![]() ![]() ![]() The awkward puzzle of his question passed with one kiss after another until I was panting and clinging to him. Maybe my handsome mark for the evening was one of those low-key famous people? Either way, I was less interested in that than the fact that I was pretty sure his lips had extra muscles for how perfectly they clasped and took control of mine. Hmm, maybe the fancy suit wasn’t from the finance district. He relaxed and shook his head, smile returning. “Why would I be here for you specifically? I mean, after you crashed into me, yeah, you specifically.” “Me specifically?” he asked, stilling and frowning. What did he want me to be? Shy and innocent? Or a vixen? “Will you be offended if I admit I came here pretty much for this reason?” I asked, glancing at him from under my lashes. ![]()
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If they don’t prevent him from breaking free in a few days’ time, the world will come to an end. ![]() ![]() As descendants of the House of Life, the Kanes have some powers at their command, but the devious gods haven’t given them much time to master their skills at Brooklyn House, which has become a training ground for young magicians.Īnd now their most threatening enemy yet – the chaos snake Apophis – is rising. Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed in the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister Sadie have been in trouble. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Yasodhara’s life has already become intertwined with a young Tamil girl’s… Saraswathie is living in the active war zone of Sri Lanka, and hopes to become a teacher. Yasodhara’s family escapes to Los Angeles. 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Their voices are ‘the chattering of crows in a distant sycamore.’ There is awe in these voices, and self-deprecation, and lament. “The ghosts that haunt Iain Haley Pollock’s poems have substance. ![]() Tyehimba Jess, author of Olio, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Iain Pollock has a slow, steady hand that's fine tuning the pentatonic chambers where whole and half notes of the heart glisten the world. This Ghost, like a Place is a phantasm of small psalms settling into territory familiar with new beginnings and bearing ragged, but revealing truths. ![]() Memory, culpability, and our very humanness course through this book and strip us down to find joy and inspiration amid the darkness. This collection highlights the complexities of fatherhood and how to raise young kids while bearing witness to the charged movements of social injustice and inequities of race in America. He also serves as poetry editor at Solstice Literary Magazine. Pollock teaches English at Rye Country Day School in Rye, NY, and is a member of the poetry faculty at the Solstice MFA program of Pine Manor College. Individual poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Baffler, and The New York Times Magazine. Iain Haley Pollock is the author of two poetry collections, Ghost, Like a Place and Spit Back a Boy, which won the 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. ![]() ![]() The kitchen, overlooking a large chestnut tree and a field of barley, is a nest of foraged treasures: bird feathers (including one of Mabel’s, who died just before the book was published), her collection of glasses from extinct American airlines – Pan Am, TWA a guillemot’s skull from a school trip when she was 11. The success of Hawk meant she was able to buy this cottage, crouched between a pub and a church in a tiny Suffolk village. “To talk about nature is to open yourself up to constant grief,” she says. ![]() Where her first book was written “trapped inside the walls” of personal grief, her new collection of essays, Vesper Flights, is a lamentation for the world itself. H Is for Hawk, which tells of her attempts to train a goshawk called Mabel after the sudden death of her father, was at once a devastating memoir and an elegant addition to the burgeoning genre of contemporary nature writing, winning both the Costa book of the year and the Samuel Johnson prize for nonfiction in 2014. Loss and grief are the emotional landscape of Macdonald’s work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Articulating something as deeply personal and individual as gender dysphoria can be difficult when a non-trans audience may be reading about it for the first time, and many memoirs rely on past-tense reflection. 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Christine Jorgensen wrote and published her memoir prior to the Stonewall Uprising. Trans memoirs have long been the main outlet for trans people to articulate their narratives and journeys of gender and self-discovery. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961-1991 (image courtesy of Nightboat Books) ![]() |