![]() “We obviously can’t control what Donald Trump says-that’s up to him,” said Chalian. ![]() Trump still refuses to accept the results of the election he lost nearly two and a half years ago to Joe Biden, which begs the question: Does CNN plan to fact-check Trump in real time? What happens if Trump repeats the lie that the 2020 election was “rigged,” as he did just last week from the rally stage? I put such questions to CNN political director David Chalian on Tuesday, as the network prepares its program. Plus, it’s a risky move for CNN, given the challenge of responsibly platforming the twice-impeached, indicted, insurrection-inciting former president. For one, Trump, who repeatedly dismissed CNN (among several other outlets) as “fake news” throughout his presidency, has not done an interview with the network since his 2016 presidential campaign. ![]() News that CNN will hold a town hall with former President Donald Trump in New Hampshire next Wednesday came as a surprise on multiple fronts. ![]()
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![]() It tells the story of twin brothers who are born in Missing, an Ethiopian hospital, into shocking and tragic circumstances. ![]() “Cutting for Stone” is fiction but borrows liberally from Verghese’s life experiences. ![]() Verghese’s third and most recent novel, “Cutting for Stone” (a best-seller on The New York Times list for more than two years) is a testament to his truly unique ability to combine his knowledge of medicine and surgery with his gift for story telling. Verghese juggles the titles of doctor, professor and best selling author so effortlessly and fluidly you would think he somehow found a way to avoid the necessity of sleep, teaching medical students by day and then cranking out elegant prose by night. Not so with Abraham Verghese, a professor and vice chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the School of Medicine at Stanford University. Interdisciplinary is a term that gets tossed around a lot these days, a sought after label whose true meaning sometimes gets lost in the academic rhetoric. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The most devoted readers will no doubt try to make excuses for this botched novel, but Meyer has put a stake through the heart of her own beloved creation." - The Washington Post. It's difficult to imagine teenage girls identifying with 18-year-old Bella's marriage to Edward shortly after her high school graduation, especially when the wedding is followed by an extended soft-focus honeymoon sequence, which is almost immediately followed by Bella's sudden loss of appetite and puking in the bathroom. "This ick factor goes through the roof in Breaking Dawn, which is, frankly, dreadful. For all but enslaved addicts, however, the strongest aftertaste of this series is soap." - The Times (UK). Parts one and three are written, like the three previous books. Although this book concludes the Twilight Saga sequence, those whose thirst is still unsatisfied have the toothsome prospect of Meyer's next novel, Midnight Sun, which will retell events from Edward the vampire's viewpoint. The fourth and final book of the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn is divided into three parts. It is about sexual desire: specifically, sex with a vampire. "Don't be confused by comparisons with Harry Potter in the media coverage of this book and make the mistake of buying it for a 10-year-old. ![]() The conclusion is much thinner, despite its interminable length. "Meyer's first three novels touched on something powerful in their weird refraction of our culture's paradoxical messages about sex and sexuality. ![]() ![]() He says he knew that casting the character of Jake would be crucial to the play's success. Rupert Holmes adapted A Time to Kill for the stage. The Broadway production is a racially charged courtroom drama featuring Sebastian Arcelus as Jake, defending a father who takes justice into his own hands when his daughter is brutally attacked. "There is no way, if we had planned, that it would ever happen. ![]() "You know it makes us look real smart," he says. Grisham insists that he didn't plan for his first new Jake Brigance book to come out at the same time as the play. Grisham introduced Jake to readers in his first novel, A Time to Kill - an adaptation of which is opening soon on Broadway. In his new novel, Sycamore Row, John Grisham returns to a character close to his heart: Jake Brigance. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Sycamore Row Author John Grisham ![]() ![]() “There were very often riots and petrol bombs being hurled.”Īt one point, Cushla is the only Catholic at a children’s party. She remembers rubber bullets being fired as she ducked to the floor of the car on her way to see her grandmother, who lived near Ardoyne, in north Belfast. Its two main characters – Cushla, a twenty-something Catholic teacher and sometime barmaid in her brother’s pub, and Michael, a married, Protestant barrister – were made up, but Kennedy based much of the backdrop on her childhood. ![]() ![]() Trespasses was also inspired by her upbringing as a Catholic in Holywood, a small, mainly Protestant town, on the shores of Belfast Lough. “My hot place for writing – a term the poet Martina Evans uses for a time or a location or some sort of event in a writer’s life where all of the work springs from – is the time I spent in the north in the 70s,” she says. Yet it has, helped by getting shortlisted, twice, for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award, and a nine-way auction for The End of the World is a Cul de Sac, which is steeped in Irish history. So I didn’t think that would ever happen.” “It wasn’t that I thought: ‘Ooh, I’ve found a new career and I can stop being a chef.’ It’s really hard to write and get paid for it. ![]() Not that she expected writing to lead to a pot of gold. In January 2014, I felt I’d thrown everything I had at it and nothing was ever going to work. It was incredibly shit, trying to run a business that you know is failing. Her fervour for anything other than the struggling restaurant she ran with her husband was also a factor. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers' capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world's foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat, one in five Americans has been molested, one in four grew up with alcoholics, one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. ![]() Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this New York Times bestseller Trauma is a fact of life. ![]() #1 New York Times bestseller Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society. Shop Barnes & Noble The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Millions call themselves by His name, it is true, and pay some token respect to Him, but a simple test will show how little He is really honored among them. ![]() “The world of fallen men does not honor God. I speak of a voluntary exalting of God to His proper station over us and a willing surrender of our whole being to the place of worshipful submission, which the Creator-creature circumstance makes proper. I do not here refer to the act of justification by faith in Christ. The pursuit of God will embrace the labor of bringing our total personality into conformity to His, and this not judicially, but actually. Our everlasting grief lies in giving Him anything less. “We owe Him every honor that it is in our power to give Him. Tozer offers powerful insights about the role of shame in sin and honor in salvation. The following quotes are from Chapters 8 and 9 of the book, which is available for free in PDF and Kindle.Ĭhapter 8 “Restoring the Creator-Creature Relation” examines how giving honor to God is the essence of our relationship with him. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chicago became a major hub for new migrants and their families. In the decades following the end of slavery, the threats of the Jim Crow South prompted a mass migration of African-Americans northward. ![]() In Beryl Satter’s detailed history of contract buying in the city of Chicago, she examines the layers underlying the city’s development and sustainment of ghettos filled beyond capacity accompanying the intentional homogeneity of all-white neighborhoods. Unfortunately, the practice may be making a comeback in Detroit. Beryl Satter’s Family Properties: How the Struggle Over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America, describes a key historical case of mid-century real estate practices that led to entrenched segregation and racial wealth disparities: contract buying. Long after the explicit use of racist terms in laws, policies with important racial impacts can linger in past practices that marginalize minority communities. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Beneath his carefully constructed façade lurks a monster, a predator looking for the perfect prey to play with. Never imagined his coveted attention would turn out to be such a nightmare. I never dreamed I would attract the attention of locally worshipped star quarterback, Carter Mahoney. I didn’t care if it was an unpopular thing to do I stood up for myself… and in doing so, opened Pandora’s Box. ![]() See, I got a player suspended from the football team for harassing me, and in my small Texas town, you don’t mess with the football players-even if they mess with you first. Senior year was off to a rough start: lube in my locker, panties on my front porch, unimaginative name-calling. ![]() ![]() ![]() Quentin and the others go into the council in the attempt to determine what may have happened – but have no satisfactory answers. However, during a recreational hunt to capture the Seeing Hare, a prophetic Unique Beast, the Hare predicts death and despair to come, and the Master of the Hunt, Jollyby, drops dead. Quentin, Julia, Janet, and Eliot rule Fillory fairly and justly and are beloved by the people and creatures of the land. ![]() The Magician King is a young adult fantasy novel and is the second part of Magician trilogy, and follows the continuing adventures of Quentin Coldwater as one of the four monarchs of the magical land of Fillory. Now Grossman takes us back to Fillory, where the Brakebills graduates have fled the sorrows of the mundane world, only to face terrifying new challenges. ![]() The Magicians was praised as a triumph by readers and critics of both mainstream and fantasy literature. Lev Grossman's first novel, Warp, was published in 1997 after he moved to New York City. Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist, most notable as the author of The Magicians Trilogy: The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician's Land. ![]() |