![]() I have good friends who share my taste for mysteries and crime fiction more generally but who simply can’t stand Miss Marple. Indeed, Hickson channeled Christie’s creation to an uncanny degree: the spinster Jane Marple living in the village of St Mary Mead, gardening, knitting, faithfully going to church, observing all that goes on with her compassionate but steely intelligence. Like many readers of our generation, Wendy and I see the actress Joan Hickson in our mind’s eye whenever we are reading about Miss Marple. I suspect that the vast majority of fans will enjoy this high-spirited volume, loaded as it is with allusions to the canonical novels and stories. The book begins with a generic uncredited introduction, which doesn’t inspire confidence, but the stories themselves are generally good. The dozen authors represented are all women, most of them best-selling writers irritatingly, no editor is identified. ![]() Simply titled (rather cheekily) Marple, on the front cover it’s subtitled Twelve New Mysteries on the title page, inside the book, it’s Twelve New Stories. ![]() On September 6, we got a new biography to dig into-Lucy Worsley’s Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman-and now, on top of that, we have a tribute to the incomparable Miss Marple. Admirers of Agatha Christie have much to be thankful for this month. ![]()
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![]() The Bamboo People, her newest novel, received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, which praised the book as “a graceful exploration of the redemptive power of love, family, and friendship.” She lives in Massachusetts. Her book, The Secret Keeper, was shortlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award and called “achingly realistic” by Kirkus Reviews and “heartbreaking and hopeful” by Booklist. She is the author of the middle grade and YA novels Monsoon Summer, The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen, First Daughter: Extreme American Makeover and First Daughter: White House Rules, as well as Rickshaw Girl. Berkeley, and went on to teach middle school, high school, and college students, before publishing her first book. Perkins graduated college with degrees in political science from Stanford University and public policy from U.C. Her name means “friendly” in Bangla, and she had to try and live up to it because the Bose family moved so often, living in India, Ghana, Cameroon, London, New York City, and Mexico City before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area when she was in middle school. Mitali Bose Perkins was born in Kolkata (Calcutta), India. ![]() ![]() ![]() When spirits like us are put inside flesh, this oath becomes a real object, one that functions as a bridge. The oath says that we will come back, that we will not stay in this world, that we are loyal to the other side. It is a promise we made when we were free and floating, before we entered the Ada. This compound object is called the iyi- ụ wa, the oath of the world. With a force like ours, we dragged other things along-a pact, bits of bone, an igneous rock, worn-out velveteen, a strip of human hide tying it all together. Think of brief insanities that are in you, not just the ones that blossomed as you grew into taller, more sinful versions of yourself, but the ones you were born with, tucked behind your liver. This is all, ultimately, a litany of madness-the colors of it, the sounds it makes in heavy nights, the chirping of it across the shoulder of the morning. Her writing has previously appeared in various literary magazines, including Granta. ![]() Akwaeke Emezi is the recipient of the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa. ![]() When Ada leaves Nigeria for college, her moodiness becomes something else entirely: she develops separate selves. Ada's parents successfully prayed her into existence but she's a worrisome child prone to bouts of anger and grief. The following is from Akwaeke Emezi's debut novel, Freshwater. ![]() ![]() What Foer has done is cut Schulz's text to ribbons and turn it into a different book credited to Jonathan Safran Foer. So, might Foer do something to bring Schulz's book back into print in the UK? Or might he commission a fresh translation? (Celina Wieniewska's 1963 version still reads like a dream to me, but there have been mutterings about its faithfulness for decades.) Might he script or bankroll a movie adaptation? In this case, I felt the compulsion to do something with it." How might this active love manifest itself? A foreword to a new edition of Schulz's masterwork? No, Foer had already done that, for the Penguin Classics reissue published in 2008 in the US (but sadly not here). "Some things you love passively," Foer told Vanity Fair, "some you love actively. J onathan Safran Foer's all-time favourite book is Bruno Schulz's Cinnamon Shops, retitled The Street Of Crocodiles when it was translated into English 47 years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mencken, Miscellaneous Magazine Contributions, 1899–1909 (2019) Mencken, Writings in the Smart Set, Volume 8: 1922–1923 (2019) ![]() Mencken, Writings in the Smart Set, Volume 7: 1921–1922 (2019) Joshi, The Development of the Weird Tale (2019) Mencken, Writings in the Smart Set, Volume 6: 1920–1921 (2018) Mencken, Writings in the Smart Set, Volume 5: 1918–1919 (2018) Mencken, Writings in the Smart Set, Volume 4: 1916–1917 (2018) Mencken: Writings in the Smart Set, Volume 3: 1914–1915 (2018) Joshi, 21st-Century Horror: Weird Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium (2018) Mencken, Writings in the Smart Set, Volume 2: 1912–1913 (2018) Mencken, Writings in the Smart Set, Volume 1: 1908–1911 (2018) Joshi, Lovecraft and Weird Fiction: Collected Blog Posts, 2009–2017 (2017)
![]() ![]() Gleick does not take this approach.įans of Gleick’s writing, of which I am one, appreciate his ability to clearly explain complex and far-reaching scientific concepts. As in other disciplines, these books stay mostly focused on the impact that the discipline can have on understanding time travel and how the possible existence of time travel might affect one’s thinking. In physics, for example, there are good examples of time travel being studied as a serious theoretical topic and as a way to teach, and lure, the uninitiated to consider and study physics. This, of course, has led to a vast amount of time travel themes in literature, philosophy, psychology, and physics. ![]() “Time Travel is sexy.” Time travel is one of those rare topics that not only bridges disciplines but captures the interest of the full range of academic training. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Leavitt's readable account illuminates dilemmas that continue to haunt us. Leavitt engages the reader with the excitement of the early days of microbiology and brings to life the conflicting perspectives of journalists, public health officials, the law, and Mary Mallon herself. Combining social history with biography, historian Judith Leavitt re-creates early-twentieth-century New York City, a world of strict class divisions and prejudice against immigrants and women. This book tells the remarkable story of Mary Mallon-the real Typhoid Mary. To protect the public's health, authorities isolated her on Manhattan's North Brother Island, where she died some thirty years later. Tracked down through epidemiological detective work, she was finally apprehended as she hid behind a barricade of trashcans. Between 19, she infected twenty-two New Yorkers with typhoid fever through her puddings and cakes one of them died. ![]() ![]() ![]() You’re more likely to experience chills sitting in a tepid bath at home. Never mind that we start off in darkest, deepest winter in an isolated gothic farmhouse as thunder cracks and lighting flashes. The production … stars a vacant Bruce Willis (in his Broadway debut) and a hardworking Laurie Metcalf sustains a steady, drowsy room temperature throughout. Though it is based on one of Stephen King’s most terrifying novels, the stage version of Misery will not, I promise, leave you cold with terror. ![]() His Sheldon is a little weary, a little resigned, but not especially like a man in mortal jeopardy. ![]() We will only believe in Paul’s peril if Paul believes in it, and Willis, though well-cast (taciturn suffering has more or less become his thing), just doesn’t seem particularly endangered. But here the suspense is almost nil – and not only because most attendees have read the book or more likely seen the 1990 film. Misery seems meant to inhabit the same territory as successful theatrical thrillers like Wait Until Dark or Deathtrap. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lauren Goodger appears downcast as she steps out in Essex after inquest revealed her ex-boyfriend Jake McLean died of 'traumatic head injuries' ![]() 'I'm so down about my body all the time': Amy Hart bemoans her 'cellulite' as she poses in a bikini while detailing her post-baby insecurities The Jim Carrey movie that helped fuel a psychiatric delusion: How The Truman Show has fooled HUNDREDS into thinking they're living in a TV show 'I need to put this whole thing to bed': Una Healy says she wants David Haye 'throuple' rumours quashed after being 'haunted' by them Lisa Snowdon, 51, shows off her jaw-dropping figure in bikini in Mallorca with fiancé George - after revealing she's 'at peace' with not having childrenįrom DMs to down the aisle: Young bride and groom-to-be share their love story and the journey to finding the PERFECT engagement ring Newly single Kym Marsh enjoys a boozy night at the pub in Newcastle with her Greatest Days co-stars and daughter Emilie 'Shaken and troubled' Holly Willoughby chokes back tears as she addresses Phillip Schofield scandal on This Morning for the first time ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2001, she was inducted into the Romance Writers Hall of Fame and in 2006 was a recipient of the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award. Phillips is the only five-time winner of the Romance Writers of America Favorite Book of the Year Award. They have two grown sons, and live in Chicago, Illinois. Phillips and her husband, Bill, met on a blind date while in college. Her subsequent novels, were published under her own name. After Claire and her family moved, Phillips began writing by herself. Together they wrote a historical romance, The Copeland Bride, which was published in 1983 under the pen name Justine Cole. There Phillips and her neighbor, Claire Lefkowitz, often discussed the books they liked to read. In 1976, the family moved from Ohio to New Jersey. Also by Susan Elizabeth Phillips This Heart of Mine Just Imagine First Lady Lady Be Good Dream a Little Dream. in theater arts from Ohio University, Phillips taught drama, speech, and English at a local high school until her first child was born, then became a stay-at-home mother. Number 3 in series Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Phillips was born on December 11 in Cincinnati, Ohio to John Aller Titus and Louesa Coate Titus. She is the creator of the sports romance and has been called the “Queen of Romantic Comedy.” Susan Elizabeth Phillips (born Decemin Cincinnati, Ohio) is a romance novelist from the United States. ![]() |