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![]() “ Eye of the Needle didn’t do anything radically new or ground-breaking. In 2013, Nyren presented Follett with his MWA Grand Master Award at the Edgars Banquet. Neil Nyren was the book’s American editor (acquiring it from Follett’s agent) and continued to work with Follett over subsequent years. See More: Revisiting the Edgar Awardsīecause Eye of the Needle was such a hit with the general public, I wanted to discuss its impact, on thrillers and on the publishing industry, with someone who contributed to its international success. ![]() It’s not only a near-perfect example of a thriller, but it’s also a novel that seems fresh and relevant over 40 years after it was written. Follett introduces complex protagonists, wraps the book around a real-life historical deception monumental in scale (the Allies’ efforts to deceive the Axis about the D-Day landing), paces the action carefully, then unleashes a real nail-biter of an ending. It’s also worth noting that the book is extremely good. ![]() ![]() The book sold at least 10 million copies by the author’s reckoning, was made into a film starring Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan and continues to engage readers today. Ken Follett published Eye of the Needle in 1978, and the book achieved a level of success that few other Edgar Award winners have matched I can only think of a small handful of Edgar winners that ascended to similar heights ( The Long Goodbye, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and The Day of the Jackal are probably the only other books on the list to reach the same level of sales and popularity). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With stunning language that that resonates long after the book’s conclusion, H is for Hawk is destined to be a classic of nature writing. It’s a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love.Īs John Vaillant’s The Tiger depicted the dangerous collision of people and nature, H is for Hawk evokes our deepest longings for something wild. White, best known for The Once and Future King. At the same time, it’s a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T. ISBN-13: 9780802123411 Summary Winner, 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize Winner, 2014 Costa Book of the Year and Biography Award When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. ![]() H is for Hawk is a record of a spiritual journey-an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald’s struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk’s taming and her own untaming. H Is for Hawk (MacDonald) H Is for Hawk Helen MacDonald, 2014 Grove/Atlantic 288 pp. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. She buys Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. White’s tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White’s struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T. Destined to be a classic of nature writing, the story of how one woman trained a goshawk.Īs a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Death is a notch on my toolbelt, one held together by my thoughts and my beliefs. That term has more of a horror movie look and feel to it, but it does have a place under the literary umbrella. ![]() Notice I didn't say everyone else is expendable. ![]() Everyone else in their world exists to add an element of depth or richness or they're there to create conflict, stir up some shit, right? It's really that simple. Yes, I decide what happens, to some extent, but sometimes that's not even true. I could give you a laundry list of reasons why they died, but at the very top would be the most important reason, the deep-rooted belief I didn't know I had, which was unearthed by this observation. In Lonely Moon, it was Hane's wife and child. ![]() My main characters deal with a great deal of death, and usually it's someone very close to them. This person asked me about death, specifically its role within my works. But, as I look inward, digging around in my head and tossing aside junk and useless crap, I'm finding something not new, but old, something in the back of my head that I didn't know about, but has always been there. And although it may seem very on purpose, I can assure you it has never been, at least consciously. Someone pointed out to me, very recently, a rather astounding yet inherent trait in my stories that I hadn't noticed before myself. ![]() ![]() ![]() Listen to the episode and read a transcript on Berkeley News. 2, 2021 talk was co-sponsored by Berkeley's Othering & Belonging Institute, the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, the Center for Research on Social Change, the Center for Race and Gender and the American Cultures Center. Moderated by Courtney Desiree Morris, artist and assistant professor, UC Berkeley.Jules Gill-Peterson, associate professor, Johns Hopkins University.Stanley, associate professor, UC Berkeley Dean Spade, professor, Seattle University School of Law. ![]() ![]() A panel of artists, organizers and academics discuss UC Berkeley professor Eric Stanley's 2021 book that interrogates why, in a time when we're told LGBT rights are advancing in the U.S., anti-trans violence continues to rise. ![]() ![]() ![]() You will find more of Summer’s writing at her website, and her tea and family themed blog. A failed suicide attempt puts him in touch with. Though her other books hold to those values, The Salvation of Jeffrey Lapin is her first novel written within an Orthodox framework. After 125 years of vampirism, Jeffrey Lapin wants to end his life of torment. Her books seek to navigate tough human relationships by the light of faith, daily rituals such as tea and coffee, and the love of friends and family. ![]() She is a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers guild, the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, the Southern Independent Booksellers Association, and the Heart of Carolina Chapter of Romance Writers of America. ![]() (2005, early church history and theology) from Duke University Divinity School, where she served as a T.A. She rejoices to share her life with her iconographer husband and their five children. Summer Kinard is a Greek Orthodox Christian writing in North Carolina. ![]() ![]() To uphold his oath and protect the human world from the supernatural, the Soul Catcher must look beyond the borders of his own land. Yet doing so means ignoring the trail of murder left by the Nightbringer and his jinn. In the process, she awakens an ancient power that could lead her to victory-or to an unimaginable doom.Īnd deep in the Waiting Place, the Soul Catcher seeks only to forget the life-and love-he left behind. Determined to stop the approaching apocalypse, she throws herself into the destruction of the Nightbringer. Laia of Serra, now allied with the Blood Shrike, struggles to recover from the loss of the two people most important to her. At the top of the list? The Blood Shrike and her remaining family. But for the Nightbringer, vengeance on his human foes is just the beginning.īy his side, Commandant Keris Veturia declares herself Empress, and calls for the heads of any and all who defy her rule. The long-imprisoned jinn are on the attack, wreaking bloody havoc in villages and cities alike. Picking up just a few months after A Reaper at the Gates left off. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prepare for the jaw-dropping finale of Sabaa Tahir's beloved New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes fantasy series, and discover: Who will survive the storm? ![]() ![]() He also publishes under the pseudonyms Wendelessen, Henri Cuiscard, and Jan Penalurick. De Lint's works include novels, novellas, short stories, chapbooks, and verse. After selling three novels in one year, his career soared and he has become a most successful fantasy writer. The combination of the success of his work, The Fane of the Grey Rose (which he later developed into the novel The Harp of the Grey Rose), the loss of his job in a record store, and the support of his wife, Mary Ann, helped encourage de Lint to pursue writing fulltime. He only began to write seriously to provide an artist friend with stories to illustrate. De Lint originally wanted to play Celtic music. De Lint was influenced by many writers in the areas of mythology, folklore, and science fiction. ![]() Due to his father's work as a surveyor, the family lived in many different places, including Canada, Turkey, and Lebanon. ![]() Charles de Lint, an extraordinarily prolific writer of fantasy works, was born in the Netherlands in 1951. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this case, he focuses on Doudna (pronounced DOWD-nuh) to explore the confluence of science, innovation, and ethics.ĭoudna was raised in Hawaii where with blonde hair and blue eyes she says she felt like "a complete freak." But she loved exploring nature in the surrounding meadows and sugarcane fields, and was encouraged by her father and a biology professor to think about a life devoted to science. ![]() Like his earlier books on Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, and Albert Einstein, Isaacson leans heavily on profiles to tell the broader story. ![]() It is being tested in food and animals and, in a limited way, to correct or treat genetic defects such as sickle-cell anemia. Isaacson makes it clear that RNA has played a starring role both in The Code Breaker, as well as in the life and career of its central character, Jennifer Doudna, who was the co-recipient - with Emmanuelle Charpentier - of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of CRISPR, the gene-editing technology.ĬRISPR is the unwieldy acronym for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which is essentially a natural way of altering or replacing DNA sequences in a cell. ![]() ![]() The Iliad is not only a variant in its own right, it is also a compression. In another or other versions of the story of Briseis, she is named Hippodameia and was taken from Pedasos. In the Iliad Briseis is named Briseis and she was captured by Achilles in the sack of Lyrnessos. In fact it is misleading to think of versions that differ from the Iliad as we know it as “variants.” If, for lack of a better word, we use the term variant, we must acknowledge that the Iliad is itself a variation on any number of ways to tell a story about Troy, and that within the Iliad itself there are references to other variants. In such a system, as Albert Lord demonstrated, there can technically be no original from which all others are copies. ![]() In an oral traditional song culture such as that in which the Iliad and Odyssey were composed, each new performance is a new composition. ![]() ![]() Briseis and the Multiformity of the Iliad ![]() |