Terror Is a Man (Gerardo de Leon & Eddie Romero, 1959).

Este sabor que promete tu carne, al morder con intriga el calor de tu vientre, deambula por mi boca como hormigas rojas que pican a mi paladar, haciéndome doler y también sangrar... Pero, es el carmesí de tu fuego el que gana sobre mi aliento al robar de tu centro la oquedad.

— Esu Emmanuel©️, This taste that promises your flesh, as I bite with intrigue into the warmth of your belly, wanders through my mouth like red ants that sting my palate, making me ache and bleed too... But, it is the crimson of your fire that wins over my breath as it steals from your centre the hollowness.

Hello! Would you be willing to share any Venezuelan FCs anywhere from their early 20s to late 40s that are actors/actresses? Or possibly know of anyone in the RPC who can point me towards some please? It's okay if they don't have gifs yet because I would love to make some! Thank you kindly!

Scarlet Ortiz (1974) Venezuelan.

Marieh Delfino (1977) Venezuelan [Spanish, Basque, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian, and Dutch], Colombian / Cuban, English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish.

Alicia Machado (1977) Cuban / Spanish.

Gaby Espino (1977) Spanish, Native Venezuelan and Lebanese.

Dayana Garroz (1978) Venezuelan.

Marianela González (1978) Venezuelan.

Maritza Bustamante (1980) Venezuelan.

Marjorie de Sousa (1980) Venezuelan [including Portuguese].

Doris Morgado (1981) Venezuelan.

Majandra Delfino (1981) Venezuelan.

Daniela Bascopé (1982) Venezuelan.

Daniela Navarro (1983) Venezuelan.

Sabrina Seara (1985) Venezuelan.

Gaby Espino (1986) Venezuelan.

Juliette Pardau (1986) Venezuelan.

Adriyan Rae (1987) African-American, German, Native American, and Venezuelan.

Genesis Rodriguez (1987) Venezuelan and Cuban [Spanish, possibly other].

Abril Schreiber (1987) Venezuelan.

Yelena Maciel (1988) Venezuelan.

Yuvanna Montalvo (1988) Venezuelan.

Scarlet Gruber (1989) Venezuelan [including German].

Carla Baratta (1990) Venezuelan.

Natasha Domínguez (1990) Venezuelan.

Cinthya Carmona (1990) Venezuelan.

Rosmeri Marval (1991) Venezuelan.

Laura Chimaras (1991) Venezuelan.

Irene Esser (1991) Venezuelan.

María Gabriela de Faría (1992) Venezuelan [including Portuguese].

Sheryl Rubio (1992) Venezuelan.

Kimberly Dos Ramos (1992) Venezuelan [Portuguese].

Marielena Davila (1992) Venezuelan.

Humberly González (1992) Venezuelan.

Estefany Oliveira (1993) Venezuelan.

Raquel Rojas (1994) Venezuelan.

McKaley Miller (1996) Venezuelan (paternal grandmother), English, Scottish.

Luiseth Materán (1996) Venezuelan.

Oriana Sabatini (1996) Argentinian / Venezuelan - is bisexual.

Vanessa Silva Sperka. (1997) Venezuelan / Slovak.

Emily Tosta (1998) Venezuelan / Dominican.

Simoné Marval (1998) Venezuelan.

Lilimar Hernandez (2000) Venezuelan.

Brigitte Bozzo (2001) Venezuelan.

and:

Albi De Abreu (1975) Venezuelan [including Portuguese].

Juan Alfonso Baptista (1976) Venezuelan.

Édgar Ramírez (1977) Venezuelan.

Luciano D'Alessandro (1977) Venezuelan.

Pastor Oviedo (1977) Venezuelan.

Daniel Elbittar (1979) Venezuelan.

Guillermo García (1981) Venezuelan.

Alejandro Nones (1982) Venezuelan.

Rodolfo Salas (1983) Venezuelan.

Victor Drija (1985) Venezuelan.

Rafael de la Fuente (1986) Venezuelan [including German], Lebanese / Spanish and Cuban - is gay.

Willy Martin (1987) Venezuelan.

Reinaldo Zavarce (1988) Venezuelan.

Arán de las Casas (1989) Venezuelan.

Jonathan Jose Quintana (1990) Venezuelan.

Esteban Velásquez (1990) Venezuelan.

Emmanuel Palomares (1990) Venezuelan.

José Ramón Barreto (1991) Venezuelan.

Sean Teale (1992) Venezuelan, Spanish, Welsh.

Tommy Martinez (1992) Venezuelan.

Aaron Dominguez (1994) Venezuelan.

Omar Rudberg (1998) Venezuelan - has said that he "he falls in love with the person regardless of the person's sex.

Antonio Andrés Rosello (2001) Venezuelan and Italian.

Here you go!

Sex can be something beautiful, and shouldn’t be forbidden as if it was mere violence. Labeled? Yeah, of course, that’s more than valid. But forbidden?

We are in the XXI century. Sex deserves everyone starts to see it as what it is, a healthy act full of fun, fantasies, and bliss, not something worse than violence.

Not a monster we should defeat.

I cannot stop thinking of this quote that, as far as I know, belongs to George R.R. Martin. This one:

I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off. To my mind this is kind of frustrating, it’s madness. Ultimately, in the history of [the] world, penises entering vaginas have given a lot of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering skulls, well, not so much.

This quote encapsulates all my thoughts.

When I was young, I was at a Catholic school. All my male classmates used to talk all day about their cum and how they spilled it over super models’ faces after jerking off. “Last night I did it twice over Pampita’s face”, “I did it over Sabrina Rojas’ face!”, etc.

One day I thought, “well, if they can talk about it, I can, too”, and I talked about it, about how I learned to jerk off thinking of a beautiful actress from the erotic movie that was so popular on midnight cable those days. My friend felt she discovered a new world; she made me all kinds of questions, but other people heard my story.

All school attacked me. All school. “Of course you jerk off; you’re so fucking ugly that no one would ever want to fuck you”, “fucking lesbian”, “you’re weird”, “you’re not normal.”

Nice (?).

Fanfiction.Net, during the before AO3 era, used to label violence & sex as if they were the same; both were forbidden, but those self-called critics only reported sex, not violence. Axes kept killing people, but a penis and a vagina or ass or mouth or thighs having fun together were reported non-stop.

My problem with all this is the double moral. Is sex as bad as violence? You can tell me both are explicit, but is it fair to label them as the same? Does Tumblr say something about violence?

Can I post an axe entering someone’s skull but not a penis entering another body with the latter’s consent?

I think the only problem here is we still see sex from a conservative perspective. We don’t see it as something natural, beautiful, healthy, all what it is when consent reigns. I respect everyone’s thoughts, but I still remember Teen Pam and how bad she felt after realizing boys could talk about their cum, but I had no right to talk about my middle finger between my legs while thinking of Emmanuelle.

I will always stay on her side, preferring penises & vaginas & more penises & more vaginas & nudity & pleasure & sex than axes entering skulls.

Penises & vaginas are hotter, if you ask me.

Radio NET Bulgaria (December 20, 2022)

23:55 DAVID GARFIELD - O, Holy Night 23:51 YULARA - Bridges To Shambhala 23:47 RANDY SCOTT - Elevation 23:43 DREW DAVIDSEN - All Night and Forever 23:39 KARLA LEAL - Don't Miss Your Groove 23:34 GREGG KARUKAS - Lost In Negril 23:30 KAYLA WATERS - O Come, O Come Emmanuel 23:26 AL DEGREGORIS - Into the Sun 23:22 THREESTYLE - Adriatic Flow 23:17 PAUL BROWN - White Sand 23:13 KIM WATERS - Easy Going 23:09 NILS - Jingle Bells 23:05 JACKIEM JOYNER - When You Smile 23:00 PETER WHITE - Another Rainy Day 22:58 LEO ROJAS - Friendship 22:53 LANA DEL REY - Born To Die 22:48 FIVE SEASONS - Before You Sleep 22:40 LAB OF MUSIC - Angel Vibes (Original Mix) 22:36 351 LAKE SHORE DRIVE - Rising Stars 22:31 ANGELO CRESCERI - Harmony 22:24 SALTWATER - Chicane (Thrillseekers Ambient Mix) 22:19 TENISHIA, KIRSTY HAWKSHAW - Falling (Original Mix) 22:14 RIHANNA - We Found Love (DJ Fernandez Chillout Remix) 22:10 YURI KANE - Right Back (Chillout Mix) 22:06 YANNI - Can't Wait 22:02 DJ GROOVE - So Late 21:59 BENYA, PENNY NIXON - Serendipity (After Meridian & Dave Costa Remix) 21:54 SMOOTH STAB, AELYN - These Words Between Us (Incognet Chill Out Version) 21:51 CHAMBRE 7 - Rising To The Top (Original Mix) 21:40 ENVIO - Touched By The Sun (Rusch & Elusive's Chillout Mix) 21:34 JES - Like A Waterfall (Flipside Ambient Remix) 21:29 ADELE - Lovesong 21:25 DEEJAY HOUSE PROJECT - Komodo (Stefy Martinez Lounge Mix) 21:21 YIRUMA, RUVIN - River Flows In You 21:15 K. S. PROJECT - Looking For Paradise (Original Mix) 21:10 BRIAN MAGIX, CYNTHIA HALL - Carved In Stone (Chill Out Mix) 21:07 GOODVIC - Dreaming Of You (Original Mix) 21:01 WAY OUT WEST - One Bright Night (Original Mix) 20:57 FRAINBREEZE, ELLIE LAWSON - I Pray (Chill Out Mix) 20:55 INNA - Hot (Chill Out Remix) 20:52 SKYE - Feel Good Inc 20:49 KATO, JON - Turn The Lights Off (Bullytrax Campfire Mix) 20:41 PROJECT BLUE SUN - Naked 20:35 AK47, TRACY DIAMONDS - It's No Good 20:31 MAX MILLION - Do You Believe (Original Mix) 20:28 FILO, PERI, FISHER - Closer Now (Chillout Mix) 20:24 DIANA KRALL - California Dreamin' 20:21 LEO ROJAS - Farewell 20:15 ANDY SOL & ECOLYTE - Ponse Passing (Original Mix) 20:11 LEONA LEWIS - Dip Down (ReUnited Chill Out Mix) 20:06 DEEP MOTIONS - Memories 20:03 LE VITA, FAB - Apologize 19:58 SUNLONGER, LORILEE - Your Name (Chill Version) 19:56 351 LAKE SHORE DRIVE - Day Of Light 19:52 SUSANA - A Million Memories (Acoustic Rework) 19:47 CECILE BREDIE - Dreamland 19:42 ANDY MOOR, SUE McLAREN - Trespass (Masoud Chill Out Mix) 19:37 MARTINIQUE LE SOUFFLEUR - El Guapo 19:32 FRAINBREEZE, NATUNE, ANGEL FALLS - Signs Of Time (Original Mix) 19:29 FONZERELLI - Dreamin (Chill Mix) 19:24 ROBERT NICKSON - Spiral (Chillout Mix) 19:20 30 SECONDS TO MARS - Bad Romance (Lady Gaga's Cover) 19:14 RUSLAN-SET, V.RAY - The Voice Of Star (Union Sense Remix) 19:10 SARAH MENESCAL - Don't Speak 19:06 CARDINAL ZEN - Warmth 19:02 SUNLOUNGER, SEIS CUERDAS - A Balearic Dinner (Chill Mix) 18:58 ERICK MORILLO, EDDIE THONEICK, SHAWNEE TAYLOR - Live Your Life (Eddie Thoneick Chill Out Mix) 18:52 VIV DE LA ROSA - Agua Caliente 18:48 LIULA - Sweet Dreams 18:43 JEAN HONEYMOON - Bang Bang (Lazy Hammock Chillout Remix) 18:39 ATB - I Was Wrong To Let You Go (Lounge Version) 18:34 CLAUDE CHAGALL - Sunset Buddha 18:28 RUE DU SOLEIL - In My Heart 18:24 OXYGENE - The Ocean (Goldtripp Remix) 18:21 SAMANTHA JADE - Everytime 18:15 GAZEEBO - Shiny Lust 18:11 GARBAGE - Milk 18:06 KUBA - Kailash 18:00 CHRIS B, LADY V - A New Direction (Original Mix) 17:54 EDWARD MAYA - Stereo Love (Yonta Chillout Remix) 17:46 DAVE ROSS - Break The Silence (Original Mix) 17:42 BLANK & JONES, ELLES - Mind Of The Wonderful (Acoustic Version) 17:38 HEAVN - Bright Lights 17:36 JOHN DAHLBACK - Walking With Shadows (Acoustic Version) 17:28 TORNIKE - Night Steps (Original Mix) 17:26 CNBK - Burning Skies (Acoustic Version) 17:21 MEDINA - You & I (DJ Petroff Remix) 17:17 KIRSTY HAWKSHAW, TENISHIA - Reason To Forgive (Piano Mix) 17:11 GUENTER HAAS - Alone But Never Lonely 17:04 KITARO - Matsuri 17:00 LOUNGE GROOVE AVENUE - Don't Be So Shy 16:55 SHAUN LABELLE - Indio Sunrise 16:52 PEET PROJECT - Galaxies 16:48 DANNY LERMAN - Meow Baby 16:44 ART FOUR SALE - Merry Merry Christmas 16:40 ROD TATE - United 16:35 DANIEL DOMENGE - Last Summer 16:31 RAGAN WHITESIDE - This Christmas 16:26 CINDY BRADLEY - I'm All Ears 16:21 MARCOS ARIEL - Green Eyes 16:17 NILS - Detroit Strut 16:13 MARION MEADOWS - Invisible 16:08 DR. SAXLOVE - Away In A Manger 16:04 GREGG KARUKAS - Club Havana 16:00 KAYLA WATERS - Black Cove 15:56 STEVE OLIVER - Fiesta 15:52 SOLEX - Full Moon 15:48 EJAZZ ARTISTRY - We Belong Together 15:45 ROCCO VENTRELLA - Precious of Life 15:41 SHIN GIWON CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLECTION - I'll Be Home For Christmas 15:37 SEAN U - Electrify 15:33 RONNY SMITH - Here We Go Again 15:28 GEORGE HOWARD - The First Noel 15:24 NICK COLIONNE - Just Let it Be 15:20 AMANDUS - Hey Man 15:15 EUGE GROOVE - Let's Get It On 15:11 GINO ROSARIA, MARCUS ANDERSON - Night Groove 15:08 KIM WATERS - A Song for Dana 15:04 ERIC DARIUS - Rollin' out 15:00 LES SABLER - Easy Moves 14:56 THREESTYLE - Good News 14:53 BONEY JAMES - A Little Attitude 14:49 DARRON COOKIE - Dining In 14:45 RYAN LA VALETTE - Monday Swagger 14:41 JONATHAN FRITZEN - Love Will Overcome (feat. Jackiem Joyner) 14:38 SHELEA - Don't Wanna Wait 'til Christmas 14:34 ANDRE DELANO - Gypsy 14:30 PAUL BROWN - Wes' Coast Swing 14:26 CHRISTMAS CAROLS - Bianco Natal 14:22 ADAM HAWLEY - Can You Feel It (Feat. Marcus Anderson) 14:18 RAINFOREST BAND - Gumbo Groove 14:14 PEET PROJECT - One-Headed Dragon 14:09 PHILLIP DOC MARTIN - Pride and Joy 14:07 COOL SPRING JAZZ QUARTET - Christmas 14:04 SAM BASSMAN JENKINS - Between The Sheets 14:00 CASTELLA - So Glad I Met You 13:56 MARK R. HARRIS - Setting It Straight (feat. Ignacio Nunez & Daniele Silvestri) 13:51 JULIAN VAUGHN - Waymans Way 13:47 KEITH ANDREW - Bayon 13:43 JUSTIN LEE SCHULTZ - This Christmas 13:38 NILS - Sneakin' 13:34 VINCENT INGALA - On The Move 13:30 MARION MEADOWS - Little Shepherd Boy 13:26 PETER HEROLD - Your Power 13:22 BONEY JAMES - Futuresoul 13:17 BRANDON WILLIS - When Were Together 13:13 MARCUS ANDERSON - On The Right Track 13:10 JOHN FLUKER - We Three Kings (Instrumental) 13:04 DARREN MOTAMEDY - Love You Just so Much 13:00 NAJEE - Bounce 12:56 TIM BOWMAN - Sunset 12:51 WALTER BEASLEY - My Name Is Love 12:46 GREGG KARUKAS - Summerhouse 12:43 KEB' MO' - Please Come Home For Christmas 12:41 WADE C. LONG - GodChildren 12:36 EUGE GROOVE - As You Like It 12:30 KIM WATERS - Christmas Time Is Here 12:25 DREAMING IN COLOUR - Waiting in Texas 12:20 THE BRAXTON BROTHERS - Sunset Bay 12:16 PETER WHITE - Just Another Day 12:12 ANDY SNITZER - On Extended Wing 12:08 SYLVIA BENNETT - Silver Bells 12:04 VINCENT INGALA - Vintage Vibe 12:00 CAROL ALBERT - One Way 11:56 CHAZZY GREEN - Because of You 11:52 KIRK WHALUM - Inside (feat. Shanice) 11:47 BRAD ALEXANDER - Feel da Music (feat. Gerald Albright) 11:42 JUSTIN YOUNG - Jingle Bells 11:37 PAUL BROWN - Feel The Love 11:33 KONSTANTIN KLASHTORNI - Give Me Your Eyes 11:29 TOM SCOTT - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 11:25 SAM BASSMAN JENKINS - Northbound 11:22 RYAN LA VALETTE - Let It Flow 11:17 WILL SUMNER - Saxy Nights 11:14 JS FLOYD - Sunrise 11:09 DR. SAXLOVE - The Christmas Song 11:05 KEN NAVARRO - Language Of Peace 11:00 OLI SILK - Bring Back Those Days 10:55 CHUCK LOEB - Affinity 10:50 NICHOLAS COLE - Dreams 10:46 AMANDUS - Floating Cloud 10:42 DAVE KOZ - Joy To The Wonderful World 10:37 RAINFOREST BAND - Consequences 10:32 ER - Mr Kool (feat. John Rathbone, Jack Jones, Chris Otts & Michael Cornett) 10:28 NILS - In a Holiday Mood 10:20 MARK ETHEREDGE - Rain 10:16 SHAUN LABELLE - It's Not Over 10:11 GREGG KARUKAS - Brooklyn Nights 10:09 YOLANDA RABUN - Twelfth Night - O Mistress Mine 10:04 AL GOMEZ - Catchin' a Vibe 10:00 BIRDS OF A FEATHER - Stand Together 09:56 PATRICK BRADLEY - Reinvention 09:53 MARCUS ANDERSON - Psalm 42 09:50 RONALD BOO HINKSON - She's Mine (The Girl Is Mine) 09:45 KIM WATERS - The Touch Of Love 09:41 BRADLEY LEIGHTON - Winter Wonderland 09:37 JOHN E. LAWRENCE - The Chase 09:34 KONSTANTIN KLASHTORNI - On The Way 09:29 MARION MEADOWS - Christmas On The Radio 09:24 SPECIAL EFX - Beautiful Gold 09:19 NAJEE - Dr. Dolittle 09:15 DEMETRIUS NABORS - Perseverance 09:11 MICHAEL ROSS - Moments in Fall 09:08 K.VIO, TIM TONIC - Little Snow Flake, Little White Coat 09:04 JACKIEM JOYNER - Road to Soul 09:00 JEFF KASHIWA - Hyde Park (The 'Ah, Oooh' Song) 08:56 JOYCE COOLING - South of Market 08:52 THE SAX PACK - Into You 08:46 FOURPLAY - Esprit de Four 08:41 MICHAEL LINGTON - Silver Bells 08:37 BLAIR BRYANT - Hello Beautiful 08:32 TERENCE YOUNG - Dedicated 08:29 VINCENT INGALA - The Christmas Song 08:25 GARY PALMER - Waterfalls 08:20 JONATHAN FRITZEN - To the Top (feat. Vincent Ingala) 08:17 GARY METZ - Cruisin' 08:12 ROBERT CHRISTA - Let It Go 08:08 SMOOTH SOUL HOLIDAY - Hark the Herald Angels SingSleighride Medley 08:04 ANDREY CHMUT - Don't Loose The Faith 08:00 R.L. WALKER - Only Have Eyes 07:56 SKINNY HIGHTOWER - Summer Nights 07:51 RYAN LA VALETTE - Lovers Melody 07:47 JODY MAYFIELD - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 07:43 GORDON JAMES - Free Flow 07:38 UNDER THE LAKE - Have I Told You 07:33 TONY CRADDOCK JR. - The First Noel 07:29 AL GOMEZ - Keeping It Together 07:24 BRIAN SIMPSON - Sunlit Sea 07:18 ROCCO VENTRELLA - Give Me The Groove 07:13 VINCENT IOIA - Steppin in from the Outside 07:10 ART MORRIS - Silent Night 07:05 WARREN HILL - Oh Girl 07:00 RHYTHM LOGIC - Rhythm Method 06:56 JOE MCBRIDE, THE TEXAS RHYTHM CLUB - Oi Gata 06:51 KIM WATERS - Two Keys To My Heart 06:46 SPECIAL EFX - Endless Us 06:41 SHAKATAK - Merry Christmas In Summer 06:37 FUNKTASTIC PLAYERS - Cooling In My Ride 06:34 GREGG KARUKAS - Hey Witness 06:30 MARION MEADOWS - What Child Is This 06:26 JACKIEM JOYNER - Lost Without You 06:22 RICK HABANA - Cocktails 06:17 ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY - Only in My Dreams 06:12 BEN TANKARD, KIRK WHALUM - Reach Out And Touch 06:08 K.VIO, TIM TONIC - Winter Waltz 06:05 PHILLIP DOC MARTIN - Paradise 06:00 BLAIR BRYANT - Sapphire Rain 05:56 CHRIS STANDRING - Too Close for Comfort 05:52 JEFF KASHIWA - Around The World 05:48 VINCENT INGALA - In Deep 05:44 GARY MEGGS - A Joyous World 05:40 JOHN NOVELLO - Shuffle the Deck 05:33 ROBERT CHRISTA - Brazilian Rendezvous 05:30 NATHAN WOODWARD - Sleigh Ride 05:26 JOEL THIBAULT - Last Dream 05:22 PATRICK BRADLEY - Lighthouse (feat. Allen Hinds) 05:18 SKINNY HIGHTOWER - Spanish Harlem 05:13 GORDON JAMES - Cafe Soul 05:10 NILS - Holiday wedding 05:05 PAUL BROWN - Nothin' But Love 05:00 UNDER THE LAKE - George is His Name 04:55 DARREN MOTAMEDY - Formosa 04:51 RONALD BOO HINKSON - Round the Corner 04:47 JEANETTE HARRIS - Summer Rain (feat. Joel Bowers) 04:44 DANIEL D. - This Christmas 04:40 THREESTYLE - Missing You 04:36 ADAM HAWLEY - Traveling Mood (Feat. Julian Vaughan) 04:32 TONY CRADDOCK JR. - O Little Town of Bethlehem 04:28 KIM WATERS - Pocket Science 04:23 PETER WHITE - Requiem For A Princess 04:18 KONSTANTIN KLASHTORNI - Smoothing 04:13 EVERETT B WALTERS - You'll Never Know 04:08 YOLANDA RABUN - O Holy Night 04:04 DEAN JAMES - Can I Take You Out 04:00 JIM ADKINS - Reflections 03:55 AMANDUS - Groove Infection (feat. Uli Brodersen) 03:51 JACKIEM JOYNER - The Space Between Us 03:46 ANDY SNITZER - You've Changed 03:43 DANA FIELDS - Christmas Time Is Here 03:39 U-NAM - West Indeed 03:35 BRIAN SIMPSON - What I'm Waiting For 03:31 SHAWN RAIFORD - Santa Baby 03:26 ROB MALETICK - Shape Of My Heart 03:22 EARNEST WALKER JR - Ordinary People 03:18 CHRIS STANDRING - Shake You Up 03:13 DAVE KOZ - All The Love In The World 03:10 KIMBERLY BREWER - Everyday Feels Like Christmas 03:05 DERRICK HARVIN - Colombiana 03:00 SPECIAL EFX - Mother of Pearl 02:56 OLI SILK - Hats Off 02:51 WAYMAN TISDALE - Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up (feat. Toby Keith) 02:47 KOOL&KLEAN - Feel Again 02:43 AL DEGREGORIS - Absolute 02:40 SHAKATAK - Happy Christmas To Ya! 02:36 THE SAX PACK - Can't Help Myself 02:31 PAUL JACKSON JR. - City of Refuge (feat. Jeff Lorber) 02:28 SMOOTH SOUL HOLIDAY - We Three Funky Kings 02:24 BRIAN SIMPSON - When I Found You 02:20 MARION MEADOWS - The Thrill of Rain 02:16 MARCUS ANDERSON - Your Cha' Cha' 02:12 BRAD ALEXANDER - Yearning for Your Love 02:08 ANDREAS ALEMAN - Home for Christmas 02:05 KEIKO MATSUI - Black Lion 02:00 ROBERTO VAZQUEZ - Simple Life 01:56 BONEY JAMES - Batucada (The Beat) 01:52 BEN TANKARD - Happy Strut 01:48 VINCENT INGALA - My Favorite Things 01:44 KIM WATERS - Midnight Magic 01:42 PETER WHITE - Lullaby 01:38 KONSTANTIN KLASHTORNI - Make Room For Me 01:34 ALEXANDER ZONJIC - Playing it Forward 01:29 NATHAN WOODWARD - We Three Kings 01:25 DEAN JAMES - Home 01:21 WILL SUMNER - Ride The Wave 01:17 GERRY SMOOTH - I'm Glad You're Here 01:13 ART RUPRECHT - Never Alone 01:09 DAMIEN ESCOBAR - The Christmas Song 01:04 BIRDS OF A FEATHER - See You Soon 01:00 JACKIEM JOYNER - J Street 00:56 JACOB WEBB - With You Tonight 00:53 CHRISTMAS CAROLS - The Day 00:48 KAYLA WATERS - I Am 00:44 RICK HABANA - Loungin' (feat. Jackiem Joyner) 00:40 FREDDIE FOX - Smooth 00:35 BONEY JAMES - Second Nature 00:31 DAVE KOZ - Little Drummer Boy 00:26 ROB SABADO - Fly By 00:22 DANIEL CHIA - Life's a Beach 00:17 DERRICK HARVIN - New Found Love 00:13 WAYMAN TISDALE - Rebound (feat. Dave Koz) 00:08 DR. SAXLOVE - White Christmas 00:04 DARREN RAHN - Into the Light 00:00 THE SAX PACK - Smooth As Silk

Events 7.2

437 – Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome. 626 – Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident. 706 – In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang inters the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang outside Chang'an. 866 – Battle of Brissarthe: The Franks led by Robert the Strong are defeated by a joint Breton-Viking army. 936 – King Henry the Fowler dies in his royal palace in Memleben. He is succeeded by his son Otto I, who becomes the ruler of East Francia. 963 – The Byzantine army proclaims Nikephoros II Phokas Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea. 1298 – The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg. 1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain. 1504 – Bogdan III the One-Eyed becomes Voivode of Moldavia. 1555 – Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola. 1561 – Menas, emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz. 1582 – Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide. 1613 – The first English expedition (from Virginia) against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place. 1644 – English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor. 1645 – Battle of Alford: Wars of the Three Kingdoms. 1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine. 1776 – American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not published until July 4. 1816 – The French frigate Méduse strikes the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board have to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa. 1822 – Thirty-five slaves, including Denmark Vesey, are hanged in South Carolina after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion. 1823 – Bahia Independence Day: The end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia. 1839 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 kidnapped Africans led by Joseph Cinqué mutiny and take over the slave ship Amistad. 1853 – The Russian Army crosses the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that will set off the Crimean War. 1871 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States. 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19). 1890 – The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act. 1897 – British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London. 1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany. 1900 – Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus. 1921 – World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany. 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm. 1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight. 1940 – Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta. 1940 – The SS Arandora Star is sunk by U-47 in the North Atlantic with the loss of over 800 lives, mostly civilians. 1962 – The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas. 1964 – Civil rights movement: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places. 1966 – France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll. 1976 – End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 1986 – Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. 1986 – Aeroflot Flight 2306 crashes while attempting an emergency landing at Syktyvkar Airport in Syktyvkar, in present day Komi Republic, Russia, killing 54 people. 1988 – Marcel Lefebvre and the four bishops he consecrated were excommunicated by the Holy See. 1990 – In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca. 1994 – USAir Flight 1016 crashes near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, killing 37 of the 57 people on board. 1997 – The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis. 2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. 2001 – The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted. 2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. 2005 – The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks. 2008 – Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC. 2010 – The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people. 2013 – The International Astronomical Union names Pluto's fourth and fifth moons, Kerberos and Styx. 2013 – A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.

How a conspiracy theory about the Bosnian genocide infiltrated the Nobel committee

Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke in France, 2019. Handke has been accused of genocide apologism. | ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images

And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects.

Welcome to Vox’s weekly book link roundup, a curated selection of the internet’s best writing on books and related subjects. Here’s the best the web has to offer for the week of November 10, 2019.

At the New Yorker, Nora Caplan-Bricker delves into the way Dorothy Sayers’s Gaudy Nights became a forerunner of the modern feminist crime novel. I have already seen many people opining that, contra the headline, Dorothy Sayers is absolutely not overlooked, and while that is a fair point, I think we should take any and all excuses to celebrate her regardless:

In the best detective stories, the truth that’s uncovered isn’t limited to the name of the culprit. Mysteries, like works of horror, transmute nebulous fears into tangible dangers. The genre lends itself to exploring anxieties about the unknown and unknowable—shadowy territory that, for Harriet and many of the detectives who’ve followed, includes the contents of their own minds, or the substance of their own personalities.

There is apparently a library vigilante who believes that the public library system is anti-Trump and who is retaliating by turning around the spines of books written by Trump opponents so that they are shelved backward. The Spokesman-Review has the story.

The prestigious Bread Loaf writers’ conference is ending a program in which students who attended on scholarship were asked to work as waiters. The New York Times reports:

Rojas Contreras recalled having to perform a song and dance for the other attendees one evening. “At one time it would have been more like a gentle hazing, when the conference was made up mostly of men, mostly of people of means, mostly white,” she said. “When the population changes, when women are waiters, people of color are waiters, queer people are waiters, then it is no longer a light hazing.”

There was a big dustup this week involving a college student who said she wanted to keep books by the YA novelist Sarah Dessen off her college reading list; the student was then roundly decried by many prominent authors, including Dessen, as belittling books for teen girls. At Jezebel, Emily Alford considers whether or not we are using teen girls as straw men:

The idea that the decision not to include a single YA novel on a single booklist is automatically the work of the patriarchy creates a straw man of the teenage girl, oppressed by college coursework that is not interested in her experiences or her feelings. This teenage girl, regularly conjured up in the name of fighting sexism, is failed by an elitist literary world that denies her the only books she cares to read—young adult novels with characters who look and think like her. But what happens when the teenage girl does not enjoy books that authors insist are written for them? Does that girl’s or young woman’s opinion matter less? Dessen’s book did not give Nelson pleasure. Perhaps Nelson was dismissive in saying the book was written for teenage girls, but the book was, in fact, written for teenage girls.

At the Guardian, Emmanuel Carrère heads off in search of the Dice Man, the author of a cult novel who claims to make all his choices in life by rolling the dice:

His choices soon become more audacious. Going somewhere he would never go, getting to know people he would otherwise never meet. He pushes his patients to leave their families and jobs, to change their political and sexual orientations. His reputation suffers, but Rhinehart does not care. What he likes, now, is doing the exact opposite of what he would normally do: putting salt in his coffee, jogging in a tuxedo, going to work in shorts, pissing in the flowerpots, walking backward, sleeping under his bed. His wife finds him strange, but he says it is a psychological experiment, and she lets herself be lulled into believing it. Until the day he gets the idea of initiating his children.

Remember how last month the Nobel Prize for literature went to a genocide apologist? At the Intercept, Peter Maass goes digging to figure out how members of the Nobel committee came to believe in a conspiracy theory about the Serbian genocide of Bosnian Muslims:

Here’s what shocks me most about this Nobel Prize disaster. It’s not that the Nobel jurors fell for conspiracy theories. That’s terrible enough, of course. The worst is that the elevation of Peter Handke has also raised from the nearly dead a discredited rewrite of history and genocide. We are going back in time.

We love a tiny traveling bookstore in these roundups. Bonus: This one’s French.

At Electric Lit, McKayla Coyle has a simple request to make: Please Write More Books About Cryptids.

I am not an expert cryptozoologist and I will not claim to be one. I’m simply a person with a vested, professional interest in mysterious, supernatural creatures that may or may not exist; creatures like Bigfoot, Mothman, the Jersey Devil, etc. These beings are the stuff of legend, but apparently that’s not enough for the literary community. It’s easy to find books about “sexy” supernatural creatures like vampires and witches, but it seems that authors are too good to look down from their ivory towers and into their local woods, where the Flatwoods monster is probably rolling around in its big metal suit, hissing at children and emitting a noxious gas.

This week in books at Vox, we reviewed Carmen Maria Machado’s haunting new memoir In the Dream House. As always, you can keep up with all of Vox’s book coverage by visiting vox.com/books. Happy reading!

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How a conspiracy theory about the Bosnian genocide infiltrated the Nobel committee

Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke in France, 2019. Handke has been accused of genocide apologism. | ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images

And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects.

Welcome to Vox’s weekly book link roundup, a curated selection of the internet’s best writing on books and related subjects. Here’s the best the web has to offer for the week of November 10, 2019.

At the New Yorker, Nora Caplan-Bricker delves into the way Dorothy Sayers’s Gaudy Nights became a forerunner of the modern feminist crime novel. I have already seen many people opining that, contra the headline, Dorothy Sayers is absolutely not overlooked, and while that is a fair point, I think we should take any and all excuses to celebrate her regardless:

In the best detective stories, the truth that’s uncovered isn’t limited to the name of the culprit. Mysteries, like works of horror, transmute nebulous fears into tangible dangers. The genre lends itself to exploring anxieties about the unknown and unknowable—shadowy territory that, for Harriet and many of the detectives who’ve followed, includes the contents of their own minds, or the substance of their own personalities.

There is apparently a library vigilante who believes that the public library system is anti-Trump and who is retaliating by turning around the spines of books written by Trump opponents so that they are shelved backward. The Spokesman-Review has the story.

The prestigious Bread Loaf writers’ conference is ending a program in which students who attended on scholarship were asked to work as waiters. The New York Times reports:

Rojas Contreras recalled having to perform a song and dance for the other attendees one evening. “At one time it would have been more like a gentle hazing, when the conference was made up mostly of men, mostly of people of means, mostly white,” she said. “When the population changes, when women are waiters, people of color are waiters, queer people are waiters, then it is no longer a light hazing.”

There was a big dustup this week involving a college student who said she wanted to keep books by the YA novelist Sarah Dessen off her college reading list; the student was then roundly decried by many prominent authors, including Dessen, as belittling books for teen girls. At Jezebel, Emily Alford considers whether or not we are using teen girls as straw men:

The idea that the decision not to include a single YA novel on a single booklist is automatically the work of the patriarchy creates a straw man of the teenage girl, oppressed by college coursework that is not interested in her experiences or her feelings. This teenage girl, regularly conjured up in the name of fighting sexism, is failed by an elitist literary world that denies her the only books she cares to read—young adult novels with characters who look and think like her. But what happens when the teenage girl does not enjoy books that authors insist are written for them? Does that girl’s or young woman’s opinion matter less? Dessen’s book did not give Nelson pleasure. Perhaps Nelson was dismissive in saying the book was written for teenage girls, but the book was, in fact, written for teenage girls.

At the Guardian, Emmanuel Carrère heads off in search of the Dice Man, the author of a cult novel who claims to make all his choices in life by rolling the dice:

His choices soon become more audacious. Going somewhere he would never go, getting to know people he would otherwise never meet. He pushes his patients to leave their families and jobs, to change their political and sexual orientations. His reputation suffers, but Rhinehart does not care. What he likes, now, is doing the exact opposite of what he would normally do: putting salt in his coffee, jogging in a tuxedo, going to work in shorts, pissing in the flowerpots, walking backward, sleeping under his bed. His wife finds him strange, but he says it is a psychological experiment, and she lets herself be lulled into believing it. Until the day he gets the idea of initiating his children.

Remember how last month the Nobel Prize for literature went to a genocide apologist? At the Intercept, Peter Maass goes digging to figure out how members of the Nobel committee came to believe in a conspiracy theory about the Serbian genocide of Bosnian Muslims:

Here’s what shocks me most about this Nobel Prize disaster. It’s not that the Nobel jurors fell for conspiracy theories. That’s terrible enough, of course. The worst is that the elevation of Peter Handke has also raised from the nearly dead a discredited rewrite of history and genocide. We are going back in time.

We love a tiny traveling bookstore in these roundups. Bonus: This one’s French.

At Electric Lit, McKayla Coyle has a simple request to make: Please Write More Books About Cryptids.

I am not an expert cryptozoologist and I will not claim to be one. I’m simply a person with a vested, professional interest in mysterious, supernatural creatures that may or may not exist; creatures like Bigfoot, Mothman, the Jersey Devil, etc. These beings are the stuff of legend, but apparently that’s not enough for the literary community. It’s easy to find books about “sexy” supernatural creatures like vampires and witches, but it seems that authors are too good to look down from their ivory towers and into their local woods, where the Flatwoods monster is probably rolling around in its big metal suit, hissing at children and emitting a noxious gas.

This week in books at Vox, we reviewed Carmen Maria Machado’s haunting new memoir In the Dream House. As always, you can keep up with all of Vox’s book coverage by visiting vox.com/books. Happy reading!

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Son tus labios,

la sonrisa que se pinta en Mí.

Son tus ojos,

el camino que he de seguir.

Eres Tú,

toda Tú...

En Mí.

En tus labios de rubí,

las rosas más rojas quieren vivir...

¿Y qué decir de tus ojos de nube?

El azul se sonroja al mirarte latir.

They are your lips,

the smile that is painted on Me.

They are your eyes,

the path I must follow.

It is You,

all of You...

In Me.

In your ruby lips,

the reddest roses want to live...

And what to say about your cloud eyes?

The blue blushes as I watch you beat.

— Esu Emmanuel©

How a conspiracy theory about the Bosnian genocide infiltrated the Nobel committee

Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke in France, 2019. Handke has been accused of genocide apologism. | ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images

And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects.

Welcome to Vox’s weekly book link roundup, a curated selection of the internet’s best writing on books and related subjects. Here’s the best the web has to offer for the week of November 10, 2019.

At the New Yorker, Nora Caplan-Bricker delves into the way Dorothy Sayers’s Gaudy Nights became a forerunner of the modern feminist crime novel. I have already seen many people opining that, contra the headline, Dorothy Sayers is absolutely not overlooked, and while that is a fair point, I think we should take any and all excuses to celebrate her regardless:

In the best detective stories, the truth that’s uncovered isn’t limited to the name of the culprit. Mysteries, like works of horror, transmute nebulous fears into tangible dangers. The genre lends itself to exploring anxieties about the unknown and unknowable—shadowy territory that, for Harriet and many of the detectives who’ve followed, includes the contents of their own minds, or the substance of their own personalities.

There is apparently a library vigilante who believes that the public library system is anti-Trump and who is retaliating by turning around the spines of books written by Trump opponents so that they are shelved backward. The Spokesman-Review has the story.

The prestigious Bread Loaf writers’ conference is ending a program in which students who attended on scholarship were asked to work as waiters. The New York Times reports:

Rojas Contreras recalled having to perform a song and dance for the other attendees one evening. “At one time it would have been more like a gentle hazing, when the conference was made up mostly of men, mostly of people of means, mostly white,” she said. “When the population changes, when women are waiters, people of color are waiters, queer people are waiters, then it is no longer a light hazing.”

There was a big dustup this week involving a college student who said she wanted to keep books by the YA novelist Sarah Dessen off her college reading list; the student was then roundly decried by many prominent authors, including Dessen, as belittling books for teen girls. At Jezebel, Emily Alford considers whether or not we are using teen girls as straw men:

The idea that the decision not to include a single YA novel on a single booklist is automatically the work of the patriarchy creates a straw man of the teenage girl, oppressed by college coursework that is not interested in her experiences or her feelings. This teenage girl, regularly conjured up in the name of fighting sexism, is failed by an elitist literary world that denies her the only books she cares to read—young adult novels with characters who look and think like her. But what happens when the teenage girl does not enjoy books that authors insist are written for them? Does that girl’s or young woman’s opinion matter less? Dessen’s book did not give Nelson pleasure. Perhaps Nelson was dismissive in saying the book was written for teenage girls, but the book was, in fact, written for teenage girls.

At the Guardian, Emmanuel Carrère heads off in search of the Dice Man, the author of a cult novel who claims to make all his choices in life by rolling the dice:

His choices soon become more audacious. Going somewhere he would never go, getting to know people he would otherwise never meet. He pushes his patients to leave their families and jobs, to change their political and sexual orientations. His reputation suffers, but Rhinehart does not care. What he likes, now, is doing the exact opposite of what he would normally do: putting salt in his coffee, jogging in a tuxedo, going to work in shorts, pissing in the flowerpots, walking backward, sleeping under his bed. His wife finds him strange, but he says it is a psychological experiment, and she lets herself be lulled into believing it. Until the day he gets the idea of initiating his children.

Remember how last month the Nobel Prize for literature went to a genocide apologist? At the Intercept, Peter Maass goes digging to figure out how members of the Nobel committee came to believe in a conspiracy theory about the Serbian genocide of Bosnian Muslims:

Here’s what shocks me most about this Nobel Prize disaster. It’s not that the Nobel jurors fell for conspiracy theories. That’s terrible enough, of course. The worst is that the elevation of Peter Handke has also raised from the nearly dead a discredited rewrite of history and genocide. We are going back in time.

We love a tiny traveling bookstore in these roundups. Bonus: This one’s French.

At Electric Lit, McKayla Coyle has a simple request to make: Please Write More Books About Cryptids.

I am not an expert cryptozoologist and I will not claim to be one. I’m simply a person with a vested, professional interest in mysterious, supernatural creatures that may or may not exist; creatures like Bigfoot, Mothman, the Jersey Devil, etc. These beings are the stuff of legend, but apparently that’s not enough for the literary community. It’s easy to find books about “sexy” supernatural creatures like vampires and witches, but it seems that authors are too good to look down from their ivory towers and into their local woods, where the Flatwoods monster is probably rolling around in its big metal suit, hissing at children and emitting a noxious gas.

This week in books at Vox, we reviewed Carmen Maria Machado’s haunting new memoir In the Dream House. As always, you can keep up with all of Vox’s book coverage by visiting vox.com/books. Happy reading!

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Events 7.2

437 – Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome. 626 – Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident. 706 – In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang inters the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang outside Chang'an. 866 – Battle of Brissarthe: The Franks led by Robert the Strong are defeated by a joint Breton-Viking army. 936 – King Henry the Fowler dies in his royal palace in Memleben. He is succeeded by his son Otto I, who becomes the ruler of East Francia. 963 – The Byzantine army proclaims Nikephoros II Phokas Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea. 1298 – The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg. 1494 – The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain. 1504 – Bogdan III the One-Eyed becomes Voivode of Moldavia. 1555 – Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola. 1561 – Menas, emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz. 1582 – Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide. 1613 – The first English expedition (from Virginia) against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place. 1644 – English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor. 1645 – Battle of Alford: Wars of the Three Kingdoms. 1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine. 1776 – American Revolution: The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not published until July 4. 1816 – The French frigate Méduse strikes the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board have to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa. 1822 – Thirty-five slaves, including Denmark Vesey, are hanged in South Carolina after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion. 1823 – Bahia Independence Day: The end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia. 1839 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 kidnapped Africans led by Joseph Cinqué mutiny and take over the slave ship Amistad. 1853 – The Russian Army crosses the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia—providing the spark that will set off the Crimean War. 1871 – Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States. 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19). 1890 – The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act. 1897 – British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London. 1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany. 1900 – Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus. 1921 – World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany. 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm. 1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight. 1940 – Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta. 1940 – The SS Arandora Star is sunk by U-47 in the North Atlantic with the loss of over 800 lives, mostly civilians. 1962 – The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas. 1964 – Civil rights movement: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places. 1966 – France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll. 1976 – End of South Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam annexes the former South Vietnam to form the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 1986 – Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. 1990 – In the 1990 Mecca tunnel tragedy, 1,400 Muslim pilgrims are suffocated to death and trampled upon in a pedestrian tunnel leading to the holy city of Mecca. 1994 – USAir Flight 1016 crashes near Charlotte Douglas International Airport, killing 37 of the 57 people on board. 1997 – The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis. 2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional. 2001 – The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted. 2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. 2005 – The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks. 2008 – Colombian conflict: Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC. 2010 – The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people. 2013 – The International Astronomical Union names Pluto's fourth and fifth moons, Kerberos and Styx. 2013 – A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.

How a conspiracy theory about the Bosnian genocide infiltrated the Nobel committee

Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke in France, 2019. Handke has been accused of genocide apologism. | ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images

And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects.

Welcome to Vox’s weekly book link roundup, a curated selection of the internet’s best writing on books and related subjects. Here’s the best the web has to offer for the week of November 10, 2019.

At the New Yorker, Nora Caplan-Bricker delves into the way Dorothy Sayers’s Gaudy Nights became a forerunner of the modern feminist crime novel. I have already seen many people opining that, contra the headline, Dorothy Sayers is absolutely not overlooked, and while that is a fair point, I think we should take any and all excuses to celebrate her regardless:

In the best detective stories, the truth that’s uncovered isn’t limited to the name of the culprit. Mysteries, like works of horror, transmute nebulous fears into tangible dangers. The genre lends itself to exploring anxieties about the unknown and unknowable—shadowy territory that, for Harriet and many of the detectives who’ve followed, includes the contents of their own minds, or the substance of their own personalities.

There is apparently a library vigilante who believes that the public library system is anti-Trump and who is retaliating by turning around the spines of books written by Trump opponents so that they are shelved backward. The Spokesman-Review has the story.

The prestigious Bread Loaf writers’ conference is ending a program in which students who attended on scholarship were asked to work as waiters. The New York Times reports:

Rojas Contreras recalled having to perform a song and dance for the other attendees one evening. “At one time it would have been more like a gentle hazing, when the conference was made up mostly of men, mostly of people of means, mostly white,” she said. “When the population changes, when women are waiters, people of color are waiters, queer people are waiters, then it is no longer a light hazing.”

There was a big dustup this week involving a college student who said she wanted to keep books by the YA novelist Sarah Dessen off her college reading list; the student was then roundly decried by many prominent authors, including Dessen, as belittling books for teen girls. At Jezebel, Emily Alford considers whether or not we are using teen girls as straw men:

The idea that the decision not to include a single YA novel on a single booklist is automatically the work of the patriarchy creates a straw man of the teenage girl, oppressed by college coursework that is not interested in her experiences or her feelings. This teenage girl, regularly conjured up in the name of fighting sexism, is failed by an elitist literary world that denies her the only books she cares to read—young adult novels with characters who look and think like her. But what happens when the teenage girl does not enjoy books that authors insist are written for them? Does that girl’s or young woman’s opinion matter less? Dessen’s book did not give Nelson pleasure. Perhaps Nelson was dismissive in saying the book was written for teenage girls, but the book was, in fact, written for teenage girls.

At the Guardian, Emmanuel Carrère heads off in search of the Dice Man, the author of a cult novel who claims to make all his choices in life by rolling the dice:

His choices soon become more audacious. Going somewhere he would never go, getting to know people he would otherwise never meet. He pushes his patients to leave their families and jobs, to change their political and sexual orientations. His reputation suffers, but Rhinehart does not care. What he likes, now, is doing the exact opposite of what he would normally do: putting salt in his coffee, jogging in a tuxedo, going to work in shorts, pissing in the flowerpots, walking backward, sleeping under his bed. His wife finds him strange, but he says it is a psychological experiment, and she lets herself be lulled into believing it. Until the day he gets the idea of initiating his children.

Remember how last month the Nobel Prize for literature went to a genocide apologist? At the Intercept, Peter Maass goes digging to figure out how members of the Nobel committee came to believe in a conspiracy theory about the Serbian genocide of Bosnian Muslims:

Here’s what shocks me most about this Nobel Prize disaster. It’s not that the Nobel jurors fell for conspiracy theories. That’s terrible enough, of course. The worst is that the elevation of Peter Handke has also raised from the nearly dead a discredited rewrite of history and genocide. We are going back in time.

We love a tiny traveling bookstore in these roundups. Bonus: This one’s French.

At Electric Lit, McKayla Coyle has a simple request to make: Please Write More Books About Cryptids.

I am not an expert cryptozoologist and I will not claim to be one. I’m simply a person with a vested, professional interest in mysterious, supernatural creatures that may or may not exist; creatures like Bigfoot, Mothman, the Jersey Devil, etc. These beings are the stuff of legend, but apparently that’s not enough for the literary community. It’s easy to find books about “sexy” supernatural creatures like vampires and witches, but it seems that authors are too good to look down from their ivory towers and into their local woods, where the Flatwoods monster is probably rolling around in its big metal suit, hissing at children and emitting a noxious gas.

This week in books at Vox, we reviewed Carmen Maria Machado’s haunting new memoir In the Dream House. As always, you can keep up with all of Vox’s book coverage by visiting vox.com/books. Happy reading!

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November 30: Oscar Valdez and Carl Frampton Headline Super Featherweight Doubleheader at The Chelsea Inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas LIVE on ESPN+

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Published: October 15, 2019

LAS VEGAS (Oct. 15, 2019) — Two of boxing’s foremost action stars are set to light up the Las Vegas Strip for a Thanksgiving Weekend fistic bash Saturday, November 30 at The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. In the main event, former featherweight world champion Oscar Valdez will make his long-awaited super featherweight debut in a 10-rounder against former world title challenger Andres “Jaguarcito” Gutierrez. The co-feature will see the fighting pride of Belfast, former two-division world champion Carl “The Jackal” Frampton, take on the unbeaten Tyler “The Golden Child” McCreary a 10-round super featherweight contest (128-pound catchweight). Valdez-Gutierrez and Frampton-McCreary will stream live and exclusively on ESPN+, the leading multi-sport streaming service, starting at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT. The undercard will stream on ESPN+ beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT. Promoted by Top Rank, in association with Queensberry Promotions and MTK Global, tickets priced at $100, $85, $65, $45 and $20 (general admission) go on sale Friday, October 18, at 10 a.m. PT and are available online at www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com or through Ticketmaster at 800.745.3000. “This a tremendous super featherweight doubleheader, and both Valdez and Frampton have their hands full against tough opponents,” said Top Rank chairman Bob Arum. “If Valdez and Frampton win, world title opportunities await them in 2020.” ‘I’m looking forward to November 30, as it’s my first fight as a super featherweight,” Valdez said. “I know my opponent is tough, but I plan on putting on a show for the fans. This is my third camp with Eddy Reynoso, and it’s going great. This is an important first step towards another world title, and I plan to make the most of it. Don’t miss it!” “I am going to take full advantage of this opportunity,” Gutierrez said. “I hope Valdez is prepared for a super featherweight war. I’m now training in Las Vegas with the professor, Ismael Salas, and ‘Memo’ Heredia. Boxing fans, get ready for a true Mexican-style battle!” Valdez (26-0, 20 KOs) made six successful defenses of his WBO featherweight world title, a reign highlighted by all-action brawls against Miguel Marriaga, Scott Quigg and Genesis Servania. A two-time Mexican Olympian, Valdez is seeking new challenges in a weight class loaded with premier talent. He closed out his featherweight world title reign with a pair of wins over then-unbeaten foes earlier this year, knocking out Carmine Tommasone in February and scoring a unanimous decision over Jason Sanchez in June. Valdez is 6-0 with six knockouts when fighting in Las Vegas and is looking for lucky number seven. Gutierrez (38-2-1, 25 KOs) has won three consecutive fights since dropping a technical decision to Abner Mares in October 2017 for the WBA featherweight world title. He last fought June 22 in San Juan del Río, Mexico, decisioning former world champion Tomas Rojas over 12 rounds. Frampton (26-2, 15 KOs), a former super bantamweight and featherweight world champion, is ready to make his 2019 debut. He last fought December 2018 in Manchester, England, losing by unanimous decision to IBF world champion Josh Warrington in a Fight of the Year contender. He was scheduled to fight August 10 in Philadelphia against Emmanuel Dominguez but was forced to drop out the week of the fight after a concrete pillar fell on his hand at the fight hotel. Frampton is making his first appearance in Las Vegas since January 2017, when thousands of Northern Irish fans made the trip across the pond for his rematch against Leo Santa Cruz. One of his nation’s most decorated fighters, Frampton holds victories over Santa Cruz, Quigg, Nonito Donaire and Kiko Martinez. McCreary (16-0-1, 7 KOs), from Toledo, Ohio, is a five-year pro who, at 26 years of age, is entering the prime of his career. In his last fight, July 19 in Oxon Hill, Maryland, he overcame a stiff challenge from Jessie Cris Rosales to prevail via eight-round split decision. In search of a signature win, McCreary will take a quantum leap in class, but he is confident that his youth and athleticism will prevail. "I'm delighted to be making a comeback after what has been a horrific year in my career,” Frampton said. “I didn't get the Top Rank deal off to an ideal start, but coming back in Vegas is great for me, especially against a really strong opponent. It needed to be someone who would test me. It's what I want, it's what ESPN wants, what MTK Global wants and what Top Rank wants, so I'm 100 percent confident it's the right move for me. McCreary is a quality opponent, but if I want to be competing against the top guys in the world, which I believe I can, then I need to be beating guys like him and doing it in style.” “I’m delighted we’ve got Carl out again before the end of the year,” said Frank Warren, Frampton’s co-promoter. “He had a tough time of it in August with the freak injury, which meant he couldn’t fight as planned. In this fight against McCreary, I believe Carl will prove that he is still an elite fighter and will be fighting for world titles again before long.” “It’s a big step up for me, but I feel that I’m ready for it,” McCreary said. “It’s an opportunity I couldn’t turn down, and I feel that every fight is a risk. This is one where, if anything, I would love to risk my undefeated record against a fighter like Frampton. A win here means a world title shot next. “I was in the gym training for my October 26 fight and my trainer {Lamar Wright} said we got a call that Carl Frampton was looking for a fight. They didn’t have anyone, and I said, ‘I’ll take it.’ I didn’t hesitate.”

¿Qué más no daría yo por poder amarte, por ser el hombre que alguna vez fui? Pero, no puedo obligarme a sentir, no puedo... no puedo... el hecho de escribirlo, de plasmarlo en esta hoja, me baña en llanto y en tinta roja... porque es la verdad, es mi verdad... y, hagas lo que hagas, digas lo que digas, no habrá palabras que me alcancen a tocar, porque ya no creo en ellas, ¡ya no creo en nada más!

— Esu Emmanuel©️, What more could I not give to love you, to be the man I once was? But, I cannot force myself to feel, I cannot... I cannot... the fact of writing it, of capturing it on this page, bathes me in tears and red ink... because it is the truth, it is my truth... And, whatever you do, whatever you say, there will be no words to touch me, because I no longer believe in them, I no longer believe in anything else!

Anak ng Bulkan 1959

Emmanuel I. Rojas

The Shadow of Your Smile (Upcoming Book)

       “I have met a lot of people during my many journeys. Of course, I cannot remember them all, but I do remember most of them. Their faces, mannerisms, quirks, and all other definitive things about their person: all of these I remember. My business is all about people, and to that end, I have never wavered in my commitment. However, out of all the people, the faces, and most especially the smiles, there is one that continues to haunt my every waking and sleeping moment.”

         The other directors glared at Luke: the topic of Mr. Rojas’ personal life, particularly his romantic life, is considered a highly taboo matter. Mr. Rojas, despite having had multiple romantic relationships, remains a bachelor, and his love life has been a subject of much speculation by the media, eager to put forward theories as to why he remains unmarried.

          “I know that you’re the resident genius and all, but you can’t keep on acting like nothing matters to you,” she complained.

           “Patrick was a huge fan of John Rojas, due to their shared affinity for music, as well as certain eccentricities. The only reason why he had chosen to take economics in the first place was because Mr. Rojas himself took up economics in the University of Pennsylvania. Patrick’s parents were notable neurosurgeons in the area, and they would have preferred it if Patrick studied medicine at John Hopkins instead. But, as other parents would tell them, they can hardly complain about having their son student economics at Harvard.

          “I’m sorry to disappoint everyone, but I will not be speaking about my retirement just yet. Although I do intend to retire at some point, there are still several matters which require my attention.”

         “You have a son?!” Luke Lee, the company’s SVP for Administration asked in an obviously shocked tone.

          Before the start of college, I have begun working on a book that will be a testament to the glory of love itself. This story is not, in any way, connected to the writings found in this blog, although most of the characters of the story are inspired by real life people. Since this is a work in progress, it will most likely be finished in several years (since I tend to go on long stretches without working on it). However, I’ll be posting updates about it on this blog, as well as introducing characters that I have conceptualized.

          Everything is subject to change, because different circumstances and experiences could compel me towards changing significant plot points and character roles. That is exactly what happened in the two years I’ve been working on this story: some characters became less important, while others have been given more prominence. Before long, I hope to be able to find a like-minded individual who will work with me towards finishing this story. But for now, I will have to content myself with baby steps.

            The title is also likely to change.

Characters (as of 6/6/2017):

John Emmanuel Rojas  - Chairman and CEO of Rojas Investments, the largest publicly-traded company in the world. He is a respected figure in the American business community, and is largely considered as one of the most competent and charitable business leaders of the world. Because of this, he has attained a celebrity-like status, due to his eccentricities and secretive lifestyle. 

Patrick Davis - A graduating economics major at Harvard University. Despite his truancy and complacency, he attains top marks during exams, earning the ire of his classmates. He is a fan of Andrew Larson, due to their shared affinity for music and certain eccentricities. His life takes a dramatic turn when he is selected by Mr. Rojas to serve as his intern for an entire year, after having bested thousands of other candidates for the internship program.

Caroline Waters - The best friend of Patrick and also a graduating economics major at Harvard. She considers Patrick to be her rival, despite the latter being indifferent to this “rivalry.” She is a hardworking student who works part-time in a pub, and despite her studiousness, she constantly has to contend with the fact that Patrick always gets the top spot in the batch.

Gunther Pascual - An industrialist who serves as the Executive Vice-President of Larson Investments. Mr. Larson and Mr. Pachmann used to be close friends, until they had a falling out several years ago. Although their friendship has largely improved since then, they were never really as close as they once were.

Luke Lee - An investor who serves as the Senior Vice-President for Administration at Larson Investments. A doctor by profession, he was forced by Mr. Larson to take on a senior role in the company because Mr. Rojas wanted “people he could trust” on the board. In order to prepare himself for the role, Mr. Lee had to take up an MBA at Stanford.

Joanna Masterson - She serves as an independent director on the board of Rojas Investments. As the co-founder of Masterson Holdings, she serves as its President and Chief Operating Officer. She is the ex-wife of Ricky Masterson, the CEO and her fellow co-founder of Masterson Holdings.

Cain Roland - A geologist and petroleum engineer, Cain Roland serves as the president of Rojas Exploration, which is the division in-charge of oil and mining operations. He is also the first mentor figure encountered by Patrick and Caroline during their internship.