![]() ![]() The first time I met Ivan, I was a homeless puppy. That’s not to say I don’t have a best pal. Way I’ve always figured it, end of the day, you gotta be your own best friend. You ever hear anyone mention man being dog’s best friend? If we could talk to people, they’d get an earful. There’s an old saying about us dogs, goes like this: It’s no coincidence that man’s best friend can’t talk. She calls me Robert when I get on her nerves. Probably I shoulda been named Bruiser or Bamm-Bamm or Bandit, but Bob’s what I got and Bob’ll do me just fine. The kind you see poking out of an old lady’s purse like a hairy key chain. You’re probably thinking I’m some wimpy lap dog. Definitely some Chihuahua, with a smidgen of papillon on my father’s side. ![]() That seems to be the common thread.Īs they say on the crime shows: motive and opportunity. ![]() I may or may not have eaten a pepperoni pizza with anchovies when nobody was looking.Īlso, I may or may not have eaten a coconut vanilla birthday cake when nobody was looking.Īlso, I may or may not have eaten a Thanksgiving turkey (except for the stuffing- way too much rosemary) when nobody was looking. I’m no saint, okay? and while i’m at it . . . I lick myself in the presence of company. Look, nobody’s ever accused me of being a good dog. ![]()
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Recently, I came across a copy of Robert Fulghum’s inspirational collection of essays and remembered a high school teacher had a poster with excerpts from this book in her classroom. ![]() ![]() “The night before, I would rewrite scenes with the old dialogue so I could add a line here and there. “We’d do the takes of the movie that Erika wanted to make, and then we would do the takes of the movie that we wanted to make,” Johnson claimed. I haven’t been able to talk about this truthfully ever, because you want to promote a movie the right way, and I’m proud of what we made ultimately and everything turns out the way it’s supposed to, but it was tricky.”Īfter Dornan signed on, he worked with the Cha Cha Real Smooth star and Taylor-Johnson tried to tweak the script back to what it was before James scrapped it. “There were a lot of different disagreements. “It just became something crazy,” she said. Johnson was 23 when she was cast opposite Charlie Hunnam and Closer playwright Patrick Marber revised the initial Fifty Shades script - which Johnson alleged that James tossed after the Sons of Anarchy actor backed out of the role, citing a scheduling conflict. ![]() ![]() Stars Who Turned Down Major Movie and TV Roles Read article ![]() ![]() But by the end of their travels together, Parini realized that Borges was extraordinary: a man who glowed with “an enigmatic brilliance. Parini decided that one should never take a “childlike, irascible, and unpredictable” old blind man in a rowboat. Parini delivers vibrant descriptions of clouds and rain, earth and sun: “the bright lakes, the fertile land with stone barns and hillsides smudged with white-and-gray sheep,” the oaks with crooked limbs, and the dark waters of Loch Ness, in which their rowboat capsized. Still, Parini agreed to squire Borges around the Scottish Highlands, serving as his guide, aide, and, especially, his eyes. 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Andrews University in Scotland, Parini took two short journeys-here combined into one weeklong trip in order to maintain “narrative efficiency”-in the company of Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), who was visiting one of Parini’s mentors. ![]() In 1971, when he was a graduate student at St. The renowned biographer, novelist, and poet recounts his transformative youthful journey with a famed literary master. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Michael’s father, Noah’s nephew Victor, was a drug addict whose overdose broke the heart of his mother, Noah’s sister Fernande. ![]() Retired New York chemistry professor Noah Selvaggio, a widower planning to visit his birth city of Nice to celebrate his 80th birthday, reluctantly allows himself to be ambushed into becoming the temporary guardian of his 11-year-old great-nephew, Michael. Unlike Room, which was conceived after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case, Akin is a work of fiction, although the novel does touch on real historical events that similarly involve the abuse of children. Like Room, a novel about a five-year-old named Jack who is being held captive with his mother in a small room by her abuser, Akin is also a story about a child in a vulnerable situation, in this case an 11-year-old boy and his 79-going-on-80-year-old great-uncle, who are thrown together by misfortune. With an impressive string of awards and shortlistings behind her, including the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction for her historical novel Slammerkin (2000), Emma Donoghue is most widely known for her bestseller Room. The bestselling author of Room returns with a novel about a reluctant guardianship. Tags: Akin/ Emma Donoghue/ guardianship/ Nice ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2009, 'Other People's Gods' was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award.Īlderman is also a successful video games writer and creator. All three novels have been adapted for the BBC Radio Four series Book at Bedtime.Īlderman's short stories have been published in Prospect magazine and various anthologies, as well as being adapted for BBC Radio Four. ![]() It was followed by The Liars' Gospel (2012), a mature and ambitious work that offers different perspectives on the life of Jesus through four different narrators. ![]() It was awarded the Orange Award for New Writers in 2006, and the following year Alderman won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.Īlderman's second novel, The Lessons (2010), which explores the lives of a group of Oxford students, has been compared to Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. She later returned to the UK and attained an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.Īlderman's first novel, Disobedience (2006), inspired by her own upbringing, features a 30-something female protagonist whose father's death is the catalyst for her return to the Orthodox Jewish community in which she grew up. Naomi Alderman was born in London in 1974 and grew up in an Orthodox Jewish community.Īfter attaining a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Lincoln College, Oxford, Alderman spent several years working in New York. ![]() |