![]() Along the way, she takes us to some of the most extreme and exquisite places on the planet, sharing the exhilaration, toil, and danger of climbing high. Using these as starting points, she traces her evolution as a climber, from a hilariously incompetent beginner to an aspiring mountaineer to a successful, confident, and world-renowned expedition leader. Chronicling a life of extraordinary personal and professional achievement, Blum’s intimate and inspiring memoir explores how her childhood fueled her need to climb-and how, in turn, her climbing liberated her from her childhood.Įach chapter in Breaking Trail begins with a poignant vignette from Blum’s early life. In her long, adventurous career, she has played a leading role in more than twenty expeditions and forged a place for women in the perilous arena of high-altitude mountaineering.īreaking Trail is the story of Blum’s journey from her overprotected youth in Chicago to the tops of some of the highest peaks on Earth. McKinley and Annapurna, and was the first American woman to attempt Mt. Defying the climbing establishment of the 1970s, she led the first teams of women on successful ascents of Mt. ![]() From the bestselling author of Annapurna: A Woman’s Place, comes a revealing memoir about the mountaineering feats that made Arlene Blum one of America’s most famous female climbers and her tumultuous journey to adulthood that inspired her to become the risk-taker she is today.Īrlene Blum is a legendary trailblazer by any measure. ![]()
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![]() John Dewey had arrived to chair the philosophy and pedagogy department. ![]() ![]() Rockefeller, the University of Chicago, whose Gothic buildings and eminent faculty would rival those of Harvard and Yale. The philosopher had entered a city whose population was exploding with immigrants, many of whom were illiterate a city of half-built skyscrapers and noisome meatpacking plants a city with a new university funded by John D. The strike ended two weeks later, took the lives of thirty people, and symbolized a rapidly changing America dominated by corporations that set laborers against owners. Its arrival was delayed by striking workers of the American Railway Union, who were made furious by the Pullman Company’s decision to cut their wages. In July 1894, a train carrying a young philosopher from Ann Arbor, Michigan, pulled into Chicago Union Station. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Later, Basil comes across a gruesome scene. When the night watch holds a séance, one character pretends to channel the customer from hell. Hendrix strikes a nice balance between comedy and horror. The “Bodavest” chair, for example, “confines the penitent and opposes the agitated movement of blood toward the brain.” Inside, its mock product descriptions get darker and funnier as the book progresses. “Horrorstör” is such a dead ringer for an Ikea catalogue that you could easily mistake it for junk mail. This book wears its zany charm on its cover. But the crew also learns that an entrance has been left open all night, so there’s probably a logical explanation for it all.Įxcept that evil, like flat-pack furniture, often defies logic. ![]() Mysterious graffiti and stained ceiling tiles appear, the store’s secret past as a 19th-century prison is revealed, and a ghost is caught on camera. ![]() “Problem solved.”Īt the beginning of the night, things are only a dog short of a Scooby-Doo episode. “If a vandal is sneaking in and trashing the place, we’ll bust him and call the cops,” Basil says. The story opens at dawn, of course, and it centers on a group of ragtag Orsk employees who are recruited by their boss Basil, “a taller Urkel from ‘Family Matters,’ ”) to spend the night and investigate a recent rash of crimes against the store: mattresses hacked to shreds, smeared feces on a “Brooka” sofa, etc. ![]() ![]() If there are other published collections of rhymed recipes or food related poems, I haven’t yet discovered them. Also puzzling is a copy of a front page to something called “RECIPES IN RHYME” that friend Becky Mercuri sent to me years ago – are “Kitchen Jingles” and “Recipes in Rhyme” one and the same book? I don’t know, and I haven’t been able to contact Becky Mercuri. More baffling is “The Book of Kitchen Jingles” published also in the early 1900s by the Kalamazoo Stove Company. That one, I know, was published in the early 1900s. Then there is the elusive “RHYMED RECEIPTS” by Imogen Clark for which I have only seen a copy of the front page, on an internet site. A third that I found is called “RECIPES IN RHYME” published by Creative Book Company. ![]() Another that I found somewhere along the way is “The Rhyming Irish Cookbook: by Gordon Snell (who is married to Maeve Binchy). A copy of one sent to me is titled “The Food Poems of Phillipe Mignon/Translated by Darrell Gray”. It may surprise you to know there have been published books about rhymed recipes or food poems. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playīorn and raised in Texas, 42-year-old Colleen Hoover loved writing before she even really knew what it was. How could someone build such a massive and diehard readership without much of the literary world taking notice? The story of what it took to get to this point is worthy of its own book. Her celebrity fans include Hailey Bieber and Kylie Jenner, as well as numerous actresses and influencers.īut despite this unbelievable trajectory, there’s a fair chance that if you’re not a young and Very Online female fiction reader, you’ve never heard of her. ![]() Videos with her hashtag have over 441 million views on TikTok, and there’s a 24,500-person Facebook group dedicated to discussing just one of her titles, Verity. She’s the third most-followed author of all time on Goodreads behind Stephen King and Bill Gates. According to her team, her books have spent a combined 120 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list over the past 10 years. Hoover has already built a dream writing career. These might seem like over-the-top reactions to a writer’s work, but in Hoover’s world, they’re the norm. But when it comes to the readership of author Colleen Hoover, the fervor is almost unprecedented in size and scope-bordering on religious. Passionate readers pre-order titles, create wildly popular Bookstagrams, show up to events, and wait in long lines at book signings. Fanbases are the bleeding heart of the book publishing industry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Master said, “Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.” Filial piety and fraternal submission, are they not the root of all benevolent actions?” That being established, all practical courses naturally grow up. “The superior man bends his attention to what is radical. There have been none, who, not liking to offend against their superiors, have been fond of stirring up confusion. The philosopher Yu said, “They are few who, being filial and fraternal, are fond of offending against their superiors. “Is he not a man of complete virtue, who feels no discomposure though men may take no note of him?” “Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? The Master “Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? ![]() ![]() ![]() uncovers a coach with six fingers, a secret bunker below a famous stadium, an LTTE warlord, and startling truths about Sri Lanka, cricket and himself.Īmbitious, playful and strikingly original, Chinaman is a novel about cricket and Sri Lanka and of Sri Lanka through its cricket. On his quest to find this unsung genius, W.G. ![]() Mathew, an elusive spin bowler he considers 'the greatest cricketer to walk the earth'. ![]() He will spend his final months drinking arrack, upsetting his wife, ignoring his son, and tracking down Pradeep S. Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 1.5 inches ![]() ![]() ![]() That may sound like faint praise to those who want their pop criticism to channel raw passion, yet passion comes in many forms. he subtly makes you question your beliefs.”Īlex Ross, music critic of The New Yorker and author of The Rest Is Noise and Wagnerism: “MAJOR LABELS is the most elegant history of popular music ever written. has a subtle and flexible style, and great powers of distillation. The New York Times: “MAJOR LABELS ecumenical and all-embracing. Stereogum: “A beautifully observed history of the last 50 years of music. It’s funny, it’s personal and as a piece of writing, the book borders on poetry.” MAJOR LABELS somehow manages to unspool everything you need to know about 50 years of music, but more impressively, he makes you care about all of it. An intriguing argument in favor of opposing viewpoints.”ĭavid Letterman: “Kelefa Sanneh has achieved the impossible. The San Francisco Chronicle (15 Best Books of the Year): “An examination of the ways we create a personal identity through our musical choices…. ![]() This remarkable achievement will be a joy to music lovers, no matter what they prefer to listen to.” ![]() Sanneh surveys the past 50 years of popular music through the dominant genres that shaped it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop. ![]() Publishers Weekly (starred): “ thrilling debut. New York magazine: “An essential document from an inimitable critic.” The Wall Street Journal: “One of the best books of its kind in decades.” ![]() ![]() ![]() When I was writing this column, I asked what had stuck with them, and Yolka texted back, “I remember it seemed a little too related to how it was in Moscow at the time.” Back then, this response would have sounded hyperbolic. For years afterward, Yolka, who was ten or eleven when she first watched them, would return to the one about Brodsky. “Why didn’t you study that at an institution of higher learning?” I am certain that every word I’ve written will benefit many generations of people.” In the play, a judge demands of Brodsky, “What did you ever do to benefit the motherland?” (The play was staged at Memorial, a human-rights and history organization that was shut down by the government last year.) Brodsky was found guilty of “malicious parasitism” and sentenced to internal exile and mandatory labor. Soviet citizens were required by law to be engaged in productive work. I had also seen one of the first plays that Berkovich directed, “The Man Who Didn’t Work,” which was based on an activist’s notes of the courtroom proceedings in the trial of the poet Joseph Brodsky. ![]() The play was staged at the Sakharov Center, which was shuttered by the government last week. ![]() We met perhaps a decade ago, when I was still living in Moscow, and Berkovich, freshly graduated from the famed Moscow Art Theatre School, was involved in the production of a play based on interviews with people whose grandparents had been Stalin’s henchmen. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like all good stories, this one incorporates a lesson just subtle enough that readers will forget they're being taught, but in the end will understand themselves, and others, a little better, regardless of la lengua nativa-the mother tongue. This story seamlessly weaves two culturaswhile letting each remain intact, just as Miguel is learning to do with his own life. Eventually, Tía Lola and the children swap English and Spanish ejercicios, but the true lesson is "mutual understanding." Peppered with Spanish words and phrases, Alvarez makes the reader as much a part of the "language" lessons as the characters. ![]() She can also cook exotic food, dance (anywhere, anytime), plan fun parties, and tell enchanting stories. ![]() Tía Lola, however, knows a language that defies words she quickly charms and befriends all the neighbors. The last thing Miguel wants, as he's trying to fit into a predominantly white community, is a flamboyant aunt who doesn't speak a word of English. When Tía Lola arrives to help the family, Miguel and his hermana, Juanita, have just moved from New York City to Vermont with their recently divorced mother. Renowned Latin American writer Alvarez has created another story about cultural identity, but this time the primary character is 11-year-old Miguel Guzmán. ![]() |