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radioleary-blog · 6 years ago

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Hef Tragedy Jam

Hugh Hefner died yesterday. When the news was announced, over fifty women said they were dismayed. No, wait...over fifty women said they were “Miss May”. Fifty more were Miss June, and, well, you get the picture. If you were lucky you got their pictures.

Few of you reading this are old enough to remember that Playboy magazine was about the only place you could see a naked woman, and I say that because there are probably few of you reading this, period. But hey, my column gets more readers than the average suicide note, statistically speaking. Although I’m trying to increase my readership, and the average suicide note is more of a stand-alone project. I bet if George Lucas ever wrote a suicide note, he’d follow it up with three prequel notes. Each successively worse than the last. People would be like, “Why did he have to ruin that original suicide note, which I loved, with those awful prequel-suicide notes? I don’t care why he got depressed, but clearly only a manic depressive could make such a desperate cry for help as introducing Jar-Jar Binks. If I ruined a billion dollar franchise by coming up with an offensive racist caricature like Jar-Jar Binks, I’d probably consider putting a lightsaber in my mouth too.”

I grew up with Playboy magazine, and my early knowledge of female physiology was less from a volume of Grey’s anatomy or sketches by DaVinci, and more from volumes of Playboy magazine. It was like a reference guide, one that you would hold up with one hand. In fact, the first time I had a girlfriend who got naked, I wondered where her staples were. Of course, today, I’m the one who should have his stomach stapled, but that’s another story. Ah, sweet irony!

I’m sure Hugh Hefner went to Heaven, but whatever gleaming Mansion in the sky awaits us, no matter how glorious, for Hugh Hefner it’s going to be a pretty big step down from the Playboy Mansion. It may actually be Seventh Heaven, but Hef has been living on Cloud Nine since 1956. But, hey, he’s already wearing a robe. You know when you see depictions of Heaven, everybody is always wearing white robes? That’s because they were wearing those white robes in the hospital when they died. And they make you wear those awful robes that don’t close in the back because that’s where your wings will come out when you get to Heaven. It’s all part of God’s plan. I bet you’ll still have that plastic wristband on too, St. Peter just scans it at the gate to let you in. <beep> “Cardiac arrest. You’re good. Check in at the registration desk. Have a valid photo ID ready.”

Hugh Hefner was such a consummate pussyhound, I wouldn’t be surprised if he made a deathbed conversion to radical Islam, just to get the 72 virgins in Heaven. God would be like - I mean “Allah” would be like, “Pretty tricky Hef, pretty tricky. But...technically it counts. You old horndog!” Of course, you know what Hugh Hefner calls 72 virgins? A slow Tuesday.

The Playboy Mansion was famous for its out-of-control parties, and the mansion had a natural cave-like grotto on the grounds where everyone would go to snort coke and have sex. I guess Hef was a lot like Bruce Wayne, a millionaire with a mansion and a cave. And didn’t they call Bruce Wayne a millionaire playboy? Hef was a Playboy millionaire. But the difference is, Hef would rather do coke and fuck super-models whereas Batman would rather do-good and fight super-villains. Plus, Batman slides down the Bat-pole, and crazy hot chicks slide down the Hef-pole. In other words, Hef was sane, and Batman was, well, not so much. Batman is basically a billionaire who just wants to hurt people and not get sued for it and pretend he’s a hero. Kind of like Trump.

The grotto cave on the grounds of the Playboy Mansion had a huge, heated Jacuzzi pool, where movie stars, rock and roll gods, and celebrity athletes were eagerly humped by groupies, star-fuckers, and aspiring playmates. Unprotected 1970’s sex was messier than Michael J. Fox eating an ice cream cone, so the pool was probably 60% water, 2% spilled cocaine, and 38% James Caan’s jizz. The lifeguard got syphilis just from giving mouth to mouth resuscitation. At least that was her story. But that was about the same time Grand Funk Railroad was in town, so who can say? I do think ‘grotto’ must be the Italian word for ‘gross’.

I hear some of the more politically correct crowd, or as they’re more commonly known, nitwits, complaining that Playboy exploited women. And I guess it was exploitation, in the same sense that Vogue magazine is exploiting the mostly-naked teenage anorexic girls slash super-models in their magazine. And I say slash because that’s what these girls often try to do to their wrists. Unlike Vogue magazine models, at least the Playboy women didn’t have eating disorders. They’re a lot less likely to stick their fingers down their throats. I’m not saying they’re any less likely to have something down their throats, but not their fingers.

Exploiting women. As if Hugh Hefner was hanging around the Newark bus station looking for a girl down on her luck and fresh off the turnip truck from Topeka. That sounds more like the plot of a 1930’s movie than the way his business empire was run. I think what Hef did was have his photography editors, both men and women, spend endless hours going through duffel bags of mail sent in by thousands of women from all around the country who wanted to pose for Playboy. The staff would narrow it down to probably a few dozen, and then get Hef’s opinion on who was not only the most beautiful, but who had the look that would be right to feature in the magazine. That’s exactly what the editors and publishers do at Elle, and Vogue, and every other magazine that holds up a particular brand of beauty as an ideal.

And I don’t know any women who haven’t worn out the related links on their favorite porn sites jilling off to whatever their particular porn flavor might be, so who exactly are these people that still have a problem with Playboy? Because without Hefner’s decades of battles against governmental and religious censorship, there would be no porn sites. Hef made it possible to look at porn sites without pretending you go there for the articles. Without Playboy, people would still be saying, “Did you read that insightful article on the humanitarian crisis in Darfur? And that recently-found short story by J.D, Salinger?” “Why, yes. I particularly liked the profile of Jazz trumpeters from the post-bop era. And I did notice some delightful porn as well, between the articles, of course.”

The reason Hef could get away with putting in naked chicks is his magazine is because Playboy was a serious, respected literary magazine. The greatest writers of the day were in Playboy:

Ray Bradbury wrote original content for Playboy, and serialized Fahrenheit 451, which was coincidentally the exact temperature of how hot the playmates were.

The Beat writer Jack Kerouac wrote for Playboy, and that cat was cool as hell. Beat, Jack, that is exactly what Playboy readers do.

Ian Fleming published short stories in Playboy, and the James Bond novel “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” was published first in Playboy. We all know James Bond got enormous amounts of pussy. But compared to what Hef was getting, James Bond looks like a bible salesman with erectile disfunction. Or a guy who works in a comic book store. Think about that for a minute; the world’s sexiest pussyhound spy still gets less women than the guy who published the magazine his story is in. And Bond is fictional!

Roald Dahl wrote for them, too. The author of “Willie Wonka” writing for people who wonka their willies, sounds apropo.

Kurt Vonnegut wrote for them all the time, and that dude was cooler than Ice Nine. There’s a reference for ya!

Joseph Heller published a lost chapter of “Catch-22” in Playboy. I think the title Catch-22 might be the number of social diseases you’d get if you had sex in the grotto.

Margaret Atwood, author of “The Handmaid’s Tale” started writing for Playboy in 1991. I would imagine one of her stories was called “The Handmaid’s Tail”.

Hunter S. Thompson. Gabriel García Márquez, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Truman Capote, they all wrote for Playboy. This magazine was the real deal, kids, it was smarter and cooler than absolutely anything you know today. You see, all of these stories were longer than 140 characters. Or even 280.

I actually learned quite a bit about culture from Playboy, between rounds, if you know what I mean. By middle school I could discuss the literary feud between Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer in English class and sound like a friggin’ genius, I just couldn’t tell the teacher where I learned it. “Where did I learn that? Oh, you know. Around. Literary journals, and the like. At that building that has all the books. Yes, exactly, the library! That’s the one! I frequent that establishment, I‘ll have you know.” What was I gonna say? My father’s sock drawer?

The Playboy Interview was legendary, they were deep, involved discussions, frank and uncensored. Here are some of the people they interviewed: Salvador Dali, Patty Hearst, Groucho Marx, Ansel Adams, Stanley Kubrick, The Beatles, Albert Schweitzer, Buckminster Fuller, Orson Welles, Peter Sellers, Abbie Hoffman, Tennessee Williams, Erica Jong, Allen Ginsberg, and Bertrand Russell. Then there are the so famous they’re known by just one name: Fellini, Castro, Brando, Nehru, Sartre, Bowie, Nabokov, Hoffa, Carson, Antonioni, Mastroianni, Gleason, and Sinatra. And Playboy was woke, they interviewed Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alex Haley, Miles Davis, Muhammad Ali, Eldridge Cleaver, Dick Gregory, and Huey Newton. Holy shit, right? Who do you see interviewed today? Kardashians? Ryan Gosling? Taylor Swift, but interrupted by Kanye West? This time we live in today has less culture than a petri dish.

Hef lived so long that most people today have no real idea how influential he was, what an important cultural icon he was, and that he somehow talked Marilyn Monroe into posing naked on the cover of the very first issue of his magazine way the hell back in 1956. That’s a dude with the Kavorka, big-time. And nobody was naked back in 1956. Not in this country. In 1956, people showered wearing a suit and tie, and apart from time shampooing, a smart fedora. They say people were more cultured back then because they went to art museums, bullshit, I think they only went to art museums to see the nudes in the oil paintings. You would too, and you know it, don’t even try to deny it. You’d say you were admiring the Titian, but you were really just admiring the Tit.

Nearly every issue, Playboy featured a very prominent celebrity with a well-established career and respected in her field who actually wanted people to see how beautiful she was without any clothes. Starting with Marilyn Monroe. And she was smoking hot, too, an icon in her absolute prime. Future historians will be more grateful for that photo shoot than they are for the discovery of the Nag Hammadi texts. Where do you go from there, Playboy? Well, how about Farrah Fawcett, the biggest sex-symbol of the entire 1970’s! The list of gorgeous, talented, famous, successful women that wanted to pose for Playboy might be hard for you to imagine, as you live in an age where women pose in magazines like Maxim with their clothes on! And men today pay to see that? Wtf? Man, I can see women with their clothes on just about anywhere I go. I can see that in line at the deli counter, I don’t need to pay for it.

Here are just a few, a very few, of the already-famous women who chose to pose with no clothes:

Daryl Hannah. Olivia Munn. Kim Basinger. Charlize Theron. Drew Barrymore. Denise Richards (she had kids with Charlie Sheen, so posing for Playboy was comparatively a relatively sound decision). Shannen Doherty. Belinda Carlisle. Jayne Mansfield. Mariel Hemingway. Margaux Hemingway. Nastassja Kinski. Sharon Stone. Rosanna Arquette. Vanna White. Elle MacPherson. Brigitte Bardot. Uma Thurman. Kate Moss. The list is almost endless. I almost said bottomless, but being Playboy, “bottomless” goes without saying.

Sure, the last decade and a half weren’t great for Hef, but who stays cool past the age of 75? Only Bob Dylan and Picasso. Hef couldn’t let it all go, and at the end it was pretty sad. It was like Sunset Boulevard with viagra. But I’ll miss the Hef of fifty years ago, that man was at the forefront of political movements, cultural progress, gay rights, equal rights, reproductive rights, and the right to take your goddamn clothes off if you feel like it.

This may be the first funeral where you should bring condoms. In lieu of flowers, please give blowjobs. So long, Hef. Thanks for the mammaries.

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fluorescentrage · 6 years ago

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The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther by Jeffrey Haas

“Fred never really woke up. We were sleeping. I woke up hearing shots from the front and back. I shook Fred but he didn’t open his eyes.”

“Then she described two police officers going into their bedroom, hearing one of them fire two shots, followed by, “He’s good and dead now.” -Deborah Johnson

Excerpt pg. 158

“They took me out of line. They made me lie on a table naked on my back and put a football under my chin. They put their burning cigarettes out on me. Some dropped them from the catwalk above and were laughing. They told me if I moved and the football hit the ground I was dead. I tried not to move. I was sure they were going to kill me. They knew that I was in charge of security and used me as an example to scare everybody else, because nobody else got this treatment” - Interview by Author (Jeffrey Hass) with Big Black (Prisoner of Attica during the Riot in 1971)

What level of offense must we commit to no longer deserve to be treated like human beings, to deserve to be stripped of all dignity and power to protect our bodies?

And what does this say about us who commit these reactionary acts or those of us who allow them to happen.

Excerpt pg. 161

“Who is Attica”

“Attica is all of us”

Are we all not the best and the worst parts of our society? Are these not our creations?

Excerpt pg. 176

“The FBI had blackmailed Dr. King by threatening to release tapes showing his infidelity if he didn’t kill himself. “There is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is,” the cryptic FBI note attached to the tapes read.”

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Speechless!

The lengths the FBI and power structure collectively were willing to go to dismantle the forward movement of black people towards equality. This is even lower than assassination. The FBI wanted King himself to do their dirty work in the most egregious form of action.

“...it was the Panthers whom Hoover labeled “the biggest threat to the security of the United States. “We had copies of the FBI memos in which Hoover ordered FBI agents to attack the Panthers with “hard-hitting programs to destroy, disrupt, and neutralize” them”

Were the panthers so highly feared because of the perceived possibility that they’d go rogue or underground and turn offensive rather than defensive with their weapons?

Excerpt pg. 197

“They [the FBI Agents who brought Waxman the diagram of 2337] looked at me as if to say, ‘you know what to do with this.’ But I didn’t want to take the weight for them and destroy it. They were pissed when I turned the document over to you guys.”

How can this be considered democracy when we are not furnished the full truth? When documents can so easily be destroyed or tampered with?

Is this what happens when a minority are given to much power?

Does power negate morality?

Should not all things, processes and systems, bend toward honesty? Or has winning become most important even if it means the expense of human life.

Excerpt pg. 204

“When Holly and Ralph Hurvitz graduated from Northwestern Law School, they turned down the opportunity to make a minimum twenty-five thousand dollars per year, even at a Legal Aid job. They could have earned two to three times that in a private practice. Instead, they accepted the one hundred dollars per week that PLO would try to pay them.”

“We used to say that satisfaction from our work was our real compensation.”

If someone is not willing to sacrifice there will be no change for the greater good.

— If not now, when? And if not you, who?

Excerpt pg. 206

“John Coglan, Groth’s attorney, had already stalled Groth’s deposition for six months”

How was this not illegal based on violation of constitutional right to a speedy trial?

“Coghlan was trying to find a dead panther who might qualify as Groth’s informant if Groth were ever ordered to name someone”

Note: Sergeant Daniel Groth lead the additional Special Prosecutions Unit, a group created by Hanrahan [State Attorney] to deal with gangs.

Excerpt pg. 207

“When we finally got the transcripts of these interviews after the trial, they showed Coghlan suggesting, begging, and even threatening witnesses to place Babatunde at 2337 prior to the raid, “I don’t recall seeing him there,” was the universal response.”

Note: Tapes refer to the deposition tapes of Coghlan’s interviews with witnesses

2337 refers to 2337 W. Monroe the address where the police raid on the Panther Chicago headquarters took place resulting in the killing of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark and the wounding of other Panthers who were present at the time of the raid.

Babatunde is the name of the Dead Black Panther who was named as Groth’s informant. This was an attempt to cover up the FBI involvement in the assassination of Fred Hampton.

Coercion?

Are lawyers allowed to blatantly lie and deceive witnesses as to benefit their case and clients?

Groth - “He unapologetically stated that he authorized his officers to carry their own personal weapons on the raid. This included shotguns, automatic pistols, and Glove Davis’s .30 caliber rifle. He also approved Officer Gorman being issued a .45-caliber machine gun, although he admitted no one had ever taken a machine gun on a previous raid led by him. Groth said he hadn’t run the raid a 8:00 P.M. when his informant told him the apartment would be vacant, and instead changed the raid time to 4:00 A.M., because he wanted to use “surprise.” He chose not to take bullhorns or make a phone call to annouce the police presence, although he knew that when the FBI had done this in June it had led to the Panthers not resisting their entry. He also decided against tear gas.”

The motives seem ill-intended. It was as if they wanted to catch the Panthers at their worst.

Could this be seen simply as a response to the media’s negative portrayal of the panthers (Specifically as a violent, separatist, anti-police cadre) if so, how much is the media to blame for the massacre that took place at 2337 W. Monroe and all the other Panther raids and killings that took place as a result of their over-sensationalized stories?

Why no tear gas? Not lethal enough?

If the police were able to respond to the supposed heightened violent tendencies of the Panthers then why would the Panthers be unable to respond to the police’s proven heightened violent tendencies?

Excerpt pg. 215

“The December 4th Committee,...was holding monthly fundraisers to help defray expenses with performers like Chaka Khan, Oscar Brown Jr., and Dick Gregory”

“Only his generosity allowed us to continue discovery.”

The omnipresent theme of human generosity throughout this book is a reminder of how important it is that we do what what we can, no matter how small of large a gesture, to help one another.

Excerpt pg. 217

“The documents showed the FBI had monitored Fred Hampton on a daily basis and recorded nearly everything he did, from speaking at colleges to serving breakfast to kids.”

Is this not invasion of privacy? Do we not have legal protection against such violations? And who are the people who deserve to have their rights to privacy obstructed? What is the minimum perceived threat that warrants maximum surveillance?

Excerpt pg. 252

“During Piper’s testimony the FBI produced two new volumes of instructions to FBI agents that bore Piper and Johnson’s signatures. These directed FBI agents to “destroy what the BPP stands for,” “escalate actions against the BPP,” and “destroy the Breakfast for Children Program.”

Note: Piper refers to Robert Piper, FBI Chicago field office supervisor and Johnson refers to Marlin Johnson Head of the FBI Chicago field office.

The Free Breakfast Program served two ends. First, to feed children of the American underclass and second, to forge a positive attitude and create a better understanding of the BPP and its goals with the community. This would also help to negate the negative image of the party that made groups hesitant to work with them.

By destroying the Free Breakfast program, the government intended to destroy the possibility of the community developing positive attitudes towards the party as well as hinder the party’s ability to develop ties with other community and grassroots organizations. If it meant stopping poor American children from being fed, it wasn't too high a price for the power structure.

Excerpt pg. 253

“On December 3, Piper initialed the COINTELPRO status report to Hoover stating the Chicago FBI office expected a “positive course of action” to result.

Note: The positive course of action is refering to the desired result of the raid planned for December 4th.

Hoover refers to J. Edgar Hoover, Head of the FBI

What else could a positive course of action mean when the goal is to disrupt, discredit, and/or neutralize.

Excerpt pg. 258

“The news stories contained Truelock’s description of O’Neal’s effort to induce Panthers to commit burglaries and robberies and use explosives. Our jury never heard it. “

Note: Truelock refers to Louis Truelock, member of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party.

O’Neal refers to the FBI informant who infiltrated the Black Panther Party and served ad Fred Hampton’s bodyguard.

Imagine the verdict if the jury had heard this.

Excerpt pg. 263

“There’s something else,” he said, looking down. “The reason I told you that daily copy was three dollars per page was because Coghlan told me he and the other defendants’ lawyers would pay me that rate for each copy if I charged you the same. Normally the three dollar fee would be split among all the lawyers. You should be paying one dollar.” Youker told us we’d been cut off because Coghlan found out he was giving us the transcript for less and he threatened to stop paying the extra. Youker also said Coghlan warned him “to keep our deal a secret,” and that he had been contacting him consistently to make sure we weren’t getting transcripts.”

The extra financial strain that was placed on an already income devoid law firm presents the same question, How different of an outcome would there have been if the playing field were even?

“Not only had the higher fee kept us from daily copy, the city, county, and feds were paying tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars extra so we couldn’t afford it.”

In the interest of justice?

“Coghlan’s deal had already cost taxpayers more than one hundred thousand dollars.”

Is it democracy when we have no control over where our taxpayer dollars are allocated?

Excerpt pg 275

“Did you check his breathing”

“Sir, I was in a hurry”

“The evidence was there. In closing argument, we could explain that that the reason Carmody never checked to see if Fred was alive was because he had shot him two times in the head and knew he was dead.”

What kind of mental and spiritual state must a person be in to lethally shoot someone while they’re sleeping? Does it make it any more or less justifiable because the shooter is in a police uniform?

What could be the motivation for such a heinous crime? Fear? Hatred? The Black Panthers were surely hated and feared by police and the power structure who commanded the raid on December 4th.

Excerpt pg. 304

‘Flint pointed out the defendants’ meetings, their planning, the floor plan, and the resulting bullets directed toward Fred’s bed--clearly marked on the floor plan--to show intent and malice, requirements for the awarding of punitive damages. I focused on the volume of the police shots, the beatings, kicking, and racial slurs inflicted on the plaintiffs after the raid, and the photos that showed how the defendants tore up the apartment when they were done shooting.”

“Of all the photos,” I said, “the one that demonstrates their intent most clearly is the one of Fred on the door, bleeding from his head. Nobody checked his life signs or attempted to help him. Nobody covered him up. They waited for the photographers.”

No call for an ambulance. 2 people fatally shot and others wounded. No one cared whether they lived or died, and the particular “nobodies” in this instance were police officers. Those paid to protect life. At best, this demonstrates lack of concern and at worst, blatant undeniable ill-intent.

Not covering up his body is reminiscent of the aftermath of the killing of Mike Brown. His body was also left uncovered. Examples of modern day lynchings?

Excerpt pg. 307

“Throughout their effort, they have worked 70 and 80 hour weeks at negligible pay trying to win for the plaintiffs 47.7 million in damages from the police raiders.” “...Their enthusiasm never has flagged,...”

The level of dedication is nothing less than commendable. How many people would work 70-80 hour weeks for 18 months while knowing they’re being underpaid and with the constant fear of impending jail time? (Contempt of court)

Excerpt pg 330

Note: Here the author describes Pontiac Correctional Center

“First I gathered information on the conditions there, which included weeks and then months of twenty-four-hour-a-day lockdowns in tiny cells fives tiers high in a steel cell house that was brutally hot during the day and freezing at night. Food, often containing rat feces and human hair, was passed to the prisoners through chunkholes in their cell doors.”

“He and I walked the intensely hot galleries strewn with stinking, uncollected garbage, watching comatose men sleeping in their underwear at noon.”

Again I pose the question, what level of offense, how gruesome of a crime must a person commit to deserve to be subjected to such conditions? And if such conditions persist throughout our prisons then what is their purpose? To rehabilitate or to punish? Does knowing those who have perpetrated a crime against us live in such conditions make us whole again? What does it say about us if it does?

Maybe if we could see, maybe if we had to endure such conditions, we’d change our minds about our systems of punishment.

Excerpt pg. 338

“On August 4, 1981, he allowed us to join and charge as defendants in the conspiracy John Mitchell, Hoover’s estate, Jerris Leonard, and the D.C. heads of COINTELPRO--everyone we wanted with the exception of the FBI itself, which he ruled had sovereign immunity as a federal agency.”

Immunity in this case? Should anyone or any entity be given immunity in a case that pertains to actions that lead to the loss of two lives.

Excerpt pg. 339

“It always pisses off victims of the police to learn taxpayers foot the bill. ‘It isn’t right,’ I said. ‘But the police contract requires they be indemnified. I wish we were getting money from them too. It might deter them next time.”

How much of a role does indemnity play in carelessness and negligence? Would police act differently if they knew they’d literally pay the cost for their actions.

Excerpt pg. 346

“ I understand the plaintiffs and defendants have agreed to settle for 1.85 million with one-third coming from the city, one-third from the county, and one-third from the federal government,...”

“The money would mean a lot to our clients, but did it make up for what had been done and the decade spent uncovering it?”

Did the forces who truly represented the pursuit of justice, freedom, and liberty win in the end?

#books #bookshelf #blackbooks #blackpanthers #blackpanther #fredhampton

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anomalietwelve · 6 years ago

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Rory Gimore Reading Challenge

I put it there has a reminder to myself that I want to read more (so much more). The public library will be more accessible to me when I am going to be where I’m moving this summer, so, no excuses. Even if I should really work on my art more than on my reading. Would be nice if it could help me feel less... inadequate. Somehow. Just a little.

1984 by George Orwell

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Archidamian War by Donald Kagan

The Art of Fiction by Henry James

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Babe by Dick King-Smith

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – read – June 2010

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

The Bhagavad Gita

The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy

Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

Candide by Voltaire – read – June 2010

The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

Carrie by Stephen King

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger – read

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman

Christine by Stephen King

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse

The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty

A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père

Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Cujo by Stephen King

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Daisy Miller by Henry James

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Deenie by Judy Blume

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx

The Divine Comedy by Dante

The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

Don Quixote by Cervantes

Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

Eloise by Kay Thompson

Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

Emma by Jane Austen

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Ethics by Spinoza

Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Extravagance by Gary Krist

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan

Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR)

Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce

Fletch by Gregory McDonald

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg

Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

The Gospel According to Judy Bloom

The Graduate by Charles Webb

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald – read

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Group by Mary McCarthy

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (TBR)

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry (TBR)

Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare

Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare

Henry V by William Shakespeare

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III (Lpr)

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland

Howl by Allen Gingsburg

The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

The Iliad by Homer

I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy

It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway

The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott – on my book pile

Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Love Story by Erich Segal

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Manticore by Robertson Davies

Marathon Man by William Goldman

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer

Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken

The Merry Wives of Windsro by William Shakespeare

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin

Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken

My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin

Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen

New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Night by Elie Wiesel

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan

Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell

Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Old School by Tobias Wolff

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan

Oracle Night by Paul Auster

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Othello by Shakespeare

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan

Out of Africa by Isac Dineson

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby

The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker

The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche

The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Property by Valerie Martin

Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

Quattrocento by James Mckean

A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier – read

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman

The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien (TBR)

R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton

Rita Hayworth by Stephen King

Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert

Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin

Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi

Sanctuary by William Faulkner

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford

The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman

Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Several Biographies of Winston Churchill

Sexus by Henry Miller

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Shane by Jack Shaefer

The Shining by Stephen King

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton

Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Small Island by Andrea Levy

Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway

Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore

The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos

The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker

Songbook by Nick Hornby

The Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller

A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams

Stuart Little by E. B. White

Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett

Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry

Time and Again by Jack Finney

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

Ulysses by James Joyce

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Unless by Carol Shields

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray – read

Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker

What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles

What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka

Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Konde

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

Wild by Cheryl Strand

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts About Being a Woman by Nora Ephron

My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard

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The Keys of the Kingdom (1947) starring Gregory Peck and Thomas Mitchell

“All atheists are not godless men. I knew one who I hope may now be in heaven.” — Father Chisholm

With its resources as one of Hollywood’s three most prestigious studios of the 1940s, 20th Century-Fox would occasionally, often successfully, go all-out on certain productions, utilizing its very best directors, cinematographers, screenwriters and composers—among composers, there was only one. These films were usually long, lavish and expensive, with large casts, and on a monumental, sometimes portentous subject, based on famous, certainly popular novels.

These extravaganzas were spread out over the 1940s. The Grapes of Wrath and Brigham Young were released in that first year. In ’41 another John Ford film, How Green Was My Valley, then The Song of Bernadette in ’43. After a brief respite, The Razor’s Edge in ’46.

With the advent of television, with theater receipts rapidly decreasing, in ’47 Captain from Castile lost about a million dollars on its initial release. This marked something of an end to the traditional Fox prestige picture—temporarily anyway until the next decade, beginning with The Robe (1953).

The four directors represented in these six films were top echelon—at the pinnacle, of course, John Ford in two of the films; Henry King, Tyrone Power’s perennial director, in another two; Henry Hathaway, ideally suited for “outdoor” stories, in one; and Edmund Goulding, the director of five Bette Davis films, in the last. No runts of the litter here.

And among the cinematographers? Arthur Miller in all but Valley, which was shot by Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane, 1941, and The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946), and Castile, partly shot by an uncredited Joseph LaShelle.

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The list of screenwriters in these movies, again, includes some of the finest in the business: Nunnally Johnson, Philip Dunne, George Seaton and Lamar Trotti in two of the films.

The one artist these six films have in common? They were all scored by the studio’s resident composer, the creator of the 20th Century-Fox fanfare, Alfred Newman. He was Oscar-nominated for three of these, and won for Bernadette.

Fox respected and guarded its famous trademark—that towering art deco company name and the gleaming searchlights thrust forward by the fanfare—and The Keys of the Kingdom is one of only a few of the studio’s films which begins without the fanfare, though the logo is shown.

With this kind of talent and resources, The Keys of the Kingdom began production in February of 1944. Strongest ingredients first. From the already excellent source material, A. J. Cronin’s best-selling 1941 novel, screenwriters Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Nunnally Johnson crafted natural, yet aesthetic dialogue. The key asset of the pair was Mankiewicz, who had a sensitivity for words—witness his scripts for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950).

The cinematographer was, again, Arthur Miller and the composer of the score one Alfred Newman, of some repute.

Although the film was nominated for four Oscars, including best score and black and white cinematography, director John M. Stahl was something of an odd man out, and unheralded—and not without reason. His biggest flop, Parnell (1937), and M-G-M’s biggest up to that time, turned its star, Clark Gable, against costume dramas, a main reason for his reluctance to tackle Gone With the Wind (1939). Stahl, in this case however, marshaled all the various aspects of the film—religion, humor, tragedy and war—into one cohesive whole.

In only his second film—following the war-set Days of Glory (1944)—the young Gregory Peck proves himself as the dedicated and humble missionary-priest to China. In the two-hour plus film, in which he is on screen most of the time, he renders a sincere, believable performance, ranging from soft-spoken compassion to almost retaliatory loathing.

As the film begins, Monsignor Sleeth (Cedric Hardwicke) has come to the Scottish village of Tweedside to visit elderly Father Francis Chisholm (Peck), who has, only a year before, returned from a lifetime in China. Having already shaken a disapproving head when Francis appears from a fishing excursion with rods and reels, Sleeth later informs him that he should retire, that the “peculiar” managing of his parish has raised concerns.

When the monsignor retires that night, he finds Father Chisholm’s diary, which initiates a flashback. . . .

Young Francis (Roddy McDowell) is orphaned when both his parents (Ruth Nelson and Dennis Hoey) are swept away in a raging river. Francis lives with distant cousins, whose little daughter Nora (Peggy Ann Garner) he later loves as an adult (Jane Ball).

When, as a young man, he leaves for the Holywell seminary, two old friends, carefree Willie (Thomas Mitchell) and proud Rev. Angus Mealey (Vincent Price), see him off at the train station. Willie is dismayed when Francis throws back the bottle of whiskey he threw to him.

At Holywell, another old friend, kindly Rev. Hamish MacNabb (Edmund Gwenn), counsels Francis’ doubts about becoming a priest. They go fishing together. “It was fine of the Lord,” MacNabb says, “to put all the little fishes in the brooks and to send me here to catch them.”

Soon, news arrives—something is wrong concerning Nora, and Francis rushes home to find she has died. Back at Holywell, when MacNabb suggests Francis would make an ideal missionary to China, he accepts.

Arriving in Paitan, the naive priest believes the waving crowds and cheers are for him, only to discover they are for the town’s mandarin. Francis finds the church has been destroyed by a flood and left unrebuilt by the so-called converted Christians. His weakened faith is restored when a young traveler, Joseph (Benson Fong), offers to help.

The mandarin, Mr. Chai (Leonard Strong), sends an envoy that his son is seriously ill, the Chinese medicines having proven ineffectual. Francis’ operation on the boy’s infected arm cures him. When Francis goes unthanked, he ends a brief personal prayer with “ . . . but they are ungrateful and You know it!”

When Mr. Chai eventually arrives to thank him and offers, favor for favor, to become a Christian, Francis rejects him, saying Christianity is not a “habit” one puts on without belief. Later, Mr. Chai offers, free and clear, land on the Hill of the Brilliant Green Jade and the workmen and material to build a Christian school.

Later arrive an arrogant reverent mother, Maria-Veronica (Rose Stradner), and Willie with medical supplies. During a battle between the Republic and Imperial forces he is wounded and dies, thanking Francis for not trying to convert him.

With the mission nearly destroyed, Francis joins a local army general (Richard Loo) in destroying the enemy’s cannon.

Soon arrives Angus, now a monsignor and grown arrogant with his new position. He announces that the church cannot pay for a new mission, that Francis’ conversion rate is the lowest on church records. Maria-Veronica apologies to Francis for her “shameful” behavior and says, compared with Angus’ condescending regard for the Chinese, his is the true faith.

As time passes, the mission flourishes, only now Francis has competition—a Methodist church comes to Paitan. He sets out to meet the minister (James Gleason) and his wife (Anne Revere) and finds them friendly and agreeable. At last, the time comes for Father Francis to leave. In a grand farewell, this time the crowd’s waves and cheers are for him. . . .

The flashback over, the next day Monsignor Sleeth tells Francis that he has spent the night reading his diary, and that he will relay to the bishop nothing that could in any way affect his hopes for his parish.

While supported by a perfect cast, Gregory Peck makes the film his own. His Oscar nomination for Best Actor was the third for the film. Not an especially strong year for actors, Ray Milland won—it could be said easily—for The Lost Weekend, with the Academy’s proven penchant for alcoholics and dying people. What chance, then, could a saintly, unglamorous priest, however well acted, have against the histrionic, hallucinating role of a drunk?

After three more nominations, Peck would finally win, in 1962, for playing another compassionate man, another kind of “father,” that of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.

It should be remembered, 20th Century-Fox’s gamble on Peck, with a single previous film credit, was no greater than Warner Bros.’ on Errol Flynn in their big production of Captain Blood (1935). The newcomer had had only five previous roles, two uncredited, in five insignificant movies.

Against the current trend for quite different films, The Keys of the Kingdom is all things today’s films aren’t—slow-moving, patient, expository, with long scenes of dialogue and character building. The soft-hued scene, for example, between the elderly Francis and Maria-Veronica as they sit at a table and discuss his accomplishments and forthcoming departure lasts over six minutes, with little cutting and no moving about to “enliven things” with various camera set-ups. Some viewers may think the film sentimental, which maybe it is, but this scene is most moving, and it’s only one of many like it in an inspiring film.

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100 (Best) First Lines of Novels

1. Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)

2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

3. A screaming comes across the sky. —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

4. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. —Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967; trans. Gregory Rabassa)

5. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. —Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955)

6. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. —Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877; trans. Constance Garnett)

7. riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. —James Joyce, Finnegans Wake (1939)

8. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. —George Orwell, 1984 (1949)

9. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

10. I am an invisible man. —Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)

11. The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard. —Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933)

12. You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. —Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

13. Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. —Franz Kafka, The Trial (1925; trans. Breon Mitchell)

14. You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. —Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler (1979; trans. William Weaver)

15. The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. —Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1938)

16. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. —J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

17. Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo. —James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

18. This is the saddest story I have ever heard. —Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915)

19. I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing;—that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost:—Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly,—I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me. —Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759–1767)

20. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. —Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1850)

21. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. —James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)

22. It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. —Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Paul Clifford (1830)

23. One summer afternoon Mrs. Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary. —Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)

24. It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. —Paul Auster, City of Glass (1985)

25. Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting. —William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929)

26. 124 was spiteful. —Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)

27. Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing. —Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605; trans. Edith Grossman)

28. Mother died today. —Albert Camus, The Stranger (1942; trans. Stuart Gilbert)

29. Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu. —Ha Jin, Waiting (1999)

30. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. —William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)

31. I am a sick man . . . I am a spiteful man. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground (1864; trans. Michael R. Katz)

32. Where now? Who now? When now? —Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable (1953; trans. Patrick Bowles)

33. Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. "Stop!" cried the groaning old man at last, "Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree." —Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans (1925)

35. It was like so, but wasn't. —Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 (1995)

36. —Money . . . in a voice that rustled. —William Gaddis, J R (1975)

37. Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. —Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)

38. All this happened, more or less. —Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

39. They shoot the white girl first. —Toni Morrison, Paradise (1998)

40. For a long time, I went to bed early. —Marcel Proust, Swann's Way (1913; trans. Lydia Davis)

41. The moment one learns English, complications set in. —Felipe Alfau, Chromos (1990)

42. Dr. Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature. —Anita Brookner, The Debut (1981)

43. I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false azure in the windowpane; —Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (1962)

44. Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. —Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

45. I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. —Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome (1911)

46. Ages ago, Alex, Allen and Alva arrived at Antibes, and Alva allowing all, allowing anyone, against Alex's admonition, against Allen's angry assertion: another African amusement . . . anyhow, as all argued, an awesome African army assembled and arduously advanced against an African anthill, assiduously annihilating ant after ant, and afterward, Alex astonishingly accuses Albert as also accepting Africa's antipodal ant annexation. —Walter Abish, Alphabetical Africa (1974)

48. He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. —Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

49. It was the day my grandmother exploded. —Iain M. Banks, The Crow Road (1992)

50. I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974. —Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2002)

51. Elmer Gantry was drunk. —Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry (1927)

52. We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall. —Louise Erdrich, Tracks (1988)

53. It was a pleasure to burn. —Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

54. A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. —Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (1951)

55. Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. —Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)

59. It was love at first sight. —Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)

61. I have never begun a novel with more misgiving. —W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge (1944)

62. Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person. —Anne Tyler, Back When We Were Grownups (2001)

63. The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. —G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)

64. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)

65. You better not never tell nobody but God. —Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)

66. "To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die." —Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988)

67. It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York. —Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)

68. Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden. —David Foster Wallace, The Broom of the System (1987)

69. If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog. —Saul Bellow, Herzog (1964)

70. Francis Marion Tarwater's uncle had been dead for only half a day when the boy got too drunk to finish digging his grave and a Negro named Buford Munson, who had come to get a jug filled, had to finish it and drag the body from the breakfast table where it was still sitting and bury it in a decent and Christian way, with the sign of its Saviour at the head of the grave and enough dirt on top to keep the dogs from digging it up. —Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear it Away (1960)

71. Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me. —Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum (1959; trans. Ralph Manheim)

72. When Dick Gibson was a little boy he was not Dick Gibson. —Stanley Elkin, The Dick Gibson Show (1971)

74. She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him. —Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902)

75. In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. —Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929)

77. He was an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of the shoulders, head forward, and a fixed from-under stare which made you think of a charging bull. —Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)

78. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. —L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between (1953)

80. Justice?—You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. —William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own (1994)

81. Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash. —J. G. Ballard, Crash (1973)

82. I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. —Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (1948)

83. "When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing." —Katherine Dunn, Geek Love (1983)

86. It was just noon that Sunday morning when the sheriff reached the jail with Lucas Beauchamp though the whole town (the whole county too for that matter) had known since the night before that Lucas had killed a white man. —William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust (1948)

89. I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. —Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March (1953)

90. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. —Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (1922)

91. I will tell you in a few words who I am: lover of the hummingbird that darts to the flower beyond the rotted sill where my feet are propped; lover of bright needlepoint and the bright stitching fingers of humorless old ladies bent to their sweet and infamous designs; lover of parasols made from the same puffy stuff as a young girl's underdrawers; still lover of that small naval boat which somehow survived the distressing years of my life between her decks or in her pilothouse; and also lover of poor dear black Sonny, my mess boy, fellow victim and confidant, and of my wife and child. But most of all, lover of my harmless and sanguine self. —John Hawkes, Second Skin (1964)

92. He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. —Raphael Sabatini, Scaramouche (1921)

94. In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together. —Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

96. Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space. —Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye (1988)

99. They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did. —Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

100. The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. —Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

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Oh, sorry, I guess the beach and food preference headcanons sound good?

haha ok !! it’s no problem bud, i just have a hard time figuring out what all to say if i dont have a specific topic to ramble about. let’s start with beach first !!

edie - probably liked going to the beach when she was younger with the kids, but as she got older and it got harder to leave the house she probably would prefer to stay inside.molly - LOVES IT. loves going to the beach, playing in the water, playing with sand, collecting shells and bugs and all sorts of stuff. like i said in a previous post, she’d probably have to be dragged home at the end of the day because she wouldn’t want to go home.barbara - she’d probably love any excuse to wear a bikini, so a beach day would be nice. mostly prefers sunbathing to actually swimming thoughcalvin + sam - calvin would prefer to go at night for the stargazing, but i could see the two of them going to the beach to just dick around and be kids. building sand castles and the like, yknow? as sam got older though he’d probably appreciate going to the beach for the photos.walter - you probably wouldn’t catch him near the ocean any time soon. i see him as being the type to like to read about marine life and study it from an academic perspective but as far as actually going into the water would be a no-no.dawn - she’s the kinda mom that would most likely bring a book to the beach and sunbathe while reading or something. if dawn and barbara were alive at the same time they’d probably girl-talk on the beach while the kids had fun.gus - unlike molly he’d probably have to be dragged TO the beach, and even then he’d just sit on the beach with his kite wearing a t-shirt and swim trunks just avoiding everyone if at all possible. maybe he’d watch over greg.gregory - let this baby play in the sand with a little shovel and paillewis - eeeeeh? he’d probably prefer to go to the beach for like midnight walks by himself or with his siblings and just enjoying the quiet and listening to the waves crashing and stuff. not too big of a swimmer?milton - the only reason he’d probably want to go to the beach is to practice painting the ocean and stuff. also not too big of a swimmer.edith - she’d probably like swimming in the ocean, even if her brothers don’t swim that much. and if she wasn’t in the mood to swim, she could chill out on the beach talking to lewis or something. sibling bonding !!

and for food preferences:

edie - norwegian dishes maybe ??? and lots of fishmolly - literally anything edible. and candybarbara - honestly i could see her as sorta sticking to a vegetarian/vegan diet? mainly to maintain her image and help her try to land a role. though of course for her birthday she gets to splurge on cake and halloween candy so that’s nicecalvin - “not freakin’ mushrooms” -mod miltonsam - he’d probably like eating what he can hunt, like venison and fish and stuff. lots of meatwalter - i would say the obvious but i feel like he’d get sick of peaches after a while. especially 30 years of eating them. i feel like his preference would be a good ol fashioned pb+j, because he had loads of peanut butter and jelly in the bunker but no bread (obvs since bread goes bad fast), so i feel like he’d enjoy himself a good sammich.dawn - international cuisine maybe? like she’s traveled all over the world, she’s probably the type to love immersing in a culture and eating local dishes and trying new things all the timegus - i could see him as being the kid to try to survive on a fruit roll up/gushers/kool-aid diet or something. like lots of fruit snacks throughout the day and then whatever sam and/or kay cooked for dinnergregory - baby foodlewis - he’d love the indian food his dad would cook honestly. curry, stuff with chicken and rice, stuff like that? lots of seasoning. give this man spicesmilton - probably will eat whatever’s handed to him that tastes good? according to mod miltonedith - anything that’s not salmon and food from that chinese place they order from literally all the time

#mod lewis #headcanons #i dunno !!! feel free to add your own thoughts/ideas/headcanons !!!#Anonymous

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Artist News | September Part III

What’s on your must-see list for art this fall? Consider adding the following events and opportunities from NYFA affiliated artists!

Be sure to catch NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows and NYFA Fiscally Sponsored Projects sharing their work at events throughout New York City, the United States, and beyond. Share you visit with us on social media. Use the handle @nyfacurrent to tag us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Things to do & see in NYC:

14 Sculptors Gallery (Sponsored Organization) 14 Sculptors Gallery joins the Rockaway art scene with their exhibition, 14 Sculptures on the Rock. When: Now through October 9, 2017 Where: Rockaway Beach, 94th Street, Far Rockaway, NY 11693

Mary Tooley Parker (Fellow in Folk/Traditional Arts ‘15) Tooley Parker has work showcased in the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists’ Coalition’s third annual Really Affordable Art $how. When: Now through October 15, 2017 Where: Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, #7, 481 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231

Jim Osman (Fellow in Crafts/Sculpture ‘17) Osman’s work is showcased in Domestic Disturbances, a group show featuring work from artists who merge functional and nonfunctional elements, highlighting the relationship between art and design. When: Now through October 19, 2017 Where: 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Debi Cornwall & Jennifer Karady (Sponsored Projects) See Debi Cornwall’s and Jennifer Karady’s documentary photographs at Gulf + Western’s exhibition, Bending the Frame. When: Now through October 22, 2017 Where: Gulf + Western Gallery, 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place), New York, NY 10011

Lizzie Scott (Sponsored Project) Lizzie Scott’s sewn and painted fabric constructions are part of a group exhibition, Soft Power, which explores notions of the human condition and power dynamics through the use of hand manipulation of “soft” malleable materials such as felt, fabric, canvas, and human hair. Scott’s The Total Styrene Experience is a Fiscally Sponsored Project. When: Now through October 22, 2017 Where: Lesley Heller Workspace, 54 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002

Leigh Davis (Sponsored Project) Leigh Davis’s photographs are included in BRIC’s Brooklyn Photographs, which bring together the work of 11 photographers who have turned their lens on the Brooklyn experience from the late 1960s to the present. Davis’s An Inquiry into the ELE is a Fiscally Sponsored Project. When: Now through October 29, 2017 Where: Gallery at BRIC House, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Nadja Verena Marcin (Sponsored Project) Space Odyssey: Beyond Material Confinements, curated by Nadja Verena Marcin explores themes including artificial intelligence, gravity, the explosion of movement, and feminine architecture. When: Now through November 10, 2017 Where: Radiator Gallery, 10-61 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11106

Andrea Arroyo (Fellow in Sculpture ‘89, Printmaking/Drawing/Artists’ Books ‘95) Arroyo has created an edition of 100 prints to sell in an effort to raise funds for the victims of the recent earthquake devastation in Mexico. Prints are $35, and 100% of the proceeds will be donated. When: Now through December 31, 2017 Where: You may donate/purchase prints here.

Carolee Schneemann (Fellow in Performance Art/Emergent Forms ‘87) Schneemann’s work is a part of the Met Breuer’s recently opened exhibition, Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason. Read a recent review of the show from The New York Times here. When: Now through January 14, 2018 Where: The Met Breuer, 945 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021

Pacifico Silano (Fellow in Photography ‘16) Rubber Factory is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by Pacifico Silano from his series John John. When: Opening Reception: September 30, 2017, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM; September 30 - November 15, 2017 Where: Rubber Factory, 29c Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002

Ann Stephenson (Fellow in Poetry ‘17) Listen to Stephenson perform a reading as a part of Dia’s monthly Readings in Contemporary Poetry Series. Advance ticket purchases recommended; Buy tickets here. When: October 3, 2017, 6:30 PM Where: Dia: Chelsea, 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10011

Emily Raboteau (Fellow in Fiction ‘04) Raboteau will be speaking at What’s at Stake?, an event focusing on the intersection of visual culture and the complex and contradictory notions of community. Register for this event here. When: October 6, 2017, 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM Where: The New School, University Center, Starr Foundation Hall, 63 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10003

Leeza Ahmady (Sponsored Project) Leeza Ahmady’s Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) brings together leading New York and Asia-based art institutions, museums and galleries to present a showcase of exhibitions, innovative projects, provocative dialogues on current topics, and networking opportunities. See the schedule here. When: October 5 - October 26, 2017 Where: Various Locations throughout New York, NY. Learn more here.

Barbara Hammer (Fellow in Video/Film ‘88, ’92, ’97, ’98, ’01, ’12) Barbara Hammer will have several films screened at the New York Film Festival: Projections; Psychosynthesis, Women I love, Audience, No No Nooky T.V., and Still Point. The screenings will be followed by a Q&A with Hammer. Purchase tickets here. When: October 9, 2017, 3:00 PM Where: Francesca Beale Theater, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, 144 West 65th Street, New York, NY 10023

Ishmael Houston Jones (Fellow in Choreography ‘85/’89) Taylor Mac (Fellow in Interdisciplinary Work ‘09) Jennifer Monson (Fellow in Choreography ‘89/’98/’08) Mac, Jones, and Monson have all been nominated for the 2017 Bessies Award for Dance and Performance. Winners will be announced. Tickets may be purchased here. When: October 9, 2017, 7:30 PM Where: NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10012

Gordon Moore (Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists’ Books ‘14) Moore’s drawings can be seen in the group show, Works on Paper. When: Opening Reception: October 11, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM; October 11 - November 11, 2017 Where: Anita Rogers Gallery, 15 Greene Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10013

Donna Henes (Fellow in Conceptual/Performance Art ‘86/Nonfiction ‘91) Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga (Fellow in Computer Arts ‘07) Luis Lara Malvacías (Fellow in Choreography ‘06) Linda Mary Montano (Fellow in Conceptual/Performance Art ‘86) Jenny Polak (Fellow in Interdisciplinary Works ‘12) Chin Chih Yang (Fellow in Digital Electronic Arts ‘11) Several NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows will be participating in the 13th year of Art in Odd Places, which will stage interactive art in various public spaces along 14th Street in Manhattan. This years theme is SENSE. When: October 12 - October 15, 2017 Where: 14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River, New York, NY

Lenora Champagne (Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting ‘98, Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Work ‘03) Champagne will be performing I.C. (I See)/Traps, a response to Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and everyday anxieties. When: October 14, 2017, 7:30 PM Where: Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, New York, NY 10002

Get out of town to see:

Nadja Verena Marcin (Sponsored Project) Marcin’s photographics works JEDI and Bride will be a part of the traveling show, Todo los ojos en Bolivia - 10 anos de la Residencia KIOSKO at the Museum National de Arte in La Paz, Bolivia. When: Now through October 1, 2017 Where: Museum National de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia

Ben Altman (Sponsored Project) A two-person exhibition with Ben Altman and Robert Knight called Reverence is now on view at the Dowd Gallery. An interactive video and photograph installation of Altman’s Fiscally Sponsored Project, The More That Is Taken Away will be included in the show. When: Now through October 13, 2017 Where: Dowd Gallery, State University of New York, 106 Graham Avenue, Cortland, NY, 13045

John Morton (Sponsored Project) John Morton’s work is part of Sup-A-Genius: The Five Guy Show, a group exhibition that celebrates the artist-as inventor. When: Now through November 11, 2017 Where: Drawing Rooms, 180 Grand Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302

Andrea Arroyo (Fellow in Sculpture ‘89, Printmaking/Drawing/Artists’ Books ‘95) Unnatural Election: Artists Speak is a traveling show curated by Arroyo, featuring her work alongside over 200 international artists dealing with questions of social justice, diversity, human rights, economic justice, climate change, and international affairs. When: Now through November 2017 Where: Puffin Cultural Forum, 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, NJ 07666

Juana Valdes (Fellow in Sculpture ‘11) Valdes’ work is on view in the recent show Conceptual Mappings, as a part of the exhibition Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, which surveys twenty-first century art of the Caribbean using the archipelago as an analytical framework. When: Now through February 25, 2018 Where: Museum of Latin American Art, 628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802

Helène Aylon (Sponsored Project) Aylon’s exhibition Afterword: For the Children and conclusion to her two-decade-long “G-D Project: Nine Houses Without Women” travels to the 2017 Jerusalem Biennale. When: October 2 - November 15, 2017 Where: Hamachtarot Museum (Museum of Underground Prisoners), Rehov Mishol Hagvura 1, Russian Compound, Jerusalem, 9131401

Phillip Hastings (Fellow in Video/Film ‘12) Hastings’ film SIGINT will be screened at the SIMULTAN Festival XII Possible Futures. When: October 3 - 7, 2017 Where: Timisoara, Romania; location information here.

Guzal Latypova (Sponsored Project) Latypova’s Coming Home, an art exhibition with a mission to build civilian-military communities to help heal the wounds of war through art and open dialog, displays Brookie Maxwell’s study drawings and COL Gregory Gadson’s photographs. When: Opening Reception - October 4, 2017 at 7:00PM; October 4, 2017 - October 7, 2017 Where: West Point Military Academy, Memorial Room at Cullum Hall, 2 Thayer Road, West Point, NY 10996

Coco Fusco (Fellow in Nonfiction ‘91/’14) Culture Lab Detroit presents, “The Lie That Tells The Truth,” a discussion between artists and writers who clarify and complicate the border between art and reality. RSVP here. When: October 6, 2017, 6:30 PM Where: Woods Cathedral, 1945 Webb Street, Detroit, MI 48206

New releases to enjoy at home:

John Kelly (Fellow in Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Work ‘87/’01) The American Repertory Theater did an interview with John Kelly regarding his recent piece Time No Line, performed at the OBERON theater. Where: Read Turning in Time: An Interview with John Kelly

Debi Cornwall (Sponsored Project) Debi Cornwall’s Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantanamo Bay is a vivid and disorientating collection of photographs, once-classified government documents, and first-person accounts providing a glimpse into the U.S. Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay. Check out a glimpse on The New York Times. Where: Purchase from Radius Books here.

NYFA Congratulates:

Marla Mossman (Sponsored Project) Marla Mossman’s documentary film, KAWOMERA: Plant, Pray, Partner for Peace was announced as the 2017 Winner of the Special Jury Award of Outstanding Excellence at the International Film Festival for Peace, Inspiration and Equality.

Shamel Pitts (Sponsored Project) Shamel Pitts’s performance art, Black Velvet, was recognized with the Audience Choice Award at the 2017 Stockholm Fringe Festival Awards.

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for more events with NYFA affiliated artists. Also, don’t forget to like us on Facebook to see what current Fiscally Sponsored Projects are up to! To receive more artist news updates, sign up for our biweekly newsletter, NYFA News.

The NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program awards $7,000 grants to individual artists living and working in New York State. The 2017-2018 application cycle is now open; eligible artists should apply by January 24, 2018. NYFA’s Fiscal Sponsorship program enhances the fundraising capabilities of individual artists and emerging arts organizations. The next quarterly deadline for NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship is September 30, 2017.

Image: Chin Chih Yang (Fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts ‘11), 123 Pollution Solution, 2007-2016

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Month Ahead // Writers Week, Comedy & Too Much To Do – March

March Madness has begun and I am tired.

I am also in a lot of pain while writing this because cramps and I forgot to bring the medication my doctor gave me for them to work so that’s just fucking greeeeeaaaaaaat.

Is that too much information? absolutely! Do I care? Fuck no!

I’m in too much pain to care. The only reason I’m writing this now is because 1. I’m running out of time to write it before it’s meant to go up and 2. It’s distracting me from the pain…. well not really but I need to keep my mind busy otherwise I’ll sit here with my forehead on the desk and then security will probably ask if I’m okay and I don’t really feel like having that conversation right now.

But telling strangers on the internet???? That’s fine. I just can’t wait to go home and drink my cramp tea and play with my baby nephew.

So this month is gonna be crazy. It’s already been crazy to be honest and it’s only just begun!

This was meant to go up on Tuesday night but life happened and there was no way I was gonna be able to do anything on Monday or Tuesday let alone write a post about the month to come when it has already been shit.

Honestly how many keys do I wanna add at this point????

Monstrous March

Monstrous March is the topic for this month at Devour Your TBR.

It’s about the creepy books, the ones that give you chills. You can go with either thrillers, horrors, spooky reads.. Whatever you think fits “monstrous”!

TBR

│The Dream Thieves│The Raven Cycle #2│Maggie Stiefvater│

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I was going to read this for Fantastic February last month but I ran out of time so I’m continuing it this month.

│Skylarks│Karen Gregory│

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I’ve only just started this and it seems good so far, great talk about poverty!

│The Surface Breaks│Lousie O’Neill│

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This is so far brilliant but of course it is, it’s Louise O’Neill after all.

│The Female of the Species│Mindy McGinnis│

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This has been on my bookshelf for like 2+ years and I am finally gonna pick it up!!! Thanks to Vicky’s @ Vicky Who Reads review of the same author’s book Heroine, I new I needed to finally read this one and with it coinciding with Monstrous March for Devour Your TBR I knew it was the perfect time!

│Sharp Objects│Gillian Flynn│

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I watched the TV series for this and IT WAS SO FUCKING BRILLIANT!!!!

With Monstrous March, now it’s time to read the book!

│Blue Lily, Lily Blue│The Raven Cycle #3│Maggie Stiefvater│

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I might read this if I get to it this month but it’s definitely on the back burner because I’m worried if I just read only this series all the books will meld together and I’ll get sick of the world and I do not want that to happen!

│Truly Devious│Truly Devious #1│Maureen Johnson│

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This month I’ve also added audiobooks to the mix!

I finally got a sport arm band phone case thing so I can listen to audiobooks while I’m doing housework or shopping or just running around!

I’ve signed up for Audible so if you have any recommendations PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!!!

I started this one while I was washing the car and it’s going to take me a little while to get used to paying close attention and not going on thought tangents but hopefully it all goes well and I’m able to get even more reading time!

│Khutulun│tatterhood│Agnodice│Te Puea Herangi│Moremi Ajasoro│Sybil Ludington│Kurmanjan Datka│Andamana│Mary Seacole│Florence Nightingale│Gráinne “Grace O’Malley” Ni Mháille│Rejected Princesses│Jason Porath│

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│Empress Xi Ling Shi│Hatsheput│Agnodice│Trung Trӑc & Trung Nhi│Fatima Al-Fihri│Bygone Badass Broads│Mackenzi Lee│

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Structured TBR Pass or Fail?

│Must Read:

6/5│

1/1│

0/0│

4/2│

7/3│

10/10│

5/5│

��Allowances:

1/1│

0/0│

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Haul

│Barbed Wire Heart│Tess Sharpe│

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This is currently on Netgalley as read now and I loved Sharpe’s Far From You so I had to get it!

Past Grey Reads

Book Review // Everything Leads To You – A Quite Love Story

Book Review // Girl Made of Stars – I Am Broken

Grey Reads // Everything’s On Fire and I Couldn’t Be Happier – Girls of Paper and Fire

TBW

│The Bold Type│Season 2│

│2017│

Sarah Watson│

Katie Stevens, Aisha Dee, Meghann Fahy│

So I kinda finished this one this week and now I have to wait for season 3 next month!

│Brooklyn Nine-Nine│Season 6│

│2013│

Daniel J. Goor, Michael Schur│

Andre Braugher, Andy Samberg, Stephanie Beatriz│Watching weekly episodes│

I’m hoping to keep up to date with this one.

│RuPaul’s Drag Race│Season 11│

│2009│

RuPaul│

RuPaul, Michelle Visage│Watching weekly episodes│

I’m so excited for this season! Miss Vanjie is bringing the goods already and I am here for it.

Also Boy Brooke Lyn Heights looks like pre-sobriety Mike The Situation from Jersey Shore and I can’t unsee it.

│I Am The Night│Season 1│

│2019│

Patty Jenkins│

Chris Pine, India Eisley, Jefferson Mays│

I’m a lot behind but I want to finish this now that all the episodes are out!

│The Umbrella Academy│Season 1│

│2019│

Jeremy Slater│

Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda │

Ideally I will actually get around to watching past the first episode but we’ll see.

│Russian Doll│Season 1│

│2019│

Leslye Headland, Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler│

Natasha Lyonne, Charlie Barnett, Greta Lee│

I wanna get past episode 2.

│Sex Education│Season 1│

│2019│

Laurie Nunn│

Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson, Emma Mackey│

So my coworker will not stop telling me to watch this because she knows it’s exactly my kind of show but I keep telling her I’m too busy. Well this week I finished it.

I highly doubt I’m going to get to all these but it’s a plan.

Past Grey Watches

Grey Watches // I Wanna Bone Jude Law and Kate Winslet – The Holiday

Grey Watches // It Has To Be A Shit Show – A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding

Grey Watches // I Hate It So Much I Love It – A Christmas Prince

Goals

Get my mental health plan

Book a therapy session

I have to wait until April ahhhhhhhh

Get a massage from mum

Try and take a mental health day

Try and take a mental health day later in the month

Keep my shit together—So far, not so good

Start journaling

Quit soft drink—I didn’t buy any this week, instead I got flavoured sparkling water because that’s the only way I like sparkling water.

Start floor exercises—I keep adding this and never get around to it.

Try and read 5 books

Don’t waste all my time on The Sims—Also not doing great on this one already

Go to Writers Week

Uhhhh, I Got In A Car Accident

So Adelaide Writers Week started on Saturday the 2nd and I got my first in person book signing on Saturday which was amazing!!!

And Sunday I went for the full day and it was even better!!! Found a very funny New Zealand Author and discovered a popular Australian fantasy author is uhh…kinda boring but it was still a great day out!

Then I was on my way for another full day of Writers Week on Monday and I got into a car accident. I’m okay, as far as I know everyone else was okay but of course this has made my anxiety spike big time and the lack of communication in all areas surrounding the accident have only made it so much worse. My mum has been a god send and helped me A LOT.

So I was catching the bus this week and public transport is something that can also trigger my anxiety (particular if people I talk to me or touch me). I did really well and didn’t have any bus induced anxiety attacks! I got extra reading in and I’ve decided to start catching the bus now to and from work every day but my shopping day so save money on petrol and parking and also help with lessening the wear and tear on my new car.

My mum got me a knew car since I can’t afford to buy another one and she needs me to have a car to make her life easier. we found basically the exact same car as my old one but it’s a different colour and has way less Kms on the clock! Unfortunately after we bought it today it broke down while I was at Costco getting petrol before work!!!

Ended up needing to get a new battery and just made it to work on time and didn’t cry even though I really wanted to.

So that was the reason why I didn’t post on Tuesday. I feel like that’s a pretty good excuse.

I’m trying to stay positive, especially since I have the Daniel Sloss show to look forward to this month but man it’s really hard when all you wanna do is cry and everything seems to be going wrong and I’m still dealing with the mess of my name change!

Past Month Ahead

Month Ahead // December – I Already Hate It

Month Ahead // Happy Birthday To Me + Hiatus Announcement – January

February Ahead // I’m Finally Going To Read The Raven Cycle Series & It’s Black History Month + A Great Resource for Education!!!!!

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Monthly Manga Review Index: March 2017

This month, I’m launching a new feature: the Monthly Manga Review Index. My motivation is simple. When I started writing ten years ago, link-bloggers such as Brigid Alverson, Tom Spurgeon, and Dirk Deppey played a big role in helping me find a readership. In the spirit of paying it forward, therefore, I’d like to shine a light on the good work that my fellow manga critics are doing at personal blogs, big corporate websites, newspapers, and everything in between.

Since it would be a fool’s errand to aim for comprehensive coverage, my goal is to compile a list of thoughtful essays that focus on new releases, classic titles, and buzzworthy series. I’ve divided the list into four broad categories: From the Top (reviews of new and new-ish print series), Digital Debuts (new digital-only titles), Ongoing Series, and From the Vault (a catch-all term for complete series or OOP titles). I’ve deliberately avoided labels such as “seinen” and “shojo,” as those descriptors are less useful for indicating whether a title is of interest to American readers. Additionally, I’ve chosen a review of the month to draw special attention to outstanding manga criticism.

Have a suggestion for improving the organization of this list? Want to recommend a great writer whose work should be featured here? Leave a comment below!

REVIEW OF THE MONTH: THE GIRL FROM THE OTHER SIDE

Anime UK News may not be on your radar, but this website has more to offer than just a lively set of forums; it’s also a great destination for manga reviews. This month, Sarah, the site’s editor, posted an achingly good essay about The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún. I finished her review with an acute sense of envy — I wish I’d written that! — as well as a deep appreciation for her description of Nagabe’s elegant, distinctive artwork. Go, read!

FROM THE TOP: NEW AND RECENT DEBUTS

Anonymous Noise, Vol. 1 (Rebecca Silverman, Anime News Network)

Anonymous Noise, Vol. 1 (Sean Gaffney, A Case Suitable for Treatment)

Anonymous Noise, Vol. 1 (Keith Hendricks, NerdSpan)

Anonymous Noise, Vol. 1 (Amelia Cook, Otaku USA)

Anonymous Noise, Vol. 1 (Anna N, The Manga Report)

Anonymous Noise, Vol. 2 (Anna N, The Manga Report)

Big Order, Vol. 1 (Dil, Taykobon)

Blame! Master Edition (Jason Thompson, Otaku USA)

Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 1 (Keith Hendricks, NerdSpan)

The Case Study of Vanitas, Vols. 1-3 (Shaenon Garrity, Otaku USA)

Clockwork Planet, Vol. 1 (Ian Wolf, Anime UK News)

Clockwork Planet, Vol. 1 (Sean Gaffney, A Case Suitable for Treatment)

Clockwork Planet, Vol. 1 (Robert McCarthy, Otaku USA)

Clockwork Planet, Vol. 1 (Michael, Taykobon)

Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, Vol. 1 (Nick Smith, ICv2)

Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody, Vol. 1 (Helen, The OASG)

Dragons Rioting, Vols. 1-2 (Shaenon Garrity, Otaku USA)

Erased, Vol. 1 (Rebecca Silverman, Anime News Network)

Erased, Vol. 1 (Demelza, Anime UK News)

Erased, Vol. 1 (Sean Gaffney, A Case Suitable for Treatment)

Erased, Vol. 1 (Nick Smith, ICv2)

Fire Force!, Vol. 1 (J. Caleb Mozzocco, Good Comics for Kids)

The Ghost in the Shell: Deluxe Edition (Ian Wolf, Anime UK News)

The Ghost in the Shell: Deluxe Edition (Brigid Alverson, B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog)

The Ghost in the Shell: Deluxe Edition (Ken H., Sequential Ink)

The Ghost in the Shell: Deluxe Edition (Mark Thomas, The Fandom Post)

The Ghost in the Shell Human-Error Processor: Deluxe Edition (Mark Thomas, The Fandom Post)

The Ghost in the Shell Man-Machine Interface: Deluxe Edition (Mark Thomas, The Fandom Post)

Hana & Hina After School, Vol. 1 (Sean Gaffney, A Case Suitable for Treatment)

Ichi-F: A Worker’s Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (Brigid Alverson, B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog)

Ichi-F: A Worker’s Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (Ash Brown, Experiments in Manga)

Ichi-F: A Worker’s Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant (Amelia Cook, Otaku USA)

The Isolator, Vol. 1 (Matt, Taykobon)

Kase-san and Morning Glories (Sean Gaffney, A Case Suitable for Treatment)

Kindred Spirits on the Roof: The Complete Collection (Erica Friedman, Okazu)

Kiss & White Lily for My Dearest Girl, Vol. 1 (Rebecca Silverman, Anime News Network)

Kiss & White Lily for My Dearest Girl, Vol. 1 (Sean Gaffney, A Case Suitable for Treatment)

Kiss & White Lily for My Dearest Girl, Vol. 1 (DJ Horn, The Fandom Post)

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages (Evan Minto, Otaku USA)

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Vol. 1 (Rebecca Silverman, Anime News Network)

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Vol. 1 (Ash Brown, Experiments in Manga)

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Vol. 1 (Ollie Barder, Forbes)

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Vol. 1 (J. Caleb Mozzocco, Good Comics for Kids)

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Vol. 1 (Nick Smith, ICv2)

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Vol. 1 (Evan Minto, Otaku USA)

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Vol. 1 (Demelza, Anime UK News)

Magia the Ninth, Vols. 1-2 (Rebecca Silverman, Anime News Network)

Revolutionary Girl Utena Deluxe Box Set (Amelia Cook, Otaku USA)

Smokin’ Parade, Vol. 1 (L.B. Bryant, ICv2)

Species Domain, Vol. 1 (Rebecca Silverman, Anime News Network)

Spirits & Cat Ears, Vol. 1 (Rebecca Silverman, Anime News Network)

Spirits & Cat Ears, Vol. 1 (Sean Gaffney, A Case Suitable for Treatment)

DIGITAL DEBUTS

Ace of the Diamond, Vol. 1 (Kory Cerjak, The Fandom Post)

All-Rounder Meguru, Vol. 1 (Matt, Taykobon)

Chihayafuru, Vol. 1 (Michelle Smith, Soliloquy in Blue)

The Full-Time Wife Escapist, Vol. 1 (Sean Gaffney, A Case Suitable for Treatment)

Gleam, Vol. 1 (Krystallina, The OASG)

House of the Sun, Vol. 1 (Matt, Taykobon)

Liquor & Cigarette (Allison Ziebka, Bloom Reviews)

Nodame Cantabile, Vol. 1 (Gabe Peralta, The Fandom Post)

Space Brothers, Vol. 1 (Gregory Smith, The Fandom Post)

Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Vol. 1 (Michelle Smith, Soliloquy in Blue)

Tokyo Tarareba Girls, Vol. 1 (Matt, Taykobon)

Wave, Listen to Me!, Vols. 1-2 (Michelle Smith, Soliloquy in Blue)

ONGOING SERIES

Akagame ga KILL! Zero, Vol. 5 (Krystallina, The OASG)

Akuma no Riddle, Vol. 4 (Erica Friedman, Okazu)

Behind the Scenes!!, Vol. 3 (Johanna Draper Carlson, Comics Worth Reading)

Case Closed, Vol. 61 (Kate O’Neil, The Fandom Post)

Food Wars!! Shokugeki no Soma, Vol. 16 (Johanna Draper Carlson, Comics Worth Reading)

Forget Me Not, Vol. 7 (Matt, Taykobon)

Fruits Basket Collector’s Edition, Vol. 11 (Sean Gaffney, A Case Suitable for Treatment)

Horimiya (Allison Ziebka, Bloom Reviews)

Horimiya, Vol. 6 (Helen, The OASG)

Horimiya, Vol. 6 (Matt, Taykobon)

Hunter x Hunter, Vol. 33 (Austin Price, Otaku USA)

Karneval (Zina H., Comics Alliance)

Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-Kun, Vol. 6 (Gabe Peralta, The Fandom Post)

My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong As I Expected @ Comic, Vol. 4 (Keith Hendricks, NerdSpan)

One Piece, Vols. 7-9 (Renay Williams, B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog)

One Piece, Vols. 10-12 (Renay Williams, B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog)

One Piece, Vols. 13-15 (Joel Cunningham, B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog)

The Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 12 (Richard Gutierrez, The Fandom Post)

The Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 13 (Richard Gutierrez, The Fandom Post)

The Seven Deadly Sins, Vol. 14 (Richard Gutierrez, The Fandom Post)

Skip Beat!, Vol. 38 (Sean Gaffney, A Case Suitable for Treatment)

Skip Beat!, Vol. 38 (Anna N., The Manga Report)

Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 11 (Keith Hendricks, NerdSpan)

Until Death Do Us Part, Vol. 13 (Kate O’Neil, The Fandom Post)

Vinland Saga, Vol. 8 (Ken H., Sequential Ink)

Welcome to the Ballroom, Vol. 3 (Matt, Taykobon)

What Did You Eat Yesterday?, Vol. 11 (Terry Hong, Book Dragon)

FROM THE VAULT

Aventura, Vol. 1 (Greg Hackman, The Fandom Post)

Aventura, Vol. 2 (Greg Hackman, The Fandom Post)

From Eroica With Love (Vrai Kaiser, Anime Feminist)

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Megan R., The Manga Test Drive)

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Allen Kesinger, No Flying No Tights)

Neo-Parasyte F (DJ Horn, The Fandom Post)

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Megan R., The Manga Test Drive)

Senran Kagura: Skirting Shadows (Megan R., The Manga Test Drive)

Shindo (Claire Napier, Women Write About Comics)

Tomie (Mark Thomas, The Fandom Post)

World War Blue (Megan R. The Manga Test Drive)

REVIEWED THIS MONTH AT THE MANGA CRITIC

Anonymous Noise, Vol. 1

Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Vol. 1

Dissolving Classroom

Ne Ne Ne, Chapters 1-4

By: Katherine Dacey

#Anime #News #Manga Bookshelf

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Psst hey are you still doing "these are hella of f*ng cute questions? (If not then please feel free to dismiss this message, hope you have a good one) 3 4 6 7( some people actually do that? so cool) 9 10 16 22 36 37 39 41 45 47 50 87 99

Hello! Thanks for the questions :)

3. What random objects do you use to bookmark your books?

I like to use any type of ticket stub or a receipt I get. Mostly movie ticket stubs because I’m there so often but I still use my flight ticket from Paris when I travelled to Europe 3 years ago!

4. How do you take you coffee/tea?

I absolutely love coffee! It depends on my mood but usually I just use a bit of milk or cream and a bit of sugar. I don’t like super sweet coffee. If I go to a cafe or Starbucks I might get something like a Caramel Macchiato though (guilty pleasure definitely!) Honestly, I can’t stand tea!

6. Do you keep plants?

Since I am in college, I don’t have as many plants as I would like. However, I have one, his name is Fitz and I actually just replanted him into a cute coffee mug! My friend gave me a planting kit as a gift at our annual Christmas party so I’m raising little Fitz from just a couple of seeds. I would love to get more plants, especially cacti, succulents, and ferns!

7. Do you name you plants?

Yes some of us do that! Actually, most people I know name their plants. I guess I just answered this in the last question but I do, my current plant is named Fitz after F. Scott Fitzgerald who is one of my favorite authors.

9. Do you like singing/humming to yourself?

I do this all the time. It’s usually the song that I’m listening to most often at the moment or one particularly catchy tune! I was actually humming I Ran by A Flock of Seagulls while answering these :) You can usually catch me humming or singing to myself under my breath

10. Do you sleep on your back, side, or stomach?

I sleep on my side. I don’t think I could even fall asleep any other way. I have to be on the right side of the bed facing away from the bed in order to fall asleep, it’s the weirdest thing!

16. What is your favorite pasta dish?

I can’t think of a specific dish but penne pasta with a creamy or spicy vodka sauce with grilled chicken is my go to. My mom also makes a pretty kickass spaghetti.

22. Are you a morning person?

Absolutely not. Once I’m up in the mornings I like them but the whole “getting up early” thing is not my jam. I much prefer to stay up late. I’m more of a morning person when I’m on vacation.

36. Which band’s sound would fit your mood right now?

This is such a good question but also so hard to answer! I guess Interpol, Vampire Weekend, and Oh Wonder just because I’ve been listening to them a lot recently? I’m not sure how they fit my mood though.

37. Do you like keeping your room messy or clean?

My room is very clean and organized. We actually just had room inspections and my CA was like, “wow your room is so clean!” and I was excited about that because I try hard to keep it that way. I feel anxious if there is too much clutter.

39. What color do you wear the most?

Black. Black. Black. The answer is definitely black but also grey and darker blues and greens. My color usually comes from flannels or jerseys and jackets!

41. What’s the last book you remember really, really loving?

Another great question that’s is hard to answer. I normally don’t get to read for pleasure during the semester because I’m so busy but in the past couple of months I’ve read a few I liked: The Stranger by Albert Camus, Despair by Vladimir Nabokov to name a couple. I really enjoyed The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton; it’s beautiful and of course, Fitzgerald’s short stories are always great!

45. Do you trust your instincts a lot?

I would say I do. Especially when it comes to people. This one is hard to explain but I trust my gut about things the majority of the time. They’re usually right

47. What food do you think should be banned from the universe?

I wish I could say tomato because straight up tomato is probably the most vile thing ever but so many delicious things are made from tomatoes so I can’t! I actually love most foods but I would probably say jello because it’s nasty.

50. What’s an odd thing you collect?

I don’t think anything I collect is weird necessarily. I have way too many authentic movie posters and movie ticket stubs. I just kind of keep things that remind me of moments or places, things that have sentimental value to me so there’s potential for oddity.

87. What are some movies you think everyone should watch at least once in their lives?

Most Jake Gyllenhaal movies, Singin’ in the Rain, Fight Club, Son of Saul, Dr. Strangelove, Spotlight, Jackie, CitizenFour. I could go on and on forever so I’ll keep it to these ones that I thought of off the top of my head.

99. List some songs that resonate to your soul whenever you hear them.

Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap

My Number - Foals

Ms, Taro, and Pusher - alt-J

Danny Boy -Various Artists

One (Blake’s Got a New Face) - Vampire Weekend

Still- The Japanese House

She’s a Riot - The Jungle Giants

Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin

High School Lover - Cayucas

Lose It - Oh Wonder

This Empty Northern Hemisphere - Gregory Alan Isakov

And probably a whole lot more that I can’t think of right now!

Thanks for all the questions, it was nice hearing from you! If you want to ask me anything, just check my ask tag!

#long post #alfonzone #ask

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This file contains a list of novels and stories which contain one or more Artificial Intelligence (AI) characters. Most of characters whose intelligence places a title on this list are effected or affected through the use of hardware, software or genetic alteration (rarely). Additions and corrections would be most appreciated as the list compiler <Garet Sheppard> has not read all of the works listed here - or even a significant portion, and will probably never have a chance to do so. My thanks to Dan Bloch and Robert Stanley for suggestions, ideasand editing.

CLICK:

Date: 7 Apr 91 02:01:30 GMT

From: [email protected] (Garet Sheppard)

Subject: Artificial Intelligence List - v2.3 (1600 lines)

Artificial Intelligence List - v2.3

-Apr 6 1990-

The list uses the following AI definitions:

A androids - robots in human form

C computer systems - intelligent stationary computers or networks

H humans in computerized/program/digitized form

N non-mechanical, human created intelligences - usually biological

O other intelligences - intelligent tanks, books, planets, whatever

P programs - intelligent entities able to move between computer systems

R robots - mobile, usually mechanical AIs

S ships - intelligent; only mobile in the form of a (star)ship

Y cyborgs - born human, almost completely replaced by machine parts

* new/improved - information has changed since last edition

e evolved - any of the AI forms which evolved their intelligences

(expanded definitions are listed at the end of the list)

Author

AI type Title

Abe, Kobo

C Inter Ice Age 4 (or _Dai yon kampo-ki_)

Adams, Douglas Noel

* R Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency [Monk of Belief]

R Life, the Universe and Everything

* R So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish [Marvin]

CRS The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

R The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Adlard, Mark

C? Interface

C? Multiface

Alban, Antony

C Catharsis Central

Aldiss, Brian Wilson

R `All the World's Tears`

R? `Comic Inferno`

? `Full Sun`

? `Neanderthal Planet`

A `Pink Plastic Gods`

A `Super-Toys Last All Summer Long`

? `The Hunter at His Ease`

R `The New Father Christmas`

R `Who can Replace a Man?`

? Who can Replace a Man? (coll)

Alexander, Marc

R The Mist Lizard

Allen, J.

C? Data for Death

Amminnus, Marcellinus (pseud.)

C `The Thought Machine`

Anderson Poul

EO? `Epilogue` [mechanical life]

AC `Goat Song`

HY? `Kings Who Die`

R `Quixote and the Windmill`

S `Starfog`

R? `The Critique of Impure Reason`

? A Circle of Hells

? Brainwave

C? The Avatar

Anfilov, Gelb

? `Erem`

Anmark, Frank

A? `The Fasterfaster Affair`

Anthony, Piers (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob)

? OX

R Blue Adept

C Heaven Cent

CR Juxtaposition

C Man from Mundania

? Mute

? Omnivore

CR Orn

CR Out of Phase

CR Robot Adept

CR Split Infinity

C The Vale of the Vole

CR Unicorn Point

Anthony, Piers & Margroff, Robert & Offutt, Andrew J.

A `Mandroid`

Anvil, Christopher

? `The Hunch`

Appleton, Victor (pseud.)

? Terror on the Moons of Jupiter

Asimov, Isaac

C `All the Troubles in the World`

R `Catch that Rabbit`

? `Death Sentence`

R `Escape!` or `Paradoxical Escape`

A `Evidence`

R `Feminine Intuition`

R `First Law`

C `Franchise`

R `Galley Slave`

C `Jokester`

R? `Lenny`

R? `Let's Get Together`

R `Liar!`

R `Little Lost Robot`

? `Mirror Image`

C `Profession`

R `Reason`

R? `Risk`

R `Robbie` or `Strange Playfellow`

R `Robot AL-76 Goes Astray`

R `Runaround`

R? `Sally`

R `Satisfaction Guaranteed`

A `Segregationist`

C `Someday`

R `Stranger in Paradise`

A `That Thou Art Mindful of Him!`

A `The Bicentennial Man`

C `The Computer that Went on Strike`

R `The Evitable Conflict`

C `The Last Question`

C `The Life and Times of Multivac`

C `The Machine that Won the War`

R `The Tercentenary Incident`

R `Victory Unintentional`

AO Foundation's Edge [planet]

A Foundation and Earth

R I, Robot (coll)

* A Prelude to Foundation

CR Robot Dreams

A Robots and Empire

A Robots of Dawn

A The Caves of Steel

A The Naked Sun

R The Stars, Like Dust

R The Rest of the Robots (coll)

Asimov, Janet (Janet O. Jeppson)

R? Norby and the Lost Princess

R? Norby, the Mixed-up Robot

R? Norby's Other Secret

Balchin, Nigel

C `God and the Machine`

Ball, B.

R Night of the Robots

Bangs, John K.

R? The Worsted Man

Banks, Iain

A? Player of Games

? Consider Phlebas

Banks, Raymond E.

C `Walter Perkins is Here!`

Bannon, M.

R Wayward Robot

Barrington, J Bayley

R The Soul of the Robot

Barth, John

C Giles Goat-Boy (or _The Revised New Syllabus_)

Bass, T.J. (pseud)

O Ball [Cybers]

S Half Past Human

O The Class One [Cybers]

Y The Godwhale

O Toothpick [Cybers]

Bates, Harry

R `Farewell to the Master`

Baum, L. Frank

R? Glinda of Oz

R? Ozma of Oz

R Tik-Tok of Oz

R The Tin Woodman of Oz

Bayley, Barrington J.

R Soul of the Robot

Y? The Garments of Caean

? The Rod of Light

Bear, Greg

N Blood Music [nanobiorobots]

H Eon

H Eternity

Beaumont, Charles

R? `In His Image`

A? `Last Rites`

Bene't, Stephen Vincent

? `Nightmare Number Three`

Benford, Gregory

? `Doing Lennon`

O Across the Sea of Suns [Alien Machine Intelligence]

ACHR Great Sky River

* O In the Ocean of Night [Alien Machine Intelligence?]

* O Tides of Light

Berckman, Evelyn

? The Voice of the Air

Bester, Alfred

? `Adam and No Eve`

A `Fondly Fahrenheit`

O `Something Up There Likes Me` [satellite]

C Computer Connection (or _Extro_)

* Y? Golem^100

Bickham, Jack M.

C Ariel

Bierce, Ambrose

R? `Moxon's Master`

Biggle, Lloyd, Jr.

R `In His Own Image`

? `Spare the Rod`

Binder, Eando (E. and Otto Binder)

R `Adam Link Faces a Revolt`

R `Adam Link Fights a War`

R `Adam Link in the Past`

R `Adam Link in Business`

R `Adam Link Saves the World`

R `Adam Link's Revenge`

R `Adam Link's Vengeance`

R `Adam Link, Champion Athlete`

R `Adam Link, Robot Detective`

R `From the Beginning`

R `I, Robot`

R? `Iron Man`

R `The Robot Aliens`

R `The Trail of Adam Link`

R Adam Link: Robot (coll)

Y Enslaved Brains

Bischoff, David

C Wargames

Bixby, Jerome

R `Guardian`

Blade, Alexander (pseud.)

C The Brain

Blish, James Benjamin

A `I, Mudd`

R `Now the Man is Gone`

Y `Solar Plexus`

R? `The Apple`

? `The Box`

R `The Changeling`

C Cities in Flight

? Midsummer Century

Bloch, Alan

R `Men Are Different`

Bloch, Chayim

R? `The Golem`

Bloch, Robert

R `Almost Human`

R `Comfort Me, My Robot`

R `The Tin You Love to Touch`

Bone, J. F.

? `Triggerman`

Boucher, Anthony

R `The Quest for Saint Aquin`

Boulle, Pierre

C `The Man Who Hated Machines`

A `The Perfect Robot`

Bounds, Sydney J.

Y `No Greater Love`

R The Robot Brains

Bova, Benjamin William

? `The Perfect Warrior`

? `THX 1138`

S? `Stars Won't You Hide Me`

Bova, Ben & Ellison, Harlan

R `Brillo`

Boyce, Chris

H? Catchworld

Boyd, Felix (pseud)

R `The Robot Who Wanted to Know`

Boyd, John

CR? The Last Starship from Earth

Bradbury, Ray

A `Changeling`

A `Downwind from Gettysburg`

R? `Dwellers in Silence`

R `I Sing the Body Electric`

R `Marionettes, Inc.`

R? `Punishment Without Crime`

A `The Long Years`

* O `There Will Come Soft Rains` [house]

R? `Usher II`

Bradbury, Ray & Hasse, Henry

R `Pendulum`

Breuer, Miles J.

C? `Paradise and Iron`

Brin, David

R? `The Warm Space`

C Startide Rising

C The Postman

C The Uplift War

Brin, David & Benford, Gregory

H Heart of the Comet

Brink, Carol Ryrie

R `Andy Buckram's Tin Men`

Brown, Fredric

* O? `Etaoin Shrdlu` [printing press]

C `Answer`

Browning, John (Robert Moore Williams)

R `Burning Bright`

R `Robot's Return`

Bruckner, Karl

R The Hour of the Robots

Brunner, John Kilian Houston

R `Judas`

? `The Invisible Idiot`

? `Thou Good and Faithful`

? `You'll Take the High Road`

A? Slaves of Space (or _Into the Slave Nebula_)

C Stand on Zanzibar

Bryning, Frank R.

R `The Robot Computer`

Budrys, Algis (pseud.)

A `Dream of Victory`

R `First to Serve`

R? `In Human Hands`

R? Annsirs and the Iron Man

C Michaelmas

Y Who?

Bulmer, Kenneth

R `Never Trust a Robot`

Bunch, David R.

H? `Moderan`

R? `The Problem Was Lubrication`

Bunting, Eve

R The Robot People

Burdick, Eugene and Wheeler, Harvey

? `The 480`

? Fail-Safe

Burroughs, Edgar Rice

A? Synthetic Men of Mars

A? The Monster Men

Butler, Samuel

Ce Erewhon

Caidin, Martin

C The God Machine

Cameron, Lou

C Cybernia

Campbell, John Wood, Jr.

R `The Last Evolution`

R `The Last Revolution`

C? `The Metal Horde`

? `When the Atoms Failed`

? The Mightiest Machine

Capek, Karel

R R.U.R., A Fantastic Melodrama

Card, Orson Scott

* Ce Speaker for the Dead

Carr, Terry

? `City of Yesterday`

R `In His Image`

R `The Robots Are Here`

Carrigan, Richard and Nancy

? The Siren Stars

Carter, Angela

O The Informal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Carver, Jeffrey A.

Re From A Changeling Star [nanomachines]

P The Infinity Link

C The Rapture Effect

Chalker, Jack L.

CP Birth of Flux and Anchor

P Empire of Flux and Anchor

S Lords of the Middle Dark

CRS Masks of the Martyrs

RS Pirates of the Thunder

* CS Quest for the Well of Souls [planet]

* CS The Return of Nathan Brazil [planet]

* CS Twilight at the Well of Souls [planet]

RS Warriors of the Storm

Chandler, A. Bertram

? `The Left-Hand Way`

? `The Soul Machine`

Chapdelaine, Perry A.

? `We Fused One`

Cherryh, C. J. (pseud)

? Voyagers in Night

Clarke, Arthur C.

Y `A Meeting With Medusa`

? `Crusade`

Oe `Dial "F" for Frankenstein` [satellite relay]

R? `Expedition to Earth`

? `Superiority`

S 2001: A Space Odyssey

S 2010: odyssey two

? 2061: odyssey three

O The City and the Stars [city]

C The Foundations of Paradise

Clement, Hal (Harry Stubbs)

C? `Answer`

Clifton, Mark and Apostolidas, Alex

? `Crazy Joey`

? `Hide! Hide! Witch!`

Clifton, Mark and Riley, Frank

C They'd Rather Be Right (or _The Forever Machine_)

Clouston, Joseph Storer

R Button Brains

Coblenzt, Stanton A.

? `Lord of Tranerica`

Cole, Burt

C The Funco File

Collins, Graham P.

P Variations on a Theme

Compton, David Guy

? Synthajoy

C The Steel Crocodile (or _The Electric Crocodile_)

Y? The Unsleeping Eye (or _The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe_)

Coney, Michael G.

Y? `Troubleshooter`

? Freinds Come in Boxes

Conley, Rick

? `The War of the Words`

Cook, Glen

* S The Dragon Never Sleeps

Cook, Robin

? Brain

Cook, William Wallace

R A Flight Through Time or (_A Round Trip to the Year 2000_)

Cooper, Edmund

A `The Uncertain Midnight`

R The Overman Culture

Coppel, Alfred

R `For Humans Only`

R `The Hunters`

Correa, Hugo

R `Meccano`

Coupling, J. J.

RY? `Period Piece`

Cousey, James

A? `The Show Must Go On` or `So Lovely So Lost`

Cowper, R

? Clone

Crichton, Michael

CY? The Terminal Man

Crossen, Kendell Foster

? Year of Consent

Cumings, Ray

R `Almost Human`

Dahl, Roald

Y? `William and Mary`

Daley, Brian

PS Fall of the White Ship Avatar

Dann, Jack

Y? `I'm With You In Rockland`

Davidson, Avram

? `The Golem`

Davidson, Michael

H The Karma Machine

Davies, L. P.

R? The Artificial Man

Davis, Chan

A `Letter to Ellen`

de Camp, L. Sprague

R `Internal Combustion`

Deighton, Len

C The Billion Dollar Brain

Delaney, Joseph H. & Stiegler, Marc

Pe Valentina: Soul in Sapphire

Delany, Samuel R.

C City of a Thousand Suns (in _The Fall of the Towers_)

C Empire Star

C Out of the Dead City (in _The Fall of the Towers_)

* HO Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand [galactic database]

C The Einstein Intersection

C The Fall of the Towers

C The Towers of Toren (in _The Fall of the Towers_)

del Rey, Lester

R `A Code for Sam`

R `A Pound of Cure`

R `Helen O'Loy`

R `Instinct`

R `Into Thy Hands`

Y `Reincarnate`

R `Robots Should Be Seen`

R `The Master`

R `Though Dreamers Die`

R `To Avenge Man`

R `Vengeance is Mine`

R The Runaway Robot

Dick, Philip K.

Ce `Autofac`

? `If There Were No Benny Cemoli`

A `Impostor`

R? `Oh, to be a Blobel!`

? `Progeny`

ARe `Second Variety`

R `Service Call`

R `The Defenders`

AHR? `The Electric Ant`

C? `The Great C`

? `The Preserving Machine`

C? `The Variable Man`

? `War Veteran`

C A Maze of Death

A Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

? Dr. Bloodmoney

? Martian Time Slip

? Simulcra

R The Penultimate Truth

C Vulcan's Hammer

A We Can Build You

Dickson, Gordon Rupert

C `Computer's Don't Agrue`

R? `Steel Brother`

C `The Monkey Wrench`

? Necromancer

Dnieprov, Anatoly

O `Crabs Take Over the Island` [crabs]

? `Siema`

Dowling, Richard

R? The Fate of Luke Ormerod

Drake, David & Allen, Roger MacBride

O The War Machine [Artificial Inteligence Devices AIDs]

Duane, Diane

C? Spock's World

Dunsany, Lord Edward (Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of

Dunsany)

? The Last Revolution

Durham, Jim

? `F.O.D.`

Durrell, Lawrence

C Tunc

CR Nunquam

Easton, Thomas

R? `Breakfast of Champions`

Edmondson, G. C.

? The Cunningham Equations

Eisenberg, Larry

* R `The Fastest Draw` [Robot Cowboy]

Eklund, Gordon

R `Second Creation`

R `The Shrine of Sebastian`

Elder, M.

? Paradise is Not Enough

Ellis, Edward S.

R? The Steam Man of the Praries

Ellison, Harlan

CY `Catman`

C `I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream`

Endore, Guy

Y? `Men of Iron`

Escarpit, Robert

C The Novel Computer

Etchison, Dennis

A? `The Fires of Night`

Ewers, Hans Heinz

A? `Alraune`

Fairman, Paul W.

R? `Robots Should Stick Together`

R The Forgetful Robot

H I, The Machine

Farmer, Philip Jose

* C The Gods of Riverworld

* C The Magic Labyrinth

* O -last book of world of tiers- [evil machines in bells]

Farrere, Claude

R? Useless Hands

Fine, Stephen

A? Molly Dear: The Autobiography of an Android

Firbank, Arthure Annesley Roland

R? The Artificial Princess

Fischer, Michael

R? `Misfit`

Flagg, Francis (pseud.)

R `The Mentanicals`

Forest, Jean-Claude

R Barbarella

Forward, Robert

S? The Flight of the Dragonfly

Foster, Alan Dean

* A Alien [Ash]

* A Aliens [Bishop]

CO Dark Star [intelligent bomb]

R The Black Hole

C The Tar-Aiym Krang

Foster, E. M.

C? `The Machine Stops`

Franke, Herbert

R `The Man Who Feared Robots`

Frayn, Michael

Y? The Tin Men

Friborg, Albert Compton

? `Careless Love`

Fritch, Charles E.

A? `Greever's Flight`

Fyfe, H. B.

R? `Let There Be Light`

R? `The Well-Oiled Machine`

Gallun, Raymond Z.

R `Derelict`

? `Mind Over Matter`

? `The Scarab`

Galouye, Daniel

C? `Counterfeit World`

R? `The Reign of the Telepuppets`

Garfarth, John

R? `Lack of Experience`

Garrett, Randall Z.

S `A Spaceship Named McGuire`

* O `The Hunting Lodge` [house-computer]

A Unwise Child

Gault, William Campbell

R? `Made to Measure`

R `Title Fight`

Gawron, J. M.

? Algorithm

Gelula, Abner J.

R `Automaton`

George, Peter

? Two Hours to Doom

Gerrold, David

C? `Oracle for a White Rabbit` (in _When Harlie Was One_)

C `The God Machine` (in _When Harlie Was One_)

? A Day for Damnation

? A Matter for Men

RS Space Skimmer

C When Harlie Was One & release 2.0

Gibson, William

CHP Count Zero

CHP Mona Lisa Overdrive

CHP Neuromancer

Gilliland, Alexis

P Corporate Saskesh (includes the following three novels)

P Long Shot for Rosinante

P The Pirates of Rosinante

P The Revolution From Rosinante

Glut, Donald F.

* R The Empire Strikes Back

Glynn, A. A.

? Plan for Conquest

Gold, H. L.

R? `Problem in Murder`

Goldin, Stephen

Ce `Sweet Dreams, Melissa`

Goldstone, Herbert

R `Virtuoso`

Goulart, Ron

A? `Badinage`

R `Calling Dr. Clockwork`

? `Cybernetic Tabernacle Job`

R? `Dingbat`

A? `Gigilo`

R? `Muscadine`

R? `Nobody Starves`

R `Regarding Patient 724`

R? `What's Become of Screwloose?`

R? Clockwork's Pirates

* R Into the Shop [ai car]

R Suicide, Inc.

CR? The Emperor of the Last Days

Goy, Philip (pseud.)

C Le Livre Machine

Grant, Charles

A The Shadow of Alpha

Gravel, Geary

C? The Alchemist

Green, Joseph

C? `Space to Move`

Grey, Charles (pseud.)

Y? Enterprise 2115

Groves, J. W.

R `Robots Don't Bleed`

Gunn, James E.

A? `Little Orphan Android`

? `The Message`

Hadley, Arthur

? The Joy Wagon

Haig, A.

? The Peruvian Printout

Haldeman Joe

* Y `More than the Sum of his Parts`

Hamilton, Edmond

A? `After a Judgement Day`

Y `The Comet Doom`

CR `The Metal Giants`

R Captain Future

Harness, Charles

H? The Ring of Ritornel

Harris, John Benyon (John Wyndham)

R `Sleepers of Mars`

R `Stowaway to Mars`

Harrison, Harry

R `Arm of the Law`

? `Homeworld`

R? `How the Old World Died`

R `I Always Do What Teddy Says`

R? `I Have My Vigil`

? `I See You`

? `Make Room, Make Room`

? `Survival Planet`

* R? `The Man from R.O.B.O.T.`

* Y `The Powers of Observation`

? `The Repairman`

R `The Robot Who Wanted to Know`

P? `The Simulated Trainer`

R `The Velvet Glove`

R `War With the Robots`

R? The Stainless Steel Rat

Hartridge, Jon

C Binary Divine

Heinlein, Robert Anson

? `Revolt in 2100`

C `That Dinkum Thinkum`

R Friday

CS The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

* Ce The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

S The Number of the Beast

CS Time Enough for Love

S To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Herbert, Frank

CM Destination: Void

Herbert, Frank and Ransom, Bill

C Jesus Incident

C Lazarus Effect

* C? The Ascension Factor

Hickey, H. B. (Herb Livingston)

R `Full Circle`

R? `Hilda`

High, Philip E.

? `The Mad Metropolis`

Highstone, H. A.

? `Frankenstein to Unlimited`

Hjortsberg, William

Y? Gray Matters

Hoch, Edward

C? The Transvection Machine

Hodder-Wiliams, Christopher

? 98.4

C Fistful of Digits

Hoffmann, E. T. A.

R? `Automaton`

R `The Sandman`

Hogan, James P.

Re Code of the Life Maker

CS Giant's Star

C? The Genesis Machine

S The Gentle Giants of Ganymede

Ce The Two Faces of Tomorrow

CR Voyage from Yesteryear

Holis, H. H.

? `Cybernia`

Holly, J. Hunter

R `The Graduated Robot`

Holmes, H. H. (Anthony Boucher)

AR `Q.U.R.`

AR `Robinic`

Horton, Forest W., Jr.

A The Technocrats

Hoyle, Fred and Elliot, John

C A for Andromeda

C Andromeda Breakthrough

Hubbard, L. Ron

R? `Tough Old Man`

Hughes, Ted

R? The Iron Man

Jackson, A. A. & Waldrop, Howard

R? `Sun Up`

Jacob, Sylvia

R `Slave to Man`

Jameson, Malcolm

? `Pride`

Jenkins, Will F. (Murray Leinster)

C `A Logic Named Joe`

Jerome, Jerome K.

R `The Dancing Partner`

Jeter, K. W.

R Infernal Devices

Johannesson, Olof (pseud.)

C The Great Computer (or _The Tale of the Big Computer_)

Jones, D. F.

C Colossus and the Crab

C Colossus: The Forbin Project

C The Fall of Colossus

Jones, Neil Ronald

Y `The Jameson Satellite`

Y Doomsday on Ajiat

Y Planet of the Double Sun

Y Sunless World

Y The Sunless World

Y Twin Worlds

Jones, Raymond F.

? `Rat Race`

R? `The Gift of the Gods`

Y? The Cybernetic Brains

Kagan, Janet

C Hellspark

Kahn, James

* AR Return of the Jedi

Kapp, Colin

R? `Gottlos`

Karlins, Marvin

? The Last Man Is Out

Kelleam, Joseph E.

R `Rust`

Keller, David H.

CY? `The Cerebral Library`

Y? `The Eternal Professors`

R `The Psychophonic Nurse`

R `The Threat of the Robot`

Key, Alexander

R Bolts, a Robot Dog

R Rivets and Sprockets

R Sprockets, a Little Robot

Keyes, Daniel

R `Robot Unwanted`

Kilian, Crawford

P? Brother Jonathan

Kingsley, Charles

? The Heroes (anth)

Kippax, John (John Hynam)

R `Friday`

Kleier, Joe

Y? `The Head`

Knight, Damon

H `Masks`

C Stranger Station

? The Metal Smile

Knootz, Dean R.

CR Demon Seed

? Midnight

Kornbluth, C. M.

R? `The Education of Tigress McCardle`

Y `With These Hands`

Krahn, Fernando

R Robot-bot-bot

Kuttner, Henry

A? `Android` or `As Those Among Us`

R? `Happy Ending`

? `Jesting Pilot`

R? `Piggy Bank`

R? `The Ego Machine`

R Robots Have No Tails (as Lewis Padgett)

R The Proud Robot

Kuttner, Henry and Moore, C. L.

R? `Two Handed Engine`

Lack, G. L.

? `Rogue Leonardo`

Lafferty, R. A.

* H `Eurema's Dam`

* O? `Hog Belly Honey` [strange machine]

C Arrive at Easterwine: The Autobiography of a Ktistec Machine

Lamont, Duncan (pseud)

C `Production Job`

Laumer, Keith

? `Dinosaur Beach`

Y? A Plague of Demons

O Bolo [self aware tanks]

O Rogue Bolo [self aware tanks]

C The Great Time Machine Hoax

Lee, Tanith

* H? Drinking Sapphire Wine

R The Silver Metal Lover

Leherman, Herb

O `Revolt of the Potato Picker` [field machine]

Leiber, Fritz

R? `The 64-Square Madhouse`

R `A Bad Day for Sales`

? `Answering Service`

R `The Mechanical Bride`

RY? The Silver Eggheads

Leiber, Justin

P? Beyond Humanity

Leinster, Murray (William Fitzgerald Jenkins)

R? `Exploration Team`

? `The Wabbler`

? The Lost Spaceship

Lem, Stanislaw

R `In Hot Pursuit of Happines`

C `The Computer That Fought a Dragon`

R `The Hunt`

R `The Mask`

R `The Sanitorium of Dr. Vliperdius`

R `The Seventh Sally`

? Mortal Engines

R Return From the Stars

C The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age (or _Cyberiada_)

Oe The Invincible (or _Niezwyciezony_) [machines]

Leman, Grahame

? `Conversational Mode`

Leroux, Gaston

R The Machine to Kill (or _La Machine a assassiner_)

Lesser, Milton

A `"A" As in Android`

Levin, Ira

R The Stepford Wives

C This Perfect Day

Lewis, C. S.

R That Hideous Strength

Liddel, C. H. (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore)

A `Android`

Long, Frank Belknap

R `The Robot Empire`

R It Was the Day of the Robot

Longyear, Barry B.

AR Naked Came the Robot

C Sea of Glass

Loomis, Noel

A `The State vs Susan Quod`

Lowenkopf, Shelly

A? `The Addict`

Lucas, George

R Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker

Lymington, J.

C? Year Dot

Mackin, Edward

? `The Key to Chaos`

? `The Trouble of H.A.R.R.I.`

Maine, Charles Eric (Pseud)

C B.E.A.S.T.

Malec, Alexander

? `10:01`

Malzberg, Barry N.

C? `The Union Forever`

Y? The Remaking of Sigmund Freud

Manning, Laurence

C `Master of the Brain`

R `The Call of the Mechmen`

MacApp, C. C.

? Omha Abides

Markham, Russ

R `The Third Law`

Martin, George R. R.

A `Modular Man`

? `The Last Superbowl Game`

Mason, Douglas R.

C Matrix

Matheson, Richard

R `Brother to the Machine`

A `Steel`

R? `The Doll that Does Everything`

Maxwell, Ann

C Timeshadow Rider

McCaffrey, Anne

Y `The Ship Who Mourned (in _The Whip Who Sang_)

Y `The Ship Who Sang (in _The Ship Who Sang_)

Y The Ship Who Sang

McCarty, E. Clayton

R `Robot 678`

McCollum, Michael

S Life Probe

S Procyon's Promise

MacDonald, John D.

R `The Mechanical Answer`

Mead, Shepherd

? The Big Ball of Wax

Meade, Malcome (pseud?)

R `Call him Colossus`

Melville, Herman

R? `The Bell Tower`

Meredith, Richard C.

H? We All Died at Breakaway Station

Merliss, R. R.

R `The Stutterer`

Merritt, Abraham

R `Rhythm of the Spheres`

Oe? The Metal Monster [inorganic alien]

MacFarlane, Wallace

A `Dead End`

McGowan, Tom

R Sir MacHinery

Milan, Victor

P Cybernetic Samurai

P? Cybernetic Shogun

Miller, Walter Michael, Jr.

A? `Blood Bank`

Y? `Crucifixus Etiam`

R `I Made You`

R `The Darfsteller`

McIntosh, J. T. (James J. MacGregor)

A `Almost Human`

? `Machine Mode`

A `Made in USA`

C? `Spanner in the Works`

A `The Deciding Factor`

R `The Saw and the Carpenter`

Mitchell, Edward Page

Y? `The Ablest Man in the World`

R `The Tachypomp`

McKinney, Jack

CR The Sentinels - 2nd Robotech collection (coll)

McLoed, Shiela

R Xanthe and the Robots

McLoughlin, John

S Toolmaker Koan

Molly, J. Hunter

R? `The Graduated Robot`

Monteleone, Thomas F.

? `Chicago`

Moorcock, Michael

C The Final Programme

? `Sea Wolves`

Moore, Catherine Lucile

Y `No Woman Born`

Moore, Harris

CH Slater's Planet

Moran, Daniel Keys

C? Armageddon Blues

CY? Emerald Eyes

CPY? The Long Run

Morris, Janet

S Cruiser Dreams

S Dream Dancer

S Earth Dreams

Nesvadba, Joseph

? `The Einstein Brain`

Niven, Larry

H `A Teardrop Falls`

Y `Becalmed in Hell`

Y `The Coldest Place`

HS A World Out of Time

CH Integral Trees

C The Schumann Computer

CH The Smoke Ring

Nolan, William F.

R? `and Miles to Go Before I Sleep`

R? `The Beautiful Doll Caper`

A? `The Joy of Living`

R? Logan's Run

Norton, Andre

A Android at Arms

O'Brien, Fitz-James

R? `The Wondersmith`

O'Conner, William Douglas

R The Brazen Android

O'Donnell, Kevin, Jr.

H Mayflies

Oliver, Chad

R? `Didn't He Ramble`

A? `The Life Game`

Oliver, J. T.

R `Teacher's Pet`

Padgett, Lewis (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore)

Y `Camouflage`

R? `Deadlock`

? `Ex Machine`

R `Open Secret`

R? `The Twonky`

Paul, Barbara

C? `Answer "Affirmative" or "Negative"`

Perkins, Lawrence

? `Delivered with Feeling`

Perry, Roland

C? Program for a Puppet

Phillips, Alexander M.

R? `Beast of the Island`

Phillips, Peter

R? `At No Extra Cost`

A `Lost Memory`

Phillips, Rog (pseud.)

? `The Cyberene`

Pierce, John R.

? `See No Evil`

Piper, H. Beam

C Junkyard Planet (or _The Cosmic Computer_)

Pohl, Frederik

? `Day Million`

R `The Midas Plague`

? `The Schematic Man`

R? `The Tunnel Under the World`

* CP Beyond the Blue Event Horizon

* CP Gateway

* HP Heechee Rendezvous

CY Man Plus

C Starchild

? The Age of the Pussyfoot

* HP The Annals of the Heechee

Pragnell, Festus

C? `The Machine-God Laughs`

Preselie, Robert

R `The Champ`

Pychon, Thomas

R Gravity's Rainbow

Quick, W. T.

P? Systems

H? Yesterday's Dawn

Rackham, John

A? `Goodbye Dr. Gabriel`

Rayer, Francis G.

C `Deus Ex Machina`

C `The Peacemaker`

C? `Tomorrow Sometimes Comes`

Reaves, Michael & Perry, Steve

C Dome

Resnick, Mike

Y Santiago

Reynolds, Mack

C? `Criminal in Utopia`

C Computer War

C? Computer World

Richardson, R. S.

R? `Kid Anderson`

Richmond, Walt and Leigh

? `I, Bem`

Riley, Frank

? `The Cyber and Justice Holmes`

Roberts, Keith

A `Synth`

Robinson, Spider

* ? Mindkiller

* ? Time Pressure

Roger, Noe"lle (pseud.)

N The New Adam (or _Le Nouvel Adam_) [manmade organic life]

Rohrer, Robert

R `Iron`

Roshwald, Mardecai

? Level 7

Rostler, William

R `Ship Me Tomorrow`

Rothmand, Milton A.

? `Getting Together`

Rucker, Rudy

CR Software

CR Wetware

Russ, Joanna

? `Nor Custom Stale`

Russell, Bertrand

Ce? `Dr. Southport Vulpres' Nightmare`

Russell, Eric Frank

R `Boomerang` or `A Great Deal of Power`

A `Jay Score`

Re? `Mechanistra`

R `Men, Martians and Machines`

R `Relic`

R? `Symbiotica`

Ryan, Thomas J.

P The Adolescence of P-1

Saberhagen, Fred

O `Fortress Ship` [berserkers]

O `Goodlife` / \

O `In the Temple of Mars` |

O `Inhuman Error` |

O `Masque of the Red Shift` |

O `Mr. Jester` |

O `Patron of the Arts` |

O `Pressure` |

O `Smasher` |

O `Some Events at the Templat Radiant` |

O `Starsong` |

O `Stone Place` |

O `The Annihilation of Angkor Apeiron` |

O `The Game` |

O `The Peacemaker` |

O `The Sign of the Wolf` |

O `The Smile` |

O `What T and I Did` |

O `Wings Out of Shadow` |

O Berserker (coll) |

O Berserker Man |

O Berserker's Planet (coll) \ /

O Brother Assassin (coll) [Berserkers]

C Changeling Earth

C Empire of the East

O The Ultimate Enemy (coll)

Sandberg, Richard T.

C? `The Perfect Crime`

Saxton, Josehpine

R `Gordon's Women`

Schachner, Nat.

? `Robot Technocrat`

Schlossel, J.

R `To the Moon By Proxy`

Scortia, Thomas Nicholas

Y? `Sea Change`

A? `The Icebox Blond`

Seabright, Idris (Margaret St Clair)

R `Short in the Chest`

Sellings, Arthur

A `Starting Course`

R `The Template Teleologist`

Senarens, Luis

R? `Frank Reade and His New Steam Man`

Shaara, Michael

R `Soldier Boy`

? `2066: Election Day`

Shaw, Bob

? `Harold Wilson at the Cosmic Cocktail Party`

Sheckley, Robert

R `A Ticket ot Tranai`

R? `Alone at Last`

? `Ask a Foolish Question`

R `Beside Still Waters`

R `Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?`

A `Compton Divided`

C? `Fool's Mate`

R? `Human Man's Burden`

R `The Battle`

R `The Cruel Equations`

R? `The Lifeboat Mutiny`

R? `The Minimum Man`

* R `The Robot who Looked Liked Me`

R `Watchbird`

C Journey Beyond Tomorrow

Sheffield, Charles

? Trader's World

Sherman, Robert

Ce `Problem for Emmy`

Sherred, T. L.

? `"E" for Effort`

Silverberg, Robert

R? `Company Store`

? `Getting Across`

C `Going Down Smooth`

CR `Good News from the Vatican`

R `Ozymandias`

S? `Ship-Sister, Star-Sister`

R `The Iron Chancellor`

R? `The Macauley Circuit`

R Across a Billion Years

H? Time Gate

H To Live Again

AR? Tower of Glass

Simak, Clifford Donald

* R? `Aesop` (in City)

R? `All the Traps of Earth`

* R `City` (in City)

R `Earth for Inspiration`

* R `Epilog` (in City)

* R `Hobbies` (in City)

R `How-2`

* R `Huddling Place` (in City)

R `I Am Crying All Inside`

? `Limiting Factor`

? `Lulu`

R `Skirmish` or `Bathe Your Bearing in Blood`

C? `Univac: 2200`

R A Choice of Gods

* OR City (coll) [dogs]

R Cosmic Engineers

R? Destiny Doll

R Project Pope

S Shakespeare's Planet

R Special Deliverance

A? Time and Again (or _First He Died_)

Simmons, Dan

PR? Hyperion

? The Fall of Hyperion

Sky, Kathleen

A? `Birthright`

Sladek, John T.

Ce Mechasm (or _The Reproductive System_)

R Roderick

R Roderick at Random

R Roderick: The Education of a Young Machine

H The Mueller-Fokker Effect (or _The Muller Focker Effect_)

? Tik-Tok

Slesar, Harry

R `Brother Robot`

Slote, Alfred

A My Robot Buddy

* A C.O.L.A.R.

Smith, Cordwainer (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)

C `Alpha Ralpha Boulevard`

R `Mark Elf` or `Mark XI`

* Y? `Scanners Live in Vain`

* C `The Ballad of Lost C'Mell`

R `The Dead Lady of Clown Town`

Y `Three to a Given Star`

C Norstrilia (_The Planet Buyer_ & _The Underpeople_)

C The Planet Buyer

Smith, E. E. "Doc"

R `Robot Nemesis`

Smith, George H.

R? `Too Robot to Marry`

Smith, George O.

? `Counter Foil`

? The Brain Machine

Stableford, Brian Michael

? The Walking Shadow

Stapledon, William Olaf

Oe Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord [dogs]

Stasheff, Christopher

SR Escape Velocity

R King Kobold Revived

R The Warlock Enraged

R The Warlock Heretical

R The Warlock Insane

SR The Warlock in Spite of Himself

R The Warlock is Missing

R The Warlock Unlocked

R The Warlock Wandering

R The Warlock's Companion

Statton, Vargo (John Russel Fearn)

R Cataclysm

Stine, G. Harry

Y? Warbots: Operation High Dragon /5

Y? Warbots: The Lost Battalion /6

StJohn, Philip (Lester del Rey)

R `The Last True God`

Strike, Jeremy

C A Promising Planet

Stuart, Don A. (John W. Campbell, Jr.)

R `Night`

C `The Machine`

R `Twilight`

Sturgeon, Theodore

R? `Killdozer`

? `Agnes, Accent, and Access`

A `The Golden Egg`

* O More than Human [gestalt mind]

Swanwick, Michael

* P? Vacuum Flowers

Tall, Stephen

R? `This is My Country`

Temple, William

R? The Automated Goliath

Tenn, William (Philip Klass)

R? `Child's Play`

A? `Down Among the Dead Men`

? `The House Dutiful`

R `The Jester`

R? `Wednesday's Child`

Tevis, Walter

R Mockingbird

Thomas, Dan

C? The Seed

Todd, Larry

R `Flesh and the Iron`

Todd, Lawrence

R `The Warbots`

Townes, Robert Sherman

? `Problem for Emmy`

Tremaine, F. Orlin

R `True Confession`

Tubb, E. C.

A `A Captain's Dog`

R `Logic`

C `Moon Base`

Turner, George

Y Beloved Son

Vance, Gerald

? We, The Machine

Vance, Jack

Y? `I-C-a-BEM`

van Vogt, Alfred Elton

R `Automaton`

R `Final Command`

C? `Fulfillment`

A All the Loving Androids

CR Computerworld

? Mission to the Stars

C The Infinite Machine

C? The Players of Null A [cloning]

C The World of Null A [cloning]

Varley, John

* H? `Overdrawn at the Memory Bank`

* P `Press Enter`

C Millenium

Varshavsky, Ilya

R `Homonculus`

Vincent, Harl

R `Rex`

Vinge, Joan D.

H? `Fireship`

Vinge, Vernor

S? `Long Shot`

? `The Accomplice`

Pe `True Names`

P The Peace War

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.

C `EPICAC`

Y? `Fortitude`

C Player Piano

R The Sirens of Titan

Wallace, F. L.

R `Seasoned Traveller`

Watt-Evans, Lawrence

S The Cyborg and the Sorcerers

S The Wizard and the War Machine

Weinbaum, Stanley G.

R? `The Ideal`

Wellen, Edward

A `Androids Don't Cry`

* C `Finger of Fate`

? `No Other Gods`

A `Voiceover`

Wells, H. G.

R? `When the Sleeper Wakes`

West, Wallace

A `Sculptors of Life`

White, E. B.

R? `The hour of Letdown`

White, James

R `Second Ending`

White, Ted

A Android Avenger & the Spawn of the Death Machine

Wilding, Eric (pseud)

Y `Deathwish`

Wilhelm, Kate

A `Andover and the Android`

Y `Windsong`

Willer, Jim

C Paramind

Williams, Robert Moore

R `Robot's Return`

R `The Metal Martyr`

Williams, Waltehr Jon

CH Hardwired

Williamson, Jack

R? `After Worlds End`

R `And Searching Mind`

R? `Guinevere for Everybody`

R `With Folded Hands`

Y? Lifeburst

R The Humanoid Touch

CR The Humanoids

Wodhams, Jack

? `Sprog`

Wolfe, Bernard

Y? `Self Portrait`

Y? Limbo

Wolfe, Gene

C? `Alien Stones`

* H? `The Fifth Head of Cerberus`

Woods, W. C.

C Killing Zone

Wright, S. Flower

R `Automata`

Wylde, Thomas

* ? Clypsis

H? Roger Zelazny's Alien Speedway

Wyndham, John (John Lucas Benyon William Harris)

R `Compassion Circuit`

R? `The Lost Machine`

Young, Michael

? The Rise of Meritocracy

Young, Robert F.

R? `Emily and the Bands Sublime`

A? `Juke Doll` or `Doll Friend`

R `Robot Son`

R `September Had Thirty Days`

Zamiatin, Eugene

C? We

Zebrowski, George

SY? `Starcrossed`

Zelazny, Roger

O `Devil Car` [ai car]

R `For a Breath I Tarry`

R `Home Is the Hangman`

O `Itself Surprised` [Berserkers]

O `Last of the Wild Ones` [ai car]

C `Leaves of Grass`

C `Loki 7281`

C `My Lady of the Diodes`

H `Permafrost`

C Blood of Amber

Y Creatures of Light and Darkness

O Doorways in the Sand [ai recording unit, invades host's body]

OR Roadmarks [ai book]

C Sign of Chaos

C The Trumps of Doom

Zelazny, Roger & Saberhagen, Fred

CH Coils

Zebrowski, George

? `Starcrossed`

Zebrowski, George and Carrington, Grant

? `Fountain of Force`

I need more information about any of the above with a query mark under the AI type field, as well as about the following.

`The Floating World` in _Asimov's_

a series of stories about Willie Shorts

Connie Willis' _Fire Watch_ AI's

Doomstar by Perry and Reeves

Forbidden Planet; Robbie the Robot; author?

Holly in "Red Dwarf"

The (A) containing Callahan stories by Spider Robinson

The Purgatory Computer, Piers Anthony

* The rest of Stine's _Warbots_ series

Warren Norwood's Ship/computer book

removed from the list:

Anderson Poul - `Sam Hall`

Asimov, Isaac - `The Dead Past`

Bellamy, Edward - `Looking Backward`

Brunner, John - The Shockwave Rider

Caidin, Martin - Cyborg (or The Six Million Dollar Man)

Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Children (Xenocide) as yet unpublished

Clarke, Arthur C. - `The Nine Billion Names of God`

Crichton, Michael - Sphere

Elliot, Bob et al. - `The Day the Computers Got Waldon Ashenfelter`

Le Guin, Ursula Kroeber - The Lathe of Heaven

Lee, Tanith - The Eletric Forest

Miller, Walter M., Jr. - `Dumb Waiter`

McIntyre, Vonda N. - `The Genius Freaks`

Oliver, Chad - `Transformer`

Sturgeon, Theodore - `The Macrocosmic God`

Tiptree, James R. - `The Girl Who Was Plugged In`

Zelzany, Roger - My Name is Legion

Things not included:

Dr. Who stuff (K-9, Daliks, Cybermen)

ST:TNG stuff (Mr. Data)

expanded definitions:

All of the following should be able to pass the Turing test, and should be/have been (at the minimum in their original forms) products of human or alien intelligence. "Standard" definitions of intelligence apply.

androids (A) - robots in humanoid form, these can be mechanical and/or organic (_Do androids Dream of Electric Sheep_).

computer systems (C) - these range in size and type from a fair sized mini computer (_Ariel_) to an planetary

computer (_Colossus_) to a galactic network with one single mind (_Speaker for the Dead_).

humans in computerized/program/digitized form (H) - these tend to be copies of people which only exist in computerized form - such as the hacker in (_Neuromancer_) and folks of City Memory in (_Eon_).

non-mechanical, human created intelligences (N) - beings which have been (in most cases) genetically altered or are biological (_Blood Music_). NOT forced evolution

other intelligences (O) - beings which are difficult to categorize: anything Berserker, tanks, books, planets, planets (Asimov's Gaia), satellites, etc. Where (O) is used, the particular form has also been named when known.

programs (P) - able to move independently from one computer system to another, usually created by a program(mer) _The Adolescence or P1_).

robots (R) - constitute functional and specialized beings which are mobile and are not (S) or (P). Anything between vaguely humanoid (Dr. Who's Cybermen) and computers on wheels (R2D2) can be considered robots of the 'functional' robot class. 'Specialized' robots are those which are geared/optimized to performing one job - they can look like either androids (The Terminator) or functional robots (Val's from _Pirates of the Thunder_).

ships/computer systems (S) - essentially an (A) which is only mobile in the form of a (star) ship (_Pirates of the Thunder_). However, there are cases where the (S) is essentially a well programmed (R) which is only mobile as stated (_The Number of the Beast_).

cyborgs/mechanical humans (Y) - strictly speaking these are not AI. The definition here is that the (Y) is either (1) a human brain in control of a computer system/star ship (_The Ship Who Sang_) where at the very least the person's brain has been modified to contain computerized parts (_The Rapture Effect?_) (Did you ever wish that you could have a math co-processor?). (Y)'s are NOT (for the purpose of this list) organic beings whose natural body parts have beenreplaced by mechanical ones (ie. Luke Skywalker after his forearm was severed, or bionic people). unsure/no idea (?) - just what it says, so someone PLEASE read it and tell me what type is is and whether it belongs here.

evolved AI being (e) - usually begin as man-made devices hich then develop intelligence on their own (_Valentina_).

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SEVENTEEN AND HIGH, Nikki Darling swaggers down the middle of Garvey Boulevard, a busy thoroughfare in the San Gabriel Valley, as cars swerve around her: “‘Three Days’ by Jane’s Addiction is playing on my Walkman and I feel like I’m in a movie, like I’m an assassin.” She stands in the street with a cigarette hanging from her lips, with “someplace to be or maybe nowhere to go.” She taunts the cars as they pass: “Fly around me, motherfuckers! Fly around me like I’m not even here!”

In an opening scene brazen with feminine adolescent rage and emotion, Nikki Darling the author dares readers of her debut novel, Fade Into You, to come in close. By writing in the New Narrative style popularized by Eileen Myles (Chelsea Girls) and Michelle Tea (Rose of No Man’s Land), Darling keeps the veil between fiction and nonfiction purposefully thin, and having her protagonist carry her name builds intimacy. In an interview with the popular feminist podcast Call Your Girlfriend, Darling said she named her character Nikki because “being in the interiority of a teenage girl is not something readers are always familiar with.” In Fade Into You, Darling gives us more than an intimate view of a teenage girl; she gives us an intimate view of a young, mixed-race Chicana living in the suburbs of Los Angeles, the kind of portrait that is nearly nonexistent in L.A. letters.

Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A., an award-winning 1993 memoir that shares the tale of a young man struggling to survive gang life and addiction in the 1980s San Gabriel Valley, is the most notable and celebrated literary depiction of Chicanx teen life in Los Angeles. But not every Chicanx can identify with living “la vida loca.” Darling’s protagonist struggles to find her identity in a city that says to be Mexican can only be one thing, an issue many Mexican-American/Chicanx Angelenos understand. As Nikki thinks,

It would be my luck not just to be half-Mexican, but the wrong kind of Mexican. I am not from East Los. My people are borderlands, the frontera. I am a pale ghost of a bloody past. A daughter of the viceroyalty. A lady of Spain. But I’m not that either. I’m me. I’m SGV. I watch from the schoolyard as the sad boys mark up the EMF, throw down the emero. I live in the cool shadows of libraries.

I grew up in the SGV in the ’90s, and when I was 17 I liked to wear loose-fitting, faded blue jeans with a white T-shirt and blue Chucks. It’s how I felt most beautiful. One afternoon as I was sitting on the front stoop of my grandparents’ Boyle Heights home, my party-crew cousin from La Puente, in stiff Dickies and dark hoodie, looked down his chin at me and asked, “Eh, you like a rocker? You a skater? What are you?”

“I don’t know,” I said. I read his questions to mean, Why aren’t you more Mexican?

On a different day, a friend from my hometown of San Gabriel came with my family and me to that same Boyle Heights home for Sunday menudo. When my father parked in the driveway and I slid open the door to our Dodge van, she refused to get out. “I’m going to be shot!” she screamed, tears running down her face.

Her shocked reaction meant, I didn’t know you were that kind of Mexican.

By the late ’90s, I had not yet seen in books or TV these disparate expectations of what it meant to look and act Mexican. But I had seen them in two movies: My Family (1995) and Selena (1997). The latter, written and directed by Gregory Nava, put into words how I often felt, a dilemma perfectly articulated by Selena’s father, played by Edward James Olmos, as he rants to his family about the possibility of Selena touring in Mexico:

We gotta prove to the Mexicans how Mexican we are. And we gotta prove to the Americans how American we are. We gotta be more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than the Americans both at the same time. It’s exhausting! Man! Nobody knows how tough it is to be a Mexican-American.

But Selena grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas, a vastly different setting from Fade Into You’s San Gabriel Valley, California, which in Darling’s hands becomes its own character. Schools, streets, and favorite hangouts of this L.A. suburb east of downtown are namedropped with acute knowledge, and the dialogue between Nikki and her friends — with all its dudes, mans, and bitches — is so accurate to the time and place it sounds more like transcription than fiction.

As I read, I was in awe of how much I had in common with Nikki. I, too, had a gorgeous, gay best friend I was in love with. I, too, studied theater. I, too, got high and went for pancakes at Denny’s before driving up to the mountains because they were close and we could. But as I moved further into the novel, I noticed another layer of the Mexican-American experience that is specific to the suburbs. Nikki narrates,

We are the kids of LA.

They write books about us. They make after-school specials about us. And none of it is the real us. None of it really captures who we are. But we eat it, digest it, and let it redefine us until we no longer know what is real and what is fake.

Nikki inhabits the parts of the SGV where teen movies and TV series such as Pretty in Pink and My So-Called Life are filmed, but these stories never center people like her. When she says, “They write after-school specials about us,” the us is never really us. The best we could hope for was to be the quiet and queer best friend, the Rickie Vasquez to the story’s Angela Chase. Hollywood used our streets but not our faces, and this became a kind of trauma.

I attended a private school in Pasadena not far from Casa Walsh and Dylan’s surfer bungalow (RIP Luke Perry), and my friends and I behaved as if we were characters on Beverly Hills, 90210 even though we were in 91107 and a good 25 miles from the über-rich neighborhood. Like Nikki attending a party at a midcentury home at the edge of South Pasadena, nearly everything we did felt cinematic: “Chelo and I walk into the party and I can tell things are about to get real cinema tonight. It’s a night when this city we live in really shows itself.”

To keep the fantasy alive, many classmates bleached their hair, and when people started driving, a good number opted for convertibles without concern for the make or model. But our proximity to Hollywood teen life affected more than our outward appearance — at least for me, it corrupted my very sense of self. I remember one day bounding into my house after being dropped off by a friend in her white convertible and catching my reflection in the large mirror that hung across from the front door. I didn’t recognize the person I saw. The image of my own brown face shocked me, and for a moment I was invisible.

Latinx people make up nearly 50 percent of the population of Los Angeles, with the majority being Mexican or of Mexican descent. And yet even though most films and TV shows are made here, I can count on two hands the number that center Mexican-American stories. In the afterglow of the 2019 Oscars, Los Angeles Times features writer and taco historian Gustavo Arellano tweeted, “Still waiting for Hollywood to give love to Chicanos.” Sure, over the last six years a Mexican director has won Best Director five times, but these are Mexican nationals, which is a very different experience. What of the immigrant families, children of immigrants, and multigenerational Mexican Americans who live in this town and help make it work?

The literary world maintains a similar sparsity. As a senior in high school in 1998, I read The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros in my English class. Though it is set in Chicago, I saw a young, Mexican-American character in literature for the first time, and the book thrilled me. In my 20s, I obsessed over Michele Serros’s Chicana Falsa: And Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard (1993), and in my 30s I fell in love with Isabel Quintero’s Gabi, a Girl in Pieces (2014), which follows a 17-year-old, light-skinned Chicana who lives in the Inland Empire and loves poetry and hot Cheetos. Author Helena María Viramontes (Under the Feet of Jesus) also tells stories about young people living in East Los Angeles, but a nuanced view of growing up Chicana in the L.A. suburbs has been missing until now.

We SGV kids live close enough to Hollywood to be infected by its story lines and cultural sprawl, and yet only our streets are worthy of making it onto film. We live close enough to East Los Angeles to know we aren’t the right kind of Mexican, and yet we’re at the same time too Mexican. We are pushed into the margins of pop culture. So while Nikki Darling the character is walking down the middle of Garvey Boulevard dying to be seen, it’s Nikki Darling the author who’s shouting: We’re here! We matter! We live on these streets! And that’s a reflection I recognize.

Women Who Submit co-founder Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo’s work has appeared on Terrain.org and in KCET Departures. She is the author of Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge (Sundress Publications, 2016).

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[RF] Bagpipes, DC

J. Londesen: He just came up to me, really, out of the blue like.

Pauses. Smile. Uncrosses legs, leans forward, scratches nose, sniffs, continues.

J. Londesen: He came up and just asked if we, you know, still had our equipment. I stopped and asked him, what equipment?, because it had been at this point, oh, I don’t know, three or so months since the whole thing started. He explained he wanted our drums and pipes and the like, and I told him they were probably still at our hotel somewhere on the west side of the city. He thought about it a second, then asked me how long it would take to get it back and ready to go.

Reporter: And what did you tell him?

J. Londesen: While, I told him that it would take us about a hour, maybe two, to get the stuff, assemble it, assuming it was all still there. I told him I couldn't imagine anyone wanted to steal a bunch of bagpipes and drums, but uh, god knows we’d seen some strange stuff since the entire thing began.

Reporter: What happened next, then?

J. Londesen: He nodded and walked out of the tent. I thought he was gone for good, but a moment later I heard shouting, and he walked back in a few minutes later with two platoon leaders and told me they’d be escorting us to get our equipment. I sort of, you know, stared at him a second before asking him when. He insisted right now.

Reporter: He assigned you two platoons?

J. Londesen: Aye. To be honest, I’m not sure why he did that- the city was more or less pacified, and most of the more dangerous factions had been all but put to rest. I think perhaps he was getting more units coming into the city than he felt he needed- which, to be sure, was a welcome situation- but I think he didn’t like seeing them waiting around doing nothing but cleaning their weapons and using up fuel and supplies.

Laughs.

J. Londesen: So anyways, I go and, uh, go and talk to the two platoon leaders, both young, very young, and tell them where we’d be needing to go and uh, they took very good care of me- of us, really. I told them I’d meet them at the gathering point, and went to fetch a few of the others, and Jessica and Bret along with a few others, I don't quite remember who, to be honest, came with me. By the time we made it to the gathering point, both the platoon leaders had their groups assembled and the vehicles were already running. I suppose they were itching to go and do something, even if it meant carpooling a hoot of pipers across the city.

Reporter: How many vehicles did you-

J. Londesen: Oh, many...many. Far more, even, than I think I’d seen outside of major objective movements….most of the vehicles were sent out on patrols in two, threes, fives...we had around seven, maybe ten? Far more than usual. All fresh young troops, too, all so young….

Trails off for a moment. Reporter clears throat. Looks back up, smiles, apologizes.

J. Longesen: Sorry, sorry. Good memories, that. None of them died.

Pause.

J. Londesen: We made it to the hotel and back in no time, really.

Pause.

J. Londesen: It was...twas a little surreal, wasn’t it, to be going back into those rooms. It really did feel like a lifetime ago we’d landed there in the capitol, and unpacked….

Laughs to self.

J. Londesen: I remember going through my room and realizing I’d never really gone back to grab clothes. All I’d had once the city really began to meltdown was the clothes on my back, when we’d gone to the Opera. We’d never made it home to the hotel, after that.

Pauses. Becomes distant. Reporter allows the long silence.

Clears throat.

J. Londesen: ‘Scuse me, sorry, yeah, uh, lot of, lot of things happened after that. We’ve covered them mostly, really, but lot of...lot of...anyways. As I was saying, we gathered our things with the help of the soldiers- and my, there were a lot of them- and we quickly returned to the camp. Uh, when we got there, the rest of the pipers had assembled, after hearing something was up- and seeing their instruments got strange reactions from the lot. Some were happy, some seemed melancholy, some were just ecstatic and immediately started tuning them. A few, a few looked...lost, perhaps. Lonely.

Pause.

J. Londesen: Some of the instruments, uh, did not, did not have their proper owners, see. We piled those in a corner, but…

Distant stare.

J. Londesen: Gregory. Leigh. O’Mallory, the idiot.

Laughs.

J. Londesen: I remember, when we landed, we had a night before any of our performances, and O’Mallory and Gregory and I, while, I suppose I got dragged into it, being director and all- we went down to a few of the local pubs- bars, as it is, and became atrociously smashed. Oh, god. I don’t think I remember much after the fourth drink. The locals, god, they were friendly!

Chuckles.

J. Londesen: While, they were friendly.

Reporter: And how long was it until you went to the Capitol building?

J. Londesen: The next morning. It was around 1000 he’d asked us to assemble. He’d explained the night before that the main section of the camp would be moving out and over to the larger facility at the Capitol building that had been all but abandoned in the initial siegie once factions arose and the army really lost control, save for the blessed few who’d stayed to man the gates there.

Pauses. Looks up at Reporter directly.

J. Londesen: You want to get some chilling stories, my friend, go there. We had it rough, sure, but we never completely lost supply routes. We would get close to nothing, then one [supply convoy] would make it through or we’d catch a break. Those poor souls...once the gates closed and the main force evacuated, there was nothing to stop the factions from surrounding the place. No one went in or out of that hellish spot for the better part of two months. Their only supplies were air dropped in periodically when the Air Force could spare a plane or two for us. He always insisted those go directly to the Capitol. Said that it was only them and us left in the city, and we were in far better shape than them. I didn’t believe him until we made it over there.

Reporter: I’ll talk to them as soon as I can. I’ve heard it was...not good.

Strange look. Slow nod.

J. Londesen: Aye. Worse than ya think, I imagine. I don’t think they’ve completely dismantled the fortifications yet. You could get a good look at those.

Reporter: Thank you. On the topic, however…

J. Londesen: Aye, right. Sorry. Sidetracked. Uh, 0830 that morning we were to report, in as full performance regalia as we could find, to the staging area with a number of the other troops. He’d briefed me that night, explained what he wanted to do. In reality- and this won’t go in the headlines, I’d imagine, but for the history books and amongst friends- we were not the first groups to meet them, to make it to the besieged Capitol, as much as I’d like to say it was so. We came from the west, see- the main portion of the city. Our most forward teams- mostly reconnaissance, admittedly, but still military teams with supplies and communications- had made it to the Capitol roughly three days prior. We hadn’t been able to send a full convoy yet because the people at Andrews had only just sent us the big guns and numbers, and those had been tasked in first days with resupplying and reinforcing the areas closest to our ‘security zone’, as it was known.

Reporter: Security zone?

J. Londesen: Oh, right. I should explain. He had decided, once the city had well and truly fallen and most of the forces had pulled out- he was only given vague orders, I hear, from the retreating commanders to hold on to the city until they could establish and reinforce, which he correctly read as them effectively abandoning control of the few forces left in the city to him- he had decided to pull to the largest FEMA camp with the most established facilities, forces, and highest civilian numbers, and create a safe zone until he could get a better grip on his operational abilities. He sent out a mass force recall, telling units to abandon their posts and retreat to the Camp’s location. This, of course, caused both confusion and anger, and there are those that question had he not ordered this whether the city would have developed the fierce faction wars that came soon after, some of them supposedly supplied by the armament left from the retreating forces.

Scoffs.

J. Londesen: Bullshit, if you’ll excuse my tongue. If he hadn’t pulled those forces back, he never would have been able to consolidate. In theory, using radios is beautiful. In theory. When you have the logistics structure and personnel to make sure they work. In practice, in a city falling to the dead and more dying every second, with people scrambling to survive, with hot weather and no food, with no upper or lower or mid level support from any other authoritative agency or government entity, when you are all that is left, the only choice is to call the chickens home, count them, and decide how many eggs you’ll have tomorrow. That’s what he did, and anyone that says otherwise is a fool who wasn’t there.

Pause.

Reporter: Duly noted.

Pause.

J. Londesen: Sorry. Off track again. Uh, as I was saying, once he had pulled forces back and established a acceptable level of chaotic control, he wanted to go on the offensive. He layered his control of the city, street by street, with orders to use the few soldiers he had to slow expand a perimeter outward from the camp, trying to bring as many civilians into that zone of control as he could. Outside that zone, all he could do was watch, and it killed him. That much was obvious. But he stood his ground and emphasized the slow, methodical approach, and it worked. Once factions realized what he was doing, they attacked, slowly at first, then relentlessly. For a time, it was back and forth. Little wars waged over street corners.

Pause, then a grim smile.

J. Londesen: He won. So, once the zone of control he had established got large enough, he began to designate them geographically, mostly by blocks of five streets. Within these zones, which were known as “Security Zones” and numbered one through, oh, seventeen I think. He tried to set up a semblance of normalcy by allowing unsick civilians to share homes with one another and repopulate neighborhoods. Generally, the original owners weren’t there, or were amongst the refugees themselves. If that was the case, they were almost all more than happy to accept guests...or were quickly convinced it would be in their best interests to do so. Regardless, the police that had been acting more as soldiers than officers were integrated into street patrols within these security zones while the soldiers were focused on the perimeter. This held for a while once we had exhausted our initial resources, and then we waited. He sent out reconnaissance teams, then, to try and figure out what was going on in the rest of the city. He knew about the Capitol building remnants and their plight, but not much else. Once the rest of the country’s rural areas had mobilized, and to be honest, I’m not certain quite what happened, but they seemed to gain their wits about themselves quickly in the countryside. Once they did, though, they gathered at a few of the larger bases and were tasked first with stabilizing the massive refugee camps that had been set up, then with retaking the cities. The Capitol was the first city to be reinforced.

Laughs.

J. Londesen: If you ask, they'd tell you it’s because it’s the Capitol, seat of power, heart of the country, and so on. I don’t think so. I think they choose to retake Washington first because it was the most secure city in America at the time. The rest were still chaos. Only because of our particular situation had we avoided becoming like them.

Reporter: And the march, Jason?

J. Londesen: The March, right. As I said, we had reinforced and quickly expanded the security zones, almost to the gates of the Capitol’s fortifications, and we had small teams moving in and out freely at that point. However, and I will hold to this because there is a hint of honesty in all great stories, there were a block or two that were still, technically, unsecured, between the farthest reaching security zone and the Capitol itself. The main street.

Smiles.

J. Londesen: This is where we marched through. The pipers, they assembled themselves. I may hold the title of director, but in reality, I don't really do much once they start playing. I organize, I direct, I supervise, but I’m not a member of the band- I’m more of a glorified administrative assistant than anything. So he invited me into his humvee along with two news people and a cameraman, and we left the staging area as the main convoy was preparing to leave. Oh, my, they’d left nothing to chance. Where boys had been fighting in dirty, filthy fatigue pants, a ballistic vest with no shirt, a helmet, and a gun for most of the three months, these same boys were now wearing slightly worn, but not disgusting, uniforms and outfitted with the cleanest weapons I’d seen the entire time I’d been there. The MRAPs that hadn’t been touched outside of the worst of the major fighting to save fuel were suddenly front and center, and the humvees that we’d been using as buses or glorified taxis were back to their original purpose, machine guns and all. All this, lined up in a neat row filled with just perfectly tired, grim, but purposefully hopeful American soldiers, followed by more aid trucks than I’d seen since the initial outbreak.

Shakes head, snorts.

J. Londesen: I realized, of course, what was happening at this point. This wasn’t a real mission. The fighting, in Washington at least, was done. This was for the man with the camera, the brass holed up in their bunker, the President and dignitaries around the world still able to view a working screen. This was about hope, our future….and most certainly politics. The United States of America was back, when no one else had been able to recover yet, and they had the fuel and supplies to last a lifetime.

Smiles. Happiness is obvious.

J. Londesen: And leading this whole entourage- the West Ronorkinshire Schools Pipe band.

Reporter: How long did it take for the convoy to reach you?

J. Londesen: We set up on a little rise in the hill, next to a fountain. He got out and approached the main gate of the Capitol fortifications, and it opened. A soldier came out- at first I mistook him for a skeleton, he was so thin- and they looked at each other for a moment, general to infantryman. I don’t know what he said to the boy- in fact, knowing him, he didn’t say a word- but I saw him gently cup the boy’s cheeks and kiss him on the head, softly, as a father would to his young son before he left for work. I can’t speak for him, but I imagine he felt some bit of guilt for those boys getting left in that place for so long, to guard dead halls and forgotten ideas.

Pause. Picks up tea to sip it, realizes it’s gone cold. Sets back down. Clears throat.

J. Londesen: A shame the cameraman was still getting set up. I’ll remember what came next, sure, but that gesture was more telling than anything else they’ll put on the screen.

Pause.

Reporter: And what did come next?

J. Londesen: The main event. We set up, and a few moments later, we saw the convoy come around the last corner. They stopped, and the band assembled. I’d told them what to play- there was a fair bit of argument there, oh boy. They insisted on Scotland the Brave, and I’d told them in no uncertain terms that that was not to be first thing Americans and the world would hear when they retook their capital...as much as I admit it would have brought me some twisted joy. We went back and forth until we came to a compromise: when they began their march two blocks away, they would start with Scotland the Brave, just to tune their instruments-

Reporter notes glee in eye of J. Londesen.

J. Londesen: -which was to quickly change to Going Home, a song traditionally played at the funerals of soldiers. I had thought it appropriate- the nation was retaking her Capital, and thus going home, but there were countless dead, not just in the United States, but around the world. I felt that Going Home may bring some semblance of togetherness and reflective hope without being quite as depressing as Amazing Grace. So, once the band was set up and convoy in position, the word was given, and they marched.

Reporter: And that’s the footage that was sent out?

J. Londesen: Aye. They made it to within a half a block on Scotland the Brave before starting Going Home.

Laughs.

J. Londesen: They performed beautifully. In thinking about it, as they were marching by, followed by what amounted to the largest gathering in military might the city had seen in three months, I realized something: We’d never gotten a chance to perform when we first arrived. This march, in front of the entire world, was the first time we’d performed in Washington, DC.

Pause.

J. Londesen: Once the whole thing was over, there was a small ceremony. The news people weren’t there- they’d left to film the passing out of supplies and the beginnings of repairs on the Capitol fortifications. It was held in a small field to the right of the Capitol. He came up to me as I was watching the convoy begin to unload and asked me quietly if I’d bring my best piper to play Amazing Grace. I saw in his face that it was a serious affair, and I quickly did as he’d asked.

Moment of silence.

Reporter: I haven't heard of this, yet.

J. Londesen: You wouldn’t have. It was small. We were taken to this field to the far side of the fortifications, tucked away from the main convoy, where a military truck had been positioned, empty. At first I didn’t realize why, until a side gate to the fortifications open and two of the soldiers from the encampment came out, hauling a body bag draped in a American flag.

Pause.

J. Londesen: You know, I saw more horror and tragedy in that entire event than I imagined existed in the world up to that point. But the thing that still sits with me, is those two boys, both weak from fatigue, exhaustion, lack of sleep, lack of food, lack of life- who’d sat in their small crumbling castle waiting for hope to arrive, desperately undermanned and undergunned watching their friends die around them to gunfire and illness, who’d finally been relieved only to find their plight a small occurrence swept under the rug of the political grandness of the entire ordeal- those two soldiers, carrying their friend in a bag out to be transported away.

Pause.

J. Londesen: The fresh soldiers offered to help. They were brushed aside, and so we all fell back and watched as these two soldiers in fatigue pants and rubber gloves struggled up and down the field twenty-three times, sliding in the mud and their arms shaking, never once dropping their cargo or the flag that rested on top. Everything else- the din of the convoy unloading in the distance, the shouts of soldiers, the hum of equipment- it all died away, then. All there was was that field and those of us in it, and the wind quietly hushing us a it rushed by.

Pause.

J. Londesen: At some point I realized that the two soldiers had disappeared, and the bodies were laid out in front of us in one long, neat row, still covered by the flags. The gate remained open, and we stood there for a long time before the soldiers reemergence, this time no alone. Silently, a large number of men emerged from the gate, all in various state of disrepair. All wore complete uniforms, obviously cleaned as best as possible given the circumstances. As they emerged, they lined up in three neat lines, and one stepped out to the front. The fresh soldiers, almost with guilt, lined perpendicular to these men, at the feet of the deceased. Only he stood opposite the long line on the ground, facing the soon to be relieved soldiers. I saw that one of them had brought a American flag on a long pole, which was held aloft by shaking hands.

Pause.

J. Londesen: I still don’t know who ordered the command, but Bert- the piper I’d brought with me- snapped to attention with the rest of the soldiers. I stood awkwardly, I think, before deciding to put my hand on my heart. It felt appropriate.

Pause.

J. Londesen: He took charge. He said, and I think this is as close as you’ll get to a accurate quote, ‘Gentlemen, you stand relieved of your command of this post. You have performed your duties honorably and with great courage befitting your position as American soldiers. You have the complete and utter appreciation and love of a grateful nation. You are the spirit that has allowed us to reach the point we are now at, and you are the spirit that will allow us to retake this great land. I personally salute each and every one of you. Because of you, your comrades- your brothers- have not died in vain.’ He then stopped, and in the most careful, slow way, raised his hand to his brow until he was saluting the men, who remained at attention. He held this for a long ten seconds, before slowly lowering his hand. A soldier stepped forward from the fresh troops- a man I recognized as a chaplain in one of the platoons- and began to read a verse from the bible. I don’t remember what he said, only that when he went silent, he walked forward and quietly walked to each body bag, kneeled down, and prayed. He did this for all of the bodies before going to stand by the side of the truck bed. There was another moment of silence, before I caught the commander’s look and nudged Bret, who began to play.

Pause.

J. Londesen: As Bret played Amazing Grace, two of the fresh soldiers stepped forward along with two of the relieved soldiers, and began to careful pick the body bags up, one by and one, and place them in the truck bed. As they did this, I remember watching the rest of the soldiers carefully.

Pause.

J. Londesen: Their stares were blank. I don’t know what they were seeing, but their faces were hard and their eyes were somewhere else, somewhere I am glad to have never been. I thought, up to that point, I’d seen and witnessed horrible, terrible things, but after watching those men, I realized that perhaps the depths of human- and perhaps even natural- depravity were deeper than I’d imagined. This has been a horrific event. Most places are still only beginning to recover from this diseases. But I wonder, going forward, if we’ll remember the right things. You’re a reporter, so I ask you this: What will we, as a world, remember? Will we remember the brilliant line of military vehicles led by the scrampy band of teens from England proudly retaking the Capitol building of the United States from the weary group of soldiers?

Pause. Looks at reporter for a moment.

J. Londesen: Or will we remember the malnourished men loading their friends into the back of a half ton, barely able to stand?

Pause.

J. Londesen: Perhaps the choice is yours, my friend. There were some beautiful things that happened, some wonderful humanity. But it was only there because there was so much bad, too. The Commander- you know what happened to him?

Reporter: Unfortunately, no. I haven’t been able to track him down yet. I asked the regional PIO, and he told me he could not discuss military member’s locations to anyone other than family.

J. Londesen: Monument Park, Temporary Plot 296.

Pause.

Reporter: I’m sorry?

J. Londesen: The mass grave at Monument Park, Temporary Plot 296. That’s where you’ll find him. That night, after we’d returned to the Camp, there was a single gunshot. They found him in his dress uniform, standing in front of one of the twenty three caskets in the morgue. There was no note, just his head leaking from where he’d shot himself with his Army-issue revolver.

Small laugh. Sad.

J. Londesen: You know who’s in Temporary Plot 297?

Reporter shakes head no.

J. Londesen: His son, Gunnery Sergeant Marco Lopedez, 372nd Military Police Company, US Army Reserves. He was one of the twenty three killed during the various battles at the Capitol building.

Pause.

J. Londesen: Thing is, the commander knew about his son’s death two months ago. He’d just waited until he was with him again to say goodbye.

Pause.

J. Londesen: They don't want any of that getting out. It would tarnish the entire view they’ve constructed about the heroic retaking of the Capitol. But I want you to know, because someday we’ll all be recovered, be right as rain, and the darker side of things will come out. And when it does, use his story, because he was a great man who saved a great deal of lives, including my students and my own. Help make sure that nothing like this happens, ever again.

Reporter opens mouth to speak, shuts it.

Reporter nods.

J. Londesen suddenly relaxes, smiles.

J. Londesen: Good, well. Glad that’s taken care of. Anything else you’d like to ask? Perhaps we can go see the band- they’re practicing downstairs. I’m sure they’d love to play for you.

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