"I Had a Swell Time"
Have you ever wanted to read someone else's diary? What if the writer of that diary lived almost 100 years ago?Bernice Hodgins, born in 1916 in Seaforth, Canada, received a diary for her 12th birthday. She began to record her everyday life-jotting down all sorts of details about her days, whether it be outings with friends or school subjects she was struggling with. Entering into her teenage years, Bernice began to explore the dating world and confided in her diary the details of her romantic pursuits. As Bernice grew into her life as a young adult, she became more self-aware and started to think towards her future, making bigger and more life-changing decisions. All the while, her home city of Toronto hovered in the background as a secondary character in her life. Bernice's daily stream of consciousness put onto paper in this series of diary entries taken as whole depict a coming-of-age story that is unfiltered and refreshingly honest. Bernice's inner thoughts provide a window into a different time. Her writing reveals social norms from an era when, for a teenage girl, a walk home with a boy constituted a first date. Yet, a modern reader can also see that some things never change, as Bernice's concerns about her appearance and navigating friendships and romantic relationships still ring true. Bernice didn't hold back as she revealed her fears and insecurities and eventually her desires to find love and settle down. Bernice's personality and voice are vivid in her writing, and her diaries present a fascinating sociological window into the vibrant mind of a girl as she matures into a young woman.
"I Had a Swell Time"
Have you ever wanted to read someone else's diary? What if the writer of that diary lived almost 100 years ago?Bernice Hodgins, born in 1916 in Seaforth, Canada, received a diary for her 12th birthday. She began to record her everyday life-jotting down all sorts of details about her days, whether it be outings with friends or school subjects she was struggling with. Entering into her teenage years, Bernice began to explore the dating world and confided in her diary the details of her romantic pursuits. As Bernice grew into her life as a young adult, she became more self-aware and started to think towards her future, making bigger and more life-changing decisions. All the while, her home city of Toronto hovered in the background as a secondary character in her life. Bernice's daily stream of consciousness put onto paper in this series of diary entries taken as whole depict a coming-of-age story that is unfiltered and refreshingly honest. Bernice's inner thoughts provide a window into a different time. Her writing reveals social norms from an era when, for a teenage girl, a walk home with a boy constituted a first date. Yet, a modern reader can also see that some things never change, as Bernice's concerns about her appearance and navigating friendships and romantic relationships still ring true. Bernice didn't hold back as she revealed her fears and insecurities and eventually her desires to find love and settle down. Bernice's personality and voice are vivid in her writing, and her diaries present a fascinating sociological window into the vibrant mind of a girl as she matures into a young woman.
The Resilient Mind Journal 1
Here is a refined, publication-ready full description for The Resilient Mind Journal 1, clearly written, emotionally grounded, and well under 4,000 bytes, while preserving your original intent and improving flow and clarity for readers and retail platforms: The Resilient Mind Journal 1: Laying the FoundationThe Resilient Mind Journal 1 is about rebuilding strength from the inside out.Before growth, before clarity, before forward momentum, resilience must be established. This first journal is designed to help you slow down, reflect honestly, and reconnect with the core of who you are beneath stress, pressure, and expectations.Life has a way of hardening the mind. Constant demands, disappointments, and unprocessed emotions can quietly lead to mental fatigue, emotional overload, and self-doubt. The Resilient Mind Journal 1 exists to gently interrupt that cycle and create space for awareness and calm.This journal focuses on grounding, reflection, and emotional reset. The prompts guide you to explore what you've been carrying, what has shaped your responses, and what may be ready to be released. There is no pressure to "fix" yourself or force solutions. Instead, you are invited to observe, understand, and begin again with clarity and intention.Why Laying the Foundation MattersResilience is not about ignoring pain or pushing through at all costs. True resilience is built by acknowledging your inner experience without judgment. This journal helps you: - Recognize emotional patterns that no longer serve you- Identify sources of stress, fear, or mental exhaustion- Reconnect with your inner voice and sense of control- Create a stable mental foundation for future growthWithout this foundation, personal growth can feel temporary or forced. This journal ensures that everything that follows is rooted in self-awareness and emotional honesty.
Echoes of the Past
Echoes of the Past: My Dirt Road Diary is a collection of short stories and blurbs about my life. Some are straight up shenanigans, others are purely nostalgic--and then there's a few that come straight from my soul. These are stories that, long after I'm gone, I'd like my family and friends to remember. And maybe just as importantly, they will be a gift to myself one day when my mind gets tired. One of my goals in sharing my stories is to help prompt memories in you to share your own. You never know who'd love to hear them. I'm a fun loving gal who can find humor in almost anything, and it's a good thing since I've always had a knack for getting myself into predicaments. I'm originally from Hyden, a small town in southeastern Kentucky. I grew up in a holler. Yes, I said, "holler." If I were caught calling it a "Hollow," I'd have to cut my own switch! If you're from Appalachia, you know what that means. Hurricane Creek is the holler I grew up in. Even though it's just a dot on the map, the memories I took from there are so vast, they simply cannot be measured. Even though I titled this a diary, I chose to list them randomly, not in chronological order. They're funny, reflective, and often times sentimental. Will they change your life? No, no, they won't. But maybe, just maybe, they'll help brighten your day when you get a glimpse at my forty-six years of light-hearted fun.Take a walk with me back to the 1970s. That's where we'll start . . .
Finding My Way
Against scientific logic, lotus flowers grow in the muddiest of waters and rise above their less than desirable circumstances to display an incredible bloom. Similar to the journey of the lotus flower, this journal is meant to help you find your way through the difficult times in life by setting goals and then intentionally working to reach them. Thus, each page features either a beautiful lotus flower art piece for you to therapeutically color, a key Scripture along with life application prompts, specific reflection prompts, or blank journaling lines to record your thoughts and prayers.Your journey has not yet ended. Use this journal as a necessary tool to find your way.
My Daily Living Skills Log
Need to keep track of your child's toileting and basic hygiene skills? This monthly log allows you to track your child's performance across 6 activities of daily living to include: toileting, brushing teeth, washing hands, washing their face, showering and taking a bath. Each log provides an easy-to-follow task analysis of important steps performed as your child engages in a daily living skills task. With this skill log you are able to track which steps they get correct and which steps they needed more assistance with. Track life skills progress over up to 31 days. Each skill aligns with one of the Core 6 books from My Skills Books. This daily living skills log is size A6, making it portable and easy-to-use. Visit myskillsbooks.com to find more resources and download the app, 'My Daily Living Skills Tracker' from the App Store.
A Pause for Thought
At 17 years old, Monica Chapman boldly announced during her teacher training college interview, "I don't really like children." Not the most promising start for an aspiring teacher. The stony silence that followed made it all the more surprising when, weeks later, she received an acceptance letter from La Sainte Union in Southampton. Thus began three years of camaraderie and mischief with her partners in crime - Maria, Jane, and Julie - followed by the transition into the real world. Good fortune led Monica to a long and fulfilling career teaching art in comprehensive schools with diverse and often disadvantaged student populations. Spending 39 years at her second school, she experienced the unique privilege of teaching children whose parents she had once taught. Alongside her work, a lifelong passion for philosophy and world religions instilled in her deep humility, awe, and respect for human resilience. Eight years into retirement, the COVID-19 pandemic struck. During those uncertain months, Monica kept a journal of her thoughts and reflections on spiritual matters. Now, a distilled version of that journal has been transformed into this book: a collection of inspirational messages and comforting images to return to during both joyful and challenging times. P.S. Monica not only likes children now - she really loves them and is the proud mother of two of her own.
Voices of Resistance
"An extraordinary book. Voices of Resistance opens a rare window into the reality of young women living under brutal siege: their loss, terror, and grief; their hope, ingenuity, curiosity, and humour as well as despair. These testimonials come straight from hell, and yet--read them, you'll see--they are radiant with undiminished life."--Olivia LaingFor two years, the world has witnessed image after devastating image of Israel's genocide in Gaza: videos, photos, and Instagram reels showing blanket bombardment, cities in ruin, and entire families pulled from the rubble of their homes. Such enormity can be difficult to process, but behind each image lie ordinary lives full of hope, love, and community.In these diaries, four Gazan women--Batool Abu Akleen, Sondos Sabra, Nahil Mohana, and Ala'a Obaid--offer first-hand accounts of Israeli airstrikes, forced displacement, and engineered famine. These atrocities are documented alongside the everyday resilience of Palestinians: from the neighbour who fashions an ashtray from the shrapnel of an Israeli missile, to the street vendor who donates his last egg for a child's birthday cake, to the community of displaced people who pool their resources to stage a traditional wedding. Even when homeless, under fire, forced to bury loved ones, or thrown at the mercy of a devastated health system, the writers of these diaries never abandon their humanity, their individuality, or their belief in the future of Gaza.ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THIS BOOK WILL GO DIRECTLY TO THE WRITERS AND THEIR FAMILIES.
On the Brink of Belief
In this collection, twenty-four LGBTQIA+ writers from South Asia and beyond, conjure worlds where the borders between myth and memory, flesh and spirit, fact and belief dissolve. Djinns linger in homes, an Assamese grandmother says. Peculiar cousins haunt Kashmiri family trees. Redemption for Shaitan is found on a bathroom floor in Lahore. In Dhaka, questions hang heavy in a police cell. Farewell emails offer closure to a relationship set against the backdrop of the decriminalization bill in Sri Lanka. And in a quiet kitchen somewhere in Nepal, memories still glow like flames. This collection is a first-of-its-kind portal into the charged space where queerness meets faith. Building on the cultural histories of South Asia, these stories are brought to you as flash fiction, memoir, poetry, fragments and conversations, gathering voices that are at once intimate, fiercely authentic and defiant. Together, they rewrite what it means to belong and believe, offering readers not answers but revelations.
100 Diaries That Chronicled World Events
Oscar Wilde once wrote "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." This book is your opportunity to discover a compendium of the most celebrated, revelatory, notorious and heart-wrenching diaries from the great, the good and the truly evil. 100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events introduces us to the world's greatest diarists. Including the historical journals of Samuel Pepys and Anne Frank; snapshots of culture in the diaries of Frida Kahlo and Kurt Cobain; and windows into the past from Queen Victoria and John Adams.These published journals present a unique insight into their time and place, featuring a diverse range of accounts from all over the world. Discover the doomed log of Arctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott and the philandering antics of Samuel Pepys: as well as the less well-known diary of Jakob Walter, a foot soldier who gave a vivid insight into the Napoleonic wars, or Mary Chesnut, a privileged planter's wife in South Carolina, who chronicled the South's decline in the Civil War.
Gendertrash from Hell
A long-lost zine reveals the secret history of contemporary transgender culture"A breathtaking archive of our community ... An absolute vital work for a precipitous time." --Lilly Wachowski, co-director of The Matrix"Searing, witty, critical and defiant ... It feels just as pressing now as it did in the early 1990s. ... The pages of Gendertrash are filled with poems, essays, rants, fictions, speeches, surveys, interviews, resource lists and personal ads--largely for and by trans people, against the straight establishment, as well as the cis gay and lesbian movement, who were only too happy to throw trans people under the bus in order to gain rights for themselves. Sound familiar?" --XtraIn 1993, Mirha Soleil-Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay, fed up with a gay scene that rejected trans people and a trans scene that saw no alternative to going "stealth," began to publish the zine Gendertrash From Hell. Over four issues, they interviewed sex workers and prisoners; they printed collages, soap operas and polemics; they ran regular sections with titles like "Trannies Speak Out" and "Hooker of the Month". They redefined transsexual culture forever, and their explosive ideas resonate deeply today.Remastered from the original layouts, this foundational work is now available in book form for the first time, including previously-unseen drafts from the unfinished fifth issue and essays by Trish Salah and Leah Tigers. Irreverent, furious, reckless, sexy, hilarious and incisive, Gendertrash from Hell is here to set all your presuppositions on fire.
There and Back
'A social history of Britain spanning four decades, told with unflagging empathy and wit ' Jonathan Coe, ObserverTHE FOURTH VOLUME OF MICHAEL PALIN'S BESTSELLING DIARIES There and Back is a new window into the world of Michael Palin, following him as he comes and goes through the filming of four blockbuster travel documentaries and begins to publish his personal diaries for the very first time. From TV success to writer's block, Python reunions to lunches with Alan Bennett, the sadness of losing his good friend George Harrison to the joys of welcoming his first grandchild, these diaries document a decade of highs, lows and everything in between - all with the warmth, humour and heart for which Michael is renowned.
The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf
The moving story of the life and work of novelist Virginia Woolf, revealed through her own letters to those closest to her.The letters - at times witty and irreverent, at times melancholy and introspective - are possibly even more revealing for their insights into the complex personality of the novelist herself. "A true letter", she insisted, "should be like a film of wax pressed close to the graving of the mind". The book contains biographical notes on the main recipients of the letters, together with background information on Virginia Woolf's life and work. Frances Spalding's previous books include "British Art Since 1900" and biographies of the painters Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell.This book is beautifully illustrated with contemporary photographs and paintings, many by members of the Bloomsbury Group, such as Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant.
Mamma Teresa's Diary
Teresa's son was one of the many Italian Military Internees (IMI), the Italian soldiers who, after the armistice of 8 September 1943, refused to side with the Republic of Sal簷 and Hitler and were subsequently deported to the Third Reich and German-occupied territories where they were forced to work in Nazi labour camps.When Mamma Teresa learns of her son's death, she is utterly grief-stricken. But her greatest suffering comes from not knowing where he was buried. It takes her five long years to obtain the necessary documents to travel abroad in search of his grave. But this is just the beginning of her ordeal. Setting off from Bova di Marrara, near Ferrara in northern Italy, she makes her way to Germany, all alone, without knowing a word of German and with very little money. The journey is long and arduous and Teresa records the experience in a diary, producing a unique and exceptional testimony. Decades later, Teresa's relatives dig out that same diary from an attic and hand it to the author, who thus inherits her memories. "A memorial to my poor son and to everything that his mamma did for him, because only a mother could do this for her son and I did it out of immense love."(From the diary of Mamma Teresa Zerbini n矇e Mascellani) ==========================================================================================Translated Author's biography: Silvia Pascale lives in Treviso, in northern Italy, and is a history teacher and researcher.After specialising in Roman History and carrying out several research projects in this field, she began conducting history workshops in classrooms and training teachers. She has won several national awards for her innovative methods of teaching history and topics related to human rights. She has collaborated with the 'DiPast' International Centre for the Didactics of History and Heritage at the University of Bologna.Since 2011, she has focused on modern history, in particular on issues related to the Armenian Genocide, concentration camps and Italian Military Internees (IMIs), especially after discovering family connections to these historical events. She chairs the Treviso section of the ANEI (Italian Association of former Nazi Labour Camp Internees) and is a member of its National Council. She was selected by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research and the University of Paris for the seminar "Thinking and Teaching the History of the Holocaust" at the M矇morial de la Shoah. Together with Barbara Conte, she runs a closed Facebook group with 1700 people for sharing, researching and exchanging documentation on IMIs.With CIESSE Edizioni she has published "Come stelle nel cielo - In viaggio tra i Lager" (2017), "Una candela illumina il Lager" (2018), "Fiori dal Lager" (2019), "Guareschi e il Natale nel Lager" and "Il diario di mamma Teresa" (2020).
Notebook
Perfect Notebook Journal for Men to Write InNotebook: Something for Men to Write In is the perfect lined journal to take notes, scribble during work meetings or class and even comes with the old-school delete feature to rip out a page and toss it in the trash. Loss the whole thing? No problem. Order another one and start writing something.Lots of space to write in - 100 Pages of High Quality Lined White Paper. Practical cover design with a man-focused message. GET YOURS TODAY!
Wake Up and Smell the Tolerance
What if you could open your mind via the power of your own thoughts? No one tells you what's right and what's wrong. Form your own opinions by delving into the notions percolating in your mind. The United States is a stunning mosaic of diverse cultures-and therefore should be the least intolerant country on Earth. With countless residents claiming various ethnic backgrounds, the mere exposure to differences should make intolerance the smallest societal problem.But it's not. And so this prompt journal was born.Cultural harmony may be a na簿ve aspiration, considering much of the world practices intolerance to a shockingly high degree. But if such a humane goal can be imagined, it can be achieved. This guided journal takes you on a voyage into your own mind, uncovering why you think the ways you do about inclusivity and exclusivity. Each answer is yours, and the progress is in the power of your pen. Explore a more tolerant mindset by answering these 150+ prompts across 23 topics. What you discover might just challenge your existing beliefs-liberating you and fostering a better world.
Transanything
A debut essay collection that upends our notions of loneliness, wilderness, and liberation Transanything reveals a world in metamorphosis. A hermit crab retires its shell, lovers drift apart, and seasons churn, all amid Ever Jones's own narrative of midlife gender transition. Jones takes up a tradition of writing--about the American landscape, solitude, wilderness, and the West--long intertwined with colonialism and heteropatriarchy, and makes it wholly their own. A self-proclaimed "nature essay" misbehaves, wandering away from the hummingbird outside Jones's window. In their chronicle of a week in Yellowstone, Jones navigates trails frequented by grizzlies and a campground where their identity is regarded as equally dangerous. Elk, bison, and bark spiders roam this book's pages, but it is the gray wolf--the embattled apex predator of the American West, narrow survivor of settler colonial violence, and vessel for American myths of independence--who emerges as Jones's shapeshifting coprotagonist. Taking on a global web of colonial systems that seek to divide us, Jones disrupts loneliness and forges space for queerness and transness to be aliveness--to be transanything.
Wake Up and Smell the Tolerance
What if you could open your mind via the power of your own thoughts? No one tells you what's right and what's wrong. Form your own opinions by delving into the notions percolating in your mind. The United States is a stunning mosaic of diverse cultures-and therefore should be the least intolerant country on Earth. With countless residents claiming various ethnic backgrounds, the mere exposure to differences should make intolerance the smallest societal problem.But it's not. And so this prompt journal was born.Cultural harmony may be a na簿ve aspiration, considering much of the world practices intolerance to a shockingly high degree. But if such a humane goal can be imagined, it can be achieved. This guided journal takes you on a voyage into your own mind, uncovering why you think the ways you do about inclusivity and exclusivity. Each answer is yours, and the progress is in the power of your pen. Explore a more tolerant mindset by answering these 150+ prompts across 23 topics. What you discover might just challenge your existing beliefs-liberating you and fostering a better world.
The Art of Sip and Savour
The Art of Sip and Savour: The JournalA companion to the book The Art of Sip and SavourWhat if your next great cocktail and food pairing wasn't found in a book, but discovered by you?The Art of Sip and Savour: The Journal is your flavour lab, tasting log, and creative space to track, refine, and perfect your own cocktail and food pairings. Designed as the hands-on companion to the main book, The Art of Sip and Savour, this journal turns inspiration into experience, and experience into expertise.Whether you're planning your first pairing night or already experimenting with seasonal ingredients and signature serves, this journal helps you: ✅ Record and reflect on pairings that worked (and why)✅ Spot patterns in your preferences and flavour themes✅ Rate drinks, dishes, and occasions to refine your approach✅ Host with confidence using built-in templates for planning and notes✅ Build your own pairing "playbook" that evolves with your palateThis isn't just a notebook, it's a practical tool to help you explore your creativity, deepen your tasting awareness, and track your flavour journey with purpose.And if you haven't read the main book yet, The Art of Sip and Savour offers pairing principles, flavour foundations, and ready-to-try combinations that guide your experiments and deepen your understanding of cocktail and food harmony.Use the journal on its own, or as part of the full Sip and Savour experience. Either way, you'll be building a habit of mindful tasting, one entry, one pairing, and one delicious discovery at a time.
Memories That Smell Like Gasoline
"Wojnarowicz is a spokesman for the unspeakable." --New York MagazineDavid Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, violence, and the erotism of public space--all under the specter of AIDS.Here are David Wojnarowicz's most intimate stories and sketches, from the full spectrum of his life as an artist and AIDS activist. Four sections--"Into the Drift and Sway," "Doing Time in a Disposable Body," "Spiral," and "Memories that Smell like Gasoline"--are made of images and indictments of a precocious adolescence, and his later adventures in the streets of New York. Combining text and image, tenderness and rage, Wojnarowicz's Memories that Smell like Gasoline is a disavowal of the world that wanted him dead, and a radical insistence on life.
The New Lesbian Pulp
A collection of reinvented queer pulp fiction by writers like Sarah Schulman and Lorraine Hansberry that's so edgy it draws blood. Lesbian pulp fiction thrived in the oppressive 1950s, telling subversive stories of lonely sapphic women who find connection, passion, and revenge. In The New Lesbian Pulp, editors Sarah Fonseca and Octavia Saenz revive the genre for today, layering nuance into classic tropes while dialing up the melodrama, romantic peril, and collateral damage. In these pages--which pair revived classics from Lorraine Hansberry and Alice Dunbar Nelson with new stories from Sarah Schulman, Grace Byron, Shamim Sharif, and more--vigilante lesbians gather roadkill for revenge, a woman and her former high school bully hook up and commit murder, Brooklyn witches cruise kink parties for human sacrifice, and a sinister kidnapping goes horribly wrong (or horribly right). Here, gathered just for you, are some of today's best lesbian pulp stories. Don't be afraid. Pick them up.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - Classic Literature, Annotated Collector's EditionDiscover the timeless brilliance of Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, now available in a beautifully presented edition perfect for collectors, literary enthusiasts, students, and fans of gothic fiction. This classic masterpiece, first published in 1890, explores the depths of vanity, morality, and the consequences of living a double life. Set in Victorian England, it follows the enigmatic Dorian Gray, whose portrait ages while he remains eternally youthful, indulging in hedonistic pleasures and moral decay.Key Features: Complete & Unabridged Text: Faithful to the original manuscript, offering readers the full classic experience.Public Domain Edition: Ideal for students, educators, and those seeking an affordable, accessible copy of Wilde's literary classic.Elegant Formatting: Designed for readability with high-quality print, perfect for both study and display on your bookshelf.Gothic & Philosophical Themes: Explores themes of beauty, youth, art, and the soul-making it a favorite for literature classes and book clubs.Introduction & Bonus Content: Includes background information on Oscar Wilde, his literary influences, and the novel's historical context (if your edition adds any value, mention it here).Perfect Gift: A thoughtful present for fans of English literature, lovers of philosophical novels, and collectors of beautiful books.Step into the haunting world of The Picture of Dorian Gray, a novel that continues to captivate readers with its provocative themes and unforgettable characters. Oscar Wilde's signature wit, sharp social commentary, and lyrical prose shine in this exploration of art, ethics, and the pursuit of pleasure. This edition is perfect for those seeking a definitive copy for their personal library, classroom use, or literary discussion.Whether you're a student researching classic literature, a teacher curating essential reading, or a book lover searching for the best gothic fiction, this edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray offers exceptional value and enduring appeal. Ideal for fans of Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and other masters of the macabre, this book will remain a treasured addition to your collection.Add The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde to your library today and experience one of the greatest novels of all time-a powerful meditation on beauty, corruption, and the darkness within.
Under the Apple Tree
In this compelling nature journal Maine farmer and author Jennifer Wixson shares her reflections from the summer of 2017. After her mother's unexpected death that spring, Wixson sought repose in the shade and the sanctuary offered by an old apple tree situated on her farm in central Maine. There, pen and journal in hand, she records the antics and adventures of the world around her: a nervous-Nellie chipmunk, a motherly bluebird, a wild swarm of honeybees, and a variety of other woodland creatures such as Walter the Gray Tree Frog, Sam Vireo, and Mr. and Mrs. Hairy Woodpecker. These storybook-like (but very real) characters aid Wixson in coming to terms with her mother's untimely passing. In her journal Wixson, who holds a Master's degree in Divinity from Bangor Theologica Seminary, weaves spiritual reflection together with her keen observations of nature. Accordingly, we are not surprised to learn that "Mother Nature is the rock upon which this journal is built" (see Mathew 16:18). Wixson admits to a strong curiosity about the natural world, which as the summer progresses--and she acts upon her curiosity--provides many an amusing moment in the book. Her evocative writing lures readers into the moment so much so that we smell the sweet woodruff and wild bergamot bee balm from her herb garden, hear the plashing of her Scottish Highland cattle in the pond below, and delight in the mating calls of the gray tree frogs, which "sound like chimps in the trees fighting over a banana." Eavesdropping as we are on this Lilliputian-like world under the apple tree--where the the cycle of birth, life and death is very much in evidence--we witness as the summer progresses the evolution of Wixson's thinking about death from a "bad" thing to a natural and necessary part of LIfe. Real-time photographs taken by the author add charming visual context to the journal.
Travels in the Americas
Albert Camus's lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s, available again in a new translation. In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havre to New York. Though he was virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, all that was about to change--The Stranger, his first book translated into English, would soon make him a literary star. By 1949, when he set out on a tour of South America, Camus was an international celebrity. Camus's journals offer an intimate glimpse into his daily life during these eventful years and showcase his thinking at its most personal--a form of observational writing that the French call choses vues (things seen). Camus's journals from these travels record his impressions, frustrations, joys, and longings. Here are his unguarded first impressions of his surroundings and his encounters with publishers, critics, and members of the New York intelligentsia. Long unavailable in English, the journals have now been expertly retranslated by Ryan Bloom, with a new introduction by Alice Kaplan. Bloom's translation captures the informal, sketch-like quality of Camus's observations--by turns ironic, bitter, cutting, and melancholy--and the quick notes he must have taken after exhausting days of travel and lecturing. Bloom and Kaplan's notes and annotations allow readers to walk beside the existentialist thinker as he experiences changes in his own life and the world around him, all in his inimitable style.
What Was It Like Growing Up in the 70s?
Growing up in the 1970s exposed youth to a diverse range of exciting music, funky fashion, and notable movies. It was simultaneously a decade defined by political protests, war, and outright rebellion. Despite the whirlwind of political turmoil, '70s kids thrived in the glittery disco era. Friends, vinyl records, and daily outdoor adventures (with little parental supervision) filled their childhoods, making these years some of the best of their lives. Roller disco, black and white TV, and dinners without answering the phone made life simpler-and happier.Return to these far out times via this guided journal, containing over 200 prompts across 32 topics. Share your answers with friends and loved ones, giving them a taste of how freaky deaky and rewarding childhood in the '70s happened to be. Here's to good vibes!
Witch
An exploration of the Witch, as radical archetype, in ancient and contemporary life. An adult woman haunted by her childhood muses on the foster system, institutions, and the medieval tale of a girl given to a witch. A genderqueer Brooklynite learns of their past life as a murdered sorceress. An uptight participant at a Northern California witch camp finds community in the kitchen. A professor uses magic to help students under attack by right-wing politicians. In this collection of manifesto, poetry, playscripts, and prose, the archetype of the Witch is honored and unpacked, poked and prodded, owned and othered. From work centered in antiquity to writing which illustrates how primordial occult energies continue to enliven our world today, WITCH: Anthology lays bare a wilderness of myth, magic, trickery, and power swarming beneath the surface of contemporary life. With work from CAConrad, Edgar Fabi獺n Fr穩as, Amanda Yates Garcia, Ashley Ray, Brooke Palmieri, Yumi Sakugawa, Kai Cheng Thom, Ariel Gore, Myriam Gurba, Fariha R籀is穩n, and many others.
Influential LGBTQ+ Works of the Nineteenth Century
The nineteenth century brought sweeping changes, from industrialization to social reform movements, yet queerness remained taboo. Often at significant personal risk, a brave subculture of writers, artists, and thinkers explored themes of gender, sexuality, and identity. Ranging from Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's horror novella Carmilla, which pioneered the lesbian vampire trope, to Edward Carpenter's Homogenic Love and Its Place in a Free Society, this original anthology shows how six authors represented the queer community. Selections include "Calamus" by Walt Whitman, Cecil Dreeme by Theodore Winthrop, An Italian Garden: A Book of Songs by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Together, these excerpts from essays, fiction, and poetry offer valuable context for contemporary discussions fundamental to the early emancipation of homosexual rights.
Titanic Legacy
On 3 July 1930, a maid discovered the dead body of her employer on the floor of the sitting room in an upmarket apartment in Temple, London. The victim was 37-year-old Sidney Russell Cooke, mysteriously shot through the stomach by a hunting rifle. He was the husband of Titanic Captain Edward Smith's only daughter, Helen, known to friends as 'Mel'. Unknown to many, he was also an MI5 spy, described as a 'prototype James Bond' - and the esteemed Cambridge economist John Maynard Keynes' lover. Never before published private letters and family photographs tell the true, untold story of a legendary captain, the mysterious death of a British spy and an inspirational daughter who stepped out of the shadow of misfortune to carve her own path. By the time Mel was 49 she had lost her father, mother, husband, son, and daughter, all in unusual circumstances. Yet she would become a pilot, a driver of fast cars, an artist's muse and collector of fine art, living within a coterie of suffragettes, politicians, Russian spies, yachtsmen, gay lovers and the fabulously wealthy.
Cancer
Cancer - Tom Raworth's ' lost' book - was originally to have been published by Frontier Press in 1973. After Frontier's funds ran out, the typescript was returned to its author, and its opening section, ' Logbook', was published as a standalone volume by Poltroon Press in 1976. Revised versions of Cancer's other two sections were published separately in the 1980s; the original versions of both - the ' Journal' as written in the opening months of 1971, and the letters Raworth sent to Edward Dorn in the spring of that year, during his residency at the Yaddo artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York - are published here for the first time.
Worthy of the Event
A trans essayist with a checkered past takes on the big questions of human existenceMove over Michel de Montaigne, there's a new girl in townSet against a backdrop of trans life that begins with her own transition in the 1960s, Vivian Blaxell takes us on a witty and expansive sweep through history, from Australia to Japan, to Hawai'i to Mexico, to heretofore unmapped regions of the mind. In seven devastatingly intelligent parts, her essay covers a vast range in time and space -- from the arson of a Japanese temple to a transformative encounter with a coral reef, from Nietzsche and Hegel to Indigenous metaphysics, from a perplexing relationship with a beautiful man to the unknowable minds of animals. Fleshy and philosophical, searching and exalted, utterly distinctive and assured, Worthy of the Event belatedly establishes Vivian Blaxell as one of the major writers of her generation.
Stories from the Edge of the Sea
AUTHOR OF THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD WINNER, PERFUME DREAMS: REFLECTIONS ON THE VIETNAMESE DIASPORA - AUTHOR OF BIRDS OF PARADISE LOST, the widely taught and anthologized debut short story collection - Andrew Lam returns with a literary exploration of love, lust, and loss among Vietnamese immigrants in America."Universal and personal."--Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Woman Warrior - "Will be read and studied for years to come."--No禱l Alumit, author of Music Heard in Hi-Fi - "Maps the moveable feast of the Vietnamese diaspora."--Scott Lankford, author of Tahoe Beneath the Surface - "Lam's most lyrical and wide-ranging collection yet."--Matthew Spangler, playwright - "For anyone who has loved and lost a lover, a landscape, a home."--Fenton Johnson, author of At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life - "Taste the desires of comedians, soldiers, tomboys, friends, queers, mothers, and refugees."--Long Bui, author of Returns of War: South VietnamAt times humorous and ecstatic, other times poetic and elegiac, the fourteen pieces in Stories from the Edge of the Sea explore love and loss, lust and grief, longing and heartbreaks through the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their children in California. A younger dancer is haunted by memories of almost dying on a boat when they escaped from Vietnam, a widow processes her husband's death through frantic Facebook postings, a writer enters an old lover's home and sees a ghost at twilight. If the human heart is a vast, open-ended terrain, then Andrew Lam's short stories are its mountains, valleys, and lakes. Together they seek to chart barely explored country.
