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Back Again | Weeknotes

It's getting noticeably darker, quicker, but the days are still just as full. There's lot's to do before we loose the year to the winter.

The nights are drawing in here. Tonights sunset is 8.16pm. It’s getting noticeably darker, quicker, but the days are still just as full. There’s lot’s to do before we loose the year to the winter. Hope you’ve all had a great week.

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Comic Con @ Home panel and exhibitor list (so far)

Source: Comic-Con@Home

Source: SDCC unofficial blog

TV & Movies

American Dad: Ever wanted to learn how to draw one of your favorite AD! characters? Now is your chance, join show Supervising Director, Brent Woods, as he teaches the cast and executive producers how to draw Roger! Grab a sketchbook & pens and learn to draw everyone’s favorite alien alongside Rachael MacFarlane (Hayley), Wendy Schaal (Francine), Scott Grimes (Steve), Dee Bradley Baker (Klaus) and EPs Nic Wegener and Joe Chandler as they chat about the current season and look toward the series’ 300th episode airing on TBS this fall.

[NEW] Archer (July 24 at 5PM PT): with Aisha Tyler, Chris Parnell, Judy Greer, Lucky Yates, Amber Nash, and moderated by Casey Willis.

The Blacklist

Bill & Ted Face the Music: with stars Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves, as well as Wyld Stallyns, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, William Sadler, and director Dean Parisot and writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson. Moderated by Kevin Smith.

[NEW] Blast Off with Disney+’s The Right Stuff (July 25 at 1PM PT).

Bless the Harts: Join the Harts, in quarantine of course, for a Paint & Sip! Watch Kristen Wiig (Jenny Hart), Maya Rudolph (Betty Hart), Ike Barinholtz (Wayne Edwards), Jillian Bell (Violet Hart) and Fortune Feimster (Brenda) with executive producers Phil Lord, Chris Miller and Andy Bobrow try to recreate Bless The Harts characters while chatting about their favorite moments from season one, what they’re looking forward to in season two on FOX this Fall and how they’ve kept busy during quarantine while drinking the show’s favorite drink – boxed wine!

Bob’s Burgers: The Emmy Award-winning animated FOX series “Bob’s Burgers” invites fans into their homes for a virtual panel with all of the laughs and surprises they generally bring to the Indigo Ballroom. Creator and executive producer Loren Bouchard will break news about the upcoming season, and the always entertaining cast including H. Jon Benjamin, John Roberts, Kristen Schaal, Eugene Mirman, Dan Mintz and Larry Murphy will have you howling with laughter with never-before-seen footage, followed by a lively panel discussion and fan Q&A.

Constantine: 15th Anniversary Reunion: with Keanu Reeves, director Francis Lawrence, and Akiva Goldsman.

Crossing Swords: Hulu Original Crossing Swordsfollows Patrick, a good hearted peasant who lands a coveted squire position at the royal castle. His dream job quickly turns into a nightmare when he learns his beloved kingdom is run by a hornet’s nest of horny monarchs, crooks and charlatans. Even worse, Patrick’s valor made him the black sheep in his family, and now his criminal siblings have returned to make his life hell. War, murder, full frontal nudity—who knew brightly colored peg people led such exciting lives? With Scott Mantz, Seth Green, Alanna Ubach, Tara Strong, Yvette Nicole Brown, Adam Pally, Tom Root, John Harvatine IV, and Adam Ray.

A Conversation with Nathan Fillion: Showrunner Alexi Hawley (“The Rookie”) talks with Nathan Fillion (“Firefly,” “Castle,” “The Rookie”) about his career in film and television. With special appearances by Joss Whedon, Alan Tudyk, Gina Torres, Mekia Cox, Molly Quinn, Seamus Dever and Jon Huertas.

Director’s on Directing: with Robert Rodriguez, Colin Trevorrow, and Joseph Kosinski.

The Dragon Prince: with creators Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond, as well as voice cast Jack Desena, Paula Burrows, Sasha Rojen, Erik Todd Dellums, Jason Simpson, Jesse Inocalla, and Racquel Belmonte

Duncanville: Join executive producers Mike & Julie Scully, executive producer and star, Amy Poehler, along with stars Ty Burrell, Riki Lindhome, Joy Osmanski, Yassir Lester, Betsy Sodaro and guest stars Rashida Jones and Wiz Khalifa for an exclusive first look at the upcoming second season; returning next Spring on FOX.

Emily the Strange: with creator Rob Reger and illustrator Buzz Parker

Family Guy: Join cast Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis, Seth Green and executive producers Rich Appel, Alec Sulkin and Kara Vallow from FOX’s hit animated comedy “Family Guy” as we celebrate 350 episodes with a virtual table read! After, we’ll take a look back at some of our favorite moments from the last 18 seasons, plus a special sneak peek at the hilarity and hi-jinx coming up in our 19th season premiering this fall on FOX!

Fear the Walking Dead: Fear the Walking Dead will present a panel for the series’ upcoming sixth season, premiering later this year. Moderated by Hardwick, the panel will feature Gimple, Showrunners and Executive Producers Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg and cast members Lennie James, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Colman Domingo, Danay Garcia, Karen David, Jenna Elfman and Rubén Blades.

G-Loc: with director Tom Paton, and stars Stephen Moyer, Tala Gouveia, Casper Van Dien, and John Rhys-Davies. Moderated by Jacob Oller.

The Goldbergs: with cast members Wendi McLendon-Covey, Sean Giambrone, Troy Gentile, George Segal, Hayley Orrantia, and Sam Lerner

Helstrom: As the son and daughter of a mysterious and powerful serial killer, Hulu Original Helstrom follows Daimon (Tom Austen) and Ana Helstrom (Sydney Lemmon), and their complicated dynamic, as they track down the worst of humanity — each with their own attitude and skills.

HOOPS: The star-studded voice cast of “Hoops,” a new adult animated series for Netflix launching this summer from 20th Century Fox Television (“The Simpsons,” “Family Guy,” “Bob’s Burgers”), gathered for an irreverent-in-the-best-way conversation about coming together to make this show that follows a foul-mouthed high school basketball coach who is sure he’ll hit the big leagues if he can only turn his terrible team around. Voice stars Jake Johnson, Rob Riggle, Ron Funches, Natasha Leggero, Cleo King and A.D. Miles join creator and executive producer Ben Hoffman and moderator/ guest voice star Max Greenfield (Johnson’s former “New Girl” co-star) for a truly wild and hilarious Q&A. Fans will be treated to an exclusive first look at footage from the premiere episode. “Hoops” comes from writer-comedian Ben Hoffman (“The Late Late Show with James Corden,” “Archer”), Phil Lord and Chris Miller (“The Lego Movie”), with animation produced by Bento Box (“Bob’s Burgers”).

Kevin Smith: You know what this is.

LGBTQ Representation on TV: with Jamie Chung (Once Upon A Time), Jamie Clayton (Roswell: New Mexico), Wilson Cruz (Star Trek: Discovery), Tatiana Maslany (Perry Mason, Orphan Black), Anthony Rapp (Star Trek: Discovery), J. August Richards (Council of Dads, Angel, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Harry Shum, Jr. (Shadowhunters) and Brian Michael Smith (9-1-1: Lone Star). The panel will be moderated by TV Guide Magazine West Coast Bureau Chief Jim Halterman.

[NEW] A Look Inside Marvel’s 616 on Disney+ (July 23 at 1PM PT).

Motherland: Fort Salen: TBA

NEXT: Coming to FOX in Fall 2020, “NEXT” arrives at Comic-Con@Home with a sneak peek of the thrilling opening scene of the propulsive, fact-based thriller about the emergence of a deadly, rogue artificial intelligence that combines pulse-pounding action with an examination of how technology is invading our lives and transforming us in ways we don’t yet understand. “NEXT” stars John Slattery (“Mad Men”) as a Silicon Valley pioneer, who teams with cybercrime agent Fernanda Andrade (“The First”), to fight a villain unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Panelists will include creator and executive producer Manny Coto (“24”), John Slattery, Fernanda Andrade, Michael Mosley (“Ozark”), Jason Butler Harner (“Ozark”) and Eve Harlow (“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) for a fascinating conversation about the new series and how AI and technology infiltrates all of our lives, moderated by Thrillist’s Esther Zuckerman.

NOS4A2: Moderated by Entertainment Weekly’s Clark Collis, the panel will feature Showrunner and Executive Producer Jami O’Brien, Executive Producer Joe Hill and cast member Zachary Quinto.

[NEW] Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe (12PM PT).

Rooster Teeth: Yssa Badiola, Torrian Crawford, Barbara Dunkelman, Fiona Nova, Kerry Shawcross, and special guest F.J. DeSanto are going to virtually smack you in the face with exclusive reveals and new information about Recorded by Arizal, Red vs. Blue Zero, RWBY Volume 8, and Transformers War For Cybertron: Siege.

The Simpsons: They’ll never stop The Simpsons!…from appearing at Comic-Con; this time on zoom. Join Al Jean, Matt Selman, David Silverman, Carolyn Omine, Mike B. Anderson and moderator Yeardley Smith. Find out how the show has surmounted social distancing and turbulent times en route to season 32!

Solar Opposites: Your favorite Shlorpians are getting together for Comic-Con at Home! As Hulu’s most-watched original comedy premiere to date, “Solar Opposites” centers around a team of four aliens who escape their exploding home world only to crash land into a move-in ready home in suburban America. They are evenly split on whether Earth is awful or awesome, while protecting the Pupa, a living super computer that will one day evolve into its true form, consume them and terraform the Earth… Join Justin Roiland (“Korvo”), Thomas Middleditch (“Terry”), Sean Giambrone (“Yumyulack”), Mary Mack (“Jesse”) and executive producers Mike McMahan and Josh Bycel for all things “Solar Opposites” including an exclusive clip from the upcoming second season!

Stumptown: with cast members Jake Johnson, Cobie Smulders, and Michael Ealy

TV Guide Magazine’s Fan Favorites: Hale Appleman (The Magicians), Chris Chalk (Gotham, Perry Mason), Robbie Amell (Upload), Kennedy McMann (Nancy Drew), Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Picard), Richard Harmon (The 100), Lindsey Morgan (The 100), Harvey Guillen (What We Do in the Shadows), and Alex Newell (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist)

The Walking Dead: The Walking Dead will make its 11th San Diego Comic-Con appearance with a panel spotlighting the Season 10 Finale episode, “A Certain Doom,” which will air as a standalone episode later this year. Moderated by Hardwick, the panel will feature Gimple, Showrunner and Executive Producer Angela Kang, Executive Producer Greg Nicotero, who directed the season finale, and cast members Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lauren Cohan, Josh McDermitt and Paola Lazaro, among others.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond: The Walking Dead: World Beyond makes its Comic-Con International debut as the third series in wildly successful The Walking Dead Universe. Moderated by Hardwick, the series’ panel will feature Gimple, Showrunner and Executive Producer Matt Negrete and cast members Aliyah Royale, Alexa Mansour, Hal Cumpston, Nicholas Cantu, Nico Tortorella, Julia Ormond and Joe Holt.

[NEW] What We Do in the Shadows (July 25 at 5PM PT): with Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Mark Proksch, Harvey Guillen, Paul Simms, Stefani Robinson, and moderated by Haley Joel Osment.

Wynonna Earp.

COMICS

Celebrating 80 Years of The Spirit: Moderated by Danny Fingeroth.

Decoding the Kirby/Lee Relationship: with Danny Fingeroth.

[NEW] Howard Cruse: The Godfather of Queer Comics.

In Conversation with Robert Kirkman: Creator Robert Kirkman answers fan questions on his titles including THE WALKING DEAD, INVINCIBLE, FIRE POWER, OBLIVION SONG, and more!

[NEW] LGBTQ Comics and Popular Media for Young People.

[NEW] Out in Comics 33: Virtually Yours.

[NEW] Marvel Comics: Next Big Thing: Friday, July 24, 11:00 AM PST

[NEW] MARVEL HQ: Thursday, July 23, 4:00 PM PST

Skybound Presents: Comics & Creators: A panel of Skybound’s comic book creators including Robert Kirkman, the team behind EXCELLENCE, and more come together to discuss their latest projects.

Tribute to Dennis O’Neil: with Danny Fingeroth.

The Wonderful, Horrible History of E.C. Comics: Moderated by Danny Fingeroth.

OTHER

The Art of Collaboration: Duos Behind Top Films, TV Shows, & Video Games.

California Browncoats.

Creative Renaissance: How to Thrive When it’s Hard to Survive. The continued need for social distancing has brought about a creative renaissance in the digital space. Join the conversation with Joe Barrette (Creators, Assemble!), Phil Jimenez (Creators4Comics), Alonso Nunez (Little Fish Comic Book Studio), and Kit Steinaway (Book Industry Charitable Fund) to hear how nonprofit organizations are working with comics creators to support each other and their communities during these challenging times. You will hear about new learning opportunities, collaborations, how to forge new creative friendships in a time of global disconnect and what it means to find your tribe through fandom and shared passion. Moderated by Dan Wood (Comics librarian, EPL).

From Script to Screen: Behind-the-Scenes of Your Favorite Film & TV Shows.

The Future of Entertainment.

GirlsDrawinGirls Presents Industry Professional Women Artists in Quarantine: Balancing Work, Art, Homeschooling, and Life: With Melody Severns, Debbie Mahan, Sherry Delorme, Rehana Khan-Tarin, Aisling Harbert-Phillips, and Christine Chang.

The Legal Geeks.

Making a Living Being Creative: with Lee Kohse, Brendan Hay, Lex Cassar, and Johnny Kolasinski.

Masters of the Illustrated Film Poster.

Music for Animation.

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Fear The Walking Dead Season 5 | Episode titles and summary

Season 5, Episode 01: Here to Help 

Release date: 02/06/2019

Script: Andrew Chambliss e Ian Goldberg

Director: Michael Satrazemis

Summary: With Morgan and Alicia leading the group, they arrive at a unknown territory, searching for survivors in need of help. But nothing is what it seems in this place that emanates danger.

Season 5, Episode 02: The Hurt That Will Happen

Release date: 09/06/2019

Script: Alex Delyle

Director: Jessica Lowrey

Summary: Morgan and Alicia find a survivor and discover a dangerous zombie threat. Meanwhile, the mission is put on the line when one of them disappears. Somewhere else, Strand makes contact.

Season 5, Episode 03: Humbug's Gulch

Release date: 16/06/2019

Script: -

Director: Colman Domingo

Summary: June and John find shelter to hide from a threat, but a misunderstanding with a desperate survivor causes problems. Meanwhile, Morgan and Alicia face a dangerous obstacle. (Ps.: Dwight shows up in this episode).

Season 5, Episode 04: Skidmark

Release date: 23/06/2019

Script: -

Director: Tara Nicole Weyr

Summary: Charlie makes a new friend, while the rescue mission set by Strand, Wendell and Sarah has a setback. Somewhere else, Alicia, Luciana and Morgan try hard to fulfill their mission. (Ps.: Skidmark is the name of the cat from the trailers).

Season 5, Episode 05: The End of Everything

Release date: 30/06/2019

Script: -

Director: Sarah Wayne Callies

Summary: Althea runs after a story, putting the mission and her own life at risk. (Ps.: This episode is directed by Sarah Wayne Callies, the actor who played Lori in TWD).

Season 5, Episode 06: The Little Prince

Release date: 07/07/2019

Script: -

Director: Sharat Raju

Summary: Going against all odds, Luciana and the rest of the group work together to overcome an impossible task, while Morgan helps preventing a disaster. Somewhere else, an old friend offers a solution to Sarah, Charlie and Strand.

Season 5, Episode 07: Still Standing

Release date: 14/07/2019

Script: -

Director: Marta Cunningham

Summary: Strand and Charlie search for safety. Dorie helps Dwight with his journey. Morgan stays focused in the bigger mission. Alicia refuses to give up.

Season 5, Episode 08: Is Anybody Out There?

Release date: 21/07/2019

Script: -

Director: Michael Satrazemis

Summary: Running against the clock, Morgan, Grace and Alicia try to get more time while Dorie and Dwight compete against all elements. Meanwhile, Sarah and Wendell get help from an unexpected source. (Ps.: This is the midseason finale).

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Wayne Chambliss and masked man

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Who owns the space under cities? The attempt to map the earth beneath us

Who owns the space under cities? The attempt to map the earth beneath us

The space under cities is getting busier from transport excavations to billionaires mega-basements. So how to keep track of whats down there?

Just over a year ago I was sent a photograph of a tunnel-boring machine in a dirt lot in Los Angeles. The caption read: Elon Musk is about to start digging.

The message was from Wayne Chambliss, a geographer in southern California, who tends to be…

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Thanatos Athànatos And must I now recant, God of tumors, God of the living flower, and begin again with a no to the dark stone “I am,” consent to death and inscribe on every tomb our only certainty: Thanatos Athànatos? Lacking a name to describe the dreams, the tears, the fury of a man defeated by questions unanswered? Our dialogue changes; becomes, quite possibly, absurd. There--beyond the mist, within the trees, the potency of the leaves-- true is the river that clings to its banks. Life is not a dream. True is Man and his invidious plan of silence. God of silence, open the solitude.

Salvatore Quasimodo translated by Wayne Chambliss

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For those writers, editors, and lit fans traveling to the 2020 AWP Conference (March 4-7) in San Antonio, TX this week, come stop by the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop’s AWP Bookfair Table at T2164! Also, check our CWW Creative Director Rita Banerjee’s panel “Dismantling the White Imagination: On Intimacy in Creative Nonfiction” featuring our Summer in Paris Nonfiction Faculty David Shields on Saturday, March 7 from 9-10:15 am in Room 205, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level (San Antonio, TX).

Course registration for our 2020 Spring in New Orleans Writing Retreat (March 19-22) and Summer in Paris Writing Retreat (July 16-21) is now live! Apply by March 10 for our NOLA Retreat and May 30 for our Paris Retreat on cww.submittable.com.

Our 2020 award-winning faculty includes essayist David Shields, playwright Stephen Aubrey, poet Diana Norma Szokolyai, and poet and essayist Rita Banerjee. 

Join the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop for our offsite reading at Rosella Coffee House (203 E Jones Ave, Suite 101) in San Antonio, TX! Featured readers include Rita Banerjee, Madeleine Barnes, Alex Carrigan, Kristina Marie Darling, Charlene Elsby, Adilene Hernandez, Tim Horvath, Samuel Kóláwọlé, Rachel Kurasz, and Mari Pack! Come celebrate with a gorgeous night of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and speculative writing!  More info on the reading & featured authors below!

  Featured Readers:

Rita Banerjee is the Executive Creative Director of the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop and editor of CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing (C&R Press, May 2018).   She is the author of the poetry collection Echo in Four Beats (Finishing Line Press, March 2018), which was nominated for the 2019 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize at the Academy of American Poets, featured on the Ruth Stone Foundation podcast, and named one of Book Riot’s “Must-Read Poetic Voices of Split This Rock 2018”, and was selected by Finishing Line Press as their 2018 nominee for the National Book Award in Poetry.  Banerjee is also the author of the novella “A Night with Kali” in Approaching Footsteps (Spider Road Press, 2016), and the poetry chapbook Cracklers at Night (Finishing Line Press, 2010).  She is the co-writer and co-director of Burning Down the Louvre (2020), a documentary film about race, intimacy, and tribalism in the United States and in France.  She received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Harvard and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington, and she is a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center Artist’s Grant, the Tom and Laurel Nebel Fellowship, and South Asia Initiative and Tata Grants.  Her writing appears in the Academy of American Poets, Poets & Writers, PANK, Nat. Brut., The Scofield, The Rumpus, Painted Bride Quarterly, Mass Poetry, Hyphen Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, AWP WC&C Quarterly, Queen Mob’s Tea House, Riot Grrrl Magazine, The Fiction Project, Objet d’Art, KBOO Radio’s APA Compass, and elsewhere. She is the Director of the MFA in Writing & Publishing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and an Associate Scholar of Comparative Literature at Harvard.  She is currently working on a novel, a book on South Asian literary modernisms, and a collection of lyric essays on race, sex, politics, and everything cool.  Her writing is represented by agents Jeff Kleinman and Jamie Chambliss of Folio Literary Management.

Madeleine Barnes is a poet and visual artist from Pittsburgh living in Brooklyn. She is a doctoral fellow at CUNY’s Ph.D. Program in English, and the recipient of a New York State Summer Writers Institute Fellowship, two Academy of American Poets prizes, and the Princeton Poetry Prize. Her second chapbook, Light Experiments, is forthcoming from Porkbelly Press this year, and her protest embroideries were recently featured in Boston Accent Lit. She serves as Poetry Editor at Cordella Magazine.

Alex Carrigan is an associate editor with the American Correctional Association. He has edited and proofed the anthologies CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing (C&R Press, 2018) and Her Plumage: An Anthology of Women’s Writings from Quail Bell Magazine (2019). He has had fiction, poetry, and media reviews published in Quail Bell Magazine, Life in 10 Minutes, Realms YA Fantasy Literary Magazine, Mercurial Stories, Lambda Literary Review, Stories About Penises (Guts Publishing, 2019) and the forthcoming anthologies Closet Cases: Queers on What We Wear (Et Alia Press, 2020) and Whale Road Review (Summer 2020). He currently lives in Alexandria, VA.  

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of thirty books, including Look to Your Left: The Poetics of Spectacle (University of Akron Press, 2020); Je Suis L’Autre: Essays & Interrogations (C&R Press, 2017), which was named one of the “Best Books of 2017” by The Brooklyn Rail; and DARK HORSE: Poems (C&R Press, 2018). Her work has been recognized with three residencies at Yaddo, where she has held both the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency for a Poet and the Howard Moss Residency in Poetry; a Fundación Valparaíso fellowship; a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, funded by the Heinz Foundation; an artist-in-residence position at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris; three residencies at the American Academy in Rome; two grants from the Whiting Foundation; a Morris Fellowship in the Arts; and the Dan Liberthson Prize from the Academy of American Poets, among many other awards and honors. Her poems appear in The Harvard Review, Poetry International, New American Writing, Nimrod, Passages North, The Mid-American Review, and on the Academy of American Poets’ website, Poets.org. She has published essays in The Kenyon Review, Agni, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, The Iowa Review, and numerous other magazines. Kristina currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, an opinion columnist at The Los Angeles Review of Books, and a contributing writer at Publishers Weekly.

Charlene Elsby, Ph.D., is the Philosophy Program Director at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Her first novel, HEXIS, was published by CLASH Books. Her second novel, AFFECT, is forthcoming with The Porcupine’s Quill.

    Adilene Hernández is a queer, Latina writer and educator with roots in Atlanta, GA. She earned her B.A. in Creative Writing from Knox College, and she aspires to continue her studies through an M.F.A. program. She is an alumna of the Winter Tangerine Workshop and Cambridge Writers’ Workshop. She is currently at work on her first two novels, both of which focus on family ties and identity in the Latinx culture.

              Samuel Kọ́láwọlé was born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria. His work has appeared in AGNI, Gulf Coast, Washington Square Review and Consequence amongst other literary journals. Samuel was a finalist for the 2018 Graywolf Prize for Africa and winner of the 2019 Editor-Writer Mentorship Program for Diverse Writers. His fiction has been supported with fellowships, residencies, and scholarships from the Norman Mailer Centre, International Writing Program at the University of Iowa,  Columbus State University’s Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians, Clarion West Writers Workshop, Wellstone Centre in the Redwoods California, and Island Institute. Samuel was educated at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and holds a Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing with distinction from Rhodes University, South Africa and an MFA in Writing and Publishing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, USA. His debut novel The Road to Salt Sea is forthcoming from Amistad/Harper Collins.

        Rachel Kurasz is a PhD student at Northern Illinois University where she is studying rhetoric/composition and Graphic Novels/Comic Books.  Rachel earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Roosevelt University under the guidance of Christian TeBordo and Kyle Beachy. Rachel also was a Fall 2017 AWP writer to writer under mentor Laura Creedle.  Rachel is currently querying and writing her first graphic novel series entitled “weirdos”.

  Mari Pack is a poet and writer from the suburbs of Washington, D.C. She has an MA from the University of Toronto, and is a current MFA candidate at Hunter College.

        We look forward to seeing you at AWP 2020!

Join the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop at AWP 2020!! For those writers, editors, and lit fans traveling to the 2020 AWP Conference (March 4-7) in San Antonio, TX this week, come stop by the…

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Election Night 2018 didn’t provide a story of a dramatic blue wave, but it was still a big night for Democrats, who won the House of Representatives, marking the end of the Republican legislative agenda and the beginning of an era of accountability for President Trump.

Democrats feared early on that a handful of Senate races foretold a night of gloom. Amy McGrath lost in Kentucky, while Andrew Gillum underperformed his polls in Florida and Joe Donnelly lost a Senate race in Indiana. Republicans ultimately kept control of the Senate.

But things quickly turned around for Democrats in the main arena — the House — where, though they didn’t smash expectations or shock the world with their electoral performance, they did win a lot of races and took control of the chamber. Democrats also gained ground in governor races and state legislatures, albeit not to the degree that they had hoped.

Deb Haaland made history on Tuesday night by becoming one of the first Native American woman elected to Congress. Juan Labrech/AP

The overall results suggest a nation that continues to be deeply divided along geographical lines, with rural areas and Southern exurbs tilting ever more strongly toward the Republican Party while cities and suburbs with highly educated populations lurch to the left.

But the 2018 version of divided America shows the Democrats with a clearly larger half. Republicans essentially matched Trump’s 46 percent of the vote, but House Democrats consolidated the other 54 percent behind them in a way that Hillary Clinton did not. And while Trump skated by on a narrow Electoral College win in 2016, the Democrats of 2018 held strong in the key Midwestern swing states.

Ramifications of this election will reverberate for years, fundamentally realigning power in Washington in critical ways.

Here’s who won and who lost.

In the end, Democrats didn’t do as well in the House as they’d been hoping to, and they did quite a bit worse in the Senate. But beyond the noise and the expectations game, the fundamental reality is they did what they needed to do — win a majority of House seats and end the Republican Party’s monopoly on power.

That started with an early win in a northern Virginia district that voted heavily for Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Ralph Northam in 2017, continued with a couple of Miami-area races, and plowed ahead throughout the evening into the favored quarter suburbs of Minneapolis, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, and beyond. This is often glossed broadly as a “suburban” backlash to the GOP, but in a country where at this point the vast majority of the population lives in suburban-style neighborhoods, this was actually something more specific — a backlash grounded in the section of every metro area where the college-educated professionals and the upscale shopping malls are.

Most of these GOP losses had been “expected” by forecasters before they came, so they didn’t necessarily provide Democrats with an emotional high. But they did provide them with concrete wins — votes in hand — that, paired with a few more pickups here and there in the Northeast and Midwest, were good enough to make a majority.

This risk of a massive backlash against Trump in suburbs with high numbers of college graduates has been apparent for years, but House Republicans largely avoided it in 2016 by distancing themselves from Trump and promising to be independent of him. They didn’t deliver on that promise, and they paid the price.

Back in 2002, then-Sen. Max Cleland lost his reelection to Saxby Chambliss and became a very rare example of an opposition party incumbent senator losing an election. This is so rare that it didn’t happen to anyone in 2004 or in 2006 or in 2008 or in 2010 or in 2012 or in 2014 or in 2016. But Tuesday night, at least three incumbent Democratic senators lost.

Party leaders will tell you, rightly, that this mostly reflects an almost comically unfavorable map and in no way undermines the sense that the overall result of the election was a strong popular rebuke of Trump.

Nevertheless, the fact remains that Trump’s personal focus during the closing months of the campaign was on defeating incumbent Democratic senators, and he pulled it off in an unprecedented way.

President Trump arrives at a campaign rally for Republican Senate candidate Mike Braun in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on November 5, 2018. Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images

And while losing the House is the death knell for the Republican Party’s legislative agenda, Trump himself has rarely seemed to care that much about the GOP legislative agenda. Indeed, the death of the GOP legislative agenda could even be good news for Trump politically since much of that agenda was toxically unpopular. An expanded majority in the Senate, meanwhile, will let Trump do things he actually cares about, like replace Cabinet members and other executive branch officials who’ve displeased him while continuing to keep the judicial confirmation conveyor belt that’s so important to his base moving.

Trump’s personal unpopularity is, of course, a problem for him going forward, and GOP losses in the House underscore that. But while it’s always tempting to assume that a president who suffers midterm blowback is doomed to future failure, the pattern of 1996 and 2012 when presidents bounce back from midterm defeat — and in many ways benefit from the contrast with congressional opposition — is actually the more common one historically.

Hillary Clinton was supposedly invincible in 2016 because not only did she hold a lead in the popular vote polling, there was a solid “wall” of blue states — Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota — that hadn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since Michael Dukakis was the Democratic nominee.

That proved not to be the case. Trump got a meager 46 percent of the vote nationally, but he overperformed in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and wound up with an Electoral College victory.

Former President Barack Obama with Michigan victors Sen. Debbie Stabenow (left) and Gretchen Whitmer (right) in Detroit on October 26, 2018. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

This time around, however, the tables flipped back again. Even as Democratic Party senators in the truly red states took a beating, Pennsylvania’s Bob Casey, Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin, and Michigan’s Debbie Stabenow won fairly easy victories. Clinton only narrowly eked out a win in Minnesota, but Tina Smith and Amy Klobuchar both won landslide reelections. Over in the significantly redder Ohio, Sherrod Brown won reelection, and the governors’ mansions in Michigan and Wisconsin look poised to flip.

Obviously, none of this is a guarantee of Democratic victory in 2020 — really, it is not — but it is an important sign of Democratic resilience in an electorally critical region.

The country turned pop-country turned just pop star pivoted her image to a kind of bland, semi-political “girl power” stance about a year before the 2016 presidential campaign pitted the first female major party nominee against a gross misogynist and Taylor Swift sat it out. That earned her a chorus of criticism, though given her considerable audience on both sides of the partisan divide, it probably made sense for her in business terms.

That changed in 2018, when Swift rather unexpectedly Instagrammed an endorsement of former Gov. Phil Bredesen’s senate campaign against Rep. Marsha Blackburn.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) celebrates as her husband Chuck Blackburn gives her a kiss during an election night party in Franklin, Tennessee, November 6, 2018. Alex Wong/Getty Images

Swift pulled no punches in her endorsement, specifically advising her fans not to let bland semi-political girl power considerations lead them into voting for Blackburn, whose “voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me.” She didn’t claim to agree with Bredesen about everything, but observed that that’s the nature of politics and said she’d be voting for him enthusiastically because “I cannot vote for someone who will not be willing to fight for dignity for ALL Americans, no matter their skin color, gender or who they love.”

Bredesen’s strong name recognition and the fact that he was broadly popular when he left office eight years ago gave him some solid early polling leads and created Democratic hopes of picking up an unlikely Senate seat in a deep-red district. But as Blackburn continued to get her name out there, the polling began to revert to baseline partisanship with a clear Republican lead. Swift’s endorsement came at a time when Democrats had increasingly given up hope here and served as a kind of symbolic shot in the arm, but it proved to be entirely in vain, as in the final analysis, Bredesen got absolutely swamped by Trump voters coming out in droves to back the GOP.

The New York Times’s loved-and-loathed needle was simply out of commission during the early, uncertain period of the evening. By the time their team got the bugs fixed and were ready to launch it, the final outcome of a House Democratic majority and an expanded GOP Senate majority was already pretty clear for anyone to see.

The New York Times

Meanwhile, the rival model from FiveThirtyEight that simply spit out numbers rather than a cool graphical presentation was seemingly useless. It massively overreacted to the GOP winning a couple of Lean Republican House seats in Florida, to the point that Nate Silver himself threw the model under the bus and said he was going to reprogram it.

In the end, Democrats took the House by a comfortable though not enormous margin, which is exactly what poll-based pre-election analysis had suggested they would do. And they did it almost entirely by winning races that polling suggested they would win. The live-updating models did very little besides add noise and confusion to our understanding of what was happening.

Democrats look set to have a solid but unspectacular House majority.

But they do so on the back of a really big majority in the popular vote, of what looks to be at least 8 percentage points. In practical terms, nobody’s going to care that the majority of seats is a bit small compared to the majority of votes. But had Democrats come up a bit shorter and won the popular vote by “only” 4 or 5 points, they’d be stuck in the minority, and the evening would have been a huge victory for the Republican Party.

Protesters in front of the Supreme Court while the justices hear arguments on gerrymandering, on October 3, 2017. Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images

The gerrymandered maps that Republicans drew after the 2020 census, which let them hold the House majority in 2012, continued to pay dividends. And Democrats’ odds of winning the House were greatly boosted by a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that led to the creation of fair maps in one critical state.

Likely Democratic success in winning governors’ mansions in Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas, Maine, and New Mexico, combined with earlier victories in New Jersey and gains in the New York state Senate, mean that Democrats should have a larger hand in map drawing next time around and a chance to draw some less unfavorable maps, with important consequences for the road to come.

Original Source -> 4 winners and 2 losers from the 2018 midterm elections

via The Conservative Brief

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for any weirdoes interested, under the cut is the entire list of the books i have with me right now. have fun. (scroll a bit further down for a video representation of it.)

and now, i shall away to bed. goodnight my friends.

BOOKS:

Shelf 1

1. Angel: Haunted - Jeff Mariotte

2. Angel: Hollywood Noir - Jeff Mariotte

3. Angel: Impressions - Doranna Durgin

4. Angel: Not Forgotten - Nancy Holder

5. Angel: Shakedown - Don DeBrandt

6. Angel: Stranger To The Sun - Jeff Mariotte

7. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Chosen - Nancy Holder and Joss Whedon

8. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Coyote Moon - John Vornholt

9. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Halloween Rain - Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder

10. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: How I Survived My Summer Vacation - various authors

11. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Immortal - Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder

12. Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Lost Slayer: Book 2, Dark Times - Christopher Golden

13. Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Lost Slayer: Book 3, King of the Dead - Christopher Golden

14. Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Lost Slayer: Book 4, Original Sins - Christopher Golden

15. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Night of the Living Rerun - Arthur Byron Cover

16. Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Gatekeeper Trilogy: Out of the Madhouse - Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder

17. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Paleo - Yvonne Navarro

18. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Resurrecting Ravana - Ray Garton

19. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Return to Chaos - Craig Shaw Gardner

20. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Unnatural Selection - Mel Odom

21. Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Visitors - Laura Anne Gilman and Josepha Sherman

22. Schizo - Nic Sheff

23. Black The Circle, Book One - Ted Dekker

24. Boneman’s Daughters - Ted Dekker

25. The Bride Collector - Ted Dekker

26. You Don’t Know Me - David Klawss

27. Serenity: The Shepherd’s Tale - Joss Whedon, Zach Whedon, and Chris Samnee

28. Wolverine Origins, Part 2 - Daniel Way and Steve Dillon

29. Wolverine Origins, Part 3 - Daniel Way and Steve Dillon

30. Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Part 1: On Your Own - Andrew Chambliss and Georges Jeanty

Shelf 2

31. The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

32. Book of Magic - Bruce Coville

33. A Glory of Unicorns - Bruce Coville

34. Eragon - Christopher Paolini

35. Eldest - Christopher Paolini

36. Inheritance - Christopher Paolini

37. Mythic Vision: The Making of Eragon - Christopher Paolini and Mark Cotta Vaz

38. Dragon Rider - Cornelia Funke

39. Inkheart - Cornelia Funke

40. Inkspell - Cornelia Funke

41. Inkdeath - Cornelia Funke

42. The Thief Lord (autographed) - Cornelia Funke

43. Welcome to Night Vale (autographed) - Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

44. It Devours! (autographed) - Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

45. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien

46. The Matt Dillon Quiz Book - Gina LoBuglio

47. Rumble Fish - S.E. Hinton

48. Tex - S.E. Hinton

49. That Was Then, This Is Now - S.E. Hinton

Shelf 3

50. The Egyptian Gods and Goddesses - Clive Barrett

51. Egypt of the Pharaohs - Alan Gardiner 

52. Egyptology - Emily Sands

53. Tales Mummies Tell - Patricia Lanber

54. Fables and Fairy Tales - various authors

55. Fablehaven, Book One: Fablehaven - Brandon Mull

56. Fablehaven, Book Two: Rise of the Evening Star - Brandon Mull

57. Fablehaven, Book Three: Grip of the Shadow Plague - Brandon Mull

58. Fablehaven, Book Four: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary - Brandon Mull

59. Fablehaven, Book Five: Keys to the Demon Prison - Brandon Mull

60. Fairyopolis: A Flower Fairies Journal - Cicely Mary Barker

61. How To Find Flower Fairies - Cicely Mary Barker

62. Flower Fairies: Birthday Book - Cicely Mary Barker

63. A Flower Fairies Postcard Book - Cicely Mary Barker

64. Flower Fairies of the Spring - Cicely Mary Barker

65. 101 Fairy Tales - The Brothers Grimm

66. Grimms’ Fairy Tales - The Brothers Grimm

67. The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures - Aaron Mahnke

68. Magical Beasts: The Enchanted World - Time-Life Books

69. Mysteries of the Unknown: Mystic Places - Time-Life Books

70. The Mythology of Supernatural: The Signs and Symbols Behind the Popular TV Show - Nathan Robert Brown

71. The Red Pyramid - Rick Riordan

72. The Zombie Survival Guide - Max Brooks

Shelf 4

73. Stoneheart - Charlie Fletcher

74. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

75. Tales of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allen Poe

76. Faust - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

77. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman

78. The Supernaturalist - Eoin Colfer

79. Warriors, Book 2: Fire and Ice - Erin Hunter

80. Warriors, Book 3: Forest of Secrets - Erin Hunter

81. Warriors, Book 4: Rising Storm

82. Warriors, The New Prophecy, Book 1: Midnight - Erin Hunter

83. Warriors, The New Prophecy, Book 4: Starlight - Erin Hunter

84. Warriors, The New Prophecy, Book 6: Sunset - Erin Hunter

85. Warriors, Super Edition: Tallstar’s Revenge - Erin Hunter

86. The Books of Elsewhere, Volume Two: Spellbound - Jacqueline West

87. Jack of Eagles - James Blish

88. Auralia Thread Series, Book 1: Auralia’s Colors - Jeffrey Overstreet

89. Auralia Thread Series, Book 2: Cyndere’s Midnight - Jeffrey Overstreet

90. Auralia Thread Series, Book 3: Raven’s Ladder - Jeffrey Overstreet

91. Auralia Thread Series, Book 4: The Ale Boy’s Feast - Jeffrey Overstreet

92. Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book 1: The Capture - Kathryn Lasky

93. Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book 2: The Journey - Kathryn Lasky

94. Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book 3: The Rescue - Kathryn Lasky

95. Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book 4: The Siege - Kathryn Lasky

96. Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book 5: The Shattering - Kathryn Lasky

Shelf 5

97. 100 Cupboards - N.D. Wilson

98. 14,000 Things To Be Happy About - Barbara Ann Kipfer

99. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

100. Archaeological Study Bible - various authors

101. Precious Moments Bible - various authors

102. Birds: A Guide To The Most Familiar American Birds - Ira N. Gabrielson and Herbert S. Zim

103. Field Guide to the Birds of North America - Jon L. Dunn

104. Birds of Seattle - Chris C. Fisher

105. The Black Stallion - Walter Farley

106. Chicken Soup for the Kid’s Soul - varied authors

107. Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Tough Stuff - varied authors

108. Comes a Horseman - Robert Liparulo

109. The Dawnwolf - Mary W. Hills

110. Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam - Bernard Edelman

111. Doctor Who: Character Encyclopedia - varied authors

112. Isle of Swords - Wayne Thomas Batson

113. Last Snow - Eric Van Lustbader

114. Pendragon, Book 4: The Reality Bug - By D.J. MacHale

115. Rocks and Minerals - Paul R. Shaffer and Herbert S. Zim

116. Romantic Poets - varied authors

117. Star Wars: Character Encyclopedia - varied authors 

118. Uglies - Scott Westerfield

119. William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back - Ian Doescher

Floor

120. Emma - Jane Austen

121. The Matters at Mansfield - Carrie Bebris

122. Holy Bible - varied authors

123. The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis

124. 99 Radical Answers to Questions Teens Ask - varied authors

125. Finding the Core of your Story - Jordan Smith

126. Haunted by the Past - Kelly Hagen

127. The Peter’s Angel Saga, Part 1: Peter’s Angel - Aubrey Hansen

128. No Neutrality - Joel Parisi

129. The Sword and Pen - varied authors

130. S.H.R.A.I.D., Book One: Shadow Play - Joel Parisi

131. A Mighty Fortress - Faith Blum

132. Zeal Aspiring - Ophelia Marie Flowers

133. A Son of Israel - A.L.O.E.

134. Tortured for Christ - Pastor Richard Wurmbrand

135. Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Questions About Getting Into College - Shanley Johnston

136. Accelerated Distance Learning: The New Way To Earn Your College Degree in the 21st Century - Brad Voeller

137. Developmental Mathematics - D. Franklin Wright

138. Temeraire, Book 1: His Majesty’s Dragon - Naomi Novik

139. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

140. Falcon - Emma Bull

141. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

142. Belegarath The Sorcerer - David and Leigh Eddings

143. The Cay - Theodore Taylor

144. The Warrior Heir - Cinda Williams Chima

145. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

146. Sepulchre - Kate Mosse

147. Hunt The Wolf: A Seal Team Six Novel - Don Mann

148. Treasured Horses Collection - varied authors

149. Little Rascal - Sterling North

150. 1000 Facts On Animals - varied authors

151. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals Of The World - Tom Jackson

152. The Big Bug Book - varied authors

153. Insiders: Predators - varied authors

154. Doug Lindstrand’s Alaskan Sketchbook - Doug Lindstrand

155. Wildlife Fact File - varied authors

156. Sangre: The Phantom’s Lair - Teddy Ashcraft

157. Sangre: The Phantom’s Lair - Teddy Ashcraft (two copies)

158. Dear America, Voyage On The Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady - Ellen Emerson

159. The Face On The Milk Carton - Caroline B. Cooney

160. The Peter’s Angel Saga, Part 1: Peter’s Angel - Aubrey Hansen (two copies)

161. In The Rain: A Collection of Poetry - C.N. Hansen

162. Thoughts of You - C.N. Hansen

163. Pretty Pretty Please: A Compilation of Poems - Abigail English

164. The Merlin Spiral, Book 1: Merlin’s Blade - Robert Treskillard

165. Red Rain - Aubrey Hansen

166. Supervillain of the Day - Katie Lynn Daniels

167. Hyperbole and a Half - Allie Brosh

168. Homeland - Cory Doctorow

169. The Cross And The Switchblade - David Wilkerson

170. The Little White Horse - Elizabeth Goudge

171. The Missing, Book 1: Found - Margaret Peterson Haddix

172. Scout: The Secret of the Swamp - Piet Prins

173. 20th Anniversary Anthology - Reader’s Digest

174. Basil of Baker Street - Eve Titus

175. Dictionary of First Names - Alfred J. Kolatch