![]() ![]() Mixing the skilful, tragic punch of Dave Eggers and the romantic honesty of Nick Hornby, LOVE IS A MIX TAPE is a story of lost love and the kick-you-in-the-gut energy of great pop music. Stone contributing editor Rob Sheffield, its all that and more, captured on countless cassettes and in the title of his new memoir, Love Is a Mix Tape. The tunes were among the great musical output of the early 1990s – Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Pavement, Yo La Tengo, REM, Weezer – as well as classics by The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Aretha Franklin and more. ![]() There are mixes to court each other, mixes for road trips, mixes for doing the dishes, mixes for sleeping – and, eventually, mixes to mourn Rob’s greatest loss. Rob and Renee’s life together – they wed after graduate school, both became music journalists, and were married only five years when Renee died suddenly on Mother’s Day, 1997 – is shared through the window of the mix tapes they obsessively compiled. In this stunning memoir, Rob Sheffield, a veteran rock and pop culture critic and staff writer for Rolling Stone magazine, tells the story of his musical coming of age, and how rock music, the first love of his life, led him to his second, a girl named Renee. ![]()
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She received lifetime achievement awards from the World Fantasy Convention, Los Angeles Times, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and Willamette Writers, as well as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award and the Library of Congress Living Legend Award. ![]() Le Guin was also the recipient of the Association for Library Service to Children’s May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award and the Margaret A. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America. ![]() Le Guin (1929–2018) was the celebrated author of twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. Her acclaimed books received the Hugo, Nebula, Endeavor, Locus, Otherwise, Theodore Sturgeon, PEN/Malamud, and National Book Awards a Newbery Honor and the Pushcart and Janet Heidinger Kafka Prizes, among others. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Except, and sometimes also, when she’s poisoned and/or has set herself on fire. She’s struggling to survive, has no idea what will happen next, and is loving every minute of it. Magic she can use to fight even bigger monsters. With no quest to follow, no guide to show her the way, and no real desire to be a Hero-Ilea embarks on a journey to discover a world full of magic. Well, maybe not her wildest dreams, but it’s close. On the bright side, "killing those monsters right back" is now a viable career path! For she soon discovers her new home runs on a set of game-like rules that will allow her to punch things harder than in her wildest dreams. So maybe it's lucky that she wakes up one day in a strange world where a bunch of fantasy monsters are trying to kill her? Instead, the plan is to quit her crappy fast-food job, go to college, and become a fully functioning member of society. Unfortunately, there aren’t too many career options for hungry brawlers. ![]() ![]() She is also the co-founder and executive director of the Sheba Center for International Development. Nadwa Aldawsari is a Yemeni civil society leader and researcher on tribal dynamics in the country. Nasser Arrabyee is a Yemeni journalist based in Sana’a and founder and president of Yemen Alaan, a media production company. In this new reality, will Yemen be able to find a balance of power, or will it descend into greater violence and instability? This event will explore the factors driving the Houthis, the current government, the former regime, the Islamist Islah party, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and address how these forces will shape Yemen’s domestic political map going forward.Ĭarnegie hosted a discussion on Yemen’s political players and the outlook for the country’s future. ![]() ![]() Houthi advances in Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a and the subsequent resignation of the president and his cabinet have thrown the country into chaos in recent weeks. ![]() ![]() ![]() Every aspect of the outer journey of Harry Haller mirrors Hermann Hesse’s life at the time.īut the more important journey of the Steppenwolf is inward, and here too the novel is autobiographical. He spent many nights drinking, learned to dance, and attended an artists’ masked ball during this time. He was depressed and often ill, suffering from the recent estrangement from his second wife, Ruth (who appears in Steppenwolf as “Erica”). Hess was 49 when he wrote Steppenwolf, living in a rented flat in Zurich. Harry Haller is but one of many Hesse characters with obvious autonames the name Hermann and the Kafkaesque H. ![]() Virtually every main character created by Hesse is a version of himself. For the German author Hermann Hesse, there was often only the thinnest of veils separating his life from his art. After all, imagination must somehow be rooted in experience. ![]() It is a simple truism that every work of fiction is, to some extent, autobiographical. Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf An Introduction ![]() |