Originally published on Tue February 5, 2013 7:42 am
On one level, See Now Then, Jamaica Kincaid's first novel in a decade, is a lyrical, interior meditation on time and memory by a devoted but no longer cherished wife and mother going about the daily business of taking care of her home and family in a small New England town. But it is also one of the most damning retaliations by a jilted wife since Nora Ephron's Heartburn. See Now Then reads as if Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf had collaborated on a heartbroken housewife's lament that reveals an impossible familiarity with Heartburn and Evan S.
The cover of House of Earth is an oil painting that Guthrie made in 1936 called In El Rancho Grande.
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House of the Earth, Woody Guthrie's 1947 novel about struggling young sharecroppers, is also filled with his drawings. Above, "Summer Leaves and Limbs," 1947.
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"Untitled," 1947
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"Snow," 1947
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The cover of House of Earth is an oil painting that Guthrie made in 1936 called In El Rancho Grande.
Credit Courtesy Woody Guthrie Archives. Copyright Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc.
"What a Beautiful World," 1947
Credit Courtesy of Nora Guthrie/HarperCollins
The folk balladeer Woody Guthrie, shown here at his home on Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island in 1950, was also a prolific writer and visual artist.
Woody Guthrie wrote thousands of songs in his lifetime — but as far as anyone knows, he only wrote one novel. Recently discovered, House of Earth is the story of a young couple living in the Texas Panhandle in the 1930s. They dream of building a house that will withstand the bitter winds and ever-present dust that constantly threaten the flimsy wooden shack they call home.
It's a story right out of the movies: The artistic director of one of the most prestigious ballet companies in the world is violently attacked. His attacker and the motive are shrouded in mystery. But behind these sensational headlines is a ballet company that is both legendary and plagued with scandals and infighting.
In her new book, Sugar in the Blood, Andrea Stuart weaves her family story around the history of slavery and sugar in Barbados. Stuart's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather landed on the island in the 1630s. He had been a blacksmith in England, but became a sugar planter in Barbados, at a time when demand for the crop was exploding worldwide. Stuart is descended from a slave owner who, several generations after the family landed in Barbados, had relations with an unknown slave.
Kicker David Akers of the San Francisco 49ers waits during a power outage that occurred in the third quarter that caused a 34-minute delay during Super Bowl XLVII.
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The San Francisco 49ers mascot stands in the tunnel during the power outage. Please imagine his instructions: "Even in case of emergency, the foam head STAYS ON."
Originally published on Mon February 4, 2013 10:38 am
Great blackout last night, right?
It's been clear for some time that substantially more people watch the Super Bowl than have the slightest interest in watching the actual football game. That's why there's such hubbub over the halftime show and the commercials — it gives non-football types something to pay attention to instead of football.
Maurice Sendak, one of America's most beloved children's book authors, evocatively captured both the wonders and fears of childhood. His books, including Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There, revolutionized picture books by adding danger and darkness to the genre.
Over the course of his life, Sendak wrote and illustrated more than a dozen widely acclaimed books and illustrated almost 80 more. And although he died last May at 83, Sendak still has one more volume on the way.
Sam Sheridan, shown here with his son Asa, is an amateur boxer and MMA fighter. He has worked in construction in Antarctica and as a cowboy and farmhand in Montana.
From movies about outbreaks, to television shows about zombies, to books about Armageddon, we're in love with the end of the world.
Author Sam Sheridan wants to teach you how to survive it, no matter the catastrophe. His new book is called Disaster Diaries: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Apocalypse.
He's got the skill set to prepare us: Sheridan's resume includes wilderness firefighting, construction work in the South Pole, and everything in between.
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