#Garth McCann

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Secondhand Lions (2003)

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The Misadventure of the McCanns, the Princess, and Rick O'Connell: A Bullet Point Story Of AU Proportions, Dastardly Deeds and Shocking Heroism That Will Chill, Thrill, and Surprise You! Part One.

Cairo, January 1924

One morning at the beginning of the year, two visitors from Rick’s past show up at the door of the Zamalek house. Rick is the one who answers the door. He opens it, sees the men on the step, and slams it shut again, locking it for good measure. 

“Come on, O’Connell!” hollers the man on the other side, “open up!”

“Go away, Hub!” Rick yells, leaning against the door as if holding it shut, “I’m married now! I have a wife and a brother-in-law who thinks he’s good at cards and I’m halfway through a B.A.! I don’t do dangerous anymore!”

“Oh yeah? Rumor has it you were involved in that weirdness here a few years back!”

“Not willingly!” Rick yells. 

“Damn it, Rick, open the goddamn door!”

The noise has alerted Evie, who ambles into the front hall to see her tall, strong, brave husband cowering behind the door. She asks who it is. 

“Hub and Garth McCann!” Rick says, which explains exactly nothing. ��Guys I knew in the Legion. Crazy motherfu–heroic types. They attract trouble like bees to honey. I told them to go away.”

“Don’t be such a baby,” Evie says, reaching past Rick to open the door.

This is so patently unfair that Rick just glowers as his gorgeous, smart, librarian-with-absolutely-no-sense-of-self-preservation wife invites Hub and Garth McCann into their home and offers them coffee and biscuits. He glowers at them as they eat and drink and make small talk with Evie. He glowers when Hub sets his coffee cup down and addresses him. 

“I need your help,” he says.

“Absolutely not,” Rick replies.

“Told you so,” says Garth.

“What kind of help?” asks Evie.

The very long and convoluted story that follows boils down to this: there’s this girl (because of course there is) that Hub is madly in love with (why wouldn’t he be?), but she’s promised in marriage to a certain sheik (naturally) and Hub wants to rescue her from the harem and marry her himself (because of course he does). He and Garth have the whole thing worked out: they’ll infiltrate the palace and rescue the princess, and all Rick has to do is pose as a wealthy American tourist on vacation and spirit them all away in his aeroplane to Egypt and safety. 

“I haven’t got an aeroplane,” Rick says. 

“I’ve got a guy,” Hub says.

“Of course you do,” Rick says. 

“Of course we’ll help!” says Evie, because of course she does. 

Rick snarls.

“We’re going to die,” he says later, after the McCanns have left. “We’ve been married less than two years and you’re sending me to my death.”

“Don’t be so dramatic,” Evie replies. She’s already packing him a bag. “You won’t be anywhere near the danger. The whole point of you being there is to be the secret rescuer, not the public one. You’re doing the sneaky bit.” As if there is anything sneaky about kidnapping a princess and fleeing a country.

 It isn’t kidnapping, per se, Evie points out. It’s a liberation. No woman should be forced into a loveless marriage, and Hub McCann seems to be a stand-up man. When he’s not getting into brawls, Rick thinks but doesn’t say. He still remembers the state he was in when he met Evie and Jonathan. He sighs. This was supposed to be a short research trip: some papyri Evie needs for her dissertation are housed in the Museum of Antiquities library, and she has a months’ leave to go study them. And now he’s being bullied into another adventure he didn’t ask for. Damn Hub. This girl must be pretty incredible. 

(In his heart of hearts, Rick knows that if the situation was reversed and it was Evie they were rescuing, he’d be just as desperate as Hub is, and just as willing to rope in whoever it took to succeed. Hell, he already has.)

“If I die,” he grumbles to Evie, “at least make sure they grant me my B.A. posthumously.”

“I will not,” says Evie, “because you are not going to die.”

So two days later he finds himself stepping off a small passenger ship and going through customs in Saudi Arabia, wearing a very fine linen suit and a pair of short boots: not the ideal outfit for a rescue mission, but he looks dapper as hell, so Rick is willing to let it go. He’s got to meet up with Hub’s guy at the local airfield, to play the part of a rich tourist hiring a small plane to take them around and ‘examine’ potential oil fields. So far, so easy. He gets to the airfield and meets up with the pilot–and it’s Izzy Buttons.

There is mutual swearing on both sides. 

See, a long time ago when Rick lived in Morocco and worked for an antiquities dealer, Izzy Buttons used to occasionally transport heavier pieces around in his biplane, mostly from Marrakesh to Casablanca or Agadir. One time they had to sneak out a legally-purchased piece from a bank that had refused to give it up to its purchaser, an affair that included several bribes, two days undercover work, and a belly dancer as a distraction. It was a perfect heist–or would have been if Izzy Buttons had been on time for the pickup. He’d been shot in the ass in the melee and has never forgiven Rick for it. 

So there is some antipathy on both sides as they set out to Hub McCann’s girlfriend’s fiance’s palace in an oasis in the middle of the desert. But everything goes well: Rick arrives in the little village surrounding the palace and puts it about that he’s a wealthy American businessman on holiday, wandering about making inane remarks about all and sundry, and pretending he doesn’t speak Arabic. The charade is a success. When the McCanns show up, badly disguised as Bedouin, he ignores them until Garth seeks him out that night to give him the message that the rescue mission will take place the night after next, so be on the plane, and for heaven’s sake, don’t go anywhere near the palace. 

Rick has no intention of going anywhere near the palace, and so of course the next day an invitation to visit the grounds is extended to this most illustrious of American oilmen. Rick sighs, and longs for Evie and his B.A. work, and accepts the invitation.

The palace gardens are beautiful, the Sheik very generous and affable in humor. He is to be married, he tells Rick, for the third time, to a beautiful and accomplished young woman. About that, Rick thinks, wondering if the Sheik knows anything about the McCann brothers’ heist happening right under his nose. He suggests that the Sheik examine his lands to see if there is oil under the sand. Maybe untold wealth and riches will make up for the gross insult about to be perpetrated. So, so far so good. It isn’t until evening falls and Rick is wandering in the extensive gardens, casing the joint so to speak, that things take a very sharp left turn. 

Someone steps up behind Rick and before he can turn around or shake them off, a handkerchief dosed in chloroform is clamped over his mouth and nose. Son of a bitch, Rick thinks, and passes out. 

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Caregivers Garth and Hub McCann Headcanons (Secondhand Lions)

At first they probably seem gruff and standoffish, but just give them a little time. Fairly soon they’ll give you your own hat, and while that might not seem like much, it means they want others to know you belong with them.

You’re allowed to run wild on their property; play in the water, roll in the grass, wrestle with the dogs and pig - no big deal. Getting dirty is good for kids.

Garth’s the more nurturing of the two. If something is upsetting you, he’s the one most likely to notice and offer comfort.

(He’s also the more responsible one; he makes sure you’re eating right and takes you to the doctor when necessary and steps in when Hub is pushing you too hard.)

Hub, meanwhile, is an enabler. If you have an idea for something fun and exciting and a bit bizarre, he wants to know all about it - and odds are, he’ll find a way to make it happen.

(He also steps in whenever Garth gets too protective, saying you’re tough and smart and can handle yourself. Between the two of them, it evens out.)

Although the garden didn’t turn out quite as intended, the corn they grow is quite possibly the best in the country. Even if you hate vegetables, you’ll like their corn.

There are plenty of interesting things in the house, and almost everything has a history. Even the “junk” has value; they’ll let you take most of the older, broken things they have for games or building projects.

They have more stories between them than could be told in a lifetime; tales of their travels, descriptions of battles, slowly uncovered mysteries… They’ll sit with you on the porch for hours, simply telling you stories.

And maybe some of the stories they tell seem too outrageous to be true, and maybe you’ll say that. Hub will just smile and ruffle your hair and remind you that even if it isn’t true, you can still believe it.

[unliikelylovers]

10 & 11 for book asks!

10. What was your favorite new release of the year?

for fiction, i really enjoyed small rain by garth greenwell, which i thought was very well done. and my favorite new book overall this year was language city by ross perlin, a linguistic history/ethnography of new york city by the director of the endangered language alliance. so good! so fascinating!

11. What was your favorite book that has been out for a while, but you just now read?

let the great world spin by colum mccann i think is about 20 years old and i remember my ap lit teacher recommending it to me when i was in high school and just read it this summer and she was correct it was excellent

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just saw a replay of Garth’s reaction, his smile! the hug from mccann! burky having the most big bro side hug energy!

[bookaddict24-7]

(New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (March 21st, 2023)

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Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know!

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New Standalones/First in a Series:

Moonlight Blade by Tessa Barbosa

The Witch & The Vampire by Francesca Flores

While You Were Dreaming by Alisha Rai

Lucha of the Night Forest by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Belle of the Ball by Mari Costa

Free Radicals by Lila Riesen

Brighter Than the Sun by Daniel Aleman

Infamous by Lex Croucher (Reprint)

Three Drops of Blood by Gretchen McNeil

Crown of Dawn by C.M. McCann

New Sequels: 

The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Left-Handed Booksellers of London #2) by Garth Nix

Clash of Fate & Fury (The Labors of Gen #2) by Rachel Menard

The Future King (Emry Merlin #2) by Robyn Schneider

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Happy reading!

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top 5 kraken players?

how could you do this to me. uh, ok here we go. please know that this was so hard for me to do and i'm not sure i even am happy with this list. i may revisit.

honorable mentions: garth, turbo, yanni, bjorky

5. jamie oleksiak, big rig himself

4. andre burakovsky - no explanation needed

3. jared mccann - his narrative arc is everything to me.

2. kailer yamamoto - wasian short king. enough said. also watched him play in juniors which was fun :)

jordan eberle (i've loved him since he was an oiler <3)

[moviemunchies]

Hey this movie’s great and you should see it.

I mean I should write more than that because this is a review and reviews are supposed to give a bit more detail than that. So I’ll try again: Secondhand Lions is a movie about how important it is to believe in the power of love and the triumph of good over evil. Also it has Robert Duvall and Michael Caine as two crazy old men from Texas who spend their free time shooting at door-to-door salesmen.

The story is this: Walter is a kid who travels a lot with his mother Mae, and it tends to go badly because his mother often ditches him to pursue some awful boyfriend and a get-rich-quick scheme. This time she claims she’s going to school in Fort Worth to become that person who takes notes in court, so she leaves him with his two great uncles in the middle of nowhere, Hub and Garth. But Hub and Garth possess an awful lot of money, and Mae tells Walter that he should figure out where the money’s stashed and cozy up to these old guys so they might leave him their money.

Of course, these two old men are grumpy and are tired of salesmen and relatives trying to get their money. But upon realizing that Walter has a bit of a rough time with his mother and also their relatives hate him, they warm up to him and bond with him in trying to take up new hobbies, like gardening. On the way, Walter hears the story of how his great uncles got all this money to begin with, a seemingly impossible story that sounds more like a fairy tale than real life. And given all the weird versions of events, and when he’s been raised by a mother constantly lying to him, Walter doesn’t know what to believe.

Also there’s a lion. It’s kind of there. Not in the story bits, there’s actually a lion.

This is a fantastic movie? It’s not a flawless movie, but I felt that it’s pretty close after watching it a couple of times. Now that I’ve seen it four or five times I think I’ve noticed some flaws. But look, if I have to watch it that many times to really notice the flaws, that’s not so bad is it?

For instance, I think there’s a lot of talk about the adventures that the two brothers went on in their youth. But when we actually hear the stories, it seems more like it’s Hub’s adventures, and Garth occasionally helped out or witnessed them. And it’s obvious that there are plenty of adventures that we didn’t hear about, but even then it seems like it’s mostly Hub’s thing. While Garth seems like the more reasonable and restrained one in modern day, he’s also able to keep up with Hub and goes along with many of his crazier ideas as well, so it feels a bit off.

Again though, this is a nitpick born out of watching this movie a lot.

A more serious criticism is that it feels a bit like the lesson of the movie’s a tad rushed. It seems as if we just get a grip on what the McCann brothers are telling Walter, and then it’s the conclusion. His doubting the story that his great uncles told him is meant to be a larger part of his character than it ended up being, I think, so when he chooses to believe in them it’s sort of like, “Okay, but I assumed you thought that already. Your doubt was hinted at but only solidly introduced a couple of minutes ago and so I don’t feel as rewarded when you overcome it.”

In all seriousness though, this movie is fun--you get to watch two old cooky old guys not give a flying fudge about anything, especially the people they know are just talking to them for their money. Watching Robert Duvall and Michael Caine as these two is spectacular and if nothing else, you’ll get a kick from their performances.

Haley Joel Osment isn’t always perfect as Walter. I sometimes think that he overacts, especially in the beginning of the film when he first meets the McCann brothers. I get that some of the things, like them firing warning shots at door-to-door salesmen, warrants over-the-top reactions, but the kid is REALLY astounded that they have no television or phone and I didn’t think he needed to be that reactive. He overall does a good job though, and I think Walter’s sense of being overwhelmed yet still remaining hopeful despite his terrible life up to this point is well-conveyed.

[Also Christian Kane from Leverage and The Librarians is in this movie? As the young Hub McCann? Thought you should know.]

It’s hilarious, it’s heartwarming, and it’s a joy to watch. If you haven’t already, I’d track down this movie. Watch it alone, watch it with your family, but please watch it.

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gay book recs

All these books are exceedingly well-written (prose, as well as plot and characters) and deserve to be shared.

The Absolutist - John Boyne (historical fiction, World War One) (tw: violence, depressing themes)

As Meat Loves Salt - Maria McCann (historical fiction, seventeenth century) (tw: violence, rape, depressing themes)

The Binding - Bridget Collins (fantasy)

Captive Prince - C S Pacat (fantasy) (tw: rape)

Champion of the Scarlet Wolf - Ginn Hale (fantasy)

Child of the Sun - Kyle Onstott & Lance Horner (historical fiction, Roman Empire)

Eromenos - Melanie J McDonald (historical fiction, Roman Empire)

The Fall of Kings - Ellen Kushner (fantasy)

The Heart’s Invisible Furies - John Boyne (historical fiction chronicling a man’s life from 1940s to now) (tw: depressing themes, violence)

The Persian Boy - Mary Renault (historical fiction, Alexander the Great) (tw: underage)

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller (Greek mythology)

These Violent Delights - Micah Nemerever (historical fiction, 1970s)

Swordspoint - Ellen Kushner (fantasy)

The Vintner’s Luck - Elizabeth Knox (historical fiction)

What Belongs to You - Garth Greenwell (contemporary)

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The Yorkshire Ripper Back Story podcast link here -  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1016881/6357289

Speaker 1: (00:00) [inaudible]. Yes. Dana Lewis / Host : (00:19) Hi everyone. And welcome to backstory. I'm Dana Lewis in 1980, I was a crime reporter in Toronto, in England. A chilling frightening story was unfolding. A man who was stalking and killing women dubbed the Yorkshire ripper. That's where he was lurking Yorkshire, England in towns, Lake Bradford, Sheffield Lee. He killed 13 women and attempted to murder seven more. He was eventually caught his name, Peter Sutcliffe. And this week Sutcliffe serving 20 concurrent sentences for life. Imprisonment died from COVID-19. In 1980, I told my boss his name was Robert holiday. Let me go and cover the murders. I paid my airfare and hotels and told the news director, if you like the story, I bring back, just pay my airfare. And that's what happened on my vacation time. This is the story I did way back then in the end, the story I prepared for a national radio show called Sunday, Sunday aired just as Peter Sutcliffe was caught and his terrible murder spree came to an end. I got my story and 600 bucks for the air ticket. I was only 20. This is what I sounded like. And that's the way it was. Hell of a crime story. Speaker 1: (01:39) [inaudible] yes, I won't say when, but yes, we will catch him. It's got a nice background to support. So when you can't live on 23 pound a week with two kids, sorry, it's not possible. So you're willing to take the chance of the ripper in order to feed your family into social skills. Well, I did come up the stock Hill girls, innocent girls as well. He come up from the other channels. You could be Jack. I could be Jack the ripper it's as difficult as that from ABC news. I'm Bob Windsor, British police might have caught up with a murderer called the Yorkshire ripper. I was terrorized Northern England for five years by killing 13 women police in West Yorkshire arrested two days ago about the murder Pharaoh. The feeling Speaker 3: (03:00) Is that, um, it is most likely on the time that they spend in the red. So they thought the beginning of a new one, which would be well or a new red is, um, now discovering. Um, how and why and who Dana Lewis / Host : (03:13) West Yorkshire police think they know who they have charged. 35 year old truck driver, Peter Sutcliffe with murder number 13. He has been remanded in custody until tomorrow. There are many clues as to how the murders were committed. There are few that indicate why friends and neighbors of Sutcliffe say he was a quiet man. They are surprised. That's the thing about your church. Friends and neighbors are easy to come by. It's a large area, but it has that small town atmosphere, Yorkshire views itself as a nation. It was the largest County in England until it was quartered in 1974. It's towns folk have produced textiles since the 18th century and that unmistakable scent of black coal fills the air. Although the rolling countryside could be sold in a travel magazine, the towns and cities of the area are bleak and gray. The people hardworking and conservative. The Yorkshire ripper has left the area in shock. Speaker 5: (04:15) The first victim that we attributed to them on this now locally known as the AKI Rippa was in fact, Anna Rogowski. She was a 37 year old woman who was walking through the streets in the early hours of the face of July, 1975. She was walking through the streets of Keithley when she was, um, struck about the head, attacked with a number of blows and left unconscious. Dana Lewis / Host : (04:37) The ripper began his spree of killings in the town of Leeds, October 30th, 1975, 28 year old Wilma McCann was struck over the head and stabbed savagely. The ripper was born and the stage set for Britain's worst mass murderer. During the next five years of the ripper would allude Britain's best detectives. It would attack 17 girls in total leaving 13 dead for police superintendent, Frank Mort. It was the largest investigation he would ever be involved in. I had come to you five years ago and suggested that, uh, a killer as bold, as vicious as this could elude you for so much time. Would you believe me? Speaker 5: (05:15) No, I don't think I would. Um, if you would have said to me that yes, we might have a mass murderer. Yes, I would have believed that. But if you would have tone, tried to suggest to me that a murderer could have, in fact, committed 13 violent and vicious attacks and left solidly behind that I would have found difficult to accept. Um, but events have proved. In fact, that we have a man who is capable of doing that, Dana Lewis / Host : (05:38) He seems to be able to lead these women away. Does he not, or at least approach them without causing them to run? Speaker 5: (05:44) Yeah, that's, that's one version that you could could attach to it. The other one, and the one that I prefer to think is probably the, the way he operates is not necessarily to pursue them for long distances, but maybe to stand in some secluded shop doorway or some secluded yard entry. Um, and when the woman passes email, you need to perhaps take one or two steps to strike the blow. Uh, so far as the prostitute was concerned, yester, I think it's fairly clear that, uh, he would pick the woman OPA as a normal customer would pick up a prostitute and drive to a secluded area, which either he or she nominated and committed the crime, uh, was this one. He would pick the area and wait for the girl to come into that area. I, in the past of like an M a little bit to the spider who picks his area, and then he sits quiet and waits. And when the fly comes by he'll snap, and I think the same principle applies here. He will pick it out here and he will wait until those circumstances are exactly right. And the girl comes along and then he will attack. And if the circumstances are not right, then that girl continued on her way. Speaker 5: (06:54) We're now into the 20th of January, 1976, when bucking leads the body of Emily Jackson, the 42 Ariel prostitute was found. She had been stabbed and beaten about the head many, many times. That was the first real indication perhaps that we had, um, a one-man killer and all one monitor attack, a woman that was working in a number of areas of the country. Speaker 1: (07:18) [inaudible] Dana Lewis / Host : (07:24) Besides a cassette tape, three letters were also sent to assistant chief, Constable George Oldfield from a man. Police believed was the ripper, the material criticized old field. Then in charge of the man hunt and his team of detectives. Speaker 1: (07:39) I can't see any sharp pain. Nick, just checking for fingerprints. You shouldn't know, by now it's painted in with some . Dana Lewis / Host : (08:03) The cassette tape gave the case a new mystery. It was dramatic. Some say spine chilling and investigator search for its author. Loudspeakers played at a gain and a gain from town to town in the hope someone would recognize the man behind the voice, the tapes and letters to police. What sort of a man does that? Speaker 6: (08:25) I think it's the kind of man who fits in with my hypothesis of him being a psychopath. It was fascinating to me too, to watch how it unfolded really how there seemed to be developing a battle of wits between mr Oldfield and this murderer to such an extent that he felt emboldened enough to send a tape and a letter now to digress for a minute. I think that was a mistake. Dana Lewis / Host : (08:50) Dr. Steven Shaw was one of several psychologists called into assist in ripper hunt in 1973, his work with the criminally insane expensive. Speaker 6: (09:00) So these are mistakes and a psychopath does make his mistakes and he doesn't learn from them, but he cannot resist the impulse. And that was another of my features cannot resist the impulse to have a battle of wits with mr. Oldfield. So has to taunt him has to send the tapes to say, I've got the respect for you, mr. Oldfield, but your boys are not much good. I am better than the whole of the West Yorkshire police, as it were almost crowing over them, challenging them to, Dana Lewis / Host : (09:28) It appears the Yorkshire police department has finally met that challenge and beaten the ripper at his game. There is a second half to this story besides the police and the ripper. There are the people of that area. There's is the real story in this tale. Speaker 5: (09:48) The ripper, in fact, didn't strike again for another 381 days. And then on the 5th of April, 1977, um, Irene Richardson, she was killed in Leeds and that's when the local media first started using the title, the ripper. Um, it didn't stop him killing. However, because he moved into Bradford and on the 23rd of April, 1977, Patricia Atkinson, um, she was killed 63 days later, he came back to leads and on the 26th of June, he killed a young 16 year old girl Jane McDonald. And this was the first of the women who were not in fact, a prostitute or a lawnmower Dana Lewis / Host : (10:28) As the ripper taunted, and played his deadly game with the people of Yorkshire. The area changed drastically, Oh no, not the buildings or landscape, but as residence in daytime hours, conversations were filled with tales of the ripper, who we might be, what he was doing. And when he might do it again at night, a terrified County locked its doors and fear cab drivers could see the change. Speaker 7: (10:53) It takes David like the suit to Lee's chapel town, or used to be not similar to, since the, um, since the murders, the, uh, the girls have tended to move out of laser just to cherries. Is that fair? Dana Lewis / Host : (11:05) Garth? What would I have found a five years ago? If you would've been driving me through this area Speaker 7: (11:11) Five years, you have found a lot, lots of activity. Basically. You see it, you would have seen the girls on the street corners, the punch of cars, driving around the streets, looking for the girls, basically just bunch of activity, which you don't see in alleys. It's just practically deserted. Since I've been taxing, I've met a good living out of it, but now I'm just barely making living. It's just so quiet. It's really, Dana Lewis / Host : (11:42) The red light areas were so quiet. It took me four days to find any prostitutes with the courage to work the area. When I did find them, it was under a street lamp and a broken down of the rippers, hometown Speaker 1: (11:54) Of Bradford there. The girls worked in pairs or not at all finished what's happened. There's no claims anymore. It's dead. Just pure, please. Just a lot of police. Are they giving you a hard time? Not really. They're just everywhere all the time. So a lot of the guys not coming around and there's no, no. Don't you get a little scared though. Yeah, but I don't work alone. I work with her two girls, whoever gets the client, you know, if they don't want, until they're the ones still goes, most girls now work away. Our town, wherever they gun London, pick towns, knowledge, London, Scotland, Ireland. Even because of the river. They were. Yeah. Yeah. Not just because they were afraid that because there's no money there anymore. Well, why don't the customers come up though? Is it because the police had given him a haircut? The police like do spot checks a lot and it's very, and when they've got family or police, aren't discreet about it, they just go knock on door and say in front of the wife, they'd been on pink, red light, or they'd been seen it's like, it used to be a spot check. Speaker 1: (13:02) And every car that came up here, it got checked out thoroughly. And to do that, they used to go to clients' homes, even the works and see the money driven state for the wives. So I'm not sure they can't afford that. Started scouting or sort of just stopped coming through that as well. It's dead. It is quiet. And it's like this every night now it's been like this past few weeks. The main thing is if you're a prostitute, wherever you go, this place, it's because there's no money. And what she was getting locked up for nothing. That's why they're going away. They're still getting locked up somewhere, but at least their own in the moment. Yeah. Well, how do you, how do you girls feel about the police? All right. Are you mad at them for doing well? They're doing the Japanese. So they try and protect us only for police on a red light area, rip a beer outside. Speaker 1: (13:50) That's the way I think that's the reason he's turned to straight people because he knows now not to come up cause he's gone and get spot checks or whatever it is. There's too many police now. So he's turned into straight people to do them. Yeah. Do you think about the river when you're standing out here at night? It's always a, it's always that because we know lots of the people. Not only have people been killed in your community, not only are girls really scared to go out on the streets at night, but when a girl, a prostitute, you know, well, just, just not someone you work with a friend of yours, it happens to her. Doesn't that make you want to quit? It does. Yeah, but you can't quit. I couldn't quit. Look at it this way. Right? All laws is one parent families. She has two kids. I have two. She's got three. Yeah. We don't have no fellow behind doors. Normally sports, as we've got, as renters, food is closed. Then you get all 23% of social security a week. I'm can you live? You can't live. So you're willing to take the routes. Well, you have to do, it's not a much a willing to take it as a matter of live in it's a mantra that you have taken that risk for your kids to start when going get put into care. Speaker 5: (14:59) And then there was another, and in fact, the longest gap of all, he went 441 days before he moved back to leaves and the latest victim Jacqueline Hill, and she was killed on the evening of the 17th of November, 1980. And again, she was beaten about the head Dana Lewis / Host : (15:15) From the Bradford red light district to elite pump. The feeling was the same. No one could escape the grip of the ripper like this man, all wondered if at one time or another, they had looked the killer right in the ear. Speaker 1: (15:28) They  tool to each other about it because you may be talking to the ripper. That's the feeling then it, sorry. Many people have said though, that this is the feeling around here. And in fact, in the whole of Bradford, you mean people are so scared that they're looking at anyone they talk to. And wondering if he's the ribbon. Dana Lewis / Host : (15:49) By the time I arrived in Yorkshire to gather this story, 13 murders had been recorded. Towns. People were awaiting. The next one, the families and relatives of the victims were tired, broken, and would not talk to reporters. But given the chance by the BBC to talk directly to the ripper, they took it. Mrs. Irene MacDonald, her daughter was murdered in 1977. Speaker 1: (16:13) It was a beast with no feelings. And you're a coward. Why do you come up with stock? Young girls, innocent girls as well. You'd come up from behind them, the door, other chance. You're not a man. You're a beast. And I heard too. And I believe all the population and leads and everywhere too. I wonder who you think you are. Do download. Think y'all God or something. God give life. God take us away. Not you. I think you are the devil itself. Dana Lewis / Host : (16:51) Mrs. Patricia Brandenburg, her niece was murdered in 1977. Speaker 1: (16:56) Jane was a beautiful girl. You took life from her. You destroyed a family in one way or another. A father just deteriorated. You're nuts. So mad. He despicable. I despise you intensely. Every living person curses you, you can't even dig a hole for yourself because people would come and find you and drag you out. Dana Lewis / Host : (17:18) Mr. Harry smelled, his wife was attacked in 1975 Speaker 5: (17:22) Of all the women you've killed. I think if you were to take a census of them all, I think given the opportunity to do, as you wish with them, I think they would rate you pretty low sexually. I think that's what it's all about. You you're proving. You're a man by killing them. Most men don't have to kill a women to prove that they're a man. Let's talk about real crimes, organizing bank robberies and on. And I think you will be really a non runner. It tends to be women and it has to be Dana Lewis / Host : (17:55) Behind mr. Hayden, highly. His daughter was murdered in 1979. Speaker 5: (18:00) You are the lowest of the low. You did mention, uh, believers in your tape to the police that you want it to be mentioned in the Guinness book of records. I'll go along with that, you should be classed as the biggest coward the world has ever known. That's in the Guinness book of records, Dana Lewis / Host : (18:23) Mrs. Barrel leech, her daughter murdered in 1979. Speaker 5: (18:28) Look over your shoulder. You hit him from behind. The number is tango uniform. Mike nine eight, three Romeo, probably three ways that the murder could be brought to justice. Number one is it could be some super detective, um, as a blinding flash of genius as a result of which the man is arrested. Yeah. That's possibility. Number one, possibility. Number two is that the grind, the day-to-day slug, uh, will bring results because of the painstaking tedious, very involved and very detailed inquiries. There is also the third way, and that is that some policeman, uh, doing some duty, totally unconnected with the ripper inquiry will. In fact, what round the corner and walk straight into the Manor. Dana Lewis / Host : (19:29) Superintendent. Frank Moritz predictions given to me several weeks ago. We're not that far off 35 year old Peter Sutcliffe was arrested. Nine days ago, two constables on routine patrol. And the red light district of Sheffield stopped a car driven by Sutcliffe in his company. A lady of the night, the license plates were checked and found to be stolen. One thing led to another and by the beginning of the week, it was announced the truck driver would stand trial for the murder of the rippers 13th victim. After interviewing over 200,000 people searching 30,000 homes at a cost of $10 million. The 500 man ripper squad has disbanded. The people of your chair will not return to the norm quite so easily. This is Dana Lewis. Eventually those tapes, the police played from town to town were proven to be fake. It wasn't Sutcliffe, but it did distract the police from catching the real killer for a while. How was Sutcliffe finally caught the two policemen who stopped him on a routine check? One of them felt suspicious when the man has to relieve himself. The officer went around to the scene later and found that Sutcliffe had dropped a hammer and knife on the ground. And that was the end of the Yorkshire ripper string of murders Dana Lewis / Host : (20:48) This week, victims of his attempted murders and families of those who were killed, spoke out to say they won't shed a tear for Sutcliffe's passing, but his death brings about closure to a bloody and terrifying period in Yorkshire. I'm Dana Lewis. Thanks for listening to backstory. Please subscribe to the best international news podcast and share our link. Take care. And I'll talk to you again soon. 

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MacDonald, George - The Princess & Curdie - The Princess & The Goblin

Machado, Carmen Maria - Her Body & Other Parties

Macmillan, Gilly - What She Knew

Mafi, Tahereh - Ignite Me - Shatter Me - Unite Me - Unravel Me - A Very Large Expanse of Sea

Malerman, Josh - Bird Box - Malorie

Mandel, David - Hail Hydra

Mandel, Emily St. John - Station Eleven

Marney, Ellie - None Shall Sleep - Some Shall Break

Marsh, Sarah Glenn - Reign of the Fallen

Marshall, Kate Alice - Our Last Echoes - Rules for Vanishing - What Lies in the Woods

Martin, T. Michael - The End Games

Martinez, A. Lee - Gil's All Fright Diner

Mastai, Elan - All Our Wrong Todays

Matheson, Richard - I Am Legend

Mathieu, Jennifer - Moxie

Mbalia, Kwame - Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky

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McCann, Alexandra - Angels Can’t Swim

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McGuire, Seanan - Across the Green Grass Fields - Angel of the Overpass - Beneath the Sugar Sky - Come Tumbling Down - Down Among the Sticks & Bones - Every Heart a Doorway - The Girl in the Green Silk Gown - In An Absent Dream - Laughter at the Academy - A Local Habitation - Lost in the Moment and Found - Middlegame - Mislaid in Parts Half-Known - Rosemary & Rue - Seasonal Fears - Sparrow Hill Road - Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider, Vol. 1: Spider-Geddon - Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider, Vol. 2: Impossible Year - Where the Drowned Girls Go

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rules: answer the 20 questions and tag 20 amazing followers you would like to get to know better

name: I don’t use my real name on here, but I do go by Ari :)

nicknames: Guerita (ayy @coachboom​ <3 )

zodiac sign: Saggitarius

Height: 5′5 (well technically 5′4 and a half, but I’m rounding up :P )

orientation: straight

ethnicity: Irish-Scottish-Norwegian-French-American (basically I’m as white as it’s possible to be and if you put me in the sun for a couple hours I will turn bright red and then go back to white after peeling for a couple days)

favorite fruit: Pears, nectarines, peaches

favorite season: spring? I think.

favorite book series:  Either The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, or Ranger’s Apprentice

favorite flower: prob lilies 

favorite scent: Jasmine

favorite color: royal blue, gold, burgundy, light yellow, gray-blue 

favorite animal: Dogs, lions, tigers

coffee, tea, or hot cocoa: LOTS of black tea (I drink like 4 mugs a day and my mug holds two cups XD. Technically I’m caffeine-addicted and I have a headache because I haven’t gotten my morning cuppa yet)

average sleep hours: About five I guess

cat or dog person?: Dogs

favourite fictional characters: SO MANY. I can’t even list them all lol, but here are some. Faramir, Eowyn, Frodo Baggins, Will Treaty, Halt (Ranger’s Apprentice), Harry Potter, Dean Thomas, Remus Lupin, Minerva McGonagall, Hub and Garth McCann (Secondhand Lions), Black Panther, Captain America, Adonis Creed, Rocky Balboa, Vasquez, Billy Rocks, Sam Chisolm, Red Harvest, Joshua Faraday, Goodnight Robicheaux, Jake Hoyt (Training Day), The Doctor, Fox Mulder, Jim Halpert, Stanley Hudson, Chief Inspector Lee & Detective James Carter (Rush Hour)

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Review: YOUNG AND IN LOVE? by Gary Garth McCann

Review: YOUNG AND IN LOVE? by Gary Garth McCann

Young and In Love?

by Gary Garth McCann

Published by Bold Strokes Press 83 pages Genre: erotic romance 3 / 5

My Review:

Here’s the thing about this book: it is HOT. It is very erotic and very arousing and very HOT.

And that’s about all it is.

There isn’t really a plot. Hardy is a student who works as a barista, and he wants to find Real Love and get married. In his search, he beds every man he…

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See you at #AWP17!

The National Book Foundation is headed to Washington, D.C. for #AWP17 . Here are some of the National Book Award Winners, Finalists, Longlist and 5 Under 35 honorees who you can catch during the conference. We’ll see you there! 

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award Winner and Finalist

Mystery in the Writing Process: Discovery, Revelation, and Witholding for Writers and Their Readers

9:00AM-10:15AM

Featuring National Book Award Winner William Alexander and National Book Award Longlist author Kekla Magoon

A Lecture by Jacqueline Woodson, sponsored by The Poetry Foundation

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Featuring National Book Award Winner & four time National Book Award Finalist Jacqueline Woodson

VIDA Voices & Views: Exclusive Interview with Joan Naviyuk Kane, Ada Limón, & Alicia Ostriker

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Ada Limón

The Art of the Novella: Publishers and Writers On Crafting the Beautifully In-Between

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Featuring 5 under 35 Honoree Josh Weill

Asian-American Generations at Coffee House Press

1:30pm - 2:45pm

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Karen Yamashita

Some of My Best Friends Are Octavia Butler and Ursula K. LeGuin: Genre Bias in the Creative Writing

1:30pm - 2:45pm 

Featuring 5 under 35 Honoree Asali Solomon

But Do You Have a Novel? How and Why Short Story Writers Transition into Novelists

3:00 pm - 4:15 pm 

Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Kirstin Valdez Quade 

Copyright Basics for the Digital Age

3:00 pm - 4:15 pm

Featuring two-time National Book Award Finalist James Gleick

Going for Gold: Five Novelists Rewrite the Sports Narrative

4:30 pm to 5:45 pm

Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Tracy O'Neill

An Invitation to Poetic Discovery, Sponsored by Poets House

4:30 pm to 5:45 pm

Featuring National Book Award Finalist & Longlist author Monica Youn

Friday, February 10, 2017

Viet Thanh Nguyen, National Book Award Finalist

Celebrating The Golden Shovel Anthology in honor of Gwendolyn Brooks

9:00AM-10:15AM

Featuring three time National Book Award Finalist Marilyn Nelson 

Strange Bedfellows: The Unholy Mingling of Politics and Art

9:00AM-10:15AM

Featuring National Book Award Longlist author Anthony Marra

Workshopping War: The Challenges of War Writing in the Classroom

10:30am - 11:45am 

 Featuring National Book Award Finalist Jayne Anne Phillips

Crafty: Four City University of New York MFA Graduates Read from Their Work

10:30am - 11:45am 

 Featuring National Book Award Winner and 5 Under 35 Honoree Phil Klay

Beyond Sex: The Poetics of Desire

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Tim Seibles

Coming of Age: The Blurry Lines between Adult & YA literature

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM 

 Featuring National Book Award Finalist Jason Reynolds

Raising Hell: Writing from the Extremes

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM 

 Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Tea Obreht

American Smooth: A Tribute to Rita Dove

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Featuring National Book Award Winner Robin Coste Lewis and National Book Award Finalist Rita Dove 

The Interconnectedness of Poetry & Memoir

1:30pm - 2:45pm 

 Featuring National Book Award Finalist Tracy K. Smith

A Reading and Conversation with Alexander Chee and Valeria Luiselli, Sponsored by Coffee House Press and Kundiman

1:30pm - 2:45pm 

Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Valeria Luiselli and National Book Foundation Executive Director, Lisa Lucas

Going There: Writing the Complicated Truth in the World's Hot Spots

1:30pm - 2:45pm 

Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Brit Bennett 

A Tribute to Marie Ponsot

1:30pm - 2:45pm

Featuring National Book Award Finalist and Longlist author Kevin Young

Daddy's Little Girl, and Other Misfortunes in YA

3:00 pm - 4:15 pm 

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Laura Ruby

To Sing the Idea of All: Walt Whitman in DC

3:00 pm - 4:15 pm 

Featuring Literarian Award Winner and Cave Canem co-founder Cornelius Eady

A Conversation between Chimamanda Ngozi and Ta-Nehisi Coates

4:30pm - 5:45pm

Featuring National Book Award Winner Ta-Nehisi Coates

Distant Lands, Intimate Voices

4:30pm - 5:45pm

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Viet Thanh Nguyen

Saturday, February 11, 2017

Rita Dove, National Book Award Finalist

Poetry As Invocation

10:30am - 11:45am

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Ada Limón

Get in Formation: Form in YA Literature

10:30am - 11:45am

Featuring three time National Book Award Finalist Marilyn Nelson

Being the Change You Want to See: The New Literary Leadership

10:30am - 11:45am

Featuring National Book Foundation Executive Director Lisa Lucas

Immigrants / Children of Immigrants

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Featuring National Book Award Finalist and Longlist author Monica Youn

21st Century Troubadours

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Rita Dove

Women Writers Get Gritty

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Jayne Anne Phillips

No Easy Readers: The Challenges of Writing for Children

1:30pm - 2:45pm

Featuring National Book Award Winner William Alexander and National Book Award Longlist author Anne Ursu

The Ghosts of History

1:30pm - 2:45pm

Featuring National Book Award Finalist and 5 Under 35 Honoree Angela Flournoy

A Reading and Conversation with Aracelis Girmay, Tim Seibles, and Danez Smith.

1:30pm - 2:45pm

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Tim Seibles

Socially Conscious Fiction

3:00pm - 4:15pm

Featuring National Book Award Longlist author Garth Greenwell

Going for Broke: Working Class Writers on Choosing a Career In The Arts

3:00pm - 4:15pm

Featuring 5 Under 35 Honoree Tiphanie Yanique 

Writing Across Cultures

3:00pm - 4:15pm

Featuring 5 under 35 Honoree Valeria Luiselli 

Conversation with Ross Gay & Tina Chang

3:00pm - 4:15pm

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Ross Gay

Poetry in the Age of the Drone

4:30pm - 5:45pm

Featuring National Book Award Finalist Solmaz Sharif

Reading with Rita Dove, Terrance Hayes & Ocean Vuong

8:30pm - 10:00pm

Featuring National Book Award Winner Rita Dove, and National Book Award Winner & Finalist Terrance Hayes

Reading with Colum McCann & Margot Livesly

8:30pm - 10:00pm 

 Featuring National Book Award Winner Colum McCann

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MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS AT AWP 2017!

Visit us at AWP’s 2017 conference in Washington D.C.! We have an awesome lineup of authors and events that you won’t want to miss.

Be sure to visit Booth 682 for information and books, February 9-11!

9:00am: Amanda Petrusich joins panel for Dylanology (Capitol and Congress - Marriot Marquis); Meghan Daum gives a reading of Selfish, Shallow, and Self Absorbed (Room 203AB); Sarah Blake appears in “Global Narratives Within US Literature” panel (Room 204AB)

10:30am: Steven Sherrill joins panel “Leashing the Beast: Humanizing Fictional Monsters” (Capitol and Congress - Marriot Marquis); Alice Anderson appears in “But That’s Not How It Was: Memoir Writers on Pushing Back Against Expected Narratives” panel (AWP Bookfair Stage, Exhibit Halls D & E)

12:00pm: Chris Abani appears in “Not Just Novelists: On Publishing Contemporary African Poets” (Marquis Salon 6); Ruthanna Emrys and Kij Johnson join panel “The Infinite in the Finite: One Hundred Years of H.P. Lovecraft’s Legacy” (Liberty Salon I, J, and K); Dinty W. Moore appears in “The Multiheaded Beast: Challenging Genre in Creative Nonfiction” (Capitol and Congress - Marriot Marquis); Kelly Luce appears on “A Field Guide for the Craft of Fiction: Finding Structure” (Virginia Barber Middleton Stage); Christa Parravani joins panel “Write Your Memoir like a Novel” (Room 202A)

Also at 1:30pm: Gayle Brandeis joins panel “Speaking of the Dead: Craft & Ethics in Nonfiction” (Archives - Marriot Marquis)

Also at 3:00pm: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich appears on “The New New New Journalism: Reporting with the I” (Marquis Salon 1 & 2); Deb Olin Unferth joins teaching roundtable “ R239. Together with All That Could Happen” (Marquis Salon 12 & 13); Meghan Daum appears on “Mommy Dearest/Daughter Darling: Putting Words in Her Mouth” (Liberty Salon N, O, & P); Joy Harjo and Amy Stolls join panel “Transforming Adverse Audiences to Verse: Lessons Learned from the NEA Big Read” (Room 102B); Joy Castro appears on “Celebrating 15 Years of American Lives: A University of Nebraska Press Reading” (Room 203AB)

4:30pm: Michael Byers joins the “Science in Literary and Mainstream Fiction: A New Wave” panel (Room 101)

6:00pm: Simone Zelitich appears in “Two-Year College Creative Writing Caucus” (Room 204C)

9:00am: Gayle Brandeis, Caroline Levitt, and Christa Parravani appear on “Can You Go Home Again?” (Marquis Salon 1 & 2); Rachel Dewoskin joins panel “Home: A Four-Letter Word” (Liberty Salon N, O, & P); Julia Fierro appears on “A Novelist’s Job: The Realities, Joys, and Challenges” (Room 203AB); Kristen Dombek appears on “Shape-Shifting and Writers' Centers” (Room 204C)

10:30am: Yusef Komunyakaa appears on “Outward in Larger Terms: Adrienne Rich's Collected Poems” (Marquis Salon 5); Thrity Umrigar appears on, “Writing the Dual Self: Opening Spaces for Hybrid Identities” (Marquis Salon 7 & 8); Nayomi Munaweera joins panel  "I’ve Never Heard of That Country: Sri Lankan American Writers on Shaping an Emerging Literary Identity” (Monument-Marriott Marquis); Deb Olin Unferth appears on “Novels and Short Stories: How a Narrative Finds Its Form” (Liberty Salon N, O, & P); Anne Finger joins panel “Body of Work: Exploring Disability, Creativity, and Inclusivity “ (Room 203AB); Helen Phillips gives a reading on “Crafty: Four City University of New York MFA Graduates Read from Their Work” (Room 204AB)

12:00pm: Tyler McMahon joins panel “Peace Corps Writers: Crossing Borders, Spanning Genres” (Marquis Salon 1 & 2); Daniel Torday does a reading for the West Branch 40th Anniversary Reading (Marquis Salon 3 & 4); Amy Stolls appears on “Advice to Nonprofit Organizations Seeking Funding from the NEA” (Room 102B)

1:30pm: James Thomas appears on “From Flash Fiction to Microfiction: How Many Words Are Enough?” (Marquis Salon 3 & 4); Rakesh Satyal joins panel “Beyond the Book Deal: What Really Happens When a Publisher Signs Up Your Book” (Marquis Salon 6); Joy Castro appears on “Latina Memoir: Writing a New Chapter of the American Experience” ( Liberty Salon M); Brin-Jonathan Butler appears on “The Art of Rendering Sports into Writing, a Multigenre Discussion” (Monument-Marriott Marquis); Lisa Roney appears on “Foremothers: Southern Women Writers” (Liberty Salon I, J, & K); Kathleen Rooney joins panel “Surviving the End Times: Finishing a First, Second, or Fifth Book” (Marquis Salon 6)

3:00pm: Margot Livesey appears on “The Village of Your Novel” (Room 207B); Amy Stolls joins panel “Conversation about the Economy of Art (the Gift, the Market, the Puzzle)” (Room 202B)

4:30pm: Caroline Bock appears on “Young Adult Literature: A Political and Social Revolution” (Liberty Salon L)

6:00pm: Simone Zelitch joins panel “Two-Year College Creative Writing Caucus” (Room 204C)

9:00am: Alice Anderson appears on “Social Media: Breaking Barriers for the Marginalized, the Remote, and the Academic Outsider” (Room 204C); Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich appears on “Murder She Wrote: Women Writers on Writing Violence” (Liberty Salon I, J, & K); Derek Nikitas appears on “A PhD Program in an MFA World” (Marquis Salon 7 & 8)

10:30am: Caroline Bock joins panel “Get in Formation: Form in Young Adult Literature” (Liberty Salon N, O, & P); Traci L. Jones and Sophfronia Scott appear on “Writing White Characters” (Archives-Marriott Marquis); Kyoko Mori appears on “Does Gender Matter? Wrestling with Identity and Form in the Golden Age of Women’s Essays” (Marquis Salon 1 & 2); Frank X. Walker appears on “Subverting Reality: Using Real People in Fictionalized Settings” (Marquis Salon 3 & 4)

12:00pm: Geoffrey Brock appears on “What's Found in Translation” (Marquis Salon 12 & 13); Vicki Hendricks appears on “Such Mean Stories: Women Writers Get Gritty” (Room 202A); Yusef Komunyakaa and Robert Pinsky appear on “21st-Century Troubadours” (Ballroom B); Helen Phillips joins panel “Writing the Abyss: Turning Grim Reality into Good Fiction” (Marquis Salon 1 & 2); Irina Reyn appears on “Immigrants/Children of Immigrants: A Nontraditional Path to a Writing Career” (Liberty Salon N, O, & P)

1:30pm: David Odhiambo appears on “Narratives of Immigration and Displacement” (Liberty Salon N, O, & P); Lisa Roney joins panel “Practicum and Beyond: Publishing Courses and Literary Citizenship” (Marquis Salon 6); Laurel Snyder appears on “No Easy Readers: On the Art and Craft of Writing for Children” (Marquis Salon 3 & 4)

3:00pm: Garth Greenwell joins panel “Socially Conscious Fiction: Writing That Can Change the World”  (Liberty Salon L); Louis Bayard appears on “Wayfaring Stranger: Writing Away from Our Experience” (Marquis Salon 7 & 8)

4:30pm: Sarah Blake, Sarah Domet, and Kathleen Rooney join panel “Attempting the Impossible: Strategies for Writing Creative Biography” (Room 101); Geoffrey Brock joins “Us & Them: A Writer/Translator Reading “ (Marquis Salon 6)

8:30pm: Margot Livesey joins “A Reading and Conversation with Margot Livesey and Colum McCann, Sponsored by Arts & Letters / Georgia College” (Ballroom C)