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“The voices gathered here display incredible wit, sincerity, and generosity; we are lucky to be able to listen to them.” —Artforum If you had the opportunity to meet your eighty-year-old self, what do you think she/he would tell you? That is the question artist Susan O’Malley, who was herself to die far too young, asked more than a hundred ordinary people of every age, from every walk of life. She then transformed their responses into vibrant text-based images. From a prompt to do things that matter to your heart, to a reminder that it’s okay to have sugar in your tea, these are calls to action and words to live by—heartfelt, sometimes humorous, and always fiercely compassionate. This stirring celebration of our collective humanity unveils the wisdom we hold inside ourselves right now. “Everyone, regardless of age, can take something away from this uplifting work.” —Real Simple
Containing the complete and annotated texts of six pamphlets written between 1609 and 1620, "Custome Is an Idiot" makes an invaluable contribution to the scholarship on early modern British cultural history, specifically on competing opinions about the role of women in society. During the early seventeenth century a fierce debate raged in British intellectual society regarding the role of women, how much is ordained by God, and how much is merely custom. The pamphlets that circulated at the time reveal a great deal about the terms of the debate, and these six constitute a significant body of primary literature, allowing the contending voices to be heard anew. Included here are two pamphlets about gossips by Samuel Rowlands, William Heale's treatise against wife-beating, Christopher Newstead's argument for the superiority of women, and Hic Mulier and Haec Vir, two pamphlets that address the theme of cross-dressing. Introductions by Susan Gushee O'Malley place each pamphlet in a wider context, and detailed annotations shed light on the individual texts.
'The body you are wearing used to be mine.' So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity and track down the agents who want to destroy her. She soon learns that she is a Rook, a high-ranking member of a secret organization called the Checquy that battles the many supernatural forces at work in Britain. She also discovers that she possesses a rare and deadly supernatural ability of her own.
Mags and her husband, Tom, are living a lie, hiding behind the facade of a happy, well-adjusted family. But something, someone, lingers in the background, just out of reach. When the brother of Tom's first love and Mag's best friend, Susan O'Malley, brings fresh news forty years after Susan's death, Tom and Mags begin to confront the ghosts of memory and guilt. Told from the point of view of both Mags and Tom (and briefly Susan herself), My Name Was Susan O'Malley explores the love and loss of those left behind - the collateral damage.In 1977, Susan O'Malley suffers from "disease of the mind." Like many who grappled with mental illness in the twentieth century, her voice is largely silent, yet even after her death, remains a lingering, often combative, presence in the lives of her closest friends. Forty years later, Tom, the drunk, Mags, the enabler and Susan, the memory, revisit the agony of shock therapy and its indelible effect on their lives.
Suzanne O'Malley takes a close look at the Andrea Yates murder trial and discovers medical misjudgment, professional negligence, misapplied law, and a revelation that led to the overturning of Yates's conviction. It took a jury less than four hours to find Houston housewife Andrea Yates guilty of the drowning deaths of three of her five children—and a mere half hour to sentence the troubled woman with a stunning history of severe mental problems to life in prison. But beyond the media coverage of her heinous crimes, there is a story that only investigative reporter Suzanne O'Malley has fully illuminated. This updated edition of Are You There Alone? features a new chapter on the appeal of the Yates case, as well as personal updates on both Andrea and Rusty Yates. Having drawn upon hundreds of interviews—with expert witnesses, close friends, family advisers, and Andrea and Rusty themselves—O'Malley has produced a riveting true-crime account that shatters our notions about criminal law, mental illness, death-penalty politics, and religious fanaticism in America today.
For more than 20 years, Gene Amole's columns have been delighting readers of the "Rocky Mountain News". This book features a selection of those well-loved columns--his first new collection in more than ten years.
Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop culture, Broad Strokes offers an entertaining corrective to that omission. Art historian Bridget Quinn delves into the lives and careers of 15 female artists from around the globe in text that's smart, feisty, educational, and an enjoyable read. Replete with beautiful reproductions of the artists' works and contemporary portraits of each artist by renowned illustrator Lisa Congdon, this is art history from the Renaissance to Abstract Expressionism for the modern art lover, reader, and feminist.
Dr. Susan O'Malley delivers a powerful message of triumph over adversity with a girlfriend vibe. Focusing on perseverance, personal responsibility and possibility, she outlines strategies she used to transform from a college drop-out and secretary to emergency room doctor and successful entrepreneur. A hard working girl who overcame every day and insurmountable obstacles to emerge victorious, Dr. O'Malley offers road-tested strategies for women everywhere to succeed. Tough Cookies Don't Crumble offers a road map. What happens next is up to you.
Marylou and Herbie, two garden slugs, write love poems in slime to one another but have trouble actually meeting.
These vivid oral histories of the lives of three remarkable political activists document a century of social change movements. Florence Luscomb campaigned for suffrage early in the century. Ella Baker was a civil rights organiser for over 50 years. Jessie Lopez De La Cruz, a lifelong farm worker, was the first woman to organise in the fields for the United Farm workers.