![]() ![]() ![]() I think I wrote three more poems afterwards. Can you tell me about the writing and reception of that first book? There are more than a dozen poems included from your first book, “Most Way Home,” written when you were still a student. Those have a different second life than a book like “Black Maria,” which has a theme but is a kind of film noir in verse, and it turns out that having 20 of those is really interesting, at least to me it tells a kind of story within a story. It’s pretty hard to show what those books are like because they’re kind of wild, long books on purpose. Some books, it’s harder than others because I have some long poems, like “To Repel Ghosts,” which is about Jean-Michel Basquiat, and “Ardency,” about the Amistad rebellion. But also I was pleased to see the ways in which there were continuities and things I recognized. ![]() ![]() It’s sort of looking through old photos you recognize yourself but sometimes you look different. But also I want to honor that blues tradition and blues through-line and how some of those uncollected poems and outtakes fill in between the books. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, to have something portable the different sides of my work. I talked with friends and my editor about what to leave in here or there, but I went through the selection. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Emile is scarcely a detailed parenting guide but it does contain some specific advice on raising children. He employs the novelistic device of Emile and his tutor to illustrate how such an ideal citizen might be educated. Rousseau seeks to describe a system of education that would enable the natural man he identifies in The Social Contract (1762) to survive corrupt society. Its opening sentence: "Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of things everything degenerates in the hands of man". The work tackles fundamental political and philosophical questions about the relationship between the individual and society-how, in particular, the individual might retain what Rousseau saw as innate human goodness while remaining part of a corrupting collectivity. ![]() During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. Due to a section of the book entitled "Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar", Emile was banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication. Emile, or On Education ( French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’d characterize the first part as dealing with the interface between data systems and regular users. There’s three parts to the book, all roughly equal in length, but not in the difficulty of the material. An badly written transaction will be quickly discovered at 1000 QPS, but less so at 10 QPS. And perhaps it’s even more important in this context in order to avoid hard to detect bugs. ![]() Even people who work with small data need to know these things. That is, applications dealing with TBs of data per day and processing of PBs of data. I’d argue though that the book deals with or can only provide advice for “data-intensive” applications. ![]() And that’s rather fitting because in such systems organizing and properly accessing data is the hard part. The core issue is, of course, handling data in single-machine and distributed systems - and handling lots of it. Thus it deals with databases, services, message queues and the like. Specifically, folks who need to deal with the backend of things. ![]() The target audience is builders of Internet applications. It’s the kind of book where you can genuinely feel a better developer at the end of it than at the start. The tl dr is that this is a very good book and you should go out and read it. This is a book review for Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by Martin Kleppmann. Designing Data Intensive Applications Review ![]() ![]() ![]() He loses faith in both humanity and God as he witnesses atrocities and improbable calamities during his travels. Now possessing the power of 'the Word,' an ability to make people obey whatever he utters, Custer sets off on a dark journey. Merging with a bizarre spiritual force called Genesis, Jesse becomes completely disillusioned with the beliefs that he had dedicated his entire life to. But Starr and the Saint of Killers have other plans for Jesse's future. ![]() ![]() Neuware -Collect the next volume of groundbreaking stories from this popular graphic novel series that is the inspiration behind the AMC television series!Beginning with the 'War in the Sun' story, Texan preacher Jesse Custer goes to Monument Valley, where he plans his showdown with God. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() this will be your new favorite show…sex in the city has nothing on #harlem.” That was his very first mention of the show, and Good welcomed the loving show of support. “I’m so proud of my She’s one of the most talented actors on the planet AND she’s funnier than you may know but I’m so glad you finally get a chance to see her do it all as Camille Parks in the new Amazon It streams on DEC 3rd P.S. “Y’all not ready for this!!!” he wrote in a caption alongside the video. ![]() Still, Franklin looked to show her support as the series debuted, taking to Instagram to tell people they would see a comical side of his wife that he knows very well. She also hit red carpet premiere’s for her new Prime Video series solo. There were rumors about the state of the couple’s marriage after they stopped posting one another on social media in the summer. The news comes as a surprise but not a huge shock to some. They share no further information just yet on what he says the cause of the dissolution of their marriage is. Actress Meagan Good and husband Devon Franklin are calling it quits after the film producer and minister filed for divorce from the Harlem star this week.Īccording to legal documents obtained by The Blast, Franklin filed the paperwork on Monday, December 20 at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles. ![]() ![]() ![]() I found a boyfriend in a bar on Ludlow Street, on the Lower East Side, where a band I adored treated Mondays as a kind of bowling night with friends, and for hours would play whatever. ![]() Anyone that age should not wonder what is wrong, because it is a living hell. The only thing worse is being 26, and I turned 26 that July. In 1993 I was 25, a year of constant disaster. If I was upset and no one – no one – was at her desk or in his bedroom, I would say to my best friend’s secretary, “Let her know it’s an emergency.” Because it always was. But I had my close friends whom I spoke to everyday – had conversations with, not emails or texts – so I knew who I loved and who loved me. I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in American Psycho. ![]() ![]() ![]() Identity can be unnerving, but Skylar’s perspective and language has a grounding effect. It had been a very long time since I had read someone else’s personal story and found myself feeling incredibly seen, heard, and affirmed on many intricate and complex layers. My body expressed itself with strong somatic pain sensations as a response to the shared life experiences that accompany trauma as a fellow transgender person. At first, it was difficult for me to read simply due to deeply resonating with the author’s narrative. Skylar Kergil’s Before I Had the Words on: Being a Transgender Young Adult was a book that my inner child had their eyes on for some time. ![]() ![]() Guardians of the Galaxy Epic Collection: Earth Shall Overcome, Marvel. Loving this cover variant by my pal Elena Casagrande. Alan Moore and Zander Cannon’s superhero cop procedural is another overlooked gem from the ‘90s.Ĭaptain Marvel #48, Marvel. Scott Tipton, contributor-at-large, 13th Dimension A re-release of the full-on reprint! Grab these while you can folks: The FEs have become collectibles themselves.Īrchie Jumbo Comics Giant #339, Archie. Dig the Alex Ross variant! The Kingpin rocks even more than Hela! Or maybe even a return to Scooby-Doo Team-Up! As we hit the second half of of the second series, I can only hope this title will be back for a third go-around. The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries #7, DC. A true labor of love, the graphic novel took Nowlan 25 years to complete.” Right on.Ĭarnage #12, Marvel. ![]() Sez IDW: “This volume will contain a selection of Nowlan’s best works for Marvel comics - covers, pages, and two complete stories, most notably his fully painted, 62-page Man-Thing graphic novel, written by Howard the Duck creator Steve Gerber. Kevin Nowlan’s Marvel Heroes Artist’s Edition, IDW/Marvel. Scott and Dan pick the comics they’re most looking forward to… ![]() ![]() ![]() Pierpoint's story inspires Zack to go to Mississippi to look for his maternal grandfather. ![]() Friendless, unsuccessful at school and at the lowest point in his life, he undertakes a research project into the life of Richard Pierpoint, former African slave, soldier in the War of 1812, and the pioneer farmer who cleared the land on which Zack's house now stands. Zack has recently been uprooted when his parents moved from the largest city in Canada to the outskirts of a small town. He knows much about his father's side, the descendants of Romanian Jews, but his mother broke all ties with her family before Zack was born. Zack Lane is uncomfortable with his mixed racial origins. Ten years after Crabbe, Bell returns to the theme of a young man wrestling with his identity. I am of average height, of average build, with wavy hair that I wear very short, and very dark skin. ![]() "But I don't look like a Jewish Negro or a black Jew. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the last minute Sue Ellen’s alcoholic mother forces her daughter to take her along. ![]() Since all three see no future where they are, they decide to burn May Lynn’s body, go down river on a raft with her ashes, get a ride to Hollywood, and deliver the remains to the town where she planned to be a movie star. She tells her two other pals, Jinx and Terry, about it. It begins when Sue Ellen, a sixteen year old in Depression era Texas, finds her friend May Lynn’s body in the Sabine River tied to a sewing machine. The book is reminiscent of his coming of age tales The Bottoms and A Fine Dark Line, with a darker tone. Get ready to see the light with his latest, Edge Of Dark Water. At his best, a Lansdale book can be a religious experience. Like Elmore Leonard, even his “weaker” books outshine the complete works of others. He is one of the most most entertaining and engaging authors out there with a style all his own. It’s always a thrill to get the latest Joe R. Lansdale speaks about & signs 'Edge of Dark Water' here at BookPeople Thurs 4/5, 7p. ![]() |