True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. C.S. Lewis
Irving Ramsey Wiles - The
Corner Table [1886]
In the present work, Wiles
presents an elegant young woman sitting before a mirror in a sophisticated
restaurant or café. The artist’s indebtedness to the work of Manet is
immediately apparent: the compositional format the artist employs here shares
several compositional similarities with Manet’s Un bar aux Folies Bergère (A
Bar at the Folies-Bergère). Like this 1882 masterpiece, A Corner Table depicts
a young woman in front of a mirror in a restaurant, confronting the viewer with
eye contact and body language that is strikingly direct. A stylish vignette of
modern urban life, A Corner Table exemplifies Wiles’ superb talent for
rendering the beautiful yet unexpected details of everyday living.
Here's a nice poem for you..........................
After the Argument
A poem by Stephen Dunn
After the Argument
Whoever spoke first would lose
something,
that was the stupid
unspoken rule.
The stillness would be a
clamor, a capo
on a nerve. He’d stare
out the window,
she’d put away dishes, anything
for some noise. They’d sleep
in different rooms.
The trick was to speak as if
you hadn’t
spoken, a comment
so incidental
it wouldn’t be counted as speech.
Or to touch while passing,
an accident
of clothing, billowy sleeve
against
rolled-up cuff. They couldn’t
stand hating
each other for more than one
day.
Each knew this, each knew
the other’s body
would begin to lean, the voice
yearn
for the familiar confluence
of breath and syllable.
When? Who first? It was Yalta,
always
on some level the future,
the next time.
This time
there was a cardinal on the
bird feeder;
one of them was shameless
enough
to say so, the other pleased
to agree. And their sex was a
knot
untying itself, a prolonged
coming loose.
THE ART AND BEAUTY OF BALLET
Marco Agostino - Teatro alla Scala
THE BEAT POETS
Beat poetry evolved during the 1940s in both New York City and on
the west coast, although San Francisco became the heart of the movement in the
early 1950s. The end of World War II left poets like Allen Ginsberg, Gary
Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso questioning mainstream politics
and culture. A Brief Guide to the Beat Poets | Academy of American
Poets https://www.poets.org/poetsorg
I'm a big big Fan of
Bukowski
we are the people
born to kill and die and weep in darks rooms
and love in dark rooms,
and wait, and
wait and wait and wait.
we are the people.
we are nothing
more.
Charles Bukowski, in this cage some songs are born
MISH MOSH..........................................
Mish
Mash: noun \ˈmish-ˌmash, -ˌmäsh\ A : hodgepodge, jumble “The painting was just a mishmash of colors
and abstract shapes as far as we could tell”. Origin
Middle English & Yiddish; Middle English mysse masche, perhaps
reduplication of mash mash; Yiddish mish-mash, perhaps reduplication of mishn
to mix. First Known Use: 15th century
When love beckons to you, follow
him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to
him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. Khalil Gibran
Do not hire a man who does your
work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry
David Thoreau
A dog is the only thing on earth
that loves you more than you love yourself. Josh Billings
Today I love myself as I love my
god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but
who knows my god? Friedrich Nietzsche
MUSIC FOR THE SOUL
The Incredible Jimmy Smith At Club ‘Baby Grand’ session, 4 August 1956.
AND NOW, A BEATLES BREAK
DON'T YOU WANT TO SEE THE ENTIRE WORLD?
I DO
Metropolitan Library, Budapest
Sculpture this and Sculpture
that
DON'T YOU JUST LOVE POP ART?
Ushio Shinohara.
I LOVE BLACK AND WHITE
PHOTOS FROM FILM
WHY THE WORLD NEEDS EDITORS..........
THE ART OF PULP
THE ART OF WAR............
AND HERE'S SOME ANIMALS FOR YOU...................
BEING BILINGUAL CHANGES THE ARCHITECTURE OF YOUR BRAIN
LIZZIE WADE
I’D BEEN BACK from studying abroad in Mexico City for a couple of days when I asked my dad, “Can I use the lavadora?”
“The what?” He didn’t speak Spanish. I knew that, of course. I didn’t even really speak Spanish. I had barely been able to hold a conversation for most of the six months I had just spent in Mexico. So why when I needed to do laundry, the only word that came into my head was in Spanish?
“You know, the…umm…the thing that washes your clothes?” What is happening to me? I thought. How could I be forgetting English? I thought I was great at English!
“You mean the washing machine?”
“Yes, that!” I said, relieved to recognize a noun I had known and used for over 20 years. This momentary aphasia freaked me out when it first happened. But in the almost 10 years since this conversation—during which time I moved back to Mexico City as a grad student and then as a journalist—I’ve gotten used to it. I forget some English word or another at least once a day. I’m fluent in Spanish now, and I’m proud of that. But has speaking a second language somehow made me less fluent in my native language?
Judith Kroll thinks so. She’s a psychologist who studies bilingualism and its cognitive consequences at Pennsylvania State University. “A bilingual’s two languages sometimes converge, but often they compete,” she said this weekend during a presentation at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington, DC. When I speak Spanish, it’s not an effortless cognitive switch. My brain needs to actively choose Spanish every time I say a word or construct a sentence. Even after years and years of speaking Spanish every day, I can often feel that work happening. It’s tiring, and switching to English can be a relief.
But when I do, my brain is still doing all the same work, Kroll said. It’s just that now I’m choosing English instead of Spanish. Spanish is always there in my brain, forcing me to do a little extra work to find the English words, even though I’ve known them far longer than their Spanish equivalents. “Especially in immersive environments, it’s harder to grab hold of the native language,” Kroll said. “You might have a moment of panic.”
But if you really want to learn that second language, you can’t shy away from that panic. You should lean into it. “The native language may take a hit during second language learning,” Kroll said. “But that may be a crucial processes in learning to regulate language.” Preliminary results from her own lab suggest that “learners who are better able to take that hit to their native language and suffer those early consequences may be better able to learn the second language,” she said.
Plus, making a decision with every word you say may actually be like weightlifting for the brain. Every time I choose “washing machine” over “lavadora,” or vice versa, my brain gets a little stronger. Kroll thinks this constant cognitive challenge that bilinguals face may be responsible for an observed improvement in what’s called executive function, or the ability to filter out unnecessary information and make decisions. (Other researchers doubt that bilingualism has any effect on executive function, citing small sample sizes and a failure to replicate many positive results. You can read more about that debate here.)
Of course, any bilingual person will tell you that sometimes they don’t bother making a choice. When I talk to other people who speak English and Spanish, I often mix the languages together, saying things like, “Quieres un toast?” and “I wanted to aprovechar the holiday and viajar un poco.” If I want to maximize the cognitive benefits of speaking two languages, should I stop mixing and force my brain through the gymnastics every time I open my mouth? In short: no. “Back in the 1980s, people claimed that language mixing was pathological,” Kroll said. “It’s actually a normal and typical part of bilingual experience.” Plus, it’s not like my brain is slacking off. I’m still choosing between languages with every word, it’s just that I’m not making the same choice every time.
From the day I landed in Mexico City, it was obvious that my English was always going to influence my Spanish—in my accent, in my vocabulary, in my embarrassing false-cognate fails. But as my lavadora moment made clear, learning Spanish quickly reshaped the way I spoke English, too. I don’t have two monolingual minds operating separately in one head. I have one bilingual brain. Messy? Yes. Bewildering? Sometimes. Cognitively strong? I hope so.
Good words to have
Paternoster (PAY-tuhr NOS-tuhr, PAH-, PAT-) noun
1. A sequence of words used as a formula, a charm, etc.
2. A continuously moving endless elevator that goes in a loop.
3. The Lord’s Prayer; one of the certain larger beads in a rosary on which the Lord’s Prayer is said.
From Latin pater noster (our father), opening words of the Lord’s Prayer in Latin.
GOOD WORDS TO HAVE …………
Uxorial \uk-SOR-ee-ul\ of, relating to, or characteristic of a wife. With help from -ial, -ious, and -icide, the Latin word uxor, meaning "wife," has given us the English words uxorial, uxorious (meaning "excessively fond of or submissive to a wife"), and uxoricide ("murder of a wife by her husband" or "a wife murderer"). Maritus means "husband" in Latin, so marital can mean "of or relating to a husband and his role in marriage" (although maritus also means "married," and the "of or relating to marriage or the married state" sense of marital is far more common). And while mariticide is "spouse killing," it can also be specifically "husband-killing."
TODAY'S ALLEGED MOB GUY
Cary, Estelle:
Estelle Cary Born 1910 was placed in an orphanage when she was two and half
years old by her mother a few days after her Estelle’s father died
unexpectedly. Estelle’s mother remarried a few years later in 1916 and removed
Estelle from the orphanage.
Cary,
a one time clothes model, eventually
became gangster Nick Circella’s girlfriend after the hood found her waiting
tables in 1932 and was stunned by her beauty.
At some point, she turned to prostitution and dice hustling during World
War while waitressing at Circella’s
casino-night spot, The Yacht Club on Rush Street.
She later ran the dice game at Circella’s
Colony Club Casino. At some point, the
Outfit bosses became convinced that Estelle was holding back money from them
and that she had been talking to federal investigators about the Bioff scandal.
There
was also some worry that Circella, who was missing, might cooperate with the
government. So the outfit sent a killer to deal with Carey. On February 2, 1943, Carey, was found
murdered here in her third-floor, five-bedroom apartment at 512 W. Addison by
firemen who came to put out a fire.(She shared the apartment with Maxine
Buturff , the owner of a ladies clothing store) She was naked except for a red housecoat
that had been soaked with lighter fluid and set on fire on the dinning room
floor.
Evidence
showed that she had been tortured with an ice pick, a knife, a roller pin, an
iron, a ten inch blackjack and brass knuckles. Her nose was broken, several of
her teeth had been knocked out, and she had a cut across her throat that had
been made with a razor. Her eyeball was cut, her lips were smashed open. There
were bloodstains in the sink and on the
kitchen cabinets. A blood stained kitchen knife and pie rolling pin were found
next to the body and a ten inch blackjack was found on the kitchen floor.
Police
established that at about 1PM Cary had been on the phone talking to her cousin
Phoebe Zyrkowski. Cary said “The door bell is ringing. I have to go I’ll call
back in one hour” She allowed her killer
in to the apartment and started t prepare two cups of coco. From there, the
investigating detective Bill Drury determined, she was beaten and then dragged
into the living room and eventually killed. (The actual cause of death was
burns not the beating.
During
the police investigation, dresses, cameras, golf clubs and other items
disappeared from Cary’s apartment shortly after it was declared a crime scene.
Most of the items were returned in secret after Cary’s lawyers threatened) An
invalid neighbor spotted a man leaving the apartment with two fur coats under
his arm.
Police
hauled in Circella’s wife Ernestine for two hours of questioning. When police
asked if she knew about her husband and Estelle, Mrs. Circella replied “Yes, I
knew Nick was cheating and I knew about her. Show people are always cheating on
each other, but I would not allow it to break up my home” Otherwise, Captain
Drury made several arrest of possible suspects in the case, eventually releasing
them all. One of those locked up was John Borcia, Circella’s long time partner
as well as Ralph Pierce (Murray Humpreys understudy) Les Kruse, Marshal Caifano
and Sam Battaglia
*** PLAYWRIGHTS OPPORTUNITIES
***
North Park Playwright
Festival 2016
Short new plays (no more than
12 pages, less is fine) that are easily staged and have casts with no more than
four people. Our theater is very small and we normally use a minimal set
concept in this festival. We have to be able to change sets in just a few
minutes as we do six to seven plays each evening of the festival. We don't have
space for large casts.
***
Two years ago the New York
New Works Theatre Festival was created by Gene Fisch, Jr. as a philanthropic
project for the arts where Broadway Producers and Television writers donated
their time to review and mentor the work of aspiring writers. We have decided
to enjoy a third year given the success of our first two and we would like to
invite your group's members to participate. We are calling for submissions for
both plays and musicals; the selected shows will perform in the heart of the
world's premier theatre district at the 199 seat Elektra Theatre. It's quite a
special endeavor.
***
THEATRE ROULETTE is MadLab’s
annual shorts festival. In its first year, THEATRE ROULETTE began a tradition
of an annual shorts festival that has lasted more than 10 years. The first year
was an “invitation-only” festival, from there expanded to taking local
submissions to taking submission from across the United States to now,
receiving over 1500 scripts every year from every corner of the world.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION
about these and other opportunities see the NYCPlaywrights web site at
http://www.nycplaywrights.org ***
*** TEACHING DRAMA ***
Human Bingo
Age: 10 to adult
Players: Whole Group
Time: 10 – 15 minutes
Skills: Ice-breaker
Find out as much as you can
about other people using a bingo card.
Each person is given a sheet
of paper set out in a grid like a bingo card. However, instead of numbers, each
box contains a phrase relating to hobbies, interests or other personal
information. A time-limit is given and everyone asks each other questions. When
they find someone who fits one of the categories, they ask that person to write
their name in the box.
The winner is the first
person to get a signature in every box or to gather the most names within the
time-limit. You can make it a rule that each person can only sign one box on
someone else’s card. You will need to prepare the cards in advance and choose
around 12 – 20 categories to suit the characteristics of the group members.
Examples are given below.
More…
http://dramaresource.com/human-bingo/
***
Theatrefolk Theatre Trivia
Random trivia generated
sample:
Category: Plays
Prior Walter, Roy Cohn, and
Harper Pit are characters in this play
John Proctor is the main
character in this play.
A play that is both comedy
and drama.
These punctuation marks are
used to separate stage directions from dialogue.
This Kaufman and Hart play
features the Sycamore family.
Olga, Maria and Irinia are
the title characters in this Chekhov play.
The written out actions in a
script
In this play, two spinster
aunts murder lonely men with poisoned wine.
According to Aristotle, this
is the basis for all drama.
How does Emily die in “Our
Town?”
Dénouement is another word
for ______________
Truvy, Ouiser and Clairee are
characters in this play.
True or False? “Waiting for
Godot” was originally written in French.
Where was Albee’s “The Zoo
Story” first performed?
Konstantin is a young
playwright with an actress mother in this Chekhov play.
Random theater trivia
generator & Printable lesson plans
http://trivia.theatrefolk.com
***
WHY I BECAME A TEACHER
An inspiring drama teacher
got me hooked
I started out as a drama
teacher and I still teach nine drama lessons a week. Putting on productions is
voluntary, but of course it's an expectation of drama and PE teachers that you
will run extra curricular stuff and a big part of the job. You put in a lot of
extra time but it all pays off. It's so enjoyable and means you have an impact
on and know many more students than you actually teach. When you work with
students on a show, they are coming in their own time so a very different
relationship develops.
Now I'm leader of learning at
school, so very involved in curriculum development, and one of the assistant
heads - so it's not all about drama for me anymore. I play a game of two
halves. It's a big change from being a class teacher. There are times when
you're having to be really firm with people. When you become part of the senior
management your relationships with students and even colleagues will change
over time. But students seem good at knowing when you're doing drama and when
you're in your other role. I think having a background in drama teaching can
really help in a leadership role, in fact our head teacher also used to be a
drama teacher. As a drama teacher you have to have a lot of empathy and
understand people. The leadership of other adults, getting them on board and
encouraging them to up with ideas, all these are skills you develop in drama
and theatre - putting on a show is of course the ultimate in team work.
More…
http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2012/sep/30/why-i-became-a-teacher-inspiring-drama-teacher
***
The Drama Teacher
Resources for those who love
drama
http://www.thedramateacher.com
***
Gay Drama Teacher has an Epic
Response to Homophobic Parent
An openly gay drama teacher
in the United Kingdom had the best response this week to a homophobic parent
who sought to withdraw her children from his tutelage.
According to Buzzfeed,
26-year-old Michael Neri runs a drama school for children in the U.K. called
Talking Props Theatre School. He received a text last week from a mother who
wanted to pull her children from the program and receive her deposit back
because — “as a Christian” — she did not approve of the teacher’s queer
identity.
Not only did Neri have the
perfect response to this blatent bigotry, but he informed the concerned parents
that the deposit was, unfortunately, nonrefundable. Instead, he donated her
money to Stonewall — an LGBT charity.
More…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gay-drama-teacher-has-an-epic-response-to-this-homophobic-parent_us_56547d7fe4b0879a5b0c6615
***
10 Crazy Things People Say to
Drama Teachers (and What to Say Back!)
There are the things people
say to teachers ... and then there are the things people say to drama teachers.
It seems people overlook the fact that a little musical theater, in particular,
can go a long way toward building student confidence, creativity and, yes, even
Common Core mastery.
So the next time someone
makes you cringe with a lowbrow comment about what you do, here’s how you can
respond with wit and wisdom.
“Anyone can teach drama—it’s
just pretending.”
You say: “It’s about more
than pretending. When students walk a mile in another character’s shoes, they
build empathy and expand their horizons.”
More…
http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/post/2015/06/25/10-crazy-things-people-say-to-drama-teachers
***
Drama Teacher’s Network
https://dramateachersnetwork.wordpress.com
***
Trust Me, I’m a Drama Teacher
The 5 Stages You Go Through
In Half Term
You’ve waited 6-7 weeks for
this. It’s finally here. You can pack the classroom away for a week and keep
your head away from school!
Yet, there are always the six
stages I go through every half term that never seem to change… Here they are!
Stage 1 Elation
School is done for a week!
You won’t have to set the alarm come Sunday night; nope, you could sleep in to
8, maybe even 9 if you wish. You don’t have to deal with irritating kiddies,
you can watch Netflix and Jeremy Kyle all day and, what’s more, your partner is
going to be at work all week – meaning the house and the TV are yours! Yahooo!
More…
https://trustmeimadramateacher.com/2016/05/29/the-6-stages-you-go-through-in-half-term/
***
BBC: School Drama
Four-part drama series with
Tom Hollander. Deer Park Academy, a re-branded failing school, is working to
turn itself around and inspire its students. But inspiration can be dangerous
and when has-been TV star, Geoff Cathcart, is brought in to stage a production
of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, he opens a Pandora's box of controversy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07bdd29
Walden
for the 21st century – Kickstarter plan to update Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau’s landmark
1854 work to be relaunched with modernised vocabulary ‘to create more
opportunities for other people’s lives to be enriched by this book’
Evergreen ... the new version of Walden by
Henry David Thoreau. Photograph: Vann Alexandra
Alison Flood
Henry David Thoreau’s revered
account of the period he spent living a self-consciously simple life in a cabin
at Walden Pond is set to be adapted for the 21st century, to make the classic
text more appealing to modern readers.
First published in 1854, Walden
sees the American writer lay out the two years, two months, and two days he
spent in the woods near Concord, Massachusetts in a cabin lent him by his
friend and fellow “transcendentalist” Ralph Waldo Emerson. “I went to the woods
because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of
life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came
to die, discover that I had not lived,” he wrote. “I wanted to live deep and
suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put
to rout all that was not life.”
The poet Robert Frost found that
“in one book … [Thoreau] surpasses everything we have had in America”. But according
to John Updike, “Walden has become such a totem of the back-to-nature,
preservationist, anti-business, civil-disobedience mindset … that the book
risks being as revered and unread as the Bible”.
Now the designer and writer Matt
Steel is setting out to address Walden’s declining readership, with a new
edition of the public domain text that adapts Thoreau’s 19th-century language
for modern readers. Steel launched a Kickstarter to raise funds for his project
on Tuesday, aiming to raise $104,000 (£72,000) to print 2,000 cloth hardback,
illustrated copies of his adapted version. The finished book is due out in
spring 2017 if the campaign is successful.
“While widely quoted, Walden is
rarely read anymore, and our society’s familiarity with the story is fading,”
Steel said. “My theory is that there’s nothing wrong with the story. It’s the
19th-century language that’s problematic. By creating an updated version of
Walden, I want to create more opportunities for other people’s lives to be
enriched by this book.”
When Steel himself first read the
book, in 2014, it had “a profound impact” on him, he said. “Having gone through
a period of career burnout, followed by radical lifestyle change, I could see
that Thoreau’s ideas around simplicity, consumerism, and busy-ness had an
uncanny relevance to the challenges we face today. I shared my enthusiasm for
the book with anyone willing to listen. But I kept having to couch my
recommendations: ‘This is an incredible book, but the 19th-century language is
hard to digest at times. But stick with it, and you’ll be glad you did!’ This
situation bothered me. I didn’t want to keep telling people they should read
Walden – ‘but …’. I realised that what this story needs is to be updated for
modern readers.”
His new version neither abridges
nor “dumb[s] down” Thoreau’s original text, he says. “A lot of the pleasure in
reading Walden is Thoreau’s language. Walden has always been a dense, layered
text. I think that’s part of what makes it a feast for the mind,” said Steel.
“To that end, I am not revising Walden to the
point of removing any of Thoreau’s ideas or adding my own. I have no wish to impose
my style or opinions on such a celebrated author. But I believe the degree to
which the English language has changed over the past two centuries has made it
harder for readers to get into this particular text. And because Walden was
such a complex, layered work to begin with, and because of its ongoing
relevance, it seemed particularly ripe for an update ... I want to shorten the
distance between 1854 and today as much as possible, so that the lyrical
beauty, wisdom, and power of this excellent text can shine.”
Examples of the changes he has
made include translations of Latin and Greek references, updated archaisms (“I
would fain” becomes “I wish”), changes to outdated place names, and splitting
Thoreau’s lengthy sentences up. He has also switched “men” for “people”
throughout, when Thoreau is referring to humanity as a whole. The new version
is sprinkled with pull quotes highlighting Thoreau’s “powerful one-liners”,
such as “could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each
other’s eyes for an instant?” And at the end, a selection of the author’s “most
arresting passages” are presented as prose poems.
Steel has worked with the editor
and poet Billy Merrell on the text, and says that so far, much of the feedback
from the literary community has been “delight and enthusiasm”. “A couple have
been very sceptical. I’m sure that there will be strong reactions as more
people discover this project,” said Steel. “I invite sceptics to read the
original and my version side by side and then judge for themselves … I want
people to know that I don’t intend to replace the original version of Walden.
My version may serve as a replacement for some people, or a first-and-only
version for others. But I see the two versions living side by side. If this project
helps preserve Thoreau’s beautiful words and introduces him to new audiences,
then I’ve done my job.”
Should the Kickstarter prove
successful, Steel envisages adapting other classics. “The loss of accessibility
in books has been going on for millennia, as has the practice of updating them
in order to prevent their disappearance. But I think we tend to wait too long.
With this project, I hope to show the benefits of shortening revision cycles. I
believe this will allow the world’s best stories to remain evergreen,” he said.
Does
Thoreau's 'Walden' need a 21st-century update?
Why one writer has launched an
ambitious new Kickstarter campaign to make Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden' more
accessible to modern readers.
By Husna Haq
Do classics need to be updated?
Matt Steel thinks so. The
designer and writer has launched an ambitious new Kickstarter campaign to
update Henry David Thoreau's "Walden," to make it more accessible for
modern readers.
First published in 1854, the classic
book chronicles the roughly two years Thoreau spent living a simple life in the
woods in a cabin at Walden Pond
“I went to the woods because I
wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see
if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived,” Thoreau famously wrote in the book. “I wanted
to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and
Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life.”
But "Walden," which
also contains archaic references and dense passages which may prove
impenetrable for 21st-century audiences, has been facing a declining readership
for decades.
Mr. Steel wants to change that.
“While widely quoted, 'Walden' is
rarely read anymore, and our society’s familiarity with the story is fading,”
Steel told the UK's Guardian. “My theory is that there’s nothing wrong with the
story. It’s the 19th-century language that’s problematic. By creating an
updated version of 'Walden,' I want to create more opportunities for other
people’s lives to be enriched by this book.”
He's trying to raise $104,000
through his Kickstarter campaign to print 2,000 cloth hardcover, illustrated
copies of a modernized version of "Walden," due out in spring 2017.
Steel's personal experience with
the book, which he said had a "profound impact on him," fueled this
project.
“Having gone through a period of
career burnout, followed by radical lifestyle change, I could see that
Thoreau’s ideas around simplicity, consumerism, and busyness had an uncanny
relevance to the challenges we face today," he wrote on his Kickstarter
page. "I shared my enthusiasm for the book with anyone willing to listen.
But I kept having to couch my recommendations: ‘This is an incredible book, but
the 19th-century language is hard to digest at times. But stick with it, and
you’ll be glad you did!’
"This situation bothered me.
I didn’t want to keep telling people they should read Walden – ‘but …’. I
realized that what this story needs is to be updated for modern readers.”
This is not the first time
writers have attempted to modernize classics. The works of Truman Capote, Jane
Austen, and even Shakespeare haveundergone updates, sometimes dramatically so.
In some cases, Aston Martins replace horses, Facebook posts replace gossip, and
text messages replace face-to-face exchanges.
But Steel says readers can expect
updates to style, not substance, in his adaptation of "Walden," for
which he is partnering with a co-editor, author, poet, and editor Billy
Merrell.
"Walden is a vital piece of
literature, and Billy and I are taking every precaution to ensure that this new
edition is a faithful adaptation," he writes. "To that end, I am not
revising 'Walden' to the point of removing any of Thoreau’s ideas or adding my
own. I have no wish to impose my style or opinions on such a celebrated author.
But I believe the degree to which the English language has changed over the
past two centuries has made it harder for readers to get into this particular
text.
"I want to shorten the
distance between 1854 and today as much as possible, so that the lyrical
beauty, wisdom, and power of this excellent text can shine.”
Among the changes Steel proposes
are including translations of Greek and Latin references, updating archaisms
like "I would fain," to "I wish," breaking apart especially
long sentences, and changing "men" to "people," where
Thoreau references humanity. Steel, a designer and former creative director,
also proposes a number of sleek design and formatting updates to make the book
more visually appealing, including pull quotes, prose poems, and full-color
illustrations by artist Brooks Salzwedel.
(These changes are possible
because "Walden" is in the public domain and copyright-free, so
anyone can change the book.)
And Steel doesn't plan to stop
with "Walden." If this project is successful, Steel told the Guardian
he plans to adapt other classics.
“The loss of accessibility in
books has been going on for millennia, as has the practice of updating them in
order to prevent their disappearance. But I think we tend to wait too long.
With this project, I hope to show the benefits of shortening revision cycles. I
believe this will allow the world’s best stories to remain evergreen."
BLOGLAPEDIA’S
BLOGS
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture
for the blog of it
http://architecturefortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
THE ARTS
Art
for the Blog of It
http://artfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
Art
for the Pop of it
http://artforthepopofit.blogspot.com/
Photography
for the blog of it
http://photographyfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
Music
for the Blog of it
http://musicfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
Sculpture
this and Sculpture that
http://sculpturethisandsculpturethat.blogspot.com/
The
art of War (Propaganda art through the ages)
http://theartofwarcleverhuh.blogspot.com/
Album
Art (Photographic arts)
http://albumartsocheesyitsgood.blogspot.com/
Pulp
Fiction Trash (The art of Pulp Fiction covers)
http://pulpfictiontrash.blogspot.com/
Admit
it, you want to Read this Book (The art of Pulp Fiction covers)
http://goaheadadmitityouwanttoread.blogspot.com/
FILM
The
Godfather Trilogy BlogSpot
http://thegodfathertrilogyblogspot.blogspot.com/
On
the Waterfront: The Making of a great American Film
http://onthewaterfrontthefilm.blogspot.com/
FOOD
Absolutely
blogalicious
http://absolutelyblogalicious.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes (Book support site)
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
Good
chowda (New England foods)
http://goodchowda.blogspot.com/
Old
New England Recipes (Book support site)
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com/
And I
Love Clams (New England foods)
http://andiloveclams.blogspot.com/
In
Praise of the Rhode Island Wiener (New England foods)
http://inpraiseoftherhodeislandwiener.blogspot.com/
Wicked
Cool New England Recipes (New England foods)
http://whickedcoolnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Old
New England Recipes (New England foods)
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
FOSTER CARE
Foster Care new and Updates
Aging out of the system
Murder, Death and Abuse in the
Foster Care system
Angel and Saints in the Foster
Care System
The Foster Children’s Blogs
Foster Care Legislation
The Foster Children’s Bill of
Right
Foster Kids own Story
The Adventures of Foster Kid.
HEALTH
Me
vs. Diabetes (Diabetes education site)
http://mevsdiabetes-bloglapedia.blogspot.com/
HISTORY
The
Quotable Helen Keller
http://thequotablehelenkeller.blogspot.com/
Teddy
Roosevelt's Letters to his children (Book support site)
http://teddyrooseveltsletterstohischildren.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Machiavelli (Book support site)
http://thequotablemachiavelli.blogspot.com/
HUMOR
Whatever
you do, don't laugh
http://whateveryoudodontlaugh.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Grouch Marx
http://thequotablegrouchmarx.blogspot.com/
IRISH-AMERICANA
A Big
Blog of Irish Literature
http://abigblogofirishliterature.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Blog of Irish Jokes (Book support blog)
http://theweeblogofirishjokes.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Blog of Irish Recipes
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
The
Irish American Gangster
http://irishamericangangsters.blogspot.com
The
Irish in their Own Words
http://theirishintheirownwords.blogspot.com/
When
Washington Was Irish
http://whenwashingtonwasirish.blogspot.com/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes (Book support site)
http://theweeblogofirishrecipes.blogspot.com/
LITERATURE
Following
Fitzgerald
http://followingfitzgerald.blogspot.com/
Shakespeare
http://shakespeareinamericanenglish.blogspot.com/
The
Blogable Robert Frost
http://theblogablerobertfrost.blogspot.com/
Charles
Dickens
http://charlesdickensfan.blogspot.com/
The
Beat Poets of the Forever Generation
http://thebeatspoetsoftheforevergenera.blogspot.com/
Holden
Caulfield Blog Spot
http://holdencaulfieldblogspot.blogspot.com/
The
Quotable Oscar Wilde
http://thequotableoscarwilde.blogspot.com/
NEW ENGLAND BLOGS
The
Quotable Thoreau
http://thequotablethenrydavidthoreau.blogspot.com/
Old
New England Recipes
http://oldnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Wicked
Cool New England Recipes
http://whickedcoolnewenglandrecipes.blogspot.com
Emerson
http://emersonsaidit.blogspot.com/
The
New England Mafia
http://thenewenglandmafia.blogspot.com/
And I
Love Clams
http://andiloveclams.blogspot.com/
In
Praise of the Rhode Island Wiener
http://inpraiseoftherhodeislandwiener.blogspot.com/
Watch
Hill
http://watchhillwesterly.blogspot.com/
York
Beach
http://yorkbeachfortheblogofit.blogspot.com/
The Connecticut
History Blog
http://connecticuthistory.blogspot.com/
The
Connecticut Irish
http://theconnecticutirish.blogspot.com/
Good
chowda
http://goodchowda.blogspot.com/
NOSTALGIA
God,
How I hated the 70s
http://godhowihatedthe70s.blogspot.com/
Child
of the Sixties Forever
http://childofthesixtiesforeverandever.blogspot.com/
The
Kennedy’s in the 60’s
http://thekennedysinthe60s.blogspot.com/
Music
of the Sixties Forever
http://musicofthesixtiesforever.blogspot.com/
Elvis
and Nixon at the White House (Book support site)
http://elvisandnixonatthewhitehouse.blogspot.com/
Beatles
Fan Forever
http://beatlesfanforever.blogspot.com/
Year
One, 1955
http://yearone1955.blogspot.com/
Robert
Kennedy in His Own Words
The
1980s were fun
http://the1980swereokayactually.blogspot.com/
The
1990s. The last decade.
http://1990sthelastdecade.blogspot.com/
ORGANIZED CRIME
The
Russian Mafia
http://russianmafiagangster.blogspot.com/
The
American Jewish Gangster
http://theamericanjewishgangster.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Hollywood
http://themobinhollywood.blogspot.com/
We
Only Kill Each Other
http://weonlykilleachother.blogspot.com/
Early
Gangsters of New York City
http://earlygangstersofnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/
Al
Capone: Biography of a self-made Man
http://alcaponethebiographyofaselfmademan.blogspot.com/
The
Life and World of Al Capone
http://thelifeandworldofalcapone.blogspot.com/
The
Salerno Report
http://salernoreportmafiaandurderjohnkennedy.blogspot.com/
Guns
and Glamour
http://gunsandglamourthechicagomobahistory.blogspot.com/
The
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
http://thesaintvalentinesdaymassacre.blogspot.com/
Mob
Testimony
http://mobtestimony.blogspot.com/
Recipes
we would Die For
http://recipeswewoulddiefor.blogspot.com/
The
Prohibition in Pictures
http://theprohibitioninpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Pictures
http://themobinpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Mob in Vegas
http://themobinvegasinpictures.blogspot.com/
The
Irish American Gangster
http://irishamericangangsters.blogspot.com
Roger
Touhy Gangster
http://rogertouhygangsters.blogspot.com/
Chicago’s
Mob Bosses
http://chicagosmobbossesfromaccardoto.blogspot.com/
Chicago
Gang Land: It Happened Here
http://chicagoganglandithappenedhere.blogspot.com/
Whacked:
One Hundred years of Murder in Gangland
http://whackedonehundredyearsmurderand.blogspot.com/
The
Mob Across America
http://themobacrossamerica.blogspot.com/
Mob
Cops, Lawyers and Front Men
http://mobcopslawyersandinformantsand.blogspot.com/
Shooting
the Mob: Dutch Schultz
http://shootingthemobdutchschultz.blogspot.com/
Bugsy&
His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill
http://bugsyandvirginiahill.blogspot.com/
After
Valachi. Hearings before the US Senate on Organized Crime
http://aftervalachi.blogspot.com/
Mob
Buster: Report of Special Agent Virgil Peterson to the Kefauver Committee (Book
support site)
http://virgilpetersonmobbuster.blogspot.com/
The
US Government’s Timeline of Organized Crime (Book support site)
http://timelineoforganizedcrime.blogspot.com/
The
Kefauver Organized Crime Hearings (Book support site)
http://thekefauverorganizedcrimehearings.blogspot.com/
Joe
Valachi's testimony on the Mafia (Book support site)
http://joevalachistestimonyonthemafia.blogspot.com/
Mobsters
in the News
http://mobstersinthenews.blogspot.com/
Shooting
the Mob: Dead Mobsters (Book support site)
http://deadmobsters.blogspot.com/
The
Stolen Years Full Text (Roger Touhy)
http://thestolenyearsfulltext.blogspot.com/
Mobsters
in Black and White
http://mobstersinblackandwhite.blogspot.com/
Mafia
Gangsters, Wiseguys and Goodfellas
http://mafiagangsterswiseguysandgoodfellas.blogspot.com/
Whacked:
One Hundred Years of Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Mob (Book support site)
http://whackedonehundredyearsmurderand.blogspot.com/
Gangland
Gaslight: The Killing of Rosy Rosenthal (Book support site)
http://ganglandgaslightrosyrosenthal.blogspot.com/
The
Best of the Mob Files Series (Book support site)
http://thebestofthemobfilesseries.blogspot.com/
PHILOSOPHY
It’s
All Greek Mythology to me
http://itsallgreekmythologytome.blogspot.com/
PSYCHOLOGY
Psychologically
Relevant
http://psychologicallyrelevant.blogspot.com/
SNOBBERY
The
Rarifieid Tribe
http://therarifiedtribe.blogspot.com/
Perfect
Behavior
http://perfectbehavior.blogspot.com/
TRAVEL
The
Upscale Traveler
http://theupscaletraveler.blogspot.com/
TRIVIA
The
Mish Mosh Blog
http://theupscaletraveler.blogspot.com/
WASHINGTON DC
DC
Behind the Monuments
http://dcbehindthemonuments.blogspot.com/
Washington
Oddities
http://washingtonoddities.blogspot.com/
When
Washington Was Irish
http://whenwashingtonwasirish.blogspot.com/
FROM LLR BOOKS. COM
Litchfield Literary Books. A
really small company run by writers.
AMERICAN HISTORY
The
Day Nixon Met Elvis
Paperback 46 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Day-Nixon-Met-elvis/
Theodore
Roosevelt: Letters to his Children. 1903-1918
Paperback 194 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Roosevelt-Letters-Children-1903-1918/dp/
THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND
CIVILIZATIONS
The
Works of Horace
Paperback 174 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Works-Horace-Richard-Willoughby/
The
Quotable Greeks
Paperback 234 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Greeks-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotable Epictetus
Paperback 142 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Epictetus-Golden-Sayings
Quo
Vadis: A narrative of the time of Nero
Paperback 420 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quo-Vadis-Narrative-Time-Nero
CHILDRENS BOOKS
The
Porchless Pumpkin: A Halloween Story for Children
A Halloween play for young
children. By consent of the author, this play may be performed, at no charge,
by educational institutions, neighborhood organizations and other
not-for-profit-organizations.
A fun story with a moral
“I believe that Denny O'Day is an
American treasure and this little book proves it. Jack is a pumpkin who happens
to be very small, by pumpkins standards and as a result he goes unbought in the
pumpkin patch on Halloween eve, but at the last moment he is given his chance
to prove that just because you're small doesn't mean you can't be brave. Here
is the point that I found so wonderful, the book stresses that while size
doesn't matter when it comes to courage...ITS OKAY TO BE SCARED....as well. I
think children need to hear that, that's its okay to be unsure because life is
a ongoing lesson isn't it?”
Paperback: 42 pages
http://www.amazon.com/OLANTERN-PORCHLESS-PUMPKIN-Halloween-Children
It's
Not All Right to be a Foster Kid....no matter what they tell you: Tweet the
books contents
Paperback 94 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Right-Foster-Kid-no-matter-what
From the Author
I spent my childhood, from age
seven through seventeen, in foster care.
Over the course of those ten years, many decent, well-meaning, and
concerned people told me, "It's okay to be foster kid."
In saying that, those very good
people meant to encourage me, and I appreciated their kindness then, and all
these many decades later, I still appreciate their good intentions. But as I
was tossed around the foster care system, it began to dawn on me that they were
wrong. It was not all right to be a
foster kid.
During my time in the system, I
was bounced every eighteen months from three foster homes to an orphanage to a
boy's school and to a group home before I left on my own accord at age
seventeen.
In the course of my stay in foster
care, I was severely beaten in two homes by my "care givers" and
separated from my four siblings who were also in care, sometimes only blocks
away from where I was living.
I left the system rather than to
wait to age out, although the effects of leaving the system without any family,
means, or safety net of any kind, were the same as if I had aged out. I lived
in poverty for the first part of my life, dropped out of high school, and had
continuous problems with the law.
Today, almost nothing about foster care has
changed. Exactly what happened to me is
happening to some other child, somewhere in America, right now. The system, corrupt, bloated, and
inefficient, goes on, unchanging and secretive.
Something has gone wrong in a
system that was originally a compassionate social policy built to improve lives
but is now a definitive cause in ruining lives.
Due to gross negligence, mismanagement, apathy, and greed, mostly what
the foster care system builds are dangerous consequences. Truly, foster care
has become our epic national disgrace and a nightmare for those of us who have
lived through it.
Yet there is a suspicion among
some Americans that foster care costs too much, undermines the work ethic, and
is at odds with a satisfying life.
Others see foster care as a part of the welfare system, as legal plunder
of the public treasuries.
None of that is true; in fact, all that sort
of thinking does is to blame the victims.
There is not a single child in the system who wants to be there or asked
to be there. Foster kids are in foster
care because they had nowhere else to go.
It's that simple. And believe me,
if those kids could get out of the system and be reunited with their parents
and lead normal, healthy lives, they would. And if foster care is a sort of
legal plunder of the public treasuries, it's not the kids in the system who are
doing the plundering.
We need to end this needless suffering. We need to end it because it is morally and
ethically wrong and because the generations to come will not judge us on the
might of our armed forces or our technological advancements or on our fabulous
wealth.
Rather, they will judge us, I am certain, on
our compassion for those who are friendless, on our decency to those who have
nothing and on our efforts, successful or not, to make our nation and our world
a better place. And if we cannot
accomplish those things in the short time allotted to us, then let them say of
us "at least they tried."
You can change the tragedy of
foster care and here's how to do it. We
have created this book so that almost all of it can be tweeted out by you to
the world. You have the power to improve
the lives of those in our society who are least able to defend themselves. All you need is the will to do it.
If the American people, as good, decent and
generous as they are, knew what was going on in foster care, in their name and
with their money, they would stop it.
But, generally speaking, although the public has a vague notion that
foster care is a mess, they don't have the complete picture. They are not aware
of the human, economic and social cost that the mismanagement of the foster
care system puts on our nation.
By tweeting the facts laid out in
this work, you can help to change all of that.
You can make a difference. You
can change things for the better.
We can always change the future
for a foster kid; to make it better ...you have the power to do that. Speak up
(or tweet out) because it's your country.
Don't depend on the "The other guy" to speak up for these
kids, because you are the other guy.
We cannot build a future for
foster children, but we can build foster children for the future and the time
to start that change is today.
No
time to say Goodbye: Memoirs of a life in foster
Paperbook 440 Books
http://www.amazon.com/No-Time-Say-Goodbye-Memoir
BOOKS
ABOUT FILM
On
the Waterfront: The Making of a Great American Film
Paperback: 416 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Waterfront-Making-Great-American-Film/
BOOKS
ABOUT GHOSTS AND THE SUPERNATUAL
Scotish
Ghost Stories
Paperback 186 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Scottish-Ghost-Stories-Elliott-ODonell
HUMOR
BOOKS
The
Book of funny odd and interesting things people say
Paperback: 278 pages
http://www.amazon.com/book-funny-interesting-things-people
The
Wee Book of Irish Jokes
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Series-Irish-Jokes-ebook
Perfect
Behavior: A guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in all Social Crises
http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Behavior-Ladies-Gentlemen-Social
BOOKS
ABOUT THE 1960s
You
Don’t Need a Weatherman. Underground 1969
Paperback 122 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Weatherman-Notes-Weatherman-Underground-1969
Baby
Boomers Guide to the Beatles Songs of the Sixties
Paperback
http://www.amazon.com/Boomers-Guide-Beatles-Songs-Sixties/
Baby
Boomers Guide to Songs of the 1960s
http://www.amazon.com/Baby-Boomers-Guide-Songs-1960s
IRISH- AMERICANA
The
Connecticut Irish
Paper back 140 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Connecticut-Irish-Catherine-F-Connolly
The Wee Book of Irish Jokes
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Series-Irish-Jokes-ebook/
The
Wee Book of Irish Recipes
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wee-Book-Irish-Recipes/
The Wee Book of the American-Irish Gangsters
http://www.amazon.com/The-Wee-Book-Irish-American-Gangsters/
The Wee book of Irish Blessings...
http://www.amazon.com/Series-Blessing-Proverbs-Toasts-ebook/
The
Wee Book of the American Irish in Their Own Words
http://www.amazon.com/Book-American-Irish-Their-Words/
Everything
you need to know about St. Patrick
Paperback 26 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Need-About-Saint-Patrick
A
Reading Book in Ancient Irish History
Paperback 147pages
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Book-Ancient-Irish-History
The
Book of Things Irish
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Things-Irish-William-Tuohy/
Poets
and Dreamer; Stories translated from the Irish
Paperback 158 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Poets-Dreamers-Stories-Translated-Irish/
The
History of the Great Irish Famine: Abridged and Illustrated
Paperback 356 pages
http://www.amazon.com/History-Great-Irish-Famine-Illustrated/
BOOKS ABOUT NEW ENGLAND
The
New England Mafia
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-England-Mafia-ebook/
Wicked
Good New England Recipes
http://www.amazon.com/Wicked-Good-New-England-Recipes/
The
Connecticut Irish
Paper back 140 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Connecticut-Irish-Catherine-F-Connolly
The
Twenty-Fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers
Paperback 64 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Twenty-Fifth-Regiment-Connecticut-Volunteers-Rebellion
The
Life of James Mars
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Life-James-Mars-Slave-Connecticut
Stories
of Colonial Connecticut
Paperback 116 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Colonial-Connnecticut-Caroline-Clifford
What
they Say in Old New England
Paperback 194 pages
http://www.amazon.com/What-they-say-New-England/
BOOK ABOUT ORGANIZED CRIME
Chicago Organized Crime
Chicago-Mob-Bosses
http://www.amazon.com/Chicagos-Mob-Bosses-Accardo-ebook
The
Mob Files: It Happened Here: Places of Note in Chicago gangland 1900-2000
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-1900-2000-ebook
An
Illustrated Chronological History of the Chicago Mob. Time Line 1837-2000
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Chronological-History-Chicago-1837-2000/
Mob
Buster: Report of Special Agent Virgil Peterson to the Kefauver Committee
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Buster-Peterson-Committee-ebook/
The
Mob Files. Guns and Glamour: The Chicago Mob. A History. 1900-2000
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Guns-Glamour-ebook/
Shooting
the Mob: Organized crime in photos. Crime Boss Tony Accardo
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-photos-Accardo/
Shooting
the Mob: Organized Crime in Photos: The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-Valentines-Massacre
The
Life and World of Al Capone in Photos
http://www.amazon.com/Life-World-Al-Capone
AL
CAPONE: The Biography of a Self-Made Man.: Revised from the 0riginal 1930
edition.Over 200 new photographs
Paperback: 340 pages
http://www.amazon.com/CAPONE-Biography-Self-Made-Over-photographs
Whacked.
One Hundred Years Murder and Mayhem in the Chicago Outfit
Paperback: 172 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Whacked-Hundred-Murder-Mayhem-Chicago/
Las Vegas Organized Crime
The
Mob in Vegas
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Vegas-ebook
Bugsy
& His Flamingo: The Testimony of Virginia Hill
http://www.amazon.com/Bugsy-His-Flamingo-Testimony-Virginia/
Testimony
by Mobsters Lewis McWillie, Joseph Campisi and Irwin Weiner (The Mob Files Series)
http://www.amazon.com/The-Kennedy-Assassination-Ruby-Testimony-ebook
Rattling
the Cup on Chicago Crime.
Paperback 264 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Rattling-Cup-Chicago-Crime-Abridged
The
Life and Times of Terrible Tommy O’Connor.
Paperback 94 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Times-Terrible-Tommy-OConnor
The
Mob, Sam Giancana and the overthrow of the Black Policy Racket in Chicago
Paperback 200 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Giancana-ovethrow-Policy-Rackets-Chicago
When
Capone’s Mob Murdered Roger Touhy. In Photos
Paperback 234 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Capones-Murdered-Roger-Touhy-photos
Organized
Crime in Hollywood
The Mob in Hollywood
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Files-Hollywood-ebook/
The
Bioff Scandal
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Bioff-Scandal-Shakedown-Hollywood-Studios
Organized
Crime in New York
Joe Pistone’s war on the mafia
http://www.amazon.com/Joe-Petrosinos-War-Mafia-Files/
Mob
Testimony: Joe Pistone, Michael Scars DiLeonardo, Angelo Lonardo and others
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Testimony-DiLeonardo-testimony-Undercover/
The
New York Mafia: The Origins of the New York Mob
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-York-Mafia-Origins
The
New York Mob: The Bosses
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-York-Mob-Bosses/
Organized
Crime 25 Years after Valachi. Hearings before the US Senate
http://www.amazon.com/Organized-Crime-Valachi-Hearings-ebook
Shooting
the mob: Dutch Schultz
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-Mob-Organized-Photographs-Schultz
Gangland
Gaslight: The Killing of Rosy Rosenthal. (Illustrated)
http://www.amazon.com/Gangland-Gaslight-Killing-Rosenthal-Illustrated/
Early
Street Gangs and Gangsters of New York City
Paperback 382 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Early-Street-Gangs-Gangsters-York
THE RUSSIAN MOBS
The
Russian Mafia in America
http://www.amazon.com/The-Russian-Mafia-America-ebook/
The
Threat of Russian Organzied Crime
Paperback 192 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Threat-Russian-Organized-Crime-photographs-ebook
Organized Crime/General
Best
of Mob Stories
http://www.amazon.com/Files-Series-Illustrated-Articles-Organized-Crime/
Best
of Mob Stories Part 2
http://www.amazon.com/Series-Illustrated-Articles-Organized-ebook/
Illustrated-Book-Prohibition-Gangsters
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Book-Prohibition-Gangsters-ebook
Mob
Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobsters in Photos
http://www.amazon.com/Recipes-For-Meals-Mobsters-Photos
More
Mob Recipes to Die For. Meals and Mobs
http://www.amazon.com/More-Recipes-Meals-Mobsters-Photos
The
New England Mafia
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-England-Mafia-ebook
Shooting
the mob. Organized crime in photos. Dead Mobsters, Gangsters and Hoods.
http://www.amazon.com/Shooting-mob-Organized-photos-Mobsters-Gangsters/
The
Salerno Report: The Mafia and the Murder of President John F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/The-Salerno-Report-President-ebook/
The Mob Files: Mob Wars. "We only kill
each other"
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-Wars-other/
The
Mob across America
http://www.amazon.com/The-Files-Across-America-ebook/
The
US Government’s Time Line of Organzied Crime 1920-1987
http://www.amazon.com/GOVERNMENTS-ORGANIZED-1920-1987-Illustrated-ebook/
Early
Street Gangs and Gangsters of New York City: 1800-1919. Illustrated
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-1800-1919-Illustrated-Street-ebook/
The
Mob Files: Mob Cops, Lawyers and Informants and Fronts
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mob-Files-Informants-ebook/
Gangster
Quotes: Mobsters in their own words. Illustrated
Paperback: 128 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-Quotes-Mobsters-words-Illustrated/
The
Book of American-Jewish Gangsters: A Pictorial History.
Paperback: 436 pages
http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-American-Jewish-Gangsters-Pictorial/
The
Mob and the Kennedy Assassination
Paperback 414 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Mob-Kennedy-Assassination-Ruby-Testimony-Mobsters
BOOKS ABOUT THE OLD WEST
The
Last Outlaw: The story of Cole Younger, by Himself
Paperback 152 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Outlaw-Story-Younger-Himself
BOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPHY
Chicago:
A photographic essay.
Paperback: 200 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Chicago-Photographic-Essay-William-Thomas
STAGE PLAYS
Boomers
on a train: A ten minute play
Paperback 22 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Boomers-train-ten-minute-Play-ebook
Four
Short Plays
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Short-Plays-William-Tuohy
Four
More Short Plays
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Short-Plays-William-Tuohy/
High
and Goodbye: Everybody gets the Timothy Leary they deserve. A full length play
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/High-Goodbye-Everybody-Timothy-deserve
Cyberdate.
An Everyday Love Story about Everyday People
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Cyberdate-Everyday-Story-People-ebook/
The
Dutchman's Soliloquy: A one Act Play based on the factual last words of
Gangster Dutch Schultz.
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/Dutchmans-Soliloquy-factual-Gangster-Schultz/
Fishbowling
on The Last Words of Dutch Schultz: Or William S. Burroughs intersects with
Dutch Schultz
Print Length: 57 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Fishbowling-Last-Words-Dutch-Schultz-ebook/
American
Shakespeare: August Wilson in his own words. A One Act Play
By John William Tuohy
http://www.amazon.com/American-Shakespeare-August-Wilson-ebook
She
Stoops to Conquer
http://www.amazon.com/She-Stoops-Conquer-Oliver-Goldsmith/
The
Seven Deadly Sins of Gilligan’s Island: A ten minute play
Print Length: 14 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Deadly-Gilligans-Island-minute-ebook/
BOOKS ABOUT VIRGINIA
OUT
OF CONTROL: An Informal History of the Fairfax County Police
http://www.amazon.com/Control-Informal-History-Fairfax-Police/
McLean
Virginia. A short informal history
http://www.amazon.com/McLean-Virginia-Short-Informal-History/
THE QUOTABLE SERIES
The
Quotable Emerson: Life lessons from the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Over 300
quotes
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Emerson-lessons-quotes
The
Quotable John F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-John-F-Kennedy/
The
Quotable Oscar Wilde
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Oscar-Wilde-lessons/
The
Quotable Machiavelli
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Machiavelli-Richard-Thayer/
The
Quotable Confucius: Life Lesson from the Chinese Master
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Confucius-Lesson-Chinese/
The
Quotable Henry David Thoreau
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Henry-Thoreau-Quotables-ebook
The
Quotable Robert F. Kennedy
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Robert-F-Kennedy-Illustrated/
The
Quotable Writer: Writers on the Writers Life
http://www.amazon.com/The-Quotable-Writer-Quotables-ebook
The
words of Walt Whitman: An American Poet
Paperback: 162 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Words-Walt-Whitman-American-Poet
Gangster
Quotes: Mobsters in their own words. Illustrated
Paperback: 128 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-Quotes-Mobsters-words-Illustrated/
The
Quotable Popes
Paperback 66 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Popes-Maria-Conasenti
The
Quotable Kahlil Gibran with Artwork from Kahlil Gibran
Paperback 52 pages
Kahlil Gibran, an artist, poet,
and writer was born on January 6, 1883 n the north of modern-day Lebanon and in
what was then part of Ottoman Empire. He had no formal schooling in Lebanon. In
1895, the family immigrated to the United States when Kahlil was a young man
and settled in South Boston. Gibran enrolled in an art school and was soon a
member of the avant-garde community and became especially close to Boston
artist, photographer, and publisher Fred Holland Day who encouraged and
supported Gibran’s creative projects. An accomplished artist in drawing and
watercolor, Kahlil attended art school in Paris from 1908 to 1910, pursuing a
symbolist and romantic style. He held his first art exhibition of his drawings
in 1904 in Boston, at Day's studio. It was at this exhibition, that Gibran met
Mary Elizabeth Haskell, who ten years his senior. The two formed an important
friendship and love affair that lasted the rest of Gibran’s short life. Haskell
influenced every aspect of Gibran’s personal life and career. She became his
editor when he began to write and ushered his first book into publication in
1918, The Madman, a slim volume of aphorisms and parables written in biblical
cadence somewhere between poetry and prose. Gibran died in New York City on
April 10, 1931, at the age of 48 from cirrhosis of the liver and tuberculosis.
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Kahlil-Gibran-artwork/
The
Quotable Dorothy Parker
Paperback 86 pages
The
Quotable Machiavelli
Paperback 36 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Machiavelli-Richard-L-Thayer
The
Quotable Greeks
Paperback 230 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Greeks-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotabe Oscar Wilde
Paperback 24 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Oscar-Wilde-lessons-words/
The
Quotable Helen Keller
Paperback 66 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Helen-Keller-Richard-Willoughby
The
Art of War: Sun Tzu
Paperback 60 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Confucius-Lesson-Chinese-Quotables-ebook
The
Quotable Shakespeare
Paperback 54 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Shakespeare-Richard-W-Willoughby
The
Quotable Gorucho Marx
Paperback 46 pages
http://www.amazon.com/Quotable-Groucho-Marx-Devon-Alexander