5/29/2023 0 Comments The spectacle guy debordFrom its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960’s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. ‘Guy Debord is a time bomb, and a difficult one to defuse.’ – Michael Löwyįirst published in 1967, Guy Debord’s stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired a cult status. ‘Never before has Debord’s work seemed quite as relevant as it does now’ – The Guardian ‘The Debordian analysis of modern life resonates more deeply and darkly than perhaps even its creator thought possible…’ – The New Yorker
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Less andrew greer“He was like, am I the person who’s telling you?” Greer recalled. Puzzled, Greer called a friend, the novelist Michael Chabon, who confirmed the news: Greer’s novel “Less” had won the Pulitzer Prize. One evening, after he had finished swaddling the pug, he got a barrage of congratulatory text messages, with emojis of fireworks and dancing ladies. Greer began dressing the dog in diapers, held in place with snazzy rainbow and rhinestone suspenders. “Margaret Atwood is coming, and I was like, we can’t.” “I decided we can’t have this happening at the dinner table,” Greer recounted recently at a coffee shop in the West Village. The pug belonged to his boss, a baronessa, and Greer felt the frequent messes had gotten out of hand. In the spring of 2018, the novelist Andrew Sean Greer was working as the director of a writers residency in Tuscany, where his unofficial duties included cleaning up after an incontinent pug. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Fear me by bb reid read onlineWarning: here there be spoilers.īraxton Fawn (which has to be the ugliest name I’ve ever seen on a character) is a 22-year-old aspiring musician. For this one I’m just going to let it all spill out though, because there’s a lot to get through. If you’ve read my reviews before, you know I usually like breaking things down into pros and cons. I have so many conflicting thoughts about this book. It seemed easy enough when I boarded their tour bus, but it only took one city for the lines we’d drawn to blur. Somehow, I must resist the temptation of Houston Morrow, Loren James, and Jericho Noble. But the biggest threat of all isn’t a meticulous front man, a narcissistic bassist, and a drummer with too many secrets. The label wants a new image, Bound wants me gone, but I’ve got my own agenda.To succeed I have to survive a world tour, public scrutiny, and idols turned enemies. It’s no secret I wasn’t their first choice. Jaded, gorgeous, and ridiculously talented-they’re determined to turn my dream into a nightmare. From dive bars to the big stage, my instant claim to fame is nothing short of a fairytale. When Bound loses its lead guitarist, yours truly is chosen to fill his shoes. I, Braxton Fawn, am the luckiest girl alive.Įvery so often, gods walk the earth. Whilst Cohen, like others, for example, Joni Mitchell, could adapt a song for live performances, some additional verses does not explain the repeated stories of 80 verses. There have never been 80 verses published, by Cohen, John Cale or anyone else. Have any of the other verses ever appeared in a recording (by Cohen or anyone else), or published anywhere? Even unofficially, perhaps by someone who's heard Cohen perform live? Your faith was strong but you needed proof. As such, I've only ever heard 7 of the claimed 80 verses (the original 4 plus Cale's 3 substitutes): Even Cohen has supposedly taken to using those 5 verses for his own live shows. Since then, almost everyone else who's covered the song seems to use Cale's verse selection. Cale's version shares the first two verses but has three new one in place the original third and fourth. He subsequently mixed in different verses in his live versions, and supposedly even send John Cale the whole set of 80 verses for him to pick from when recording his cover. According to the most popular version of the story, when Leonard Cohen wrote "Hallelujah", he wrote about 80 separate verses src before paring down to the 4 he used in his studio recording. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Who We Are by Nicola HakenYou met Ryder Richardson in Being Sawyer Knight. Then, Sawyer… then you’ll be too weak to resist.” (This is an M/M romance that is not recommended for under 18's due to adult language and explicit sexual situations) Read online The faster you try to run the quicker you’ll fall to your knees. Now, he just needs to get Sawyer to admit that he feels the same… “You will be mine, Sawyer Knight. Jake wants Sawyer – always has, always will. He’s actually gotten pretty good at pretending… at living the lie. Until Jake Reed, his ex-best friend and the only person who’s ever made him ‘feel’, waltzes back into his life as the band’s new head of security. He spends every day being who the world wants him to be, who his manager tells him to be, who his mother expects him to be… all the while fighting against who he really is. He has everything… Yet he has nothing. Life as one of the world’s most sought after rock stars is tiring, oppressive and lonely. He’s surrounded by music, fame, wealth, women throwing themselves at his feet. As lead singer and guitarist of the internationally renowned Souls of the Knight, Sawyer Knight is living a life most men can only dream of. 5/28/2023 0 Comments The Game of VORs by Andrew OrangeBloomberg delivers business and markets news, data, analysis, and video to the world, featuring stories from Businessweek and Bloomberg NewsBNN.in.th, a source of IT lifestyle products, gadgets, smartphones, notebooks and Apple products. Best known for their fantastic orange tolex coverings, and their big brutal tones, Orange Amps have become synonymous with rock and roll in a way that few other. There are a few names that really stick out when it comes to iconic British amplifiers – Marshall, Vox, and of course, Orange. Deputi Bidang Kelembagaan dan Tata Laksana Kementerian Pendayagunaan Aparatur Negara dan .By Simon Morgan, Andrew Bell. North American Portfolio Strategist Martin Roberge joined. Binarized Neural Networks In this section, we detail our binarization function, showBNN or Bart's Neverending Network (formerly Bart's News Network, as a pun on CNN) was a Dutch public broadcasting association supported by Netherlands Public Broadcasting. The code for training and running our BNNs is avail-able on-line (In both Theano framework 1 and Torch framework 2). Bnn our MNIST BNN 7 times faster than with an unopti-mized GPU kernel, without suffering any loss in clas-sification accuracy (see Section 4). 5/28/2023 0 Comments 7 Ate 9 by Tara LazarThe reader must pay attention to the illustrations to not miss the added humour. The bold, creative illustrations by Ross MacDonald (a Canadian now living in the US) are perfectly suited to the story and visually add to the puns. She’d heard that 7 ate 9, and she drops a scoop of ice-cream onto Private I’s pie that’s shaped like the number π – which is the mathematical pi.Īs you can easily figure out from what little I have said – not wanting to give away the whole story – there are many puns and word plays in this funny picture book 7 Ate 9: The Untold Story. (No, I didn’t mean to type pie.) The waitress, whose name is B, has the scoop. Private I goes to the café for a slice of pi. That fact doesn’t console 6 and he fears his days are numbered as both 7 and 9 seem to be missing! Private I pointed out that 7 is always after him – as in 5, 6, 7. He has heard that 7 Ate 9, and he is scared 7 would soon be after him. Private I is asked by the number 6 to help him. And how can it not be, having been written by Tara Lazar? 7 Ate 9: The Untold Story is a very entertaining story. Reminiscent of Lisa See’s Peony in Love and Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter, The Ghost Bride is a wondrous coming-of-age story and from a remarkable new voice in fiction. Night after night, Li Lan is drawn into the shadowy parallel world of the Chinese afterlife, where she must uncover the Lim family’s darkest secrets-and the truth about her own family. In it, Yangsze Choo (The Ghost Bride) weaves together ancient Malayan superstitions and traditions to tell a story of missing fingers, man-eating tigers. Such a union would guarantee Li Lan a home for the rest of her days, but at what price? Rarely practiced, a traditional ghost marriage is used to placate a restless spirit. Instead, the wealthy Lim family urges her to become a “ghost bride” for their son, who has recently died under mysterious circumstances. With unfortunate events that beset Mayen's (Kim Chiu) family, she will be torn between living a normal yet difficult life or accepting a strange business proposal called the Ghost Wedding in exchange for wealth and a comfortable life for her. Li Lan, the daughter of a respectable Chinese family in colonial Malaysia, hopes for a favorable marriage, but her father has lost his fortune, and she has few suitors. After receiving an unusual business proposal, a young woman experiences strange phenomena. Yangsze Choo’s stunning debut, The Ghost Bride, is a startlingly original novel infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue, and unexpected supernatural twists. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Sacrifice by brigid kemmererShe understands family problems, and she understands secrets. But when an arsonist starts wreaking havoc on their town, all the signs point to Gabriel. Gabriel has always had his brothers to rely on, especially his twin, Nick. But with two boys vying for her affections, and pressure rising all around her, will she find out in time who's hiding the most dangerous truth of all? Earth, Fire, Air, Water - the storm is coming.*****Spark : Gabriel Merrick plays with fire. Hunter, the mysterious new kid with a talent for being in the wrong place at the right time, might be the one boy Becca can put her faith in. With her life at stake, she doesn't know who to trust or whose secrets she should keep. And now that she knows the truth, so is Becca. Because Chris Merrick is no ordinary guy and neither are his three older brothers. Storm : When Becca Chandler saves Chris Merrick from being beaten up in the school parking lot, she has no idea how dramatically this one action will change her life. 5/28/2023 0 Comments Finding tess beth macyHer 2018 book, Dopesick, was shortlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. In 2010, she was awarded the Nieman Fellowship for Journalism by Harvard University. She writes essays and op-eds for The New York Times as well as magazines, radio and online journals. Macy was a reporter for The Roanoke Times from 1989 to 2014. She earned a master's degree in creative writing from Hollins University in 1993. She was the first in her family to attend college, receiving a bachelor's degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University in 1986. The daughter of a factory worker, Sarah Macy Slack, and a housepainter father, Macy grew up in Urbana, Ohio. She is the author of four published books, including national bestsellers Factory Man (2014) and Dope Sick (2018). 1964) is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. Anthony Lukas Prize for Works in Progress (Factory Man), Finalist - Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction (Factory Man, Dopesick)īeth Macy (born c. |