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☆ Megan Abbott, Bonnie Garmus and More Writers on the Books They Love
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

It’s more science fiction-y than the better-known “Handmaid’s Tale,” but just as satirical, with its warning about multinational corporations and genetic engineering. Bonnie Garmusauthor of “Lessons in Chemistry”According to her older brother, Ashmol, Kellyanne Williamson is a fruit loop. When Pobby and Dingan disappear thanks to her alcoholic father, it seems clear Kellyanne must finally grow up. POBBY AND DINGAN, Ben Rice’s short, tight treatise on love, sacrifice and grief is so flawlessly written, you’ll read it in two hours but remember it forever. This is a major novel that, like all major novels, doesn’t quite resemble anything else you’ve read.

Persons: Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, It’s, David Cronenberg, Bonnie Garmus, Ashmol, Kellyanne Williamson, —, Ben Rice’s, you’ll, Michael Cunningham, Kaveh Akbar, Joe Hill, “, Francis Spufford’s Locations: Spufford’s, York City, America

☆ A Pandemic Novel That Never Says ‘Pandemic’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Caleb Crain | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

DAY, by Michael CunninghamMichael Cunningham’s new novel, “Day,” visits a family on April 5 in 2019, 2020 and 2021 — before, during and after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, which shadows the book although the words “Covid” and “pandemic” never appear. Both she and Dan consider her gay brother, Robbie, a sixth-grade teacher who lives alone in the attic of their brownstone, to be their closest friend. The novel’s first April day, in 2019, finds Isabel apologizing to Robbie because she and Dan are about to evict him. To soften the blow, Isabel recalls an old daydream. In his first novel, “A Home at the End of the World,” a gay man, a bisexual man and a straight woman tried to raise a child in an upstate house.

Persons: Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham’s, ”, Isabel, Dan, Robbie, “, ” Robbie, Cunningham

☆ Michael Cunningham Couldn’t Help but Write a Pandemic Novel
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Alexandra Alter | More About Alexandra Alter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

With his fourth novel, “The Hours,” Cunningham repaid his debt to Woolf, and established himself as one of the country’s most talented and ambitious literary writers. Cunningham set out to write a modern update of “Mrs. He did something almost equally audacious, casting Woolf in his novel and burrowing into her psyche, a choice he knew was presumptuous. Cunningham’s audacity paid off: The novel won a Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into a star-studded feature film and an opera. Cunningham sank into depression, convinced that “it can only be downhill from here,” and struggled to start a new novel.

Persons: ” Cunningham, Woolf, Cunningham, Dalloway, Clarissa, ”, Walt Whitman, “, Covid Locations: California, New York, United States

☆ Douglas Stuart Doesn’t Need 3 People at His Dream Dinner Party
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I’ve been itinerant lately, so I tend to carry my reading everywhere I go. Right now, I’m trying to make sense of the forces that misshaped me, so I’m reading “The Reformation: A History,” by Diarmaid MacCulloch, and “The Scottish Enlightenment,” by Arthur Herman. What’s the last great book you read? Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). A great book can make any reading experience ideal.

Persons: I’ve, Diarmaid MacCulloch, ”, Arthur Herman, I’m, Pam Zhang, Catherine Lacey, David Hare, Michael Cunningham’s, Alan Bennett, John Lahr’s, Joe Orton, Sebastian Barry, Tomasi di Lampedusa, Maria McCann’s Organizations: Scottish Locations: Edinburgh, “

☆ Hertz apologizes after refusing rental to Puerto Rican
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Maria Santana | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Hertz has apologized to a Puerto Rican customer after one of its employees refused to rent him a car he had paid for in advance because he did not show her his passport. Humberto Marchand said that he traveled to New Orleans last Wednesday and presented his Puerto Rican driver’s license at the Hertz counter at the Louie Armstrong International Airport. Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States, and anyone born on the island is by law a US citizen. In a statement to CNN, Hertz (HTZ) said that the company accepts Puerto Rican driver’s licenses from customers renting in the United States without requiring a valid passport. It is not clear if Hertz took any disciplinary action against the employee, however, the company said that this employee, like all their employees, has been reminded of their longstanding policy related to Puerto Rican driver’s licenses.

☆ His power secure at home, China’s Xi Jinping goes on a charm offensive abroad
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | Evelyn Cheng Is A News Associate With Cnbc. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

BEIJING — Now that he has consolidated power at home, Chinese President Xi Jinping is stepping out onto the world stage to strengthen relations with the U.S. and other countries. Most recently, Xi hosted European Council President Charles Michel in Beijing on Thursday. In a speech at the party congress, Xi said the party has “safeguarded China’s dignity” in the face of international changes and warned of “dangerous storms” ahead. The following week, the countries’ military leaders met for the first time since Pelosi’s controversial Taiwan visit in August. Heads of Japan, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia and Italy met with both Xi and Biden in the last several weeks, based on government announcements.

☆ China's Xi has met with more than 25 world leaders since consolidating power at home
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Evelyn Cheng | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

China's President Xi Jinping attends a session during the G20 Summit on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on November 16, 2022. BEIJING — A month after consolidating power at home, Chinese President Xi Jinping has stepped out onto the world stage to strengthen relations with the U.S. and other countries. Most recently, Xi hosted President of the European Council Charles Michel in Beijing on Thursday. "He met with leaders of advanced industrial democracies for the first time since the pandemic began and amid fraught relations between China and the West. Most of Xi's meetings fueled a positive outlook for stabilizing relations."

☆ ‘The Hours’ Review: A Woolf Pack of Divas at the Met
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Heidi Waleson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

New York‘The Hours,” by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Greg Pierce , which had its world-premiere staged production at the Metropolitan Opera last Tuesday, is clever in concept. Its sources—the 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Cunningham and the 2002 all-star film by Stephen Daldry —supply juicy roles for three women playing characters experiencing traumas in three separate eras, related through Virginia Woolf’s novel “Mrs. Dalloway.” The structure of opera permits techniques of simultaneity and overlap that exist in no other medium. From a marketing standpoint, the creation of “The Hours” was driven by soprano Renée Fleming , once the Met’s most beloved diva, whose 2017 “Der Rosenkavalier” at the house supposedly marked her retirement from staged opera. On Tuesday, she returned in the role of Clarissa Vaughan, custom tailored for her voice.

☆ (vox) E dincolo de fizic și se regăsește în trăiri și emoții. Tinerii din Moldova ne spun ce înseamnă pentru ei frumusețea
▼ + stars: | 2020-09-09 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +7 min

Frumusețea e în suflet” – Mihaela Milea. „Frumusețea e o abstracție a lumii în care trăim”„Pentru mine, frumusețea este relativă. Și nu pot să nu zic și de frumusețea interioară, fiindcă anume ea va salva lumea: zâmbetele oamenilor, bunătatea, înțelepciunea, dragostea etc. Fiecare om e capabil să găsească frumusețea în aproape orice expresie a artei, a unui obiect sau a unei ființe. Lumea pune standarde în modă, în oameni și, mai nou, pe media de socializare, unde se cuvine să ai o viață frumoasă.

Persons: Alex Buretz, Victoria Surdu, Mihaela Milea, Gabriela Stratu, Elizaveta Mihalache, Alexandru, Emilia, Dumitru, Irina Lanciu, Charles Baudelaire, Michael Cunningham, Igor Kornilov ., Daniela Luca ., Ecaterina Buruiană

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