In the first year that we usedMarch, the Black Lives Matter movement was really starting to surface in the mainstream media. I was working in a school in San Francisco where many students were aware of the inequities around them, but still felt quite disconnected with their personal experiences...
As the 2012 presidential election eclipses national media coverage, Kansas is far from a swing...Burnidge, Cara L.Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular CultureAmericana : The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present; Hollywood...
Don’t say, “My novel is full of suspenseful twists and turns.” Rather than talk about your novel from a distance, the agent is giving you 5-10 sentences to put a chill down her spine. If you’re writing light, humorous women’s fiction, then there should be some laughs in the q...
both Kansas City (atRomance GenreCon) and in Cleveland (at theCuyahoga County Public Library) to this fantastic organization that “helps public, school, and college libraries win funding at the ballot box.”Please considersigning her petitionto help fight book bans in the United States. Thank ...
Elizabeth Bennet. Mr. Darcy. The situation is set up in the first line: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” The thrust? Shall you marry for love or money?
It tells the story of the Osage tribe of indigenous people forced to relocate from Kansas to a newreservation in Oklahoma (with a rocky and arid terrain) at the end of the 19th century. It turned out the soil was rich in oil, which turned the tribe into one to the richest nations on...
Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle (1962) * NEW WAVE SF: 1964–1973 Philip K. Dick’s Martian Time-Slip (1964). One of my top favorite PKD novels, Martian Time-Slip is set in an arid Martian colony where Establishment...
Simonetta Agnello Hornby was born in Palermo in 1945. A Fulbright scholar at the University of Kansas, she completed her law studies in England. In 1978 she set up Hornby and Levy, a practice specialising in childcare and domestic violence. In 1999 she was appointed part-time chairman of the...
Alone, Bridget wanders until she reaches the frontier town of Dodge, Kansas. There, her luck changes as she is taken in by the good and kind women of the Buffalo Queen brothel, where she works and finds a community. She takes to sex work easily, enjoys the gift of food and shelter, ...
However, three decades later, after her husband is killed in a car accident, it’s the only place she believes might coax a smile out of her eight-year-old, who hasn’t been the same since her father’s passing. But the serene lake town of Pacington, Kansas, holds dark secrets. An...