In 2017, the first TV series was created by Saverio Costanzo and co-produced by Rai Fiction, TimVision, Wildside and Fandango, taken from the novel, released on Italian and US screens in 2018 with Margherita Mazzucco in the role of Elena and Gaia Girace in the role of Lila. The story would not be the same without its backdrop: Naples is the third protagonist of the novel, with its fresco of voices, breathless contradictions and emotions. Their friendship is indissoluble: Elena and Lila blend and confuse with each other, complete and annihilate each other in a visceral bond of deep intelligence and intense feeling. Published in 2011, it was followed by three volumes: “ Story of a new name” in 2012, “ Those who leave and those who stay” in 2013 and finally “ The story of the lost child” in 2014.Įlena Ferrante’s tetralogy tells the life of Elena Greco and Raffaella Cerullo, respectively Lenù and Lila, born in the Rione, a district of Naples, from the 1950s to the 21st century. “ The brilliant friend” is Elena Ferrante‘s masterpiece novel.
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The jurors are not very far from Elizabeth. This is like this modern courthouse that was built in 1990. I’ve covered white-collar criminal trials in New York, and you have these century-old court buildings and these cavernous courtrooms. It’s interesting, the trial’s taking place in San Jose, which, not to offend anyone in Silicon Valley, is kind of a sleepy city. I think they got a ton of information from that lawsuit, and I think that lawsuit and PFM were instrumental in getting the criminal case off the ground. I’m not sure that prosecutors would have brought the criminal case if it hadn’t been for all these other private actions, especially PFM’s lawsuit in Delaware. I think that they definitely helped the government investigation with all the discovery, and they very much called attention to what Theranos had done. There were about a dozen suits filed by patients in Arizona that were consolidated into a class action. Theranos also settled that one, I think for $30 million, but then ended up not paying the whole sum and was sued again. He eventually reached a settlement and was made whole. Another investor that brought suit was a former investment banker named Robert Coleman. Well, when I came out with my first story in late 2015, Theranos still had something like $600 or $700 million in the bank, it had a ton of money left, and a lot of that money from that point on went to paying lawyers and went to paying for legal settlements. Her 2012 horror story "Magdala Amygdala" won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction and was selected to appear in The Best Horror of the Year Volume Five (edited by Ellen Datlow). One of her online humor stories, "Installing Linux on a Dead Badger", became the basis for a short humor collection of the same name published in 2007. Over 80 of her short stories have appeared in various magazines, anthologies, and collections, including Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Escape Pod and Short Trips: Destination Prague. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband and occasional coauthor Gary A. She is a graduate of the 1995 Clarion Workshop authors Nalo Hopkinson and Kelly Link were among her classmates. She graduated from Angelo State University and then moved to Bloomington, Indiana, for graduate studies in environmental science and journalism at Indiana University. Snyder (born 1971) is an American science fiction, fantasy, humor, horror, and nonfiction writer.īorn in South Carolina, Snyder grew up in San Angelo, Texas, after her father was briefly assigned to Goodfellow Air Force Base. Soft Apocalypses, Installing Linux on a Dead Badger, Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide, "Magdala Amygdala"Ģ014 Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide The movie cast Patty McCormack as Rhoda, whose chilling turn was awarded with an Academy Award nod for Best Supporting Actress. The Bad Seed 1956 movie was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and proved to be one of the biggest hits of the year. The Bad Seed was later adapted into a successful play, and its core concept of a killer child chilled viewers. Her mother discovers over the course of the novel Rhoda is actually a sociopath who is skilled at emotional manipulation and has no issue murdering those who threaten her. The story follows Rhoda Penmark, who on the outside is a polite, well-mannered little girl. The Bad Seed book was published in 1954 and was penned by author William March. Here's how Patty McCormack's cameo in The Bad Seed2018 plays homage to her chilling performance in the original movie. “ The main goal of Socratic Seminar is to build deep conceptual understandings of texts and ideas, where the word “text” is used loosely to refer to a piece of writing, visual art, music, or moment. So much so that if I ever return to the classroom, I’d want to try this way of facilitating learning. For me, it’s given me clarity and enthusiasm for this K-12 instructional methodology. In fact, it contains everything you need to know about the Socratic Seminar with step-by-step guidance and examples. It is a well-written book packed full of valuable information about the Socratic seminar. The Ultimate Socratic Classroom Guide for TeachersĬlassroom teachers, I’m so excited to tell you about The Power of the Socratic Classroom by Charles Ames Fischer. That being said, this is my honest review… When he asked me to take a look at his book, I was happy to read it. Disclosure: Chuck Fischer taught both my daughters in the 5th grade and I think he’s an incredible teacher. “The Terminal List” is based on a book written by former Navy SEAL Jack Carr, who serves as an executive producer on the series. Pratt celebrated the show’s popularity by sharing to his Instagram story a Daily Mail article with the following headline: “The new ‘Yellowstone’: Chris Pratt’s new Navy thriller ‘The Terminal List’ defies woke critics’ scathing reviews to shoot up ratings chart with 1.6 billion minutes of streams.” The show has proven to be a hit with viewers, with Nielsen reporting “The Terminal List” earned 1.6 billion minutes viewed in its first week. Chris Pratt has been generating headlines this week after celebrating the success of his Amazon Prime Video series “ The Terminal List,” which debuted July 1 to abysmal critical reviews. Which is easier said than done, since Terence seems bent on getting himself in trouble at any opportunity. Vaughn, or it’s back to the slammer for them all. The three of them have to stay in school, out of trouble, and on the good side of hard-assed caseworker Ms. So when do-gooder Douglas Healy shows up with a plan to put Gecko in a halfway house with two other young offenders, he jumps at the chance, even if it does mean he has to share a New York City apartment with Healy, 15-year-old killer Arjay Moran, and Terence Florian, who is always checking out the angles. But that doesn’t keep him out of juvenile detention - the worst place he’s ever been. He was just the driver of the getaway car. Graham “Gecko” Fosse wasn’t actually doing the robbery. and he’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that he doesn't! Gecko doesn’t want to go back to juvenile detention. Her most recent series include the Tales of Rowan Hood, featuring Robin Hood’s daughter, and the Enola Holmes mysteries, starring the much younger sister of Sherlock Holmes. Field award, various Children's Choice honors and numerous ALA Best Book listings. Springer's children's books have won her two Edgar Allan Poe awards, a Carolyn W. Her novels and stories for middle-grade and young adults range from contemporary realism, mystery/crime, and fantasy to her critically acclaimed novels based on the Arthurian mythos, I AM MORDRED: A TALE OF CAMELOT and I AM MORGAN LE FAY. In a career beginning shortly after she graduated from Gettysburg College in 1970, Springer wrote for ten years in the imaginary realms of mythological fantasy, then ventured on contemporary fantasy, magical realism, and women's fiction before turning her attention to children's literature. Nancy Springer has published forty novels for adults, young adults and children. When I talk about the “id,” I’m referring to the part of ourselves that, according to Freud, is subconsciously drawn to base urges and desires, to inappropriate desires and impulses. Through careful craft choices on the language and thematic level, writers of children’s verse can harness language, form, and theme in tandem to subvert didacticism and explore mischievous “id” desires in the safe space of a book. Silverstein’s subversive children’s verse uses poetry as a vehicle to inflict moral chaos, chasing kid lit out of the didactic and into pure, silly fun. It took a radical nonconformist, like poet Shel Silverstein, to upend the didactic era and scratch the “id” of children everywhere, inviting them to tease out their “inappropriate” inclinations. This approach means acting as a reaction to didactic traditions and the society’s pressure to “be good.” By “didactic,” I mean literature that is instructional, offering guidance, in particular of morals, values, and what’s deemed “good” as opposed to “unsavory.” Much of the earliest history of children’s literature is didactic. Children’s verse offers the opportunity to normalize children’s taboo feelings, urges, and actions. Some worked in shops, some were nurses or teachers, many were divorced, and all seemed to want to escape McCarthyism. There was a whole community of single women of moderate means from California and New York living in the neighborhood. She felt happy, like she was where she was supposed to be. She took a little house with a view of the mountains, and the hour-long trip over them in the morning to class seemed a small price to pay. She could commute to the District for classes, which she’d signed up for at the University City. Lorde fell in love with the neighborhood of Cuernavaca where they lived, and it took little urging to get her to move down to that area. Tammy was twelve and loved having Lorde around. She was white, progressive, and smart, and was in her early forties. Freida was a friend of Rhea’s and she lived in Mexico City post-divorce. She looked up Freida Mathews and her young daughter Tammy. She had conversations in part-English, part-Spanish with locals, but longed for a friend with whom she could speak English. She went to the Alameda, a park, and read in the evening. Everyone was kind to her and she was amazed at how good she felt seeing all of the brown faces around her. She walked miles in the city, growing more and more comfortable and curious with each passing day. Lorde wrote that Mexico City was “a sea of strange sounds and smells and experiences that I swam into with daily delight” (154). |