![]() ![]() Against this backdrop, Shilts tells the heroic stories of individuals in science and politics, public health and the gay community, who struggled to alert the nation to the enormity of the danger it faced. Shilts shows that the epidemic spread wildly because the federal government put budget ahead of the nation's welfare health authorities placed political expediency before the public health and scientists were often more concerned with international prestige than saving lives. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously? In answering these questions, Shilts weaves weaves the disparate threads into a coherent story, pinning down every evasion and contradiction at the highest levels of the medical, political, and media establishments. ![]() "And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic" by Randy Shiltsīy the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She does not agree that her son is the Son of God nor that his death was "worth it" nor that the "group of misfits he gathered around him, men who could not look a woman in the eye," were holy disciples. ![]() They are her keepers, providing her with food and shelter and visiting her regularly. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel. ![]() In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's crucifixion. Meryl Streep’s performance of Colm Tóibín's acclaimed portrait of Mary is hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “an ideal audiobook,” presenting the three-time Academy Award-winner in “yet another great role.” Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín's The Testament of Mary presents Mary as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity. ![]() ![]() ![]() In many cases, divorce is either difficult to obtain or not an option. Now you’ll find estranged lover plots in every sub-genre of romance, but in my heart of hearts I am a historical romance reader, and that is by far my favorite variation of estranged lovers. And estranged lover romances always have it in spades. It’s spelt a-n-g-s-t and it’s one of my basic food groups. But there’s something so captivating about two people with heaps of history piled between them having to find their way through so they can be together again. Obviously, I love novels about people falling in love for the first time. For another, estranged lovers is such an emotionally laden trope. ![]() For one thing, in the vast and interconnected web of romance tropes, estranged lovers touches so many of my other favorites: forced proximity, secret baby, crash the wedding, reveeeeenge. Every romance reader has their favorite tropes, and estranged lovers is definitely one of mine. ![]() ![]() ![]() During the Second World War, Christie worked in the pharmacy at University College Hospital in London, where she learned extensive details about various different kinds of poisons that eventually made it into several of her books. Her life was as full of mystery and intrigue as her stories her 11-day disappearance in 1926, following the breakdown of her first marriage, has led to speculation ever since, particularly as she never spoke about it again. The best-selling author of all time - only the Bible and Shakespeare have sold more copies - wrote 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, as well as several plays, one of which, The Mousetrap, is the longest-running play ever. ![]() ![]() It also contains some discussion of domestic abuse in Taken at the Flood.Īgatha Christie is known as the Queen of Crime for a reason. This post contains spoilers for The Hollow, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, A Murder is Announced, Murder on the Orient Express, The Witness for the Prosecution, Curtain, Taken at the Flood, Passenger to Frankfurt, and The Big Four. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A lifelong rap fanatic, he amplifies business lessons with lyrics from his favorite songs, telling it straight about everything from firing friends to poaching competitors, cultivating and sustaining a CEO mentality to knowing the right time to cash in.įilled with his trademark humor and straight talk, The Hard Thing About Hard Things is invaluable for veteran entrepreneurs as well as those aspiring to their own new ventures, drawing from Horowitz’s personal and often humbling experiences. Ben Horowitz analyzes the problems that confront leaders every day, sharing the insights he’s gained developing, managing, selling, buying, investing in, and supervising technology companies. 'Because hip-hop artists aspire to be both great and successful and see themselves as entrepreneurs, many of the themes - competing, making money, being misunderstood - provide insight into the hard things.' 1. ![]() While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult it is to run one. This book is the backstory to his blog, his difficulties, and patterns. Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley’s most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential advice on building and running a startup-practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everything I had known of him was 3rd person. I am an admirer of Apple, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.well, iWOZ an admirer or Wozniak. From the invention of the first personal computer to the rise of Apple as an industry giant, iWoz presents a no-holds-barred, rollicking, firsthand account of the humanist inventor who ignited the computer revolution. Wozniak's life before and after Apple is a "home-brew" mix of brilliant discovery and adventure, as an engineer, a concert promoter, a fifth-grade teacher, a philanthropist, and an irrepressible prankster. ![]() ![]() But in 1975, a young engineering wizard named Steve Wozniak had an idea: what if you combined computer circuitry with a regular typewriter keyboard and a video screen? The result was the first true personal computer, the Apple I, a widely affordable machine that anyone could understand and figure out how to use. They had cryptic switches, punch cards, and pages of encoded output. ![]() The mastermind behind Apple Computer sheds his low profile and steps forward to tell his story for the first time.īefore cell phones that fit in the palm of your hand and slim laptops that fit snugly into briefcases, computers were like strange, alien vending machines. ![]() ![]() ![]() Carrie Soto is the child of an immigrant, whose ambition means she can never fit in, and yet she goes on to dominate. In fact, it was watching Williams in the US Open that gave TJR a ‘little flutter of an idea.’ She defied the odds at every turn. I’ve built a career on channelling anger and negativity and turning it into something good.’ It’s the singular, champion’s mindset shared by Soto that pumps through this book. The essence of being Serena, she wrote, ‘is expecting the best from myself and proving people wrong. ![]() It all signifies an evolution a fresh start. ![]() ![]() On it, the muscular figure that has won her 23 Slams is wrapped in a pure blue Balenciaga gown, her five-year-old daughter Olympia hiding behind its long train: a reminder of all her life’s complexities and contradictions. 'Carrie Soto Is Back,' out August 30, turns a side character from Read With Jenna pick 'Malibu Rising' into a protagonist. TJR might thank Serena Williams for her retirement, announced this summer in an emotional American Vogue essay and a cover shot by Alberto Rodrigues. Taylor Jenkins Reid, a Read With Jenna and New York Times bestselling author, is back with a new book but it may seem familiar to fans of her novels. But glamorous young players like Emma Raducanu are coming onto the scene Visionhaus/Getty Images ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I laughed out loud several times while reading it.There's a romance that develops between Judy and a relative of one of her college friends, but she is concerned about her background and the fact that he comes from an upper-class family. (She knows that one of the reasons he chose to help her is that she wrote a humorous school essay mocking the trustees' annual visit to the orphanage)It's partly a wonderful window into the world of 1912, from the social attitudes to orphans, to the clothes worn by young women, but it's also very funny. As she's only even seen his elongated shadow, she nicknames him "Daddy Long Legs".She tells him about what she's learning, what she thinks of it, cheerfully berates him for never writing back, tells him of what she gets upto with her friends, comments on all kinds of things with a cheerful irreverence. She doesn't know what his name is, but the deal is that he supports her education as long as she writes him a regular letter about what she's doing. I was pleased to discover that I enjoyed it even more as an adult.It's a series of letters from an orphan to the mysterious benefactor who is paying for her college education. I originally read this when I as young and never forgot it. ![]() My brain went "You can get it free on Project Gutenberg!" and about half an hour later, I had it on my ebook reader. One of my Dreamwidth friends recently mentioned "Daddy Long Legs" in her journal. ![]() ![]() Even more, in their outrage: Trump was a menace and an affront to our democracy. In the early months of Trump’s candidacy, the Republican Party’s most important figures, people such as Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham, were united-and loud-in their scorn and contempt. “The new must read summer book.” –Stephanie Ruhleįrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington’s “swamp” into a gold-plated hot tub-and a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cult. “Really fascinating.There are so many revelations.” –Anderson Cooper “His writing is so damn good.” –John Berman ![]() “This is a really funny book.” –Kara Swisher “He’s one of the best chroniclers of politics today.” –Jake Tapper ![]() ![]() ![]() So when I say that my first experience of being workshopped at Iowa was violent, I don’t mean to imply that it was also surprising. I put up a story for workshop knowing that this was the sort of place whose students, even almost a decade later, carried with them bruises of having their work split apart. A friend of mine there was a graduate of the workshop from ten years back, and each time we ran into each other at parties, she’d lean back and laugh and tell me what a great time she’d had, and then she’d begin to unspool for me the same five or six negative incidents that had plagued her time here. Before I came to the Writers’ Workshop, I was living in Wisconsin, studying science. I had heard rumors both about the teacher and about the place in general. The first time I workshopped a story at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop was a wholly violent experience, the aftershocks of which still pulse through my life. ![]() |