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![]() ![]() ![]() The book starts by introducing Yunior, the fictional author of Oscar Wao’s biography, and the curse that has shaped the events of Oscar’s life. Yunior also adds footnotes throughout the book with humorous asides, stories of Dominican history, or quotes from other books that help illuminate Oscar’s life. Interweaved throughout, Yunior also tries to explain and understand his own failed relationship with Oscar’s sister, Lola, and the Dominican heritage that binds them all together. Told by Oscar’s college roommate, Yunior, the book also includes flashbacks into the lives of Oscar’s mother and his grandfather, as they suffered during the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic and finally came to America. The book shares the story of Oscar Wao (whose real name is Oscar de León), a Dominican American who never fits in with his communities, as he tries to assert his own identity and find love in the process. ![]() ![]() But one of the most important things Americans engaged in racial-justice work can do is understand how anti-Black racism has operated over time. ![]() “When you as a scholar are speaking from truth and evidence, and you’re going against forces that don’t have to be restricted by truth or evidence, it’s extremely hard to combat that,” said Kendi.Īs a historian, Kendi recognizes that many people aren’t taught the full story of America’s past. Kendi suggested that some criticism is based on a maligned characterization used for talking points – and has little to do with his actual work. That complexity doesn’t often show up in public dialogue, but it did on stage in this conversation, which will be broadcast on Monday, May 15 at 7pm on KCTS 9.Ĭornish and Kendi discussed how Kendi’s words have been misinterpreted and warped for political or monetary gain. “And I define an antiracist idea as any idea that says the racial groups are equal.”īy this definition, a person could act racist and antiracist in the same conversation – even in the same breath. “I define an antiracist as someone who is expressing an antiracist idea or supporting an antiracist policy with their actions,” Kendi has written. ![]() ![]() ![]() One thing that people sometimes get wrong? He doesn’t think we should see “racist” as a pejorative term. Kendi often sees a gap between his scholarship and the way his work is talked about in the public consciousness. ![]() ![]() ![]() He wrote many of his works in prison.Īs one of the introductory authors mentioned "that those who read know of Sade, but very few ever actually read Sade." I was this person until I finally read this book. ![]() During the French revolution, people elected this criminal as delegate to the National Convention. Morality, religion or law restrained not his "extreme freedom." Various prisons and an insane asylum incarcerated the aristocrat for 32 years of his life: ten years in the Bastile, another year elsewhere in Paris, a month in Conciergerie, two years in a fortress, a year in Madelonnettes, three years in Bicêtre, a year in Sainte-Pélagie, and 13 years in the Charenton asylum. His best erotic works combined philosophical discourse with pornography and depicted fantasies with an emphasis on criminality and blasphemy against the Catholic Church. His works include dialogues and political tracts in his lifetime, he published some works under his own name and denied authorship of apparently anonymous other works. This aristocrat, revolutionary politician, and philosopher exhibited famous libertine lifestyle. After this writer derives the word sadism, the deriving of sexual gratification from fantasies or acts that involve causing other persons to suffer physical or mental pain. ![]() A preoccupation with sexual violence characterizes novels, plays, and short stories that Donatien Alphonse François, comte de Sade but known as marquis de Sade, of France wrote. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sofer is also the author of “ The Septembers of Shiraz,” which was selected a New York Times Notable Book of the Year as well, among other accolades. The New York Times Book Review hailed it as “… a master class in the layering of time and contradiction that gives us a deeply imagined, and deeply human, soul.” Set in Iran and New York City, Sofer’s “Man of My Time” is the story of an Iranian man reckoning with his capacity for love and evil. Ahmadi, also a critically acclaimed Iranian author and visiting professor in the MFA program, was the series’ first speaker in October. The reading series is presented by City College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, where Sofer, who was born in Tehran and moved to New York as a child, teaches. ![]() Award-winning author Dalia Sofer discusses her novel “ Man of My Time,” a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Notable Book of 2020, in the second edition of The City College of New York's “ Writers on Iran” reading series on Friday, Nov. ![]() ![]() ![]() He lived his convictions out in the open and went to great lengths to shock people out of their habitual stupor, using a form of philosophy that was almost slapstick.” Diogenes famously lived doing nothing, refusing to accept the values of others. Noting Plato’s characterization of Diogenes as “Socrates gone mad,” Odell astutely observes that whereas Socrates “famously favored conversation, Diogenes practiced something closer to performance art. Diogenes is famous for, among other things, living in a tub (or barrel) that he’d roll around Athens and walking around with a lantern, saying he was looking for an honest person. Her portrait of Diogenes is instructive in an unexpected way for understanding the art of doing nothing. Philosophy, which was about living simply, naturally and without shame, all while rejecting the artificial trappings of society. In one of the book’s most persuasive sections, Odellĭiscusses the Greek philosopher Diogenes, who is more commonly known through anecdotes about his way of life rather than his ![]() ![]() ![]() Featuring humorous tangents, never-before-seen photos, wild characters, and Bob's trademark unflinching drive and humour, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama is a classic showbiz tale told by a determined idiot. One of the running themes of Comedy, Comedy, Comedy, Drama is craftsmanship: Odenkirk prides himself on being a rigorous sculptor of comic ideas, and he describes the careful shaping. ![]() ![]() And yet he will try like hell to explicate it for you. Random House, 28 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4 Comedian and actor Odenkirk ( A Load of Hooey) spills on the good, the bad, and. Show, as a performer and writer on legendary series such as The Larry Sanders Show and Saturday Night Live, becoming everyone's favourite lawyer in global hit TV series' Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, and what it's like to reinvent himself as an action film ass-kicker at fifty in Nobody. Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir Bob Odenkirk. In this brilliantly entertaining and heartfelt memoir, beloved star and comic maverick Bob Odenkirk writes honestly about the highs and lows of showbiz: his work on infamous cult comedy Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Davey Todd leads the chasing pack in a scintillating Supersport race That charge saw Seeley cross the line in front of Cooper, Todd, Dunlop, Harrison and Hickman as the leaders headed out on their final lap of six. Lap five yielded a new lap record for 13-time Supersport winner Seeley on his V2 Ducati - the Carrickfergus rider circulating at 118.066mph, more than a second inside Todd's previous benchmark. ![]() To the delight of many of the thousands of spectators around the course, Dunlop hit the front on his MD Racing Yamaha by the end of the fourth circuit but the thrilling action continued for the final two laps. The lead changed throughout as the middleweight class lived up to its reputation for close exciting racing but it was Nottingham rider Richard Cooper who led across the line on each of the first three laps.īehind him, Todd, Michael Dunlop, Peter Hickman, Dean Harrison, Alastair Seeley and Adam McLean were lined up waiting to take advantage of any slip-up. ![]() Davey Todd delivers a NW200 Supersport victoryĪfter a delay, the action got underway again in fast and furious fashion as seven riders jockeyed for position at the front around the 8.9-mile Triangle circuit. ![]() ![]() But 'impossibility' is not only about science. Only those cultures for whom there existed a belief that there was a distinction between the possible and the impossible provided natural breeding grounds for scientific progress. The incontrovertible evidence that Nature is governed by reliable 'laws' allows us to separate the possible from the impossible. Yet, paradoxically, science is only possible because some things are impossible. Scientists like to show that things widely held to be impossible are in fact entirely possible philosophers, by contrast, are more inclined to demonstrate that things widely regarded as perfectly feasible are in fact impossible. PHILIP GUEDALLA Both scientists and philosophers are much concerned with impossibilities. OXFORD 1998 Preface The Preface is the most important part of the book.BARROW Astronomy Centre University of Sussex OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ![]() ![]() KURT GÖDEL In memory of Roger Tayler Impossibility The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits JOHN D. The meaning of the world is the separation of wish and fact. ![]() ![]() ![]() Calvin Coolidge's leadership provides urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt and government power. The autobiography offers great insight into the man and his philosophy. The New York Times called him 'the most literary man who has occupied the White House since 1865.' One biographer wrote that Coolidge's autobiography 'displays a literary grace that is lacking in most such books by former presidents.' The Coolidge who emerges in these pages is a model of character, principle, and humility - rare qualities in Washington. ![]() The man caricatured as 'Silent Cal' was a gifted writer. Now she presents an expanded and annotated edition of that president's masterful memoir.The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge is as unjustly neglected as Calvin Coolidge himself. Amity Shlaes reclaimed a misunderstood president with her bestselling biography Coolidge. ![]() |