![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though some of his early musical influences included Frank Sinatra and Buddy Holly, as a teenager, McLean became interested in folk music, particularly the Weavers' 1955 recording The Weavers at Carnegie Hall. He has other extended family in Los Angeles and Boston. McLean's mother, Elizabeth Bucci, was Italian, originated from Abruzzo in central Italy. McLean's grandfather and father, both also named Donald McLean, were of Scottish origin. In January 2018, BMI certified that "American Pie" and "Vincent" had reached five million and three million airplays respectively. In 2004, McLean was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2000, Madonna had a hit with a rendition of "American Pie". McLean's song " And I Love You So" has been recorded by Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Helen Reddy, Glen Campbell, and others. ![]() His other hit singles include " Vincent" (about Vincent van Gogh), "Dreidel", and " Wonderful Baby" as well as his renditions of Roy Orbison's " Crying" and the Skyliners' " Since I Don't Have You". Known to fans as the "American Troubadour" or "King of the Trail", he is best known for his 1971 hit song " American Pie", an eight-and-a-half-minute folk rock "cultural touchstone" about the loss of innocence of the early rock and roll generation. Donald McLean III / m ə ˈ k l eɪ n/ (born October 2, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. ![]()
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![]() Praise for So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix ![]() Jo, a writer whose words are too powerful to be contained.īeth, a talented seamstress searching for a higher purpose.Īmy, a dancer eager to explore life outside her family's home.Īs the four March sisters come into their own as independent young women, they will face first love, health struggles, heartbreak, and new horizons. ![]() Meg, a teacher who longs to find love and start a family of her own. Black people have begun building a community of their own, a refuge from the shadow of the "old life." It is where the March family has finally been able to safely put down roots with four young daughters: As the American Civil War rages on, the Freedpeople's Colony of Roanoke Island is blossoming, a haven for the recently emancipated. This powerful Little Women remix follows four young Black sisters coming of age during the American Civil War, reframing a much-beloved tale outside of its original, exclusively lily-white perspective. ![]() In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. ![]() ![]() ![]() The neurologist explains that there is no single musical center in the brain, but rather 20 to 30 networks spread throughout every region that analyze different components of music, from pitch to melody. Although Musicophilia revisits some of his earlier cases, Sacks has refocused the stories on music's healing role, making the book "not so much a greatest-hits collection as a purposeful set of remixes," according to the Los Angeles Times. Sacks is the author of numerous books, including Awakenings, about people who suffered Parkinson's-like paralysis for decades after being stricken with sleeping sickness, and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a national bestseller about the far reaches of neurological experience. ![]() His newest collection of clinical tales, Musicophilia, examines the uniquely human power of music. Physician and author Oliver Sacks has spent 40 years studying the human brain and illuminating a host of neurological disorders through the compassionate telling of his patients' stories. Each week, we present leading authors of fiction and nonfiction as they read from and discuss their work. Books A 1987 'Fresh Air' Interview With Oliver Sacksīook Tour is a Web feature and podcast. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those binoculars are privilege they are status, regardless of your class. As Dyson writes, "At birth you are given a pair of binoculars that see Black life from a distance, never with the texture of intimacy. If we are to make real racial progress, we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how Black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted. In Tears We Cannot Stop, he responds to that question. The NYT closed the comments section after 2,500 responses, and Dyson has been on NPR, BBC, and CNN nonstop since then.įifty years ago Malcolm X told a White woman who asked what she could do for the cause, "Nothing." Dyson believes he was wrong. Beyoncé and Isabel Wilkerson tweeted it JJ Abrams, among many other prominent people, wrote him a long fan letter. In the wake of yet another set of police killings of Black men, Michael Eric Dyson wrote a tell-it-straight, no-holds-barred piece for the NYT on Sunday, July 7: "Death in Black and White" (it was updated within a day to acknowledge the killing of police officers in Dallas). ![]() ![]() ![]() Jemisin is the first author I have read since the passing of Octavia Butler who writes with the same attention to detail and a similar understanding of the workings of humanity. While this achievement is impressive, and it was nice to see a women of color honored by the science fiction community, it is the levels of meaning in the Broken Earth trilogy that ultimately drew me in. ![]() ![]() Jemisin made headlines in the literary world when she won the Hugo Award for best novel three years in a row for the Broken Earth trilogy. ![]() Why did you choose this trilogy for the reading group? But it wasn’t until I read Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao that I understood that science fiction and fantasy weren’t “white” genres. I grew up reading my father’s Piers Anthony collection, which led me to other fantasy and science fiction authors. What drew you into the science fiction and fantasy genres? Our summer intern Cyrin Watson interviewed Joy on why she chose the trilogy and what she hopes readers would gain from the class. Jemisin Broken Earth reading group at The Center in the summer of 2019. CUNY professor and sci-fi fan, Joy Sanchez-Taylor, led our N.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the kingdom is angry and doesn't want to wait 18 years so the witches move it forward in time. The witches hand the crown and the child to a troupe of travelling actors, acknowledging that destiny will eventually take its course and Tomjon will grow up to defeat Duke Felmet. King Verence I of Lancre is murdered by his cousin, Duke Felmet, and the King's crown and a baby are given by an escaping servant to the three witches. ![]() Wyrd Sisters, the 6-episode television animated fantasy-comedy series closely follows the plot of the novel, which features three witches: Granny Weatherwax Nanny Ogg, matriarch of a large tribe of Oggs, who owns the most evil cat in the world, (Greebo) and Magrat Garlick, the junior witch, who firmly believes in occult jewellery, even though none of it works. It was the second film adaptation of an entire Discworld novel (following the Welcome to the Discworld short, which was based on a fragment of the 1991 novel Reaper Man, and the Soul Music series). Wyrd Sisters is a six-part animated television adaptation of the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett, produced by Cosgrove Hall Films, and first broadcast on. ![]() ![]() THE SINISTER SECRET OF BLACK CAT’S NEW COSTUME! / THE PRISONER / MASQUE OF RED DEATH This week EXTREME VENOMVERSE #2 continues to take fans to uncharted corners of the hive in brand-new stories by an all-star lineup of talent! In the same spirit as the recent hit series, Edge of Spider-Verse, this landmark new series will feature jaw-dropping turning points for iconic characters like Eddie Brock and Dylan Brock and see never-before-seen Venoms bear their fangs for the very first time! But this thrilling tour through the Marvel multiverse is headed towards an explosive destination.Ĭomic Watch Review: Extreme Venomverse #1: All In The Family In honor of the 35 th anniversary of Venom, Marvel Comics will kick off the Summer of Symbiotes, a season-long celebration of all things symbiote including new symbiote-focused titles, characters, and more! Readers got their first taste of the symbiote insanity that awaits in yesterday’s teaser that heralded the foreboding DEATH OF VENOMVERSE… but before that epic begins, fans will witness the Venomverse expand like never before in a new limited series, EXTREME VENOMVERSE! ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Baby Doll awakes furious, and later during her bath, she becomes even more enraged when Archie tries to grab her. ![]() When Baby Doll was betrothed to Archie on her father's death bed, the dying man made Archie promise not to deflower the girl until her twentieth birthday, and with her birthday just two days away, Archie is anxious to make Baby Doll his wife "for real." As the childlike Baby Doll sleeps in her crib sucking her thumb, Archie tries to drill a hole in the wall in order to spy on her. Archie cannot afford to repair the decrepit antebellum mansion, Fox Tail, that the couple inhabits, and the Ideal Pay-as-You-Go furniture company is threatening to repossess their meager household belongings, thus giving Baby Doll more and more reason to malign Archie's masculinity. In the Mississippi Delta region, nineteen-year-old Baby Doll lives unhappily with her husband, Archie Lee Meighan, a middle-aged, down-on-his-luck cotton gin owner. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bo will do anything to get her back-even if it means striking a devil's bargain and giving up his mind to the enemy. īut when Kaia is taken by those who mean her deadly harm, all bets are off. And she carries a devastating secret Bo could never imagine. She's suffered too much loss in her life to fall prey to the dangerous charm of a human who is a dead man walking. Kaia Luna may have traded in science for being a chef, but she won't hide the facts of Bo's condition from him or herself. ![]() ![]() Instead, he's at the bottom of the ocean, consumed with an enigmatic changeling. With no time to waste, he should be back on land helping the Human Alliance. But there's a ticking time bomb in his head: a chip implanted to block telepathic interference that could fail at any moment-taking his brain along with it. Security specialist Bowen Knight has come back from the dead. NYT bestselling author Nalini Singh dives beneath the surface of her Psy-Changeling world into a story of passionate devotion and selfless love. ![]() ![]() ![]() In my research for “The Luck of the Weissensteiners”, I came across quite a few sources that seemed politically coloured. But was it really likely that anyone wanted two separate German states or cared in the period that was Glasnost? At the times many bought into the story, after all, didn’t it sound nicer than the idea that Russia had no longer an interest in the broken satellite state? Still, the myth made its way to history books and has always slightly bothered me because in my view it was created for all the wrong reasons. ![]() When the Berlin Wall came down, the German press was full of Chancellor Kohl walking along a river with President Gorbachev and the myth was created that on this “walk-and-talk” only Kohl’s diplomatic skills led to the German reunification. ![]() I must say that this is an excellent question and one that I have often thought about before writing historical novels. This week I am featured with an interview on historical writing on this amazing new blog: ![]() |