Editorial: Cub Bites
While vacationing in Jamaica, trying to get over a broken heart, Chyna Daniels runs into island native Nelson Portis. On a physical level, Nelson satisfies all of Chyna's wants and needs to help her forget the breakup, but Nelson wants much more. Will Chyna give Nelson the one thing he wants the most? Her Heart.
Winner of the 2023 Soft Skull-Kimbilio Publishing Prize, a collection of short stories that elaborate the realities of a diasporic existence, split identities, and the beautiful potency of meaningful connections Primarily told from the perspective of women and children in the Northeast who are tethered to fathers and families in Puerto Rico, these stories explore the confusion of being one person in two places—of having a mother who wants your father and his language to stay on his island but sends you there because you need to know your family. Loudly and joyfully filled with Cousins, Aunts, Grandparents, and budding romances, these stories are saturated in summer nostalgia, and place listeners at the center of the table to enjoy family traditions and holidays: the resplendent and universal language of survival for displaced or broken families. Refusing to shy away from dysfunction, loss, obligation, or interrogating Black and Latinx heritages, Gautier's stories feature New York neighborhoods made of island nations living with seasonal and perpetual displacement. Like Justin Torres's We the Animals or Quiara Alegria Hudes's My Broken Language, it's the characters-in-becoming—flanked by family and rich with detail—that animate each story with special frequencies, especially for listeners grappling with split-identities themselves.Ver libro
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin was born on 22nd October 1870 in Voronezh province, in the South-West of the Russian Empire. His early life was plagued by his Father’s gambling habits which caused his education to be erratic and the family to lose most of their wealth. Bunin published his first poem in 1887 in St Petersburg and later in Oryol he worked for the local paper and became its editor, handily allowing him to publish his own poems and short stories. There he met and married Varvara Pashchenko. Ivan Bunin's debut book of poetry ‘Poems (1887–1891)’ was published in 1891. This poetry and his translation of Longfellow garnered him his first Pushkin Prize. Now he switched to writing prose and his novella ‘Antonov Apples’ is regarded as his first masterpiece. Many more would follow. The October Revolution of 1905 found Bunin in the Crimea. Scenes of ‘class struggle’ he saw more as the oppressed people's craving for anarchy and destruction. In November 1906 he began a passionate affair with Vera Muromtseva, within a few months they were touring through Egypt and Palestine. ‘The Bird's Shadow’ collection was the result. His second Pushkin Prize came in 1909 for Poems (1903–1906) and further translations. He was now elected to the prestigious Russian Academy. More widespread fame came in 1910 with ‘The Village’, a controversial and bleak portrayal of Russian country life. Travel too beckoned them back to the Middle East, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and for winters in Capri with their friend Maxim Gorky. That friendship suddenly ended in April 1917 as the revolution began to ferment in war-ravaged Russia. After the Bolsheviks took power and the upheavals continued, he decided to leave Russia, finally achieving that in early 1920. It would take some time to heal the wounds and stress he had been under and for his writing to begin again. Settled in France, Bunin published many of his previous works and collections of novellas. He also made regular contributions to the Russian emigre press. Although reluctant to become involved in politics, Bunin was now feted as both a writer and the figurehead of non-Bolshevik Russian values and traditions. In 1933 he became the first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ‘for following through and developing with chastity and artfulness the traditions of Russian classic prose.’ In 1938 Bunin began working on the celebrated cycle of nostalgic, and erotically themed stories known Dark Avenues (or Dark Alleys). As World War II broke out he chose to remain in Grasse spending the war at his remote Villa Jeanette, high in the mountains. Ivan Bunin was a staunch anti-Nazi, and often, under difficult conditions, sheltered fugitives after Vichy was occupied by the Germans. He wrote but did not publish during these years until on August 23rd the Nazi’s fled Grasse without a fight. The next day the Americans came. In May 1945 he returned to Paris and, apart from convalescing at times in Juan-les-Pins, he stayed for the rest of his life. After 1948, with his health deteriorating, Bunin concentrated upon writing his memoirs and a book on Chekhov. His last years were overshadowed by bitterness and despair at the situation in Russia and the treatment of its peoples. He was suffering now from asthma, bronchitis and chronic pneumonia. Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin died in a Paris attic flat on 8th November 1953. Heart failure, cardiac asthma and pulmonary sclerosis were given as the causes of death. He was 83.Ver libro
CONTENTS:01. The Nameless City02. The Festival03-04. The Colour Out of Space05-07. The Call of Cthulhu08-17. The Dunwich Horror18-25. The Whisperer in Darkness26 . A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson27-28.The Haunter of the Dark29-33. The Shadow Over Innsmouth34. Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"35-42. The Shadow Out of Time43-54. At the Mountains of Madness55-79.The Case of Charles Dexter Ward80. Azathoth81. Beyond the Wall of Sleep82. Celephaïs83. Cool Air84. Dagon85. Ex Oblivione86-87. Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family88. From Beyond89. He90-95. Herbert West-Reanimator96. Hypnos97. In the Vault98. Memory99. Nyarlathotep100. Pickman's Model101. The Book102. The Cats of Ulthar103. The Descendant104. The Doom That Came to Sarnath105-110. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath101. The Evil Clergyman112. The Picture In the House . 113. The Outsider114.The Music of Erich Zann115-121. The Horror at Red Hook122.-123 The Hound 124. The History of the Necronomicon125-128 The Lurking Fear. 129. The Moon-Bog130. The Music of Erich Zann131. The Other Gods132. The Outsider133. The Picture in the House134. The Quest of Iranon135. The Rats in the Walls136-140. The Shunned House141. The Silver Key142. The Statement of Randolph Carter143. The Strange High House in the Mist144. The Street145. The Temple146. The Terrible Old Man147-153. The Thing on the Doorstep154. The Tomb155. The Transition of Juan Romero156. The Tree157. The Unnamable158. The White Ship159. What the Moon Brings160. Polaris161. The Very Old Folk162. Ibid163. Old Bugs164-162. Sweet Ermengarde, or, The Heart of a Country Girl171-172. The Dreams in the witch HouseVer libro
Holiday tales, retold queerly… A silk hat turns snow into life and a chance at love for a man with little hope of either. Two men with a connection sparked in passing attempt to withstand everything the tumultuous Toronto of 1981 throws their way, with their only remaining hope being Christmas Eve itself. A much-maligned queen of the snow teaches a young boy how to use his magic to find others of his kind. And a reindeer shines a light of its own, and with the help of the daughter of Father Time, brings gifts—and hope—to all those usually left behind. Holiday magic connects these tales and more—tales heard and seen and sung before, familiar and joyous, or tender and bittersweet—all to the last told upon the midnight queer. Upon the Midnight Queer is the second short story collection from Lambda Literary Award finalist ’Nathan Burgoine, and includes the brand new Little Village Holiday Novella, “Folly.”Ver libro
Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.Ver libro
The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Caradoc Evans.Ver libro
