![]() ![]() Has your artistic process largely stayed the same, or have you made any adjustments to how you work in light of the different phases of the pandemic?īrereton: As a freelancer, I’m already used to working from home, so that’s not been much of a transition. It’s 96 pages, penciled and awaiting the painting stage. I’m also working on a new Nocturnals graphic novel. Between Kickstarter projects like Children of Night, Autumnkind, etc, and maintaining my Patreon page The Night Studio, as well as some freelance comics work. ![]() How have you been keeping busy since then?ĭan Brereton: Oh man, I’ve been so busy. We last spoke on the record when you were prepping your Children of Night book towards the beginning of the pandemic. Brereton answered our exclusive questions about the new project, his artist process, and more. With eleven days to go in the campaign, the project has nearly tripled its funding goal and amassed over 425 backers to date. Dan Brereton, the artist and creator behind Nocturnals, Giantkiller and so much more, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for his brand new book and portfolio set entitled By the Blade and Swordplay respectively. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The protagonist is a rough-necked former stalker nicknamed Red, who is working for the scientists at the outset of the book, but hasn't lost his swaggering, cynical view of human nature or his distrust of authority. Then there is a subculture of people called "stalkers", who go into the zone illegally to gather artifacts for sale on the black market. The population of this town breaks down into roughly two central camps, the first being legitimate scientists studying the artifacts the aliens left behind - though no one is really certain that such mysterious beings actually "left", or even that they were "there" in person in the first place. Roadside Picnic is set in a small town close to a zone in North America (given the bleak tone and character attitudes, the authors undoubtedly had good reason not to use their own country). People who go in run a high chance of being killed (or being unkilled, in the case of corpses that come back to life). The zones are very hazardous places, full of dangerous substances and weird phenomena, many of which defy all current human understanding of physics and even causality. The story begins about a decade after aliens of some sort landed on Earth, bringing several strange "zones" into existence. It's as gripping as any recent book, and, with a few minor updates, could have easily worked in the present day. I was impressed with this short 1970s Russian science fiction novel, which still feels pretty fresh and original. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Hitchens’s lack of philosophical acuity is painfully obvious in his debate with Christian philosopher, William Lane Craig, which is available on line.) I will address a few of these below, particularly the question of the logic of prayer. This anti-religious sentiment pops up throughout the book, hurled more as hand grenades than laid out as arguments. Consider his best-selling and embarrassing harangue, god is not Great (2006). Hitchens was an iconoclast (even writing a book against Mother Theresa called, in bad taste, The Missionary Position), a masterful conversationalist, and intrepid enough to write on some topics he was not fit to pronounce upon. In so doing, he reveals how one very articulate and intractable atheist came to terms with his imminent demise. ![]() (The book also includes a foreword by Graydon Carter and an afterward by Carol Blue, Hitchens’s widow.) Unlike most, who die un-narrated deaths, he knew of his impending demise, retained his writing prowess, and lived long enough to tell us of his dying. His dying was (quite fittingly) a literary morbidity: he wrote of it in a small, posthumously published book called Mortality. ![]() Reporter extraordinaire, atheist provocateur, prolific author, and acerbic commentator and debater, Christopher Hitchens died in 2011. Reviewed by Douglas Groothuis.Ĭhristopher Hitchens is dead, but he lived long enough to tell us of his dying. Denver Journal Book Review by Denver Seminary Professor Douglas GroothuisĬhristopher Hitchens, Mortality (New York: Twelve, 2012). ![]() ![]() This is a treat for LGBTQ+ readers and the ending, happily, seems to indicate more to come." - Booklist "Read it for the romance, for the adventure, for the underlying commentary on divided societies-nothing disappoints. “ The Midnight Lie is unsettling and thrilling, the world intricate and purposeful, and Nirrim a protagonist readers will surely find enthralling.” - Shelf Awareness "Prepare to be devastated by this gorgeously rendered sapphic fantasy." - Buzzfeed News "There is no doubt this is going to be one of the most complex and compulsively readable fantasies of the year." - Buzzfeed In The Midnight Lie, Marie Rutkoski spins a sensuous tale about awakening to the truth.” -Malinda Lo, author of Ash Marie’s stories are the loveliest knives that cut you straight to the quick.” -Roshani Chokshi, New York Times-bestselling author of The Gilded Wolves ![]() ![]() In August 2016 Mafi released Furthermore, a middle-grade fiction novel about a pale girl living in a world of great color and magic of which she has none. Film rights to Shatter Me have been purchased by 20th Century Fox. Mafi has two novellas that go with the Shatter Me series, Destroy Me and Fracture Me. Since then, Unravel Me (published on February 5, 2013) and Ignite Me (published on February 4, 2014) have been released. Shatter Me was published on November 15, 2011. Mafi stated that before writing her first novel, Shatter Me, she wrote five manuscripts in order to better understand how to write a book. During this trip she had the opportunity to be fully immersed in the Spanish language. She studied abroad in Barcelona, Spain for a semester in college. She has varying levels of competency in eight different languages. She later graduated from the Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, California. ![]() Mafi graduated from University High School in Irvine, California. At age 12 she moved with her family to Northern California and at age 14 they moved to Orange County. She is the youngest child of her family and has four older brothers. Mafi was born on November 9, 1988, in a small town in Connecticut. She is known for writing young adult fiction. ![]() Tahereh Mafi (November 9, 1988) is an American author based in Santa Monica, California. ![]() ![]() ![]() I must say, I’m just over the moon with how everything turned out. To round out the food portion I wheeled in my trusty bar cart full of candied apples, cake, and a sweet little takeaway tied up in burlap bags. The walking dead bowl was filled with dry ice and my favorite wine, and the warm bourbon punch served in festive glasses. I kept the serve-yourself table simple with a moody cheese board, mini black eyed pea salads, and fried chicken sliders. Lastly, I enhanced the overall look with dripping dried moss and dried moss branches (which is my favorite way to get that spooky look), spiders, faux crows, chains, and skulls. ![]() I highly suggest investing in mercury glass pumpkins as they can easily transition well past Halloween and right on to your Thanksgiving table. My everyday lanterns were filled with black candles and flanked by plenty of mercury glass pumpkins. And while you can grasp the direction I was going from the pictures, I wanted to provide a few easy takeaways to help you create this look on your own.įor the overall color scheme I opted for a pallet of blacks, silvers, greys and natural linen. So instead of orange and black everything and grotesque themed food I set out to create a more elevated and classic look. ![]() And kitsch, unlike Halloween is just not my thing. However Halloween, like many holidays, can sometimes be accompanied by a lot of kitsch. A few months ago Jezebel Magazineasked me to put my spin on one of my favorite holidays, Halloween. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rice also implies that such lifestyles exploit the Earth’s natural resources and may one day deplete them, unlike the traditional Anishinaabe way of life. Through the Anishinaabe’s dramatic lifestyle shift, Rice emphasizes that technology-dependent living is unreliable because technology can fail. So, the Anishinaabe commit to maintaining their traditional way of life for good, believing it will best facilitate their long-term survival. The community soon realizes the blackout is widespread, ongoing, and it’s debilitated nearby towns and cities (which have devolved into chaos). ![]() When a mysterious blackout occurs during a harsh winter, members of a remote Anishinaabe reservation suddenly find themselves without the modern conveniences they’ve come to rely on in recent years. ![]() In Moon of the Crusted Snow, an isolated First Nation community survives a harsh winter by reconnecting with their traditional knowledge of the land. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He innocently went from house to house to house (one made of straw, one of sticks, and one of bricks) asking to borrow a cup of sugar. Al Wolf was minding his own business, making his granny a cake, when he realized he was out of a key ingredient. Wolf explains it, the whole Big Bad Wolf thing was just a big misunderstanding. ![]() Did the story of the three little pigs ever seem slightly biased to you? All that huffing and puffing-could one wolf really be so unequivocally evil? Finally, we get to hear the rest of the story, "as told to author Jon Scieszka," straight from the wolf's mouth. ![]() ![]() Norman hails excellence of design as the most important key to regaining the competitive edge in influencing consumer behavior. In this entertaining and insightful analysis, cognitive scientist Donald A. The goal: guide the user effortlessly to the right action on the right control at the right time. The rules are simple: make things visible, exploit natural relationships that couple function and control, and make intelligent use of constraints. The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary relationships between controls and functions, coupled with a lack of feedback or other assistance and unreasonable demands on memorization. The fault, argues this ingenious–even liberating–book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. You can read this before The Design of Everyday Things PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Įven the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Design of Everyday Things written by Donald A. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. ![]() ![]() The Tell-Tale Heart promises much more of the same. the tension can be cut with a razor blade" (Northumberland Gazette). Rumpus' production of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum was "gripping and terrifying" (), "highly recommended" (.uk) while The Horrific Case of Mr Valdemar was "excellent. ClassicJoe proudly brings literary classics to todays digital readers, connecting those who love to read with authors whose. Detectives capture a man who admits to the killing of the old man with a strange eye. Be it mystery, romance, drama, comedy, politics, or history, great literature stands the test of time. 'The Tell-Tale Heart' is an 1843 short story by Edgar Allan Poe. or is it the heart of the man you've just killed! In Edgar Allan Poes classic tale, a murderer is haunted by the beating of his victims heart. They're friendly enough, but will your conscience betray you? And what is that noise in your ears that grows ever louder? Is it the beating of your own guilty heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() Imagine someone heard the scream and the police come calling. Rumpus Theatre Company presents the supernatural murder mystery.īased on Edgar Allan Poe's classic Victorian chiller ![]() |