5/31/2023 0 Comments Thurber my life and hard times![]() His ongoing presence of certain palpable social qualities, often mistaken as flaws, Thurber effectively brings to focus through his characters. Certainly, such passages bring us to question: how does a writer so willing to address the insecurities of his region become such a glorified image of the city? The answer lies in the combination of what the city demands and what Thurber supplies. ![]() For example, “In the early years of the nineteenth century, Columbus won out, as state capital, by only one vote over Lancaster, and ever since then has had the hallucination that it is being followed, a curious municipal state of mind which affects, in some way or other, all those who live there” (Thurber 67). ![]() He personifies his city for its collective inferiority complex, stocking his text to the brim with accounts of superstition, boredom, fear of the weather, and unique mental unrest. Inspired by the life and “struggles” of his own adolescence on the East Side, this farce provided an identity for his hometown that has long been the subject of appropriate pull quoting and name dropping for columnists of the area for decades.5 Yet for a hometown hero, Thurber’s portrayal of Midwestern life is far removed from the usual sugar-coating you see in a lot of regional literature. ![]() Surely the unofficial spokesperson for Columbus, Ohio since the publication of his autobiographical farce My Life and Hard Times is James Thurber. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments The stranger and the plague![]() ![]() Here’s how ‘The Last of Us’ pulled it off.Īs is, the finale appears to have been forced to wrap before it was ready. HBO’s drama expands a beloved video game into a series that appeases longtime fans and appeals to new viewers. Television Preparing for ‘The Last of Us’ finale? Here’s our guide to the season’s key moments ![]() Though risky, the thoughtful, spacious storytelling paid off: “The Last of Us” has been The Television Conversation of the year, from its stunning premiere (HBO’s most popular in a decade behind the “Game of Thrones” prequel, “House of the Dragon”) to the moving love story in Episode 3 starring Murray Bartlett and Nick Offerman to last week’s hellish escape from a cannibal compound. One of the more impressive aspects of the show is how it’s dared to move slowly against the urgency of a plot in which time is running out for humanity, taking care to build a complex emotional bond between main characters Joel ( Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) while laying waste to zombies, FEDRA, Fireflies and other opposing forces in post-apocalyptic America. The zombie drama showed itself to be the rare video game adaptation, on the big or small screen, that honored its source material while taking its own detours for added depth and grace. ![]() Sticking the landing of the year’s most popular drama is not an enviable task, and “The Last of Us” set its own high bar heading into Sunday night’s finale. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Jenny jackson book![]() ![]() ![]() Pineapple Street moves between the perspectives of Sasha, Georgiana, and Darley with chapters assigned to each woman respectively throughout the novel. ![]() Our real focus is on the children, Chip, Darley and Georgiana, and their relationships: Chip is recently married to Sasha, an interior designer who hails from modest Rhode Island stock and is consequently distrusted by the other Stockton scions Darley renounced her trust fund to wed Malcolm, a second generation Korean American and aviation finance genius, but now has to deal with having no hereditary wealth, a cruelly unemployed husband, and two children Georgiana is spoiled, selfish, insecure and facing up to the personal questions posed by first loving a married co-worker and then repeatedly encountering the obnoxiously righteous and preposterously good-looking armaments heir Curtis McCoy. ![]() |