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15th century alchemist presents his so-called distillation of the humours

[bookofmac]

Dream Taskmaster AU contestants because it's on the brain

Demi Lardner - An absolute goblin. She's done shows along side David Correos at MICF, I saw the live stream of one a few years ago and it was insane. Demi Commits and also gets into the physicality of things. I imagine she'd also so a great task outfit

Tom Walker - Standard white man but also a trained mime and I think that he'd be absolutly insane wrt prize tasks given his Twitch Stream Hoard. He and Demi are married and while I don't expect them to be on the same series I think it'd be funny if they were.

Jordan Raskopoulos- Her twitch stuff got me through the pandemic so i do have a bias, I think she'd be a great 'hyper compitent queer elder' and have fun with the prize tasks and do well on the Art and music tasks.

Shaun Micallef - I think he and Tom would have good studio banter as a lot of people wanted him for TM and that he's more known as a host. I think it's be funny to see him on a team with two younger comics ala talking 'bout your generation

Michael Hing - As a Dragon Friends listener I need to see a Hing Freak Out on live TV, we got so close with him on Spicks and Specks, he also does hosting duty on The Project so i think he has a higher likelyhood of being on at some point.

Judith Lucy - I think she's great and while I think she has a pretty put together comic persona I think she might get the full VCM and that'd be fun

Rove - He's channel 10 royalty to me so i would be super shocked if he didnt show up as the Known Name

Any of the Aunty Donna Boys - I mostly want Mark Bonano on because he would likely wiff the prize tasks in a really funny ways.

Steven Oliver - Frankly it's shocking that there hasn't been Indigenous Australian Comedian on TMAU yet (in-sofar as I know) and I think Steven would be great as he has excellent physical comedy buy also has a really strong dramatic chops.

Briggs - mostly a musician and producer but has done comedic acting roles, i think he'd be really fun an has a history with Tom from back in the Hard Chat on the Weekly days

Naomi Higgins - Very good at playing heel/ contrarian on podcasts which would be very funny on the show.

Bec Petraitis- Smaller comic but i love her, she'd be so earnest and easy for Tom to Bully for accidentally offering her dog Gonzo as a prize in one of the episodes but I think she'd have such fun and I want only the best for her.

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[party-gilmore]

Okay so today I am thinking about how fucking LAVISH the Nate/Sophie* wedding was.

All of the gorgeousness of a "rich people who can throw as much money as they want at something and (at least one of which) appreciates fine things" wedding but with NONE of the stuffiness. Priceless antique decorations?? Sure! Climb all over and play around with them as much as you want!!! Enjoy the space!!! Fuel your creative urge to play!!

And it's not that minimalist bullshit either, like it is EXPERTLY coordinated in all colors AND eras of art qnd decorative styling - almost like how a museum sets up its different areas with different themes.

So Many Good People!! Sophie's theater kids, The Brewpub Staff, a who's who of everybody they've saved and kept in contact with

The FOOD!!! So Eliot, despite some grumbling, was probably not ALLOWED to handle this. Like. "Eliot, we want you AT the wedding, enjoying the day with us! Not spending all your energy having to prepare and serve for it!" BUT he also would NOT have allowed them to have anyone but The Masters of the craft in his stead. Pulled so many strings with so many of his contacts and got a string of A-Listers to head up the cooking staff (although "Alice" still got Peggy's catering company to handle the set up, serving, etc. - similar reasoning on Peggy not being in the kitchen, Parker wanted her to just enjoy the wedding).

Hardison getting some SERIOUS musical talent for the reception lined up - I'm talking live performances from everybody's favorite artists, not to mention the kind of lighting rigs and special effects and OH WOW of COURSE he handled the like, whole A/V sideshow presentation whatever for the reception like, figuring out a cover story close enough to the truth to be Real but also, uh... tweaked just enough not to tip off all the civilians in attendance, let alone the law enforcement. Bonano might be willing to go to bat for them, but he doesn't want to push things too far with McSweetin present.

They don't invite Sterling. This is because they KNOW Sterling will find out show up anyway, and kind of enjoy him showing up all disgruntled and snippy. They probably set like, a little trail of conspicuous behavior for him to follow, and he thinks he's gonna catch them in a con (ESPECIALLY after he arrives at a CRAZY expensive looking function- typical of where they might try and corner a mark) but when it's revealed it's there wedding he's actually kind of offended he wasn't 'invited' and it's sort of adorable. Sophie's like "What do you mean we don't care, Sterling? Of course we do! We know how much you like figuring out our little puzzles, an outright invitation would have been too... too..." "Gauche." "Ooh, YES Nate, exactly, too gauche. We're so glad you made it on time for cake!" Olivia has already been there for like two hours enjoying the party because she was personally invited by Nate and whisked away by The Kids while Sterling was busy following their breadcrumbs.

Just. Everybody DELIGHTING in a fancy party. All the people who don't normally get to go to things like these having a fucking BALL because it's not just gorgeous and expensive with formal aesthetic, its also CASUAL in energy and social mood so like... it's not like anyone's afraid of saying the wrong thing or breaking something, it's just LOVELY and FUN and OBSCENELY LAVISH

The OT3 gets to really enjoy it as well, since for a change they get to attend a Fancy Party without having to WORK it, like this is good, this is a good thing, that they don't have to do anything but relax and enjoy themselves and have a nice romantic night all dressed up at a nice party full of very expensive things that have been very explicitly legally purchased and owned so it's all above board yep this is good one night to celebrate with absolutely nothing... nothing to... steal...

okay yeah they DO all three disappear for like an hour while they dash across the street to like, a museum across from the ballroom or down the road from the garden venue or SOMETHING, just a quickie last-minute no pre-planning (to keep things challenging) heist in their nice formal wear and Nate and Sophie will never even have to know.

(The happy couple does, of course, notice the new tears in previously immaculate clothing and the rumpled hair and sweat and smudged makeup from various vent crawling and security neutralizing and other such strenuous activities, but Sophie just smirks and makes a sly comment about "sneak away for some fun?" and let's them blush and stammer and assume she may have meant something else. After all, she and Nate chose a venue close to that lovely little museum collection for a reason. C'mon. They know their kids.)

All in all it's just a DELIGHTFUL, LAVISH, GORGEOUS celebration, good times are had by all, the various fabrics are exquisite and the food is decadent, a rather Big To-Do that leaves everyone swaying, drained and exhausted in That Good Way come the end of the night, and Nate and Sophie just dance slowly as the last song plays and the adhesive gives out on a few of the streamers and curtains, gossamer whites and silky golds and silvery confetti drifting down around them. Sharing that silent twinkle in their eyes that confirms that this was a very lovely night, and that they will not, in fact, be telling The Kids they actually got married three days ago when the pressure of The Whole Thing just rose too much and the snuck away in the night to elope in a small private ceremony on the boat of an old captain friend because that's all they really needed anyway. Still, a lovely party though. Even more enjoyable with that stress off of it.

[heckoffmate]

Shawn: Please stop saying such dumbass things! You're not even making any sense!

Jasmine: So Broden Kelly says, "Don't get in the kiln." This leads to Mark Bonano and Zach Ruane stepping into the kiln.

[writtenonreceipts]

Things I need in the Leverage Reboot (in no particular order):

Taking down insurance company denying extra coverage to clients during Covid

Taking down corrupt/racist/bigoted cops

Respect/Memorial for cops like Bonano (sp?)

Neglecting to comment on Nate/Tim Huton’s absence

Nate who?

He’s in prison again and no kielbasa for him

Some elaborate con...he’s fine, he’s fine 

Nana

Nana on quarantine lockdown and Hardison/Eliot/Parker switching off taking food and groceries to her

The Zoom Job--they take down the mark all while on zoom/video chat with each other

Hardison's sister, is she a foster sibling or blood relative? They try to out hack each other. It is a problem.

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Artistic production in Greece began in the prehistoric pre-Greek Cycladic and the Minoan civilizations, both of which were influenced by local traditions and the art of ancient Egypt.[319] There were several interconnected traditions of painting in ancient Greece. Due to their technical differences, they underwent somewhat differentiated developments. Not all painting techniques are equally well represented in the archaeological record. The most respected form of art, according to authors like Pliny or Pausanias, were individual, mobile paintings on wooden boards, technically described as panel paintings. Also, the tradition of wall painting in Greece goes back at least to the Minoan and Mycenaean Bronze Age, with the lavish fresco decoration of sites like Knossos, Tiryns and Mycenae. Much of the figural or architectural sculpture of ancient Greece was painted colourfully. This aspect of Greek stonework is described as polychrome. Ancient Greek sculpture was composed almost entirely of marble or bronze; with cast bronze becoming the favoured medium for major works by the early 5th century. Both marble and bronze are easy to form and very durable. Chryselephantine sculptures, used for temple cult images and luxury works, used gold, most often in leaf form and ivory for all or parts (faces and hands) of the figure, and probably gems and other materials, but were much less common, and only fragments have survived. By the early 19th century, the systematic excavation of ancient Greek sites had brought forth a plethora of sculptures with traces of notably multicolored surfaces. It was not until published findings by German archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann in the late 20th century, that the painting of ancient Greek sculptures became an established fact.[320] The art production continued also during the Byzantine era. The most salient feature of this new aesthetic was its “abstract,” or anti-naturalistic character. If classical art was marked by the attempt to create representations that mimicked reality as closely as possible, Byzantine art seems to have abandoned this attempt in favor of a more symbolic approach. The Byzantine painting concentrated mainly on icons and hagiographies. The Macedonian art (Byzantine) was the artistic expression of Macedonian Renaissance, a label sometimes used to describe the period of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire (867–1056), especially the 10th century, which some scholars have seen as a time of increased interest in classical scholarship and the assimilation of classical motifs into Christian artwork. Post Byzantine art schools include the Cretan School and Heptanese School. The first artistic movement in the Greek Kingdom can be considered the Greek academic art of the 19th century (Munich School). Notable modern Greek painters include Nikolaos Gyzis, Georgios Jakobides, Theodoros Vryzakis, Nikiforos Lytras, Konstantinos Volanakis, Nikos Engonopoulos and Yannis Tsarouchis, while some notable sculptors are Pavlos Prosalentis, Ioannis Kossos, Leonidas Drosis, Georgios Bonanos and Yannoulis Chalepas.tourism#tour#worldtour #bestplace#nature#beauty enjoy#experience#history http://bit.ly/2K04FBr

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Vélez received a son from the house | Mauricio Pelle …

The man walks slowly to the ball, watches the goalkeeper and when Roberto Bonano flies to the left, Mauricio Pellegrino accommodates a low left-footed shot to the other post with utmost tranquility, to unleash the celebration of Vélez in the South American Recopa. That championship reached in Kobe, Japan on April 13, 1997 – marked the team's last international dedication – was remembered last week. The 23rd anniversary was fulfilled, and mainly because one of its great protagonists, the one who hit the last penalty, became the new technical director of Vélez.

On Thursday afternoon the official page of the club and its social networks confirmed a news that was already decided several weeks ago: Mauricio Pellegrino is the new coach of the team. He signed the contract until June 30, 2021. The delay in the termination of Gabriel Heinze's contract and the quarantine delayed the announcement, which was finally made online. He will have Carlos Compagnucci as a field assistant, who also trained in the inferiors of the club and directed the First for five months in 2001. Gustavo Campagnuolo will be the goalkeeper coach and the physical trainer will be the Spanish Xavier Tamarit Gimeno. Although as he still could not enter the country, that place is currently being taken by Mariano Fanesi.

In addition to the aforementioned Recopa, Pellegrino won the Copa Libertadores, the Intercontinental, the Interamericana, the Super Cup and four local championships in his time as a player with a blue V in his chest. Thus his name is synonymous with success in Liniers. Dhe left the club to come to Barcelona and also played in Valencia, Liverpool and Alavés, where he retired in 2006.

In Spain his coaching career began. His debut was in Valencia, in 2012, where he had also done well as a footballer (beyond the fateful penalty that he missed in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich, in 2001). In 2013 he had his debut in Argentine football in Estudiantes, a good step for Independiente, the return to Europe to sit on the bench of Alavés, which led to the runner-up of the Copa del Rey in the 2016/2017 season, an irregular walk for the Premier League with Southampton and a satisfying, albeit paradoxical, experience at Leganes.

On October 10 of last year the Royal Federation of Spain chose him as the Best DT of La Liga for what he did in the 2018-2019 season. Although eleven days after the distinction he was kicked out of the cucumber team for a poor start to the 2019/2020 campaign.

With 48 years, thirst for revenge, a football identity that is not tied to any scheme and with the great challenge of replacing Gabriel Heinze, Pellegrino arrives in Vélez. His predecessor left the club very high when he got a colorful team, with an offensive vocation, with a robust average, with millionaire sales, promotion of youth to First and the return to the international plane after five years of absence (He is currently in the second round of the Copa Sudamericana).

In times of pandemic and mandatory quarantine, wondering when you can meet your players in person is a mystery. As it is also what players will accompany him in this cycle. Thiago Almada continues to arouse interest in Europe and the loans of Maximiliano Romero and Ricardo Centurión, who were the starting forward with Heinze, end on June 30. The same happens with the contract of Fernando Gago, whom Pellegrino asked eight years ago as a reinforcement for Valencia. For the reunion to happen, the former 34-year-old Boca midfielder must recover well from the ligament operation on his right knee and seal its continuity. Although he already made it clear that if he continues playing, Vélez will have priority.

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“Great Society Primary: Week Five Results”

The announcement of the latest very unscientific results from the nightly poll conducted in the lobby of Lincoln Center, is a marketing gimmick for “The Great Society” that strikes me as at best useless, and maybe even harmful, although I couldn’t say exactly why.

But it is surely nowhere near as damaging as the theatrics required in our electoral politics, which has its most vivid expression in events like tonight’s third televised 2020 Presidential Democratic debate.

Later this week, The Broadway Advocacy Coalition will also mix politics and theater, it hopes more fruitfully, in an event it is calling  Theater of Change Forum: Public Launch, which will combine performances with discussions on how to “merge the areas of storytelling and advocacy into an integrated practice.” Performers and speakers will include:Ariana Afsar (Hamilton), Britton Smith (Be More Chill), Ben Wexler (Jonathan Larson Award winner), Mikayla Bartholomew and Columbia Law School professor Elora Mukherjee.

Then on November 8 at  Kraine’s Theater, David Lawson will reprise his “The 2020 Book Report,” for which he read all the candidates’ political memoirs.

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The Week in New York Theater Reviews and Previews

  Joaquina Kalukango and Paul Alexander Nolan (

Slave Play

When I saw “Slave Play” Off-Broadway last December, it felt like the work of a novice playwright – promising, provocative, and well produced, but too derivative, too long, too full of ideas that were not fully or clearly developed. It needed work….Much to my surprise, I liked it less on Broadway.

It would be unfair to sum up “Slave Play” as soft-core S&M porn followed by pseudo psychological insights about race in America – unfair because it’s other things as well….

Cora Vander Broek, Ian Barford and Chantal Thuy

Linda Vista

Can an underemployed middle-aged jerk be a babe magnet?   That’s a question theatergoers are likely to ask about Wheeler, the central character in Linda Vista, Tracy Letts’ latest play on Broadway. Some women will surely ask the question rhetorically and in disgust; some men, full of hope.

Indeed, your ability to get past that question – and, more generally, your willingness to entertain yet another middle-aged white guy comedy – is a gauge of how much you will appreciate this showcase for some impressive acting and very funny writing.

The Wrong Man

“The Wrong Man,”  a sung-through musical starring the spectacular Joshua Henry,  may remind people of “Hamilton” in its catchy rap-inflected eclectic score and jerky hip hop choreography, but it is nearly the anti-“Hamilton” in its lack of real-world resonance.

Now, I don’t need a show to be socially conscious or rooted in history in order to enjoy it. But if you’re going to enlist a black actor to portray a man framed for murder, it seems like a missed opportunity that the creative team is presenting a story that has no more relevance than a folk tale.

Preview: Notes on My Mother’s Decline

On some nights, “Notes on My Mother’s Decline” feels as much like a memorial service as a show. Although the two characters in Andy Bragen’s play are not named, the writer makes it clear that they are based on himself and his late mother, Eugenia M. Bragen. For more than half a century, Tracy Bragen, as everyone called her, lived just down the block from the Fourth Street Theatre, where Notes on My Mother’s Decline is currently running. At the performance I attended, two colleagues of hers from Baruch College, where she taught English for some 40 years, were in the audience. “The real Tracy was a real Southern belle, with a heavy Southern drawl,” one of them told me.

  The Week in New York Theater News

Diahann Carroll in House of Flowers at the age of 19

Nine of Broadway’s 41 theaters will dim their lights in memory of Diahann Carroll on Wednesday, October 16th at exactly 7:45pm.

  MJ (renamed from Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough) “inspired by the life of Michael Jackson” will open Aug 13, 2020 at the Neil Simon Theater. Book is by Lynn Nottage, but it’s co-produced by the Michael Jackson Estate

    Helen Shaw is the new critic for New York Magazine, a George Jean Nathan winner whose astute reviews have been published in  Time Out, Village Voice, and 4Columns.org and who wrote an especially savory critics bestiary for American Theatre Magazine.

Here is an exchange, from a new interview with her, also in American Theatre, by its editor Rob Weinert-Kendt

But will you still have the freedom to write about the weird stuff you love? Will your editors let you cover Clubbed Thumb and the Brick and whatever international piece comes to Montclair Peak Performances, etc.? I don’t know. The editor I’ll be reporting to is Chris Bonanos, and he has very catholic taste. Also I don’t hide those interests—I’ve never put that light under a bushel. Certainly if I start to cram in shows that take place in actual working sewers that are Beckett plays spoken backwards, I won’t be surprised if my editors are leery. But in the conversations I’ve had with them so far, they sounded very excited by the idea that dance is a part of theatre, and performance art, and drag. The silos don’t need to stay closed. My impression from them is, you know, they cover New York, including the weirdest and glitziest and chintziest things. They have a Cheap Eats issue, and “cheap seats” is not that far from that.

It strikes me that you turning your attention to Broadway happens to come at a time when not just Pinter is on the Main Stem but also Jeremy O. Harris and Heidi Schreck. And where did Heidi come from? Clubbed Thumb. If you’re thinking about the future of the form, the future comes really fast, and if you want to be guiding people through that you have to pay attention. Here’s my actual goal: to be the Anthony Bourdain of theatre in New York. I want to say to readers: You have no idea that you want to go to this weird corner and eat these spicy noodles, but trust me, you’ll love it. If I could do one millionth of that for theatre, I’d be happy.

  Maria Dizzia will star in the first two stops of the national tour of Heidi Schreck’s  What the Constitution Means to Me — Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum (January 12 through February 16, 2020) and in Chicago at the Broadway Playhouse (March 4 through April 12, 2020)

The eighth annual Bad Theater Festival will run October 16 to 19 at The Brick, As The Brooklyn Paper explains “This year’s 19 out-of-the-box productions, each between five and twenty minutes long, represent a variety of genres, with an emphasis on the ridiculous. In one eight-minute comedy-horror piece, playing during the opening block on Oct. 16, Frankenstein’s Monster and his Bride go to marriage counseling. Also: a love story between a bat and a human, an interactive dating show where attendees compete for the love of the “filthiest woman alive, a drama about rezoning law, and show entitled “The Cockroach of Broadway.” ach between five and twenty minutes long

  Rest in Peace

Sam Bobrick, 87,best known for creating the television series Saved By the Bell, but he also wrote four Broadway plays: Norman Is That You? No Hard Feelings. Murder at the Howard Johnson’s. Wally’s Cafe.

  #Stageworthy News of the Week. Theater as Politics, Politics as Theater. Bad Theater Festival. The announcement of the latest very unscientific results from the nightly poll conducted in the lobby of Lincoln Center, is a marketing gimmick for "

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16 Books You Should Read This June

Caroline Kepnes, Providence (Lenny)

In her first standalone, Kepnes combines the suspense and careful plotting of crime fiction with elements of horror. The novel traces the early friendship of Jon and Chloe, best friends in a small New Hampshire town who feel like kindred spirits, though neither one of them wants to risk their friendship by moving into couples territory. Jon’s life becomes a lot more complicated when he discovers he has superhuman powers, ones that could hurt Chloe. What follows is part procedural featuring the distinctive detective Charles “Eggs” DeBenedictus, as a serial killer is loose Providence, where Jon is hiding out. There’s also a Lovecraft convention in town which Jon sneaks into as a way of blending into the crowd (many literary in-jokes abound). But most of all, Jon wants to fix himself and get back at Chloe, which makes the book also a poignant love story.

–Lisa Levy, CrimeReads contributing editor

Rachel Cusk, Kudos (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

I didn’t begin reading Outline, the first book in Rachel Cusk’s trilogy of novels centering on a writer named Faye, until the release of Kudos, the final installment, was on the horizon. I don’t envy those who were made to wait for each book. Cusk’s style—precise and unsentimental—is transfixing and consuming. The novels unfold in a world in which small talk consistently unfurls into self-searching confession and philosophical grandstanding. Kudos finds Faye, remarried, en route to a literary conference in the wake of Brexit. It’s both of a piece with its predecessors and, in certain ways, utterly unlike them—that is, it’s the perfect conclusion.

–Nathan Goldman, Lit Hub contributor

Édouard Louis, History of Violence, trans. Lorin Stein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

In this autobiographical novel, after a sexual liaison turns into a violent rape and near-murder, Édouard Louis discovers his assailant has suffered his own brutalities, and Louis wants to break the cycle of this terrible legacy they’ve both inherited. The traumatic event mirrors the societal, cultural, and economic attacks on vulnerable populations such as migrants, women, or like Louis, gay and from a poor working-class town. The book investigates and attempts to understand the systemic and structural history of violence such populations have been subjected to while also sympathizing with those perpetrators who’ve been dispossessed themselves. In a world that usually insists on bifurcated choices like being the punisher or the punished, to endure or dispense, Louis locates a sliver of space in between where another choice exists.

–Kerri Arsenault, Lit Hub contributor

Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I’m Someone Else (Henry Holt and Co.)

Like Chelsea Hodson’s chapbook Pity the Animal (included in this book), this essay collection is shape-shifting, and Hodson’s voice has got me under a spell of sorts. I am making my way through it and going from awe to exhilaration to discomfort, and back to awe. The essays feature a game of Russian roulete played with a knife hung from a fan; Grand Theft Auto; “suggar daddies” on the internet; Schopenhauer; and NASA. They are about desire and our bodies, and how we negotiate their myriad commodifications. I love what Sarah Manguso said of them: “These essays are bewitching—despite their discipline and rigor, you can smell the blood.”

–Marta Bausells, Lit Hub contributing editor

Jérôme Ruillier, The Strange, trans. Helge Dascher (Drawn & Quarterly)

Ruillier’s black, red, and yellow illustrations and his straightforward storytelling convey the persistent unease of the migrant experience. The unnamed narrator in The Strange is undocumented, and though we don’t know the war-torn country he’s fleeing nor the hostile-toward-immigration one in which he arrives, we feel the frantic beat of his heart at each stage. In The Strange, we experience the manner in which each new interaction for an undocumented immigrant can be a matter of jeopardy. The art throughout this graphic novel is haunting, stressful, and beautiful.

–Nathan Scott McNamara, Lit Hub contributor

 Rosamund Young, The Secret Life of Cows (Penguin Press)

What I’ve read of this so far felt like sitting at the kitchen table a half hour before sunrise waiting for the coffee to brew listening to Young recount the various goings on of local cows. It seemed pretty great.

–Jonny Diamond, Lit Hub editor

Adrienne Celt, Invitation to a Bonfire (Bloomsbury)

This novel tells an alternative history of the Nabokovs, disguised as the Orlovs. What remains is Vera’s fierce participation in all aspects of “Orlov’s” narrative. Celt weaves a fascinating thriller ending with what, at this time of author misalliances, is frighteningly possible. Vera says about being remembered: “History’s unkind that way. Once your life leaves your hands you become—mutable. Susceptible, I suppose you might say, to anyone with an axe to grind or a tale to tell.” Prophetic? Cynical? The story is beautifully told with enough absolutely stunning sentences to enthrall the reader. If you love, as I do, tales based on the lives of actual artists, then this story is for you.

–Lucy Kogler, Lit Hub columnist

The Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, ed. Lisa Darms and David O’Neill (Semiotext(e))

There’s a small and enviable group of visual artists whose work with the written word is every bit as impressive as their more well-known artistic expression. That’s certainly the case with David Wojnarowicz, whose vital and impassioned works blended the personal and political to a stunning extent. The Weight of the Earth is taken from Wojnarowicz’s tape journals, particularly those that he kept near the end of his life. With a major retrospective of Wojnarowicz’s artwork opening at the Whitney next month, and given that many of his concerns about art, society, and governmental inaction remain all too relevant today, the time is right to experience his work—and The Weight of the Earth is a particularly direct way to do so.

–Tobias Carroll, Lit Hub contributor

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Nell Painter, Old in Art School (Counterpoint Press)

When I studied art in college, there was a crew of guys known as the “art bros.” Their work was hit or miss, but always presented as if they were at the forefront of the next art movement. I’m guessing Nell Painter encountered a very similar white-male-artist archetype when she began studying art at Rutgers University at age 64. She continued on to earn an MFA at Rhode Island School of design, where she was not only the oldest, but the only black student in her class. Having just retired from teaching history at Princeton and authoring several books on race and identity, Painter is well-equipped to dissect the various forms of discrimination she faces in these programs. And she does it all with a sense of humor, honoring, above all else, creativity, and openness.

–Alicia Kroell, Lit Hub editorial fellow

Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman, trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove Atlantic)

Sometimes real life and its routines are enough. If you tilt them just so, they might even unfold and reveal a world of mystery. This magical little book performs this neat accordion track in sentences so clean and crisp it’s like they were laminated and placed before you, one at a time, in a well-windex’d cooler. And thus Sayaka Murata has written the 7-11 Madame Bovary. The author has spent nearly the last 20 years herself working a corner shop in Tokyo, for some of that waking at an ungodly hour, writing, then going to work the early morning shift, selling cigarette and coffee and cold medicine to Tokyo residents. You would think that kind of schedule would produce drudgery, or even twilit ghoulishness. No, this is a love story. Only the love affair here is between a woman and the convenience store in which she works.

–John Freeman, Lit Hub executive editor

Rae DelBianco, Rough Animals (Arcade Publishing)

As a long-time lover of dark contemporary westerns, I’m pretty damn excited about Rae DelBianco’s debut novel, Rough Animals—the story of a pair of recently-orphaned twins, Wyatt and Lucy Smith, living a hard-bitten existence on a cattle ranch in Utah. When a shootout with a feral teenage girl results in the death of four of the Smiths’ cattle, Wyatt takes off in pursuit through the nightmarish desert wilderness. DelBianco’s writing has been compared to that of Cormac McCarthy, Jim Harrison, and Denis Johnson, and a recent Publishers Weekly review called the book “ . . . a viscerally evoked fever dream, a bleakly realized odyssey through an American west populated by survivors and failed dreamers,” which shot the book to the top of my Summer Reading pile.

–Dan Sheehan, Book Marks editor

Dorthe Nors, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal (Graywolf)

I’ve been hooked on Dorthe Nors ever since her short story collection, Karate Chop, was shared with the English-speaking world four years ago, so I am particularly stoked to read her new novel, Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, about a middle-aged translator, driving lessons, and vertigo. Dorthe Nors’ work, beautifully translated from the Danish, tends to explore fascinating, wholly singular women. Her short stories pack a punch, so I can’t wait to find out what she can do with a novel.

–Katie Yee, Book Marks assistant editor

Lauren Groff, Florida (Riverhead)

Like pretty much everyone else, I’m looking forward to finishing Lauren Groff’s new story collection, Florida, this month. The stories I’ve read from it so far have been weird and stormy and wonderful, and Groff’s writing style—which always seems like a dam on the verge of bursting—never fails to charm me. Her recent By the Book isn’t too bad either.

–Emily Temple, Lit Hub senior editor

Christopher Bonanos, Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous (Henry Holt and Co.)

I’ve been fascinated by Weegee—real name Arthur Fellig—since attending the International Center of Photography’s 2012 exhibition of his work, “Murder is My Business.” Known mostly for the inventive, tabloid-journalism style photos he took primarily of crime scenes and their aftermath in the 1930s and 40s, Weegee worked both quickly and nocturnally, allegedly developing photos out of a miniature darkroom in the trunk of his car. He was also a relentless self-mythologizer: Weegee was a nickname of his own making, for his “psychic” ability to arrive at a crime scene at the same time as the cops. I’m looking forward to learning more about the man behind the legend, especially after New York Times critic Jennifer Szalai raved that “Christopher Bonanos has finally supplied us with the biography Weegee deserves.”

–Jess Bergman, Lit Hub features editor

You-Jeong Jeong, The Good Son (Penguin Books)

There are almost too many great crime books coming out in June to pick one, but You-Jeong Jeong’s uber-creepy psychological thriller The Good Son is at the top of my list for the month and quite possibly for the year. When a young man wakes up covered in blood and finds his mother has been murdered, he must investigate the blank spaces in his own memories to uncover what happened. What emerges is a chilling portrait of psychopath, and a beautifully evocative tale of wealth and isolation in modern South Korean life. You-Jeong Jeong has been called the Stephen King of South Korea, although I’d prefer to compare her to Lionel Shriver, Dorothy B. Hughes, or Patricia Highsmith.

–Molly Odintz, CrimeReads editor

Rosalie Knecht, Who Is Vera Kelly? (Tin House)

People who know me know that two of my, say, top five interests are midcentury double identity stories and underground Latin American political/intellectual scenes. As it happens, those are the driving forces behind Rosalie Knecht’s new novel, Who Is Vera Kelly?, a strange and innovative take on the spy novel, one that’s noir and full of ambiguities, doubles, and double-crosses. This has everything you’d want from espionage fiction, but there’s also something strange and subversive going on. Knecht has a livewire intellect and I hope she sticks with spy fiction of some kind of another, because this is just the kind of jolt the genre (my beloved genre) needs now and again.

Good read found on the Lithub

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Savills Studley Houston office tenant team leaves for Newmark Knight Frank

Three prominent members of Houston’s commercial real estate community left their firm to join Newmark Knight Frank. Mark Russell, Steve Biegel and Jay Bonano, all previously of New York-based Savills Studley’s Houston office, joined the Houston office of New York-based Newmark Knight Frank, according to a statement. Click to read more at Houston Business Journal.

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  Synopsis : A la suite d’un crash aérien qui a coûté la vie à sa famille, un homme refuse la thèse officielle de l’accident et décide de rétablir la justice. Son attention se porte sur le contrôleur aérien en poste lors de la catastrophe.

Origine du film : États-Unis Réalisateur : Elliott Lester Scénariste : Javier Gullón Acteurs : Arnold Schwarzenegger, Scoot McNairy, Maggie Grace, Martin Donovan, Hannah Ware, Mariana Klaveno, Kevin Zegers, Larry Sullivan, Teri Clark Linden Musique : Mark Todd Genre : Drame, Thriller Durée : 1 heure et 34 minutes Date de sortie : 7 avril 2017 (États-Unis) Année de production : 2017 Sociétés de production : Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films, Pacific View Management, Protozoa Pictures, thefyzz, Grindstone Entertainment Group Distribué par : Lionsgate Premiere Titre original : Aftermath Notre note : ★★★★☆

Notre commentaire : “Aftermath” est un thriller dramatique américain datant de 2017, réalisé par Elliott Lester, à qui l’on doit également “Blitz” (2011). Les acteurs principaux sont Arnold Schwarzenegger, qu’on a pu voir dans “Predator” (1987), Scoot McNairy, qu’on a pu voir dans “Our Brand is Crisis” (2015), Maggie Grace, qu’on a pu voir dans “Night and Day” (2010), et Martin Donovan, qu’on a pu voir dans “Le Dernier Rite” (2009). Le film est basé sur la collision en plein air qui a eu lieu à Überlingen en Allemagne en 2002, cependant les noms, les lieux et les incidents ont été modifiés. 

Le 23 juin 2015, il a été annoncé qu’Arnold Schwarzenegger jouerait dans un film dont le scénario était signé de Javier Gullón, intitulé 478, qui serait produit par la société Protozoa Pictures de Darren Aronofsky. Le 4 novembre 2015, la société Emmett / Furla / Oasis Films (EFOF) s’était joint au projet pour financer et produire le film avec Protozoa, et qu’Elliott Lester allait diriger le métrage. Le tournage principal du film a commencé le 14 décembre 2015, à Columbus, en Ohio, et s’est achevé à la mi-janvier 2016.

L’histoire proposée par “Aftermath” propose de nous faire vivre un crash d’avion à travers le regard, le vécu de deux personnes indirectement impliquées dans l’accident. Le premier, c’est Roman Melnyk, incarné par Arnold Schwarzenegger, un homme ordinaire qui s’apprête à récupérer son épouse et sa fille à l’aéroport lorsqu’il découvre avec stupeur que l’avion s’est crashé. Le deuxième, c’est Jacob “Jake” Bonanos, joué par Scoot McNairy, l’aiguilleur du ciel, responsable du crash. 

Le premier cherche à comprendre, et surtout à obtenir des excuses pour la perte de sa famille. Cette absence d’excuses, de compassion, de respect, le conduiront à commettre l’irréparable. Le second vit dans la tourmente, la culpabilité, le poids des victimes, mais reste persuadé qu’il s’agit d’un accident, n’assume pas pleinement sa responsabilité. 

Loin d’être un film spectaculaire, avec des effets spéciaux mettant en scène le crash en lui-même, “Aftermath” propose de suivre la douleur que cet événement provoque chez deux individus inconnus l’un de l’autre et qui pourtant vont se retrouver face à face en raison de cet accident. Le film repose essentiellement sur la performance d’Arnold Schwarzenegger, bien loin de ses rôles d’antan qui ont fait sa renommée. Son jeu d’acteur est subtil, délicat, avec beaucoup de retenue. Il y a très peu de dialogue, tout est dans le geste, dans l’expression corporelle. C’est très intéressant. Je n’ai pas le souvenir d’avoir jamais vu Scharzy dans une performance de ce type. 

L’histoire est basée sur une histoire vraie, celle de la collision entre deux avions, le vol 2937 de Bashkirian Airlines et du vol 611 de DHL. L’accident s’est produit le 1er juillet 2002, lorsque les deux avions se sont percutés en altitude puis écrasés sur la ville d’Überlingen, en Allemagne. Malheureusement, “Aftermath” n’aura pas trouvé son public, le film n’ayant, à ce jour, rapporté que 670.000 dollars pour un budget de 10,5 millions de dollars. Il peut donc être considéré à ce stade comme une box office bomb. 

“Aftermath” va faire l’objet d’une édition en DVD ainsi qu’en Blu-ray, à paraître le 18 juillet 2017 chez Seven7. Pour de plus amples renseignements, n’hésitez pas à consulter la fiche du film sur le site DVD.Fr.

En conclusion, “Aftermath” étonne grandement par l’approche qui est proposée d’un crash d’avion. Loin du film catastrophe classique, ce métrage est plus subtil, tout comme la performance d’Arnold Schwarzenegger, qui étonne par son jeu habile et délicat. Le rythme est plutôt lent, et l’épilogue est intelligemment construit. Un film qui mérite bien mieux que le sort que lui ont réservé les spectateurs outre-atlantiques. 

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AFTERMATH (2017) ★★★★☆ Synopsis : A la suite d'un crash aérien qui a coûté la vie à sa famille, un homme refuse la thèse officielle de l'accident et décide de rétablir la justice.