Weird Black Girls

Weird Black Girls
Author: Elwin Cotman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2024-04-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1668018853

From Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black—a high-wire act of literary-fantastical hybrid fiction. A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as strange happenings escalate in a Mexican restaurant. A pair of narcissistic friends wreak havoc on an activist community. An aloof young man finds himself living through his lover’s memories. And a day of LARPing takes a cosmic turn. In each of the seven stories in this collection, characters pursue their obsessions on paths to glory and destruction while around them their worlds twist and warp, oscillating between reality and impossibility. On display throughout is Cotman’s ability to reveal truths about the human experience—about friendship, love, betrayal, bitterness—through whimsy, horror, and fantasy. Elegiac in tone, imaginative and humorous in their execution, the character-driven stories in Weird Black Girls challenge, incite, and entertain.

American Hippo

American Hippo
Author: Sarah Gailey
Publisher: Tordotcom
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-05-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250176425

In 2017 Sarah Gailey made her debut with River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow, two action-packed novellas that introduced readers to an alternate America in which hippos rule the colossal swamp that was once the Mississippi River. Now readers have the chance to own both novellas in American Hippo, a single, beautiful volume. Years ago, in an America that never was, the United States government introduced herds of hippos to the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This plan failed to take into account some key facts about hippos: they are savage, they are fast, and their jaws can snap a man in two. By the 1890s, the vast bayou that was once America's greatest waterway belongs to feral hippos, and Winslow Houndstooth has been contracted to take it back. To do so, he will gather a crew of the damnedest cons, outlaws, and assassins to ever ride a hippo. American Hippo is the story of their fortunes, their failures, and his revenge. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Silent Rebellion

The Silent Rebellion
Author: Chris Lewis
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2024-09-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 139861775X

Leaders ask questions. Rebellious leaderships is about asking the right ones, such as 'who needs to act' and 'what needs to be done to make this better'. In the aftermath of the global pandemic, everything has changed, and the fault lines of leadership were exposed. No area remains untouched. Government, education, health care social media, public, private and third sectors have all shifted. The failures of leadership demand a reimagining of how we will move ahead. Yet, it's not all doom and gloom. There is a way forward. Leadership expert, Chris Lewis, and business coach, Inez Robinson-Odom, address the challenges facing leaders today. This is not just theory. The lessons they teach come from working together in a commercially successful global enterprise, specializing in campaigns for commercial and community causes. The Silent Rebellion highlights the leaders of those communities and how they make a difference as modern leaders. The Silent Rebellion shows you how to be a different sort of leader. It considers the lessons of history and how they inform the future. Taking inspiration from unexpected places and unique figures such as Pauli Murray, Thomas Aquinas, George Washington Carver and Rene Descartes, you'll learn what it means to be a modern leader. The book also uses QR codes to link videos and examples of related content to bring the material to life.

Folklore and Literature

Folklore and Literature
Author: Bruce A. Rosenberg
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1991
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780870496813

Literature's dependence on a few folktale plots is a cliche, and the significance of structuralist theory cannot have escaped many scholars, so Rosenberg's insistence on the interrelation of folklore and literature is nothing new. He surveys the foundational work of Aarne, Thompson, and Propp and the oral-formulaic theories of Parry and Lord, but the references are too elliptical to be clear to nonspecialists, while explanations of methodology will be redundant to folklorists. Bits of good material, of interest to medievalists and other literary scholars (especially on Beo wulf and on Chaucerian narrative), are buried in this disjointed collection of chapters. Serious editorial lapses include the complete absence of footnotes, forcing inappropriate supplementary matter into the body of the text and further blurring its weak structure. The parity of literary and narrative-folklore studies is the author's underlying theme, but his preoccupation with status in the academic hierarchy does nothing to make his arguments on the symbiosis of the two disciplines more convincing. - Patricia Dooley, Univ. of Washington Lib. Sch., Seattle Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories

Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories
Author: David Shrayer-Petrov
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2014-04-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0815610335

These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. Dinner with Stalin features Soviet Jews grappling with issues of identity, acculturation, and assimilation. Shrayer-Petrov explores aspects of antisemitism and persecution, problems of mixed marriages, dilemmas of conversion, and the survival of Jewish memory. Both an author and a physician, Shrayer-Petrov examines his subjects through the double lenses of medicine and literature. He writes about Russian Jews who, having suffered in the former Soviet Union, continue to cultivate their sense of cultural Russianness, even as they—and especially their children—assimilate and increasingly resemble American Jews. Shrayer-Petrov’s stories also bear witness to the ways Jewish immigrants from the former USSR interact with Americans of other identities and creeds, notably with Catholics and Moslems. Not only lovers of Jewish and Russian writing but all discriminating readers will delight in Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories.

Tattooed Tails: short & even shorter global stories

Tattooed Tails: short & even shorter global stories
Author: Tim Devron Green
Publisher: New Generation Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2016-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1787190781

Tim has spent much of his life travelling on behalf of multinationals, and these short stories are inspired by his global journeys and adventures. They are gripping tales with dark twists, wicked humour, warmth and intrigue. Don't start reading this fascinating collection until you have a few hours spare, as you simply won't be able to put it down. Not surprisingly, Tim's short stories have already featured in critically acclaimed anthologies. Published reviews of Tim Devron Green's recent novel Drowning "e;It's hard for me to imagine an audience to which Drowning would not appeal."e; "e;Absolutely brilliant."e; "e;This a compellingly dark novel which, once past page 13, is impossible to put down."e; "e;This is a page turner with an interesting plot which twists and turns - just the thing for a long flight."e;