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Good People (DVD)
Michael Fox, Omar Sy, Kate Hudson, Diarmaid Murtagh, Maarten Dannenberg, …
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James Franco and Kate Hudson star in this thriller directed by
Henrik Ruben Genz. American couple Tom and Anna Wright (Franco and
Hudson) are in the process of renovating their London townhouse but
are struggling to make ends meet as they frequently spend more
money than they make. When their tenant Ben (Francis Magee) fails
to turn down his music after multiple requests, Tom and Anna let
themselves into his flat to check if anything is wrong. When they
discover Ben's dead body they panic and call the police, but not
before Tom finds a bag containing more than two hundred thousand
pounds. As the cash-strapped couple decide to take the money to pay
off their debts, they soon discover that the money did not belong
to Ben and the real owner wants it back...
Although we remember John James Audubon's years in Louisiana
primarily for the art he produced there, his writings reflect the
profound impact the region made on him and his artistic vision,
especially in his magnificent collection of paintings published as
The Birds of America. In Audubon on Louisiana Ben Forkner compiles
and explains in depth Audubon's essential writings on the region.
Beginning in 1810 as Audubon arrives in the upper Louisiana
Territory, and continuing as he moves into southern Louisiana ten
years later (and eventually brings his wife, Lucy, to join him),
Audubon's journals, essays, and letters reveal his struggles to
fill his portfolio with new watercolors, his discoveries throughout
the region, and the transformative effect the area had on both his
art and his life. Forkner provides a detailed introduction to
Audubon's private journal of 1820- 21, the Louisiana Journal, to
guide readers through this compelling document. Until now, the
difficulty of comprehending Audubon's rough English has often kept
readers from fully appreciating the Journal's significance. The
volume also contains a dozen essays that Audubon penned about his
experiences in Louisiana; most of these ""episodes"" he published
in his Ornithological Biography, a massive five-volume written work
that complements the visual art of Birds of America. Letters
describing Audubon's last voyage to Louisiana in 1837 followed by
nine of his Louisiana bird biographies round out the collection.
These original texts, augmented with Forkner's commentary, form a
magisterial work that illuminates the importance of Louisiana to
Audubon's life and art. Audubon on Louisiana deepens appreciation
of one of the most significant artists- and nature writers- of the
nineteenth century.
Rich in irony, sly humor, and vivid, dramatic imagery, the
literature of the modern South is a vital amalgam of a once-rural
society's storytelling tradition and the painful contradictions and
cultural clashes brought about by rapid change. This excellent
collection includes works by Truman Capote, James Agee, William
Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Tyler, Reynolds Price, and many
others.
Selected Stories gathers together some of the best examples of
Benedict Kiely's work - a true and gifted man of letters. Edited by
Ben Forkner, founder of The Journal of the Short Story. From
'Soldier, Red Soldier' and 'A Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly' to
'A Letter to Peachtree', these stories sing in the unforgettable
voice of an Irish master who inspired, and will continue to
inspire, generations of readers and writers alike. These stories
have a great deal taken from Ben's own experiences both abroad and
at home in Ireland. Kiely captures various moments in Irish and
American culture, many heavily influenced by his time as a lecturer
in Georgia, writer-in-residence in Virginia, and as a reporter for
the Irish Press. "Ben Kiely was - and therefore is - one of the
great voices of 20th century literature, not just in Ireland but
all over the world. That his stories survive, and indeed thrive, is
a tribute to the power of literature. When it comes to storytelling
there is really no such thing as an end, because the stories keep
unfolding and influencing. Put him up there on the shelf alongside
Joyce, Beckett, McGahern, O'Brien. With this version of Selected
Stories, watch him develop a whole new readership." - Colum McCann.
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Louisiana Stories (Paperback)
Zora Hurston; Edited by Ben Forkner; Contributions by E. O'Donnell, Shirley Grau, Ernest Gaines, …
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"An illuminating, and at the same time, thoroughly entertaining
compilation, Louisiana Stories is enhanced by an introductory essay
that is a contribution not only to the literary history of the
state but also of the South." Lewis P. Simpson, former professor of
English at Louisiana State University and editor of The Southern
Review. Southern writers have always excelled in the short story
form. Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Peter Taylor are the
yardsticks by which short story writers are judged not only within
the realm of Southern literature but also within that of American
literature. By compiling an impressive array of stories by many of
the Deep South's finest writers, anthologist Ben Forkner
demonstrates how Louisianans in particular have influenced the
development of the short story. Forkner writes in his insightful
introductory essay: "These same native Louisiana stories manage to
announce the central themes of modern Southern fiction more
emphatically, and earlier, than the writing of any other single
Southern region." Included in this compilation are works by Henry
Clay Lewis, George Washington Cable, Lafcadio Hearn, Grace King,
Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Lyle Saxon, Arna Bontemps, Zora
Neale Hurston, E.P. O'Donnell, Shirley Ann Grau, Ernest Gaines,
Andre Dubus, James Lee Burke, Robb Forman Dew, and John William
Corrington. Ben Forkner is the director of the English department
at the University of Angers in France where he teaches American and
Irish literature. A graduate of Stetson University in Florida, he
received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. He has co-edited three anthologies of Southern
literature, Stories of the Modern South, A Modern Southern Reader,
and Stories of the Old South .
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