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You are A PART of a greater whole. You are already greater than you could ever know. If you only knew your greatness. If you only knew your magic. If you only knew that you are an expansive, limitless, beautiful being. You are your own individual unique, flawed, messy, stubborn, flesh and blood, human part of it all, and it’s fucking mind-blowing. There is stardust in your DNA. You are important. ~Rachel D. Greenwell~ ▪︎How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth▪︎ #quotes #racheldgreenwell #capture #spring2023 #halfbreed #nativewomen #latinawomen #allshots #instadaily #love #pretty #girlswithcoloredhair #smile #colorful #girlswithtattoos #girlswithpiercings #girlswithbrowneyes #girlswithdarkhair #genderfluid #bigirls #look #instalike #igers #instafollow #followme #bestoftheday #instacool #instago https://www.instagram.com/p/CosJ7qNL--3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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ALL THE BOOKS I READ IN 2021.

117 BOOKS. 38,063 PAGES.

Jonathan Allen, Amie Parnes- Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency

Ellis Amburn- Subterranean Kerouac

Thomas Aquinas- Selected Writings

Marcus Aurelius- Meditations

Lee Baer- The Imp of The Mind: Exploring The Silent Epidemic of Obsessive Bad Thoughts

Lily Bailey- Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought

Nicholson Baker- The Fermata

James Baldwin- Jimmy’s Blues: Selected Poems

Julian Barnes- The Man in The Red Coat

Sharon Begley- Can’t Just Stop: An Investigation of Compulsions

Ingmar Bergman- Images: My Life in Film

David Berman- Actual Air

Philippe Besson- Lie With Me

Kai Bird, Martin J Sherwin- American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J Robert Oppenheimer

Roberto Bolano- Cowboy Graves

John Boswell- Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality

Thomas Brothers- Help!: The Beatles, Duke Ellington, and the Magic of Collaboration

Craig Brown- 150 Glimpses of The Beatles

Anne Carson- Autobiography of Red

Ann Charters- Kerouac

Michel Chion- Eyes Wide Shut

Rachel Cusk- Second Place

Nelson A Denis- War Against All Puerto Ricans

Michael Eric Dyson- Long Time Coming

Margaret Edson- Wit

Bart D Ehrman- Heaven and Hell: A History of The Afterlife

Scott Ellsworth- The Ground Breaking: An American City and It’s Search for Justice

Mariana Enriquez- The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

Jeffrey Eugenides- Fresh Complaint

James Finley- Merton’s Palace of Nowhere

Jim Forest- Living With Wisdom: A Life of Thomas Merton

Monica Furlong- Merton: A Biography

Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder- Selected Letters

Garth Greenwell- Cleanness

Oakley Hall- Warlock

Faith G. Harper- Unfuck Your Brain

Joel F. Harrington- Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart’s Path to The God Within

Ethan Hawke- A Bright Ray of Darkness

Makato Fujimura- Art+Faith

Julian Herbert- Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino

Frank Herbert- Dune

Tracy Hickman- Wayne of Gotham

Sasha Geffen- Glitter Up The Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary

Eddie S Glaude Jr- Begin Again

Neal Goldsmith- Psychedelic Healing

Blake Gopnik- Warhol

Mira Jacob- Good Talk

Nick James- Heat

Lesley-Ann Jones- The Search for John Lennon

Stephen Graham Jones- The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones- Night of The Mannequins

Carl G. Jung- The Undiscovered Self

Carl G. Jung- Answer to Job

Carl G. Jung- The Red Book

Jack Kerouac- The Beat Generation

Jack Kerouac- Visions of Gerard

Jack Kerouac- Good Blonde and Others

Soren Kierkegaard- Fear & Trembling

Soren Kierkegaard- Sickness Unto Death

Val Kilmer- I’m Your Huckleberry

Stephen King- Later

TJ Klune- The House in The Cerulean Sea

Martin Laird- Into a Silent Land: A Guide to The Practice of Christian Contemplation

Travis Langley- Batman and Psychology

Raven Leilani- Luster

Ben Lerner- The Topeka School

Jonathan Lethem- Motherless Brooklyn

Carmen Maria Machado- In The Dream House

David Mamet- Writing in Restaurants

Greil Marcus- The Weird, Old America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes

James Martin- Learning to Prey

Cormac McCarthy- The Counselor

Thomas Merton- Bread in The Wilderness

Thomas Merton- Mystics and Zen Masters

Thomas Merton- The Springs of Contemplation

Thomas Merton- Seeds

Ottessa Moshfegh- McGlue

Ottessa Moshfegh- Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh- Homesick For Another World

Ottessa Moshfegh- Death in Her Hands

Jon Mundy- A Course in Mysticism and Miracles

Sayaka Murata- Earthlings

Graham Nash- Wild Tales

Adam Nayman- Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks

Christopher Nolan- Inception

Philip Norman- Wild Thing

Barack Obama- A Promised Land

Tommy Orange- There There

Chuck Palahniuk- The Invention of Sound

James Patterson- Deadly Cross

Richard Powers- The Overstory

Leah Raeder- Black Iris

Marieke Lucas Rijneveld- The Discomfort of Evening

Sogyal Rinpoche- The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Robbie Robertson- Testimony

Richard Rohr- The Naked Now

Philip Roth- Goodbye Columbus

Philip Roth- Letting Go

Lillian Ross- Picture

Jean-Paul Satre- Being and Nothingness

Paul Schrader- Transcendental Style in Film

Frederick Seidel- Poems: 1959-2009

Gary Snyder- No Nature

Bob Spitz- The Beatles

Oliver Stone- Chasing The Light

Howard Suber- The Power of Film

Courtney Summers- Sadie

Quentin Tarantino- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

David Thomson- Murder and The Movies

Jeff Tweedy- How to Write One Song

Ocean Vuong- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Benedict Wells- The End of Loneliness

Edward White- The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Wohlleben- The Hidden Life of Trees

Kevin Young- Brown

Ed. Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer- The Gnostic Bible

Ed. David Carter- Allen Ginsberg: Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews

Ed. Jonathan Cott- Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews

Ed. Barney Hoskyns- Joni: The Anthology

Ed. Thomas P. McDonnal- A Thomas Merton Reader

Ed. Bill Morgan- The Letters of Allen Ginsberg

Ed. Nduka Otiono, Josh Toth- Polyvocal Bob Dylan

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You are A PART of a greater whole. You are already greater than you could ever know. If you only knew your own greatness. If you only knew your magic. If you only knew that you are an expansive, limitless, beautiful being. You are your own individual, unique, flawed, messy, stubborn, flesh and blood, human part of it all, and it’s fucking mind blowing. There is stardust in your DNA. The love of God is flowing through your veins. You are important.

-Rachel D. Greenwell

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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)

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Tony Hall, currently the Director-General of the BBC but previously the Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House from 2001 until 2013, is bringing his opera experience to broadcasting in a bold new collaborative project.

Across the season, which starts on 30 September, the BBC will work with 12 UK partners, including major cultural organisations and leading opera companies, with the shared vision to shine a spotlight on opera and engage the widest possible audience for the art form.

Hall says,

I want to see a new, bolder approach to partnerships in the arts: to amplify the UK’s creative voice globally and to collaborate, commission and create content in new ways. The opera season does just that. It’s creatively ambitious; it’s not without risk… that’s what makes it really exciting.

The season is part of a collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum’s blockbuster exhibition: Opera: Passion, Power and Politics, in partnership with the Royal Opera House.

Some of the biggest names in opera, including Jonas Kaufmann, Antonio Pappano, Danielle de Niese and Felicity Palmer are joined by opera lovers such as Game of Thrones star Isaac Hempstead Wright, David Threlfall, Julian Barnes, Lucy Worsley and Katie Derham, in a major BBC season which will see opera placed centre stage at the BBC across TV, Radio and Digital platforms.

#OperaPassion will showcase of the best of opera in the UK today and aims to establish a nationwide opera network to encourage further partnerships, new collaborations and future audiences.

One of the most challenging elements of #OperaPassion will be the day of live streaming on 19 October, taking audiences behind the scenes of the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, English Touring Opera, Northern Ireland Opera, Glyndebourne and the V&A.

Alex Beard, CEO of The Royal Opera House, said,

We enjoy a strong relationship with the BBC and it’s fantastic to see them shining a spotlight on opera this autumn. Having Tony Pappano, our Music Director, featured in Lucy Worsley’s Nights at the Opera documentary, and the broadcast of our Otello, one of the highlights of last season, starring Jonas Kaufmann, is great for audiences and complements the extraordinary opera exhibition opening imminently at the V&A.

Here are some of the #OperaPassion highlights:

♦  BBC Arts Digital, in collaboration with Tomorrow’s World, will bring together science and opera in a series of experiments as part of the BBC Opera Season. Streamed live from Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry the experiments will reveal whether a tenor can shatter glass, the biological secrets behind their tremendous vocal power and how the body reacts to an operatic aria.

♦  BBC Radio 3 to run an ‘Opera Vote’, allowing listeners to choose one of four operas they’d like to hear broadcast in full that night.

♦  A collaboration between BBC Arts Digital and Garsington Opera uses the latest technology to give audiences an 360° immersive experience of their acclaimed People’s opera Silver Birch, written by Roxanna Panufnik and Jessica Duchen.

♦  BBC Arts Digital will present a performance stream of Garsington’s Semele.

♦  In a Radio 3 Music Matters special, the future of opera is discussed with Dame Felicity Palmer.

♦  BBC Two’s Lucy Worsley’s Nights At The Opera, is a two-part series featuring Sir Antonio Pappano, which will explore the history and music of key opera cities.

♦  Award-winning filmmaker John Bridcut will give unprecedented access to one of opera’s greatest living opera stars in BBC Four’s Jonas Kaufmann: Tenor for the Ages.

♦  BBC Four will broadcast performances of the Royal Opera House’s Otello and Brett Dean’s Hamlet from Glyndebourne.

♦  BBC Radio 3, the regular home of opera at the BBC, will present an enriched opera offering with special programmes alongside its weekly opera offering.

All seven, operatic works featured in the V&A’s exhibition broadcast in Radio 3’s Opera on 3 and Afternoon Concert.

The station’s flagship drive time show In Tune will broadcast live from the V&A on #OperaPassion day.

Familiar faces including David Threlfall, Julian Barnes, Garth Greenwell, Patricia Dunker and Rachel Cooke will discuss how they fell in love with opera in a special edition of The Essay.

Cultural historian Dr Alexandra Wilson will present new research into the 1920s operatic scene in London whilst Sir John Tusa re-traces his journey through opera in two Sunday Features.

Jonty Claypole, Director of BBC Arts, commented,

We are thrilled to be collaborating with the V&A, ROH, major cultural institutions and leading opera companies from across the UK, to place opera centre stage at the BBC this autumn.

Audiences will have the opportunity to experience and explore one of the most exhilarating and irresistible of all art forms across BBC Radio, TV and digital platforms, and together with our partners we will look to create a nationwide moment for opera, engaging ever larger audiences and inspiring the next generation of opera lovers.

Opera: Passion, Power and Politics

The Sainsbury Gallery, V&A Museum | 30 September 2017 – 25 February 2018

“Milano” from the series “Fratelli d’Italia”, 2005 2016, © Matthias Schaller

This autumn the Victoria and Albert Museum, in collaboration with the Royal Opera House, will create a vivid and immersive journey through nearly 400 years of opera, exploring its passion, power and politics.

The only exhibition ever to explore opera on a grand scale, it will immerse visitors in some key moments of the history of European opera, from its roots in Renaissance Italy to its present-day form, by focusing on seven operatic premieres in seven cities.

It will reveal how opera brings together multiple art forms to create a multi-sensory work of art, and show how social, political, artistic and economic factors interact with great moments in the history of opera to tell a story of Europe over hundreds of years.

The V&A is now the world-leader in innovative performance exhibitions — said Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A — and after David Bowie and Pink Floyd, we are celebrating the classical world with Opera: Passion, Power and Politics.

Together with the Royal Opera House, the V&A is telling the story of European history through its most dramatic, beautiful, and romantic art form. We know that our stunning exhibition — in the museum’s new Sainsbury Gallery — combined with the BBC’s fascinating and varied programming will bring opera to life to both aficionados and new audiences in the UK and around the world.

A Box at the Theatre des Italiens by Eva Gonzalès, 1874 © Musée d’Orsay

George Frideric Handel, terracota, Louis Francois Roubiliac, 18th century, England © The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge

#OperaPassion from the BBC with a live streaming day, events on TV and radio, and the V&A’s “Opera: Passion, Power and Politics” Tony Hall, currently the Director-General of the BBC but previously the Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House from 2001 until 2013, is bringing his opera experience to broadcasting in a bold new collaborative project.