Her most recent book is her short story collection How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? (2018). Some of her best-known novels include The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010), The Killing Moon (2012), and The Fifth Season (2015). Jemisin (1972- ) is a US-American writer known for her award-winning science fiction and fantasy works. Jemisin’s recent (November 2018) short story collection How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? The story is an alternate history and steampunk tale featuring adventure and romance with a Haitian spy and an American inventor. The Effluent Engine was originally written for Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories (edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft, published in 2011), and has since been published as well on the author’s website, in Lightspeed Magazine, and in N.K. Chosen for both Black History Month and Valentine’s Day, this week’s Lite Reads selection is The Effluent Engine by N.K. Welcome to The Feminist Bibliothecary’s Lite Reads, where we read a different short story every week, and discuss it here and on social media.
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Even at a distance, amiability seemed stuck on his face like a decal. In the middle chair sat Dan Buckley wearing white trousers, loafers, and a light blue Palm Beach shirt. Across a few meters of beach, between the cameras, standing lights, reflectors, and sound booms, he could see the reality of what was on the screen, the set of The Dan Buckley Show, host and guests. From where Fletch was standing, he could see the pale images flickering on the screen. Even under the canopy on a sunless day, the screen of the television monitor was blanched by daylight from the beach. "For God's sake, what's wrong?" she said in a tight, low voice. She was speaking to herself, or to the air. She had not looked around from the television screen since Fletch entered the pavillion. 1 "What happened to Steve?" The woman in the canvas chair leaned forward. In Lennon, Riley casts Lennon as a modernist hero in a sweeping epic, dramatizing rock history anew as Lennon himself might have experienced it. What emerges is the enormous, seductive, and confounding personality that made Lennon a cultural touchstone. Riley explores Lennon in all of his the British art student who universalized an American style, the anarchic rock ’n’ roller with the moral spine, the anti-jazz snob who posed naked with his avant-garde lover, and the misogynist who became a househusband. Written with the critical insight and stylistic mastery readers have come to expect from Riley, this richly textured narrative draws on numerous new and exclusive interviews with Lennon’s friends, enemies, confidantes, and associates lost memoirs written by relatives and friends as well as previously undiscovered City of Liverpool records. Riley portrays Lennon’s rise from Hamburg’s red light district to Britain’s Royal Variety Show from the charmed naivetÉ of “Love Me Do” to the soaring ambivalence of “Don’t Let Me Down” from his shotgun marriage to Cynthia Powell in 1962 to his epic media romance with Yoko Ono. In his commanding new book, the eminent NPR critic Tim Riley takes us on the remarkable journey that brought a Liverpool art student from a disastrous childhood to the highest realms of fame. She wants the fairy tale, while he wants freedom.īlake and Farrah should not have fallen for one another the way that they did: completely, totally, and irrevocably. He isn’t her type, cocky, and infuriating. She is a virgin, and he’s not into virgins. She is an aspiring interior designer that dreams of falling in love, while he is a former football star that thinks love is a con. One year, with two opposites, and a love that is going to blindside and shatter them. “If We Ever Meet Again” is the first novel in the “If Love” series and was released in the year 2020. Her stories range from dark to lighthearted, yet all have Happily Ever Afters with enough swoon and banter sprinkled in.īesides writing and reading, she loves to travel, has multiple relationships with fictional boyfriends, and is obsessed with hot chocolate. Author Ana Huang was born in New York City, and she mainly writes steamy contemporary and New Adult romance. |