![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, we were already accomplishing it. ![]() There was a genuine conviction that we not only could but even should irrigate deserts into livable places. America was at the height of dam building, tapping new aquifers, and redirecting rivers. The greening of the Mojave Desert in Star Trek is precisely indicative of the wider American view towards deserts and water management at the time. It might seem odd to start a review of a history of American water management with an anecdote about a 60s scifi television show that isn't even mentioned in the book, but there's a good reason for it. In this world, the Mojave desert has become a lush paradise. In the episode, we're shown a vision of Pike's home- a glittering, towerlike city in an absurdly lush and beautiful forested valley, in which we're told Pike has a farm. The pilot for the original Star Trek featured a captain named Christopher Pike instead of the more familiar James T. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And now, Miranda is recently dead too, of meningitis, while her father was in a rehearsal room, probably the same one, with instructions not to be disturbed for anything. But… three years ago, his wife died after giving birth to their daughter Miranda. ![]() The stage has always been his life, to the extent that nothing else matters. It sounds absurd, sewn out of the plush fabric skins of toy animals, their plastic eyes glittering. Along with all his other belongings piled up next to his rusting old car in the car-park is the cloak he’d had made. He’s in the middle of directing what sounds like a self-indulgent production of the play-with himself, inevitably, in the role of Prospero-when… suddenly he isn’t. Just think of it: a middle-aged actor-director, too busy to notice the signs of the impending coup, is escorted from the rehearsal room of his beloved theatre before he can take in what’s happening. In the wrong hands, her chosen scenario would have been dreadful. ![]() Margaret Atwood, presented with the challenge of re-imagining The Tempest, has come up with this. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stanislavski's production became "one of the greatest events in the history of Russian theatre and one of the greatest new developments in the history of world drama". When Konstantin Stanislavski, the seminal Russian theatre practitioner of the time, directed it in 1898 for his Moscow Art Theatre, the play was a triumph. When supporters wrote to him that the production later became a success, he assumed that they were merely trying to be kind. Chekhov left the audience and spent the last two acts behind the scenes. Vera Komissarzhevskaya, playing Nina, was so intimidated by the hostility of the audience that she lost her voice. The opening night of the first production was a famous failure. ![]() The character Trigorin is considered one of Chekhov's greatest male roles. ![]() Characters tend to speak in subtext rather than directly. In contrast to the melodrama of mainstream 19th-century theatre, lurid actions (such as Konstantin's suicide attempts) are not shown onstage. ![]() Like Chekhov's other full-length plays, The Seagull relies upon an ensemble cast of diverse, fully-developed characters. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Treplev. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. Cháyka) is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a book of over 700 pages Martin Meredith has provided an exhaustive account of Africa’s record since independence in an attempt to prove that Africa’s situation is hopeless and the reason for its hopeless predicament is African leadership. ![]() The same media and publishing industry is also hard at work on Africa itself. It is not only Zimbabwe that attracts the mythmakers and stereotype peddlers. In 2013 I published my own book, Zimbabwe: Challenging the Stereotypes, in which I too tried to show that there is an alternative story to be told about Zimbabwe. In 2010 Professor Scoones published his book on Zimbabwe, entitled Zimbabwe’s Land Reform: Myths and Reality, in which he set out to prove that much of what was being touted by various authors and the media about the land reform in Zimbabwe was not true and was simply myths. African history is being re-written every day, not to a large extent by the Africans themselves, but by the international media and publishing industry that has a vested interest in developing and propagating stereotypes and myths about Africa which when presented over and over again begin to be accepted, by Africans themselves, as facts, which no longer need to be analysed or argued. ![]() ![]() ![]() Desani, the stream-of-consciousness movement, in college.Īt 17, though, Roy’s exotic medley of words felt like a sensory overload. By the time I finished it, I was smitten.Īlso read: Regina Spektor’s anti-folk music stirs emotionsĪs a greenhorn in the world of literary fiction, I had never encountered language as fresh and magical as Roy’s-a whole new vocabulary of nonce words and coinages whose echoes and antecedents I would learn to identify much later, when I formally studied Laurence Sterne, James Joyce, G.V. ![]() In those days, hardback fiction in English was way beyond my budget but I persuaded my father to get me a copy. ![]() Roy’s smiling face, framed by her then curly mane of hair, appeared in newspapers and magazines. After all, she was one of “us”, born to a Bengali father and Syrian Christian mother, even though she had grown up mostly in Kerala and lived in Delhi. I had a passing familiarity with the Booker Prize but the dailies in Kolkata, where I lived then, made sure that all and sundry appreciated the enormity of Arundhati Roy’s win. In 1997, when The God Of Small Things was published, I was in high school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each story involves the club members' knowledge of trivia. Seller Rating: Contact seller Book Used - SoftcoverCondition: Very Good US 11.00 Convert currency US 2.99 Shipping Within U.S.A. ![]() It collects twelve stories by Asimov, nine reprinted from mystery magazines and three previously unpublished, together with a general introduction and an afterword by the author following each story. Casebook of the Black Widowers Asimov, Isaac Published byFawcett, 1981 ISBN 10: 0449243842ISBN 13: 9780449243848 Seller: HPB-Diamond, Dallas, U.S.A. This book is the third of six in the Black Widowers series, based on a literary dining club he belonged to known as the Trap Door Spiders. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in January 1980 and in paperback by the Fawcett Crest imprint of Ballantine Books in March 1981. Casebook of the Black Widowers is a collection of mystery short stories by American author Isaac Asimov, featuring his fictional club of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m going to tell you all right now, no, America does not ever attempt to dismantle the Selection for being a stupid and sexist idea. In the Selection, we follow America Singer as she is coerced into participating in “The Selection”: a dating competition to win the heart of the prince and the country all on live television. The Selection can best be described as Project Runway meets The Bachelor meets The Hunger Games. Fair warning that this entire post hence for will be littered with spoilers, and if you want to laugh: here’s my live-tweeting about the books. Each audiobook for the novels was about 7-8 hours long, nothing too daunting. If I had to physically read them I’m pretty sure I would have thrown them out a window. This took all in all about a week to complete, and I mostly consumed this as audiobooks. That includes five novels and some five novellas. ![]() ![]() I re-read (and for some, read for the first time) the entire Selection series by Kiera Cass. This was inspired by my re-read of the Hunger Games. I’ve had this idea for a while where I would re-read some books from my childhood (see: teenage years). ![]() ![]() ![]() For that reason, the characters so familiar to readers don't appear until near the very end. ![]() Rinkitink in Oz is the 10th book of the Oz series, but Baum had written it years earlier with the intention of making it a stand-alone novel separate of Oz. Every American is familiar with Dorothy and Toto, and Oz has been adapted for movies, screenplays, and more ever since. Baum wrote dozens of novels and short stories, as well as hundreds of poems, and he even foresaw technological innovations such as computers, televisions and mobile phones, all of which made their way into his writing.īaum, however, is still best known and best regarded for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and several other titles that took place in the fantasy world of Oz. Lyman Frank Baum (– May 6, 1919) is one of America’s most read authors, and he is widely considered one of the premier authors of children’s books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The estimated speaking fee range to book Scott Snyder for your event is available upon request. Scott Snyder is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics. For more information on how we work and what makes us unique, please read the AAE Advantage. We do not exclusively represent Scott Snyder or claim ourselves as the exclusive booking agency, business manager, publicist, speakers bureau or management for Scott Snyder or any other speaker or celebrity on this website. ![]() All American Speakers is a "buyers agent" and exclusively represents talent buyers, meeting planners and event professionals, who are looking to secure celebrities and speakers for personal appearances, speaking engagements, corporate entertainment, public relations campaigns, commercials, or endorsements. ![]() ![]() Losing her identity, her sense of self-worth, and her hope for the future, Holly found herself sitting alone in a bathtub contemplating suicide.īut instead of ending her life, Holly chose to take charge of it. But like Alice in Wonderland after she plunged down the rabbit hole, what seemed like a fairytale life inside the Playboy Mansion-including A-list celebrity parties and her own #1-rated television show-quickly devolved into an oppressive routine of strict rules, manipulation, and battles with ambitious, backstabbing bunnies. ![]() The real, untold, and unvarnished story of life inside the legendary Playboy Mansion-and the man who holds the key-from the woman who was Hef’s #1 girlfriend and star of The Girls Next Door.Ī spontaneous decision at age twenty-one transformed small-town Oregon girl Holly Sue Cullen into Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner’s #1 girlfriend. ![]() |