Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Barack Obama had to overcome the difficulty of having multiracial parents at a time when that was frowned upon. Through his childhood and teenage years, he struggled with issues of identity. Things began to make sense when he graduated from Columbia University and began...
It could be that, like Machin Shin, Mashadar was born of the Taint. But its antagonism to Shadowspawn and its being tied to Shadar Logoth both strongly imply that Moiraine was right about when and why it was created. And again, the Taint was brand new for the just-released Forsaken. ...
I found my self rushing through the book a little bit to get to the end and find out what happened, some parts of the book felt repetitive and I didn’t feel the continued flashbacks to young Jericho added to the story. If the book had some of the extra cut out I probably would gi...
and this unique course is a study of Joseph Cambell's Hero's Odyssey applied to an artist's quest to be not only creatively successful but financially successful too. And to approach your success with integrity. So if you've ever hit that wall of "how do I make money doing what I lov...
And throughout his life, he has seen the adventure of entrepreneurship as similar to launching a circus. His inspiration? P.T. Barnum of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, known globally as “America’s Greatest Showman.” Barnum coined the term “show business” and his cir...
Lastly, attention should be drawn to Frank Frazetta, whose dark and savagely iconic paintings of the sword and sorcery genre practically redefined fantasy art as we know it (The Legend of Zelda computer game explicitly named Frazetta’s Conan work as an inspiration) and took residence in our ...
The artist’s book “tradition” of excising words from the page goes back at least to Marcel Broodthaers’ and Mario Diacono’s renderings of Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira le Hasard by Stéphane Mallarmé. Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes (2010) takes that tradition to the more...
essays in which he examines the role of the artist in the light of Yoruba mythology and symbolism.Art, Dialogue, and Outrage(1988) is a work on similar themes of art,culture, and society. He continued to address Africa’s ills and Western responsibility inThe Open Sore of a Continent(1996...
In a paper presented to the Jewish Historical Society of England in 1997, Charles Rubens, a relative by marriage, disclosed that Catherine Klein was Käthe Cohn, born in 1907 and married to Doctor Ernst Cohn in 1928. Even her translator, Eva Meyerhof, author of A Tale of Internment, ...
Published as one of the first serialized online novels, End Times tells the story of a sex addict turned evangelical crusader (so is born the trans-genre of religious porn). Challenged to come up with one good reason to justify the book’s and its despicable character’s existence, Mobley ...