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current deranged playlist:
-chappelle roan
-reverend kristin hayter aka the artist formerly known as lingua ingota i'm gonna buy her new album on cassette tape because that sounds like a fun thing to do
-klaus nomi
-Penelope by Sarah Kirkland Snider and Shara Nova
-that Tipping the Velvet anthology of queer music from the 1920s but especially the gwen farrar selection and featuring the ballad of: Queen Nefer-titty: An Old Egyptian Queen
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Gwen Farrar (deceased)
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Lesbian
DOB: 14 July 1897
RIP: 25 December 1944
Ethnicity: White - British
Occupation: Singer, musician, actress, comedian
#Gwen Farrar#lgbt history#lgbt#lgbtq#lesbianism#female#lesbian#1897#rip#historical#white#singer#musician#actor#comedian
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Dorothy Wilding :: Gwen Farrar in ‘Wonder Bar’ , halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 1 April 1931. | src NPG
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Blaney and Farrar: Pathbreaking Lesbian Duo of the Jazz Age
Blaney and Farrar: Pathbreaking Lesbian Duo of the Jazz Age
July 16 was the natal day of Norah Blaney (Nora Cordwell, 1893-1983); July 14 the birthday of her stage (and romantic) partner Gwendoline “Gwen” Farrar (1897-1944). The pair were major stars of the British theatre, records, and radio during the Jazz Age.
London born Blaney was a second generation musicians, trained at The Royal Academy of Music and The Royal College of Music. Farrar was the…
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#British#English#Gwen Farrar#jazz#lesbian#music hall#Norah Blaney#radio#Ragtime#records#stage#vaudeville#West End
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Gwen Farrar, London, 1925
#1920s#roaring 20s#jazz age#history#gwen farrar#historic#vintage#london#england#20s fashion#1920s fashion#1925#photos
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a Nightingale barked in Soho Square
A playlist for John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme series 9.
Desert Island Disk - Radiohead
Nightingale - Demi Lovato
As a Man - Anna Calvi
Man On The Moon - R.E.M.
Stand By Each Other - Rasmussen
Hard Headed Woman - Yusuf / Cat Stevens
Be My Eyes - Pentatonix
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life - Monty Python
At First Sight - The Stems
Joyride - Roxette
Cliffs Of Dover - Eric Johnson
Outside - The Divine Comedy
Laugh Or Cry - Roger Taylor
7 magpies - Easy Life
They All Fall In Love - Norah Blaney & Gwen Farrar
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Gwen Farrar and Norah Blaney: Effingham's forgotten openly lesbian entertainers - Surrey Live
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@geekmonkeyscience thank you for tagging me in this!
10 books I want to read in 2020:
• “A Writer's Diary” - Virginia Woolf
• “How To Be a Victorian” - Nancy Bradfield
• “The Ladies Of Llangollen” - Elizabeth Mavor
• “The Victorian Age in Literature” - G.K. Chesterton
• “The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe” - Brian P. Levack
• “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny” - Kate Manne
• “Why do women write more letters than they post?” - Darian Leader
• “Paradise Lost” - John Milton
• “Ten Days in a Mad-House” - Nellie Bly
• “Tell Me I'm Forgiven: The Story of Forgotten Stars Gwen Farrar & Norah Blaney” - Alison Child (if I manage to get a hold of it, which apparently it's not easy)
wow, all non-fiction, okay, okay...
tagging: @guardianrock @flozmin @rathersleep @kait-e-k @mjsburgh hope you have some fun with this!
#personal#the last one oh how I want the last one#fuuuuuuuu#I really hope I get around to read them all#what a list#what a gay list is this?#god#my thing is lesbians in older times
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Like Georgians, Jacobites and some of the most awesome romance novels? A Patricia Veryan pusher post
I have just discovered that Patricia Veryan, a writer of romance novels set in Georgian and Regency time, has had the bulk of her books reissued on kindle.
So this is a giant pusher post.
Who is Patricia Veryan, you may ask. She was a British writer of romance novels who was old school enough to belong to the style of Georgette Heyer and Jeffery Farnol (who deserves his own pusher post), instead of the newer but now old “bodice ripper, rapey” school like Woodiwiss, Rogers et al. Her novels have plots, no sex scenes and are swoonily, amazingly romantic. She also did her research and they feel like true period novels, not modern people in period clothes prancing about.
They are full of swashbuckling, angsty heroes with awful families, strong heroines fighting off villains, conspiracies unmasked, swords at dawn, tons of hero torture and gorgeousness. Does it sound good? It should.
As I mentioned above, she wrote both regencies and Georgians, but I am gonna talk about the latter series today, because they are all on kindle. Her two Georgian series are The Golden Chronicles (set in the aftermath of Bonnie Prince Charlie's 1745 uprising) and Tales of the Jeweled Men (ditto).
TGC follow the supposed treasure that Bonnie Prince Charlie amassed to help his Rebellion, which disappears, and which now the good guys are trying to get to the donors and bad guys want for themselves. There are six books in the series (though there are two earlier books, Mistress of Willowale and The Wicked Widow, which tie into it too. MoW is not available on kindle but TWW is and is a delightful Georgian romp with a rakish, cynical hero who ends up adoring the spunky, cheerful, pragmatic heroine. I am rereading it RN).
* Practice to Deceive - Penelope Montgomery always meant to marry Quentin Chandler but he went off and joined the Jacobite rebellion and her family died and she's stuck with her awful aunt and uncle. Quentin resurfaces when he comes to her for assistance but he gets captured by her psycho family and tortured for info about the treasure. Penelope rescues him and they go on the run. I loooove this book. Penny is not flighty or dim or anything but calm, a little reserved, very ladylike, yet awesome. And I have a crush on charming, funny, h/c magnet Quentin. My fave Veryan character, Roland Mathieson, first appears in this one as the bad guy's henchman who kinda wants Penelope.
* Journey to Enchantment - the hero of this one is Penelope's brother Geoffrey and heroine a Scottish gal Prudence McTavish. I remember liking it OK (short version - Geoffrey is Jacobite Scarlet Pimpernel) but was not particularly in love.
* The Tyrant - love this one. Phoebe Ramsay ends up being stuck in an engagement to Meredith Carruthers as a cover for some Jacobite-related smuggling. I love both fashionable, fun Phoebe and cool, common-sense, angstmuffin Mededith (we are introduced to the first but not the last of Veryan's horrific parents in this one - I am not sure whether I hate his father or his mother more) and we see more of Roland who actually ends up helping the lead couple, in a very ironic, standoffish way, while sneaking bad guy bits now and then.
* Love Alters Not - super super super obsession. Dimity Cranford, in order to lead soldiers away from an injured Jacobite family friend, ends up in all sorts of complicated embroglios which ultimately lead her pretending to be someone else entirely, that someone a woman trying to disposess Sir Anthony Farrar, an English army captain in the late Rebellion, who has been ostracized by everyone for running at the battle of Prestopans, leading to the rout of his unit and *da-dun* making Dimity's brother crippled. So much angst and hurt/comfort and awesomeness, you have NO idea. I think Dimity/Anthony are my favorite Veryan OTP which is saying a huge huge deal. Also, I believe I was gibbering and screaming at my book during Anthony's trial. Roland appears again and this is the book I fell for him in - he's sort of Anthony's friend and is thoroughly delicious.
* Cherished Enemy - follows Robert McTavish (Prudence's brother) and Rosamond Albritton, sister of a recurring character. Tbh, it's my least fave in the series, though I don't hate it or anything, so I don't remember it much.
* The Dedicated Villain - LOOOOOOVE! Roland gets a book! And what a book! Roland is on the hunt for the Jacobite treasure, comes across a troupe of actors (or are they?), which includes the tiny (short ladies represent!) but fierce and awesome Fiona Bradford - will he actually change his mind about his obsession? The Dedicated Villain is my favorite of her Georgians (well, that, and Love Alters Not are probably tied). I mean, Roland and Fiona! This series actually manages to do a convincing job of moving Roland from villain to antihero to hero with me buying the transition; also it explains why he starts out the way he does without making it a full excuse. TDV is also one of the very few books that maxed out my hurt/comfort love - PV never really went much for h/c of the physical as opposed to emotional sort in general but Roland's torture scenes in TDV are beyond brutal, I was kinda reading through my fingers and bawling (one of my vivid memories is being high school age, sitting under a tree during the very hot summer, reading that stuff and sniffling). But oddly, it didn't feel gratuitous because it was sort of karma for some of the stuff he did, especially to Quentin in Practice to Deceive (though what happened to him was miles worse than what happened to Quentin). And props to Veryan for having the guts to give him permanent damage.
Jeweled Men follows a nefarious conspiracy to take over certain strategic properties to stage an invasion and a bunch of sexay aristocrats who stumble on the plot and decide to fight it (think 18th century Pimpernel).
* Time's Fool - follows Gideon Rossiter, a discharged officer who's just returned from the Continent, and his attempts to figure out why his family's properties and wealth imploded. Heroine is Naomi Lutonville, Gideon's erstwhile fiancee. I normally wouldn't like Naomi - she's high-maintenance and dramatic, but I adore her to bits. I ship them like crazy, too.
* Had We Never Loved - my first Veryan! Clearly, I was impressed. Horatio Glendenning (remember Jacobite family friend in Love Alters Not? That's him) fought for Bonnie Prince Charlie so his future is not so good. His OTP is a feisty gypsy, Amy Consett, who is NOT discovered to be a Duke's daughter in disguise or anything. It's a lovely lovely book and they are a lovely lovely OTP.
* Ask Me No Questions - Quentin's staid older brother Gordon gets his own books. There are all sorts of machinations, but this is not a huge favorite. Gordon and Ruth Allington are nice people but give me Penny and Quentin's humor and reckless courage any day. If you like nice and mature leads though, this one is for you.
* A Shadow's Bliss - like amnesia? This book is for you. Ruth's amnesiac bro Jonathan tries to solve the mystery of a shipwreck he was involved in blah blah heroine is Jennifer Britewell and I literally remember nothing about her. Or Jonathan, for that matter, other than he has amnesia. The reason to read this book is the recurring characters of August Falcon, Jamie Morris, and Gwendolyn Rossiter. I read Jeweled Men as if was coming out and remember devouring each book for even the slightest hint of progress between cynical, cutting August and smart, unimpressed Gwendolyn - they are one of my fave Veryan OTPs, together with Dimity/Anthony, Roland/Fiona, and Mitchell/Charity from Sanguinet books.
* Never Doubt I Love - Dimity's bro finds love. Once again, I was in it for finding out what makes August tick, Jamie's adoration of August's sis Katrina, and Gwen and August's sexy sparkle. It’s a good book on its own merits though and has a hero with a disability, which was unusual at the time.
* The Mandarin of Mayfair - EEEE! EEEEE! I still remember pre-ordering this book and rolling in mad glee (hyperbole. Or is it?) August and Gwen get their own book, plus the conspiracy gets finally unmasked, there is kissing and hurt/comfort and gals being the ones to propose. The OTP is beyond amazing - August is so smart and lethal and functional despite his major issues arising out of the fact that as 1/4 Chinese he’s looked down as a mongrel by “polite” society (I love that Veryan's heroes never wallow), Gwendolyn is full of common-sense and rescues him from prisons and bad guys and won't let anyone bash him (himself included, but also their friends, which turn on him for spoilery reasons. I still have residual rage about it. Katrina, you are the worst sister ever and dead to me!) I think the ending is a little pat to resolve the very real issues he has with marrying Gwendolyn and dragging her into his life, but at that point they've been through so much hell, I didn't even care.
My favorite OTPs in her Georgian series are are four-way time between ladylike Penelope x incorrigible adventurer Quentin in PtD, tormented and self-abasing Anthony and fearless Dimity in LAN, reformed villain Roland x not really an actress Fiona in TDV, and deadly and messed up August x fearless and clever Gwen (btw, Gwen is a heroine with a disability, which, once again, was an unusual thing at the time.) Worst father award goes to Roland's father (die in a fire, please!) and worst mother is either August's or Meredith's. Coolest family is either Dimity's or Horatio's. Favorite brother-sister pair are Gwen and Gideon Rossiters.
Basically, you should go read them yesterday!
PS Disclaimer. I used to run a Veryan listserve in the really old days. So I am biased. But she is a rare author I am rereading 20 years later and still love.
PPS If you are a Veryan fan, come talk to me!
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Gwen Stefani Breaks Down 6 Looks From 1995 to Now | Vogue
Gwen Stefani Breaks Down 6 Looks From 1995 to Now | Vogue
From leopard pants to blue hair, Gwen Stefani looks back at her most memorable fashion moments.
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What were the top 13 #quietYA books of May?
I get asked often what, exactly, #quietYA is. The traditional definition is about books that aren’t very action packed and slower paced, but I use it to talk about books that are not bestsellers, not award winners, and that don’t have any kind of book or TV deal. So often, the same books are discussed over and over again and unfortunately, books fall through the cracks. But I believe that every book published is needed by someone and I want to create the best possible chance to get those books in hands.
#quietYA is my attempt to make that happen.
Here are 13 #quietYA books that released this month that you might have missed
Cold Summer by Gwen Cole
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Release date: May 2
Kale Jackson has spent years trying to control his time-traveling ability but hasn’t had much luck. One day he lives in 1945, fighting in the war as a sharpshooter and helplessly watching soldiers — friends — die. Then the next day, he’s back in the present, where WWII has bled into his modern life in the form of PTSD, straining his relationship with his father and the few friends he has left. Every day it becomes harder to hide his battle wounds, both physical and mental, from the past.
Girl Out of Water by Laura Silverman
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Release date: May 2
Anise Sawyer plans to spend every minute of summer with her friends: surfing, chowing down on fish tacos drizzled with wasabi balsamic vinegar, and throwing bonfires that blaze until dawn. But when a serious car wreck leaves her aunt, a single mother of three, with two broken legs, it forces Anise to say goodbye for the first time to Santa Cruz, the waves, her friends, and even a kindling romance, and fly with her dad to Nebraska for the entire summer. Living in Nebraska isn’t easy.
Noteworthy by Riley Redgate
Publisher: Amulet Books
Release date: May 2
Jordan Sun is embarking on her junior year at the Kensington-Blaine Boarding School for the Performing Arts, hopeful that this will be her time: the year she finally gets cast in the school musical. But when her low Alto 2 voice gets her shut out for the third straight year, she’s forced to consider nontraditional options. A spot has opened up in the Sharpshooters, Kensington’s elite a cappella octet. Worshipped… revered… all male.
Dear Reader by Mary O'Connell
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Release date: May 9
For seventeen-year-old Flannery Fields, the only respite from the plaid-skirted mean girls at Sacred Heart High School at is her beloved teacher Miss Sweeney’s AP English class. But when Miss Sweeney doesn't show up to teach Flannery's favorite book, Wuthering Heights, leaving behind her purse, Flannery knows something is wrong. The police are called, and Flannery gives them everything — except Miss Sweeney's copy of Wuthering Heights. This she holds onto. And good thing she does, because when she opens it, it has somehow transformed into Miss Sweeney's real-time diary.
The Duke of Bannerman Prep by Katie A. Nelson
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Release date: May 9
Tanner McKay is at Bannerman Prep for only one reason: the elite school recruited him after he brought his public school’s debate team to victory last year. Bannerman wants a championship win. Debate is Tanner’s life — his ticket out of his poor-as-dirt life and family drama, straight to a scholarship to Stanford and the start of a new, better future. But when he's paired with the Duke, his plans for an easy ride seem as if they’ve hit the rails.
It Started with Goodbye by Christina June
Publisher: Blink
Release date: May 9
Sixteen-year-old Tatum Elsea is bracing for the worst summer of her life. After being falsely accused of a crime, she’s stuck under stepmother-imposed house arrest and her BFF’s gone ghost. Tatum fills her newfound free time with community service by day and working at her covert graphic design business at night (which includes trading emails with a cute cello-playing client). When Tatum discovers she’s not the only one in the house keeping secrets, she finds she has the chance to make amends with her family and friends
The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Release date: May 9
Michael likes to hang out with his friends and play with the latest graphic design software. His parents drag him to rallies held by their anti-immigrant group, which rails against the tide of refugees flooding the country. And it all makes sense to Michael. Until Mina, a beautiful girl from the other side of the protest lines, shows up at his school, and turns out to be funny, smart — and a Muslim refugee from Afghanistan. Suddenly, his parents’ politics seem much more complicated.
The Names They Gave Us by Emery Lord
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens'
Release date: May 16
Lucy Hansson was ready for a perfect summer with her boyfriend, working at her childhood Bible camp on the lake. But when her mom’s cancer reappears, Lucy falters — in faith, in love, and in her ability to cope. When her boyfriend “pauses” their relationship and her summer job switches to a different camp—one for troubled kids — Lucy isn’t sure how much more she can handle.
That Thing We Call a Heart by Sheba Kim
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release date: May 9
After hooking up with the most racist boy in school and telling a huge lie about a tragedy that happened to her family during the Partition of India in 1947, Shabnam is ready for high school to end. She faces a summer of boredom and regret, but she has a plan: Get through the summer. Get to college. Don’t look back. Begin anew. Everything changes when she meets Jamie.
Seeking Mansfield by Kate Watson
Publisher: Flux Books
Release Date: May 16
Finley Price has perfected two things: how to direct a world-class production, and how to fly way, way under the radar. The only person who ever seems to notice Finley is her best friend Oliver. If she could just take Oliver's constant encouragement to heart and step out of the shadows, she'd finally chase her dream of joining the prestigious Mansfield Theater.
In a Perfect World by Trish Doller
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Release date: May 23
Caroline Kelly is excited to be spending her summer vacation working at the local amusement park with her best friend, exploring weird Ohio with her boyfriend, and attending soccer camp with the hope she’ll be her team’s captain in the fall. But when Caroline’s mother is hired to open an eye clinic in Cairo, Egypt, Caroline’s plans are upended.
I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Books for Young Readers
Release date: May 30
Desi Lee knows how carburetors work. She learned CPR at the age of five. As a high school senior, she has never missed a day of school and has never had a B in her entire life. She's for sure going to Stanford. But she’s never had a boyfriend. So when the hottest human specimen to have ever lived walks into her life one day, Desi decides to tackle her flirting failures with the same zest she’s applied to everything else in her life.
Romancing the Throne by Nadia Jolie Courtney
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release date: May 30
After an administration scandal at Libby’s all-girls school threatens her chances at a top university, she decides to join Charlotte at posh and picturesque Sussex Park. Social-climbing Charlotte considers it her sisterly duty to bring Libby into her circle: Britain’s young elites, glamorous teens who vacation in Hong Kong and the South of France and are just as comfortable at a polo match as they are at a party. It’s a social circle that just so happens to include handsome seventeen-year-old Prince Edward, heir to Britain’s throne.
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Conference: Life History and Life Writing Research: Critical and Creative Approaches. The 9th annual Brighton-Sussex postgraduate conference co-organised by CLHLWR (University of Sussex) CRMNH (University of Brighton). University of Sussex. June 2017.
According to the call for papers, the conference aims were to invite speakers to reflect and respond to a seeming convergence of academics bringing their own histories into their work and creative life writers speaking to academic concerns with representation and the self. My continued work on revealing my self through my work with dresses seemed to fit with the scope of the conference.
Key note speakers included Clare Best, Professor Lyn Thomas and Dr Deborah Madden. And fellow panel members included 2 fantastic speakers: Katherine Collins on creating an autobiographical character as a writer ‘If you imagine a person they can come into being’ and Alison Child discussing Gwen Farrar and Norah Blaney’s relationship ‘Truth is relative to each individual’. I was excited to be accepted as a speaker.
When I had initially agreed to attend this conference, I had failed to take note of the date: the day before my parent’s 50th Wedding Anniversary. This would have been fine, had I not then urged them to hold a small party that I would coordinate and set up for them. As the date approached, I realised I couldn’t realistically attend the conference and be at my parent’s to do the lion’s share of the preparation for a party I had insisted on. Fortunately, my partner agreed to be there to take on my duties and I would join them after the conference.
Very sadly, the week before the events, my partner’s brother in law was moved to a hospice after a long battle with cancer and the family was gathered for his final days. My partner, understandably, was with them and could no longer guarantee to support my parents while I was at the conference. Being a product of modern life, I managed to do all things: I was able to be with my partner and his family for a few days, attend the conference for an early slot kindly arranged by the organisers, and then hot foot it to my parents to set up for the party the following day.
It was not until reflecting after the events of that week that I realised that perhaps at the time I had not fully considered my options of where to be and what was important to me. To be by my partner’s side and with his family at such a sad time, to support my own family and their joyful celebration of their long life together, to attend a conference as part of my new direction in my creative life. Surely, in hindsight, the latter was of no consequence and family came first?
But I also recall that as I was standing in front of the audience giving my talk, I realised the connection between what my work seeks to express and the reality of my everyday life; that what happens to me in my life does and should end up in my work. On reflection, I could have added more of what was happening to me into my talk that day. There was an opportunity to be even more revealing of myself and weaving in the complexity of being part of a family, however small, and regardless of whether I was linked by blood to them. My competing responsibilities that week would have made for a revealing portrait of myself as an artist, and shown a personal side that my work may hide more subtly. An opportunity missed?
But perhaps, after all, that is the better way: to reduce the sensationalism and harshness of the bare facts by softening them in the protective layers of fabrics, where the truth is only hinted at and revealed gently. In the end, I am hoping this post goes some way to revealing more of the messages in my dresses that I spoke about that day. About being by the sides of my non-blood family as they said their final goodbyes to someone they loved, and also being able to be with my blood family as they celebrated their happy event.
And one final consideration for me to mull over: maybe the blood ties I spoke of with such fervour at the conference are not as important as the connections made with others, related to me or not.
#family#conferences#textiles#dresses#life writing#narrative#stories#life stories#university of brighton#university of sussex#revealing truths#clare best#Professor lyn thomas#dr deborah madden#katherine collins#alison child
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Gwen Farrar and Norah Blaney: Effingham's forgotten openly lesbian entertainers
For what would have been Pride in Surrey weekend, SurreyLive looks back on a leading double act of WWI music hall performers
from Surrey Live - Surrey News https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/gwen-farrar-norah-blaney-effinghams-18734732
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Young Readers: Reviews of The Cardboard Kingdom, All Summer Long, and Be Prepared
Time Codes:
00:00:27 - Introduction
00:03:03 - Fare-thee-well to Paul!
00:05:51 - The Cardboard Kingdom
00:28:41 - All Summer Long
00:44:11 -Be Prepared
01:06:46 - Wrap up
01:08:09 - Contact us
On this episode of the Comics Alternative’s Young Readers show, Gwen and Derek discuss summer 2018 new releases, all geared to middle-grade readers. The first text, edited and illustrated by Chad Sell, is The Cardboard Kingdom, released by Random House Graphic. Readers learn about the lives and dreams of a group of neighborhood kids in short stories written by Jay Fuller, David DeMeo, Katie Schenkel, Kris Moore, Molly Muldoon, Vid Alliger, Manuel Betancourt, Michael Cole, Cloud Jacobs, and Barbara Perez Marquez. The second text they discuss is Hope Larson’s All Summer Long from Farrar Straus Giroux. And finally, Gwen and Derek review Vera Brosgol’s long-awaited memoir, Be Prepared, released by First Second Books.
They start by reviewing a comic that demonstrates the experimentation that is currently taking place in the young reader category: Chad Sell’s edited collection of connected short stories, The Cardboard Kingdom. Set in a suburban neighborhood and featuring a truly diverse and engaging group of young kids, these stories show how imagination can function as a coping device. Young reader short story collections are not entirely new. Random House has also supported the Comics Squadseries, edited by Jennifer Holm and a rotating cast of co-editors, that have included themed volumes on "Recess," "Lunch," and "Detention." However, this short story collection boast only one artist, Chad Sell, and is presented as a cohesive narrative, with authors identified only at the end of the text. As such, the comic has a more cohesive feel, rather than a collection of fundamentally different stories that are linked only by theme.
After that, Gwen and Derek check out Hope Larson's All Summer Long. This is the story of a 13-year-old, Bina, and her attempts to find meaning over the course of a summer. Growing up, she had been used to spending the summer with her best friend Austin, but during this particular summer, Austin goes off to soccer camp, leaving Bina to fend for herself. And part of this fending includes Austin's aggressive older sister, Charlie. This is a book all about growing up and finding your way over the course of significant life changes.
Finally, Gwen and Derek discuss Vera Brosgol’s BePrepared. This memoir focuses on the summer between 4th and 5th grades, when she attends Russian summer camp in the hope of finding friends with whom she will have something in common. The opening vignette in the novel focuses on young Vera’s sense of cultural and economic isolation: as an immigrant from Russia and the daughter of a single mom living in a prosperous east coast suburb, she is often slow to pick up on the latest trends -- such as American Girl dolls -- and unable to approximate the lavish birthday parties that her classmates’ parents are able to throw for their children. At the end of the school year, Vera listens to the plans that her friends are making, attending girl scout camp, taking vacations to faraway destinations…and she feels left out again. However, at the Russian Orthodox church that she attends, Vera learns from Ksenya, a Sunday school friend, about Orra, a Russian heritage camp, and she is certain that it will not only be fun, but will give her something to talk about with her school friends in autumn. While the experience is certainly life changing, it nonetheless becomes something quite different than what Vera had expected.
Check out this episode!
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As you may have seen, today is the last day of publishing for Sports On Earth. I wrote many, many words for Sports On Earth, but I also hosted more than 500 The Will Leitch Experience podcasts. For the first two years, the show was in fact a daily podcast, which seems insane now. I do not know if the podcast itself is going to continue – obviously Grierson & Leitch and WSLS are continuing – but if it does, it won’t be under the Sports On Earth name.
So at the very least, this seems like a good time to reflect on the podcast itself. I don’t know if I’m the best interviewer, but my philosophy on podcasts has always been that if you get two smart people and just tape them talking to one another, you can’t help but capture something worthwhile, even accidentally. I loved doing the show because I loved talking to smart people about things they cared about. That’s what podcasts are for, I think: To dig deep into things with people who don’t usually get to dig deep on things. That was always the goal.
And we had a rather insane assortment of guests, from Patrick Stewart to Peter Billingsley to Red Panda Acrobat. Below is a list of every guest every to appear on The Will Leitch Experience podcast. This seems about as thorough a cross-section of sports media over the last five years that I can come up with.
PODCAST GUESTS
Red Panda Acrobat
Rick Ankiel
Jorge Arangure
Nicole Auerbach
Katie Baker
Chris Ballard
Steve Bardo
Howard Beck
Andy Behrens
Michael Beller
Alex Belth
Ted Berg
Jonathan Bernhardt
Neil Best
Carl Bialik
Peter Billingsley
Sigmund Bloom
Jon Bois
Mike Breen
Will Brinson
Chris Brown
Matt Brown
Jay Busbee
Mary Byrne
Craig Calcaterra
Peter Robert Casey
Anthony Castrovince
Rick Chandler
Jim Cooke
Cliff Corcoran
Dom Cosentino
Noah Coslov
Tommy Craggs
Chuck Culpepper
Ed Cunningham
Chris Cwik
Kavitha Davidson
Noah Davis
Josh Dean
Joe DeLessio
Jack Dickey
Michael Brendan Dougherty
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