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Hidden Histories
Third Flatiron Anthologies presents 28 short science fiction/fantasy/horror stories in the original anthology, "HiddenHistories." Tales range from dark to playful, featuring fantasticalelements, alternate history and secret histories, conspiracy theories,as well as a flash humor section, "Grins and Gurgles."An international group of new and established contributors includes Bruce Golden, Matthew Reardon, Brenda Kezar, Kai Hudson, Brian Trent, Jonathan Shipley, Dantzel Cherry, Edwina Shaw, Dennis Maulsby, Michael Robertson, Mike Barretta, Ricardo Maia, J.D. Blackrose, John A. Frochio, Arthur Carey, Sandra Ulbrich Almazan, Elizabeth Beechwood, Robert Dawson, James Chmura, Tony Genova, Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, Simon Lee-Price, Shannon McDermott, Jennifer Lee Rossman, H. J. Monroe, Evan A. Davis, Tyler Paterson, and A. Humphrey Lanham. Edited by Juliana Rew.
West of Rome
West of Rome's two novellas, "My Dog Stupid" and "The Orgy," fulfill the promise of their rousing titles. The latter novella opens with virtuoso description: "His name was Frank Gagliano, and he did not believe in God. He was that most singular and startling craftsman of the building trade-a left-handed bricklayer. Like my father, Frank came from Torcella Peligna, a cliff-hugging town in the Abruzzi. Lean as a spider, he wore a leather cap and puttees the year around, and he was so bowlegged a dog could lope between his knees without touching them."
Natura Morta
White peaches, red broom, pomegranates tumbling down the escalator steps: with these delicately rendered details, Josef Winkler's Natura Morta begins. In Stazione Termini in Rome, Piccoletto, the beautiful black-haired boy whose long eyelashes graze his freckle-studded cheeks, steps onto the metro and heads toward his job at a fish stand in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele. The sights and sounds of the market, a melange of teeming life amid the ever present avatars of death, is the backdrop for Winkler's innovative prose, which unfolds in a series of haunting images and baroque, luxuriant digressions with pitch-perfect symmetry and intense visual clarity. Reminiscent of the carnal vitality of Pasoli...
Origins of Words and Phrases
Reveals the secrets, scandals and surprises behind the words used every day. This book includes the stories and the personalities that have helped shape the English language from William Shakespeare and Lord Byron, to Rudyard Kipling and Salmon Rushdie.
The Street Kids
The Street Kids is arguably the most important novel by Italy's preeminent 20th century author, film director and political thinker Pier Paolo Pasolini. First published in 1955, it caused such public outrage that Pasolini was charged with obscenity. Although he was acquitted at trial, the novel was lambasted by critics and readers alike, until its undeniable force led to it being universally acknowledged as a masterpiece. Set in Rome during the post-war years, the Rome of the "borgate", outlying neighbourhoods beset by poverty and deprivation, it tells the story of a group of adolescents belonging to the urban underclass. Riccetto and his friends live day by day and hand-to-mouth, of odd jobs, petty crime and prostitution, their hunger growing as Italy begins to enjoy a period of economic growth and unprecedented change, until their needs too change beyond recognition. Rooted in the neorealist movement of the 1950s, The Street Kids is a tender, heart-rending tribute to an entire underclass in danger of being forgotten.
Alla fine John muore
Fermati. Non avresti dovuto toccare questo libro a mani nude. No, non metterlo giù. È troppo tardi. Ti stanno guardando. Il mio nome è David Wong, e il mio migliore amico si chiama John. Sono nomi falsi. Anche tu potresti voler cambiare il tuo. Potresti non voler sapere quello che stai per leggere sulla salsa di soia, Korrok, l’invasione, il futuro. Ma è tardi. Hai toccato il libro. Ci sei dentro. La tua unica difesa è la conoscenza. Devi leggere questo libro, fino alla fine. Anche la parte sui bratwurst. Non chiederti perché. Ti devi fidare e basta. La cosa più importante da sapere è: il nome della droga è ‘salsa di soia’ e apre una finestra su un’altra dimensione. John e io non abbiamo potuto rifiutarla. Tu puoi ancora farlo. Sfortunatamente per noi, se fai la scelta giusta, impiegheremo ancora di più a spiegarti come affrontare l’invasione aliena che minaccia l’umanità. Mi dispiace averti coinvolto, davvero. Ma se leggi di questi terribili eventi e dell’epoca buia in cui il mondo sta per sprofondare, tieni presente questo: non è stata colpa mia.
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Albrecht Dürer and the Epistolary Mode of Address
Art historians have long looked to letters to secure biographical details; clarify relationships between artists and patrons; and present artists as modern, self-aware individuals. This book takes a novel approach: focusing on Albrecht Dürer, Shira Brisman is the first to argue that the experience of writing, sending, and receiving letters shaped how he treated the work of art as an agent for communication. In the early modern period, before the establishment of a reliable postal system, letters faced risks of interception and delay. During the Reformation, the printing press threatened to expose intimate exchanges and blur the line between public and private life. Exploring the complex tra...
Queering Italian Media
Queering Italian Media analyzes and offers queer readings of LGBTQIA+ representation in Italian media. The contributors apply various understandings of "queer" and "media" as they discuss the relationship between the political and social lives of queer populations in Italy and investigate their representations in film, news media, television, social media, and viewer-generated media sites. Queering Italian Media examines queer positionality, challenges notions of Italianness as it relates to and is reflected in media, and queers understandings of viewer engagement and participation in media consumption and production.
