, you have only today left to look down a few posts, and click through to help her hit #1, there or in the U.S.!Īlso, by coincidence, Shawn and Clothos’ Loom are featured today as “Talent in the Spotlight” on. ![]() Meanwhile, as I write, The Boiler Plot (reviewed two days ago here, and currently on a KDP Select free promo) sits at the #4 slot in Suspense on Amazon UK. I’m preparing a substantial post on “disambiguation” as a literary-fiction promotional strategy for Sunday. And no, I don’t mean doing it while your boss has her back turned! Just choose your metaphor. ![]() ![]() Another way is through finding new modes of what climatologists call “teleconnections”-connections that link variability over continental or even global scales. One way this search takes place is through deploying new periodizations, such as the fourteenth- or seventeenth-century crises or the idea of the early modern. Freed from the need to follow the path of “Western Civ” as the central protagonist, nourished by the growing number of historians who use non-Western languages in their research, and challenged by increasingly precise scientific documentation of previously imponderable variables, such as climate, bullion movements, and disease, world history is now looking for a new narrative. World history today is enjoying a renaissance. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University) Reviewed by Christopher Atwood (University of Pennsylvania)Ĭommissioned by Bradley C. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. ![]() ![]() The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th-Century Central Asia.Ĭentral Eurasia in Context Series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() SLAVERY: George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All: Slaves without Masters, ed. Floan, The South in Northern Eyes (Texas). Schultz, Nationalism 6- Sectionalism in South Carolina, 1852-1860 ( Duke) Allan Nevins, Ordeal of the Union (Scribner) Harold R. Hopkins, Dred Scott's Case (Fordham) Charles Francis Adams, Lee's Centennial, ed. Nichols, The Disruption ofAmerican Democracy ( Macmillan ) Vincent C. Simms, A Decade of Sectional Controversy ( North Carolina ) Roy F. Owing to limited quantities of many of the books, interested persons should place their orders immediately. For the benefit of students and book collectors, listed below under specific headings are some of the lesser-known but still available books that may be ordered from publishers, whose names are in parentheses after the titles. The New York & Pennsylvania Co., Inc., recently distributed to leading Civil War historians an attractive and worthwhile-though sometimes inaccurate-bibliography of some 1,000 titles on the war in print and obtainable from publishers. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]() ![]() ![]() But when an anonymous note threatens to reveal truths best hidden, Kingsland has no choice but to confront the danger with Penelope at his side. ![]() Still, she is determined to find the perfect bride for her clueless, yet ruthlessly charming employer. ![]() If there exists a more unpleasant task in the world than deciding who is to marry the man you love, Penelope Pettypeace certainly can't imagine what it might be. He places an advert encouraging the single ladies of the ton to write why they should be the one chosen, and leaves it to his efficient secretary to select his future wife. However, restoring the dukedom-left in ruins by his father-to its former glory demands all his time, with little room for sentiment. Hugh Brinsley-Norton, the Duke of Kingsland, is in need of a duchess. One of Amazon's Best Romances for October 2021 New York Times bestselling author Lorraine Heath continues her Once Upon a Dukedom series with this lush love story of a duke who discovers what he desires in a wife may not be what he needs. ![]() ![]() ![]() The eruption of old horrors is prodded by a local newspaper editor who has been steadily digging into civil rights cold cases.Īt the end of Burning, there seems to be some hope for normalcy and the solving of heinous unsolved race crimes that have darkened the land for a generation but at the outset of Bone Tree, all hope for an easy resolution is lost. Bone Tree fleshes them out as living characters with their own strengths and foibles.īurning set the plot in motion with these three main characters’ lives turned upside down by the reemergence of the Double Eagles, a more murderous offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan, that had aligned itself with one of the richest men in Louisiana just across the Mississippi River, and a corrupt relative of the aging Eagles who aspires to be head of the Louisiana State Patrol. ![]() It starts off with a lightning pace and is engrossing until the very end that, surprisingly, seems to come too soon.īurning set the groundwork of the characters, including protagonist Penn Cage, a novelist, one-time prosecutor and current mayor of Natchez, his fiancee Caitlin Masters, publisher of the local newspaper, and Cage’s father Tom Cage, a beloved longtime family physician. Even for readers of Greg Iles’ 788-page “Natchez Burning,” book one in the trilogy about unsolved civil rights murders set in Natchez, The Bone Tree has daunting heft with 816 pages.īut if Burning were a jet runway, “The Bone Tree” launches into supersonic flight. ![]() |