![]() Ronald Krome, Helen Milliken, John Peakes, Misha Rachlevsky, Margaret Smith, Richard Thomsen, Dr. William Agee, Dexter Bussey, Diane Edgecomb, Ernie Harwell, Lewis Hickson, Dr. Michael Bennett, James Blanchard, John Cardinal Dearden, Emily Gail, Arthur Jefferson, Al Kaline, Lavinia Moyer, Ellen Sharp, Billy Sims, David Stockman, Ray Trombley Irene Auberlin, Mary Coleman, Bertha Daubendiek, David DiChiera, Thomas Hearns, Laura Heuser, Edward McNamara, Ernie Rodgers, Dr. John Lesinski, Jan Leventer, Darryl Rogers, Lou Whittaker Waunetta Dominic, Antal Dorati, Erma Henderson, T. The following is a complete list of honorees throughout the awards' history. ![]() ![]() View Gallery: The 2016 Michiganians of the YearĮvery year since 1978, readers of The Detroit News have participated in nominating our Michiganians of the Year, a selection of outstanding citizens who have helped make living in this state a richer experience for the rest of us, either by their good works or by the example they set. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job.īeyond epiphenomena like Cop Killer and Titanic and Zima, there were wholesale shifts in how society was perceived: the rise of the internet, pre-9/11 politics, and the paradoxical belief that nothing was more humiliating than trying too hard. The '90s brought about a revolution in the human condition we're still groping to understand. By the end, exposing someone's address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their new cell phone if they didn't know who it was. ![]() In the beginning, almost every name and address was listed in a phone book, and everyone answered their landlines because you didn't know who it was. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard, during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history. ![]() ![]() But if that next novel were more playful, less ‘moral,’ less ‘beautifully written,’ then great numbers of his ardent admirers would be sorely disappointed.”Įsthetic judgements like Marchand’s are necessary for the health of literature. Marchand ends with a cautious request: “It would gladden the heart if his next book were a piece of writing that did not take itself quite so seriously…. The English Patient is a “contemporary Gothic romance” he says he means it as an insult. Ondaatje is author of more than a dozen books – poetry, novels, a memoir – but Marchand claims the Toronto writer has never been interested in “personality,” and so his characters go without. ![]() Everything, it seems, is wrong with The English Patient. ![]() In his controversial and quotable 1998 essay “ The English Patient and Other Hams of a Superior Sort,” Philip Marchand gets caustic with Michael Ondaatje. ![]() ![]() He writes in his 1975 introduction to the book, “ Dandelion Wine is nothing if it is not the boy-hid-in-the-man playing in the fields of the Lord on the green grass of other Augusts in the midst of starting to grow up, grow old, and sense darkness waiting under the trees to seed the blood.” This, then, is a glimpse into the childhood and formative years of one of America’s major writers, and a coming-of-age-story for readers of all ages. Bradbury himself frequently comments on the autobiographical qualities of the novel. Dandelion Wine, on the other hand, grows out of Bradbury’s own childhood in Waukegan, Illinois, in the golden years before the Great Depression. ![]() Although he rejects the label of science fiction writer, it is true that most of his work could be classified as fantasy or science fiction. This confrontation erupts in a mysterious summer illness that almost costs Douglas his life his awakening from the fever coma signifies Douglas’s mature acceptance and valuing of human life.ĭandelion Wine is different from most of the canon of Bradbury’s work. Moreover, as Douglas becomes increasingly aware that all life ends in death, he also must confront his own mortality and that fact that he, too, will someday die. As Douglas moves from a childlike state of ignorance toward the full knowledge of his own existence, he learns to value family, friends, and time. ![]() Dandelion Wine, first published in the United States in 1957, is the story of twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding as he approaches manhood in the mythical city of Green Town, Illinois. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since his conception, Etrigan has been adapted into several forms of media outside of comics, including animated series, films, and video games.Įtrigan first appeared in The Demon #1 (September 1972) and was created by Jack Kirby. The mask may have been inspired by the silent film Häxan. Kirby gave his creation the same appearance as Valiant's mask. The character was originally based in Gotham City, leading to numerous team-ups with Batman.Įtrigan was inspired by a comic strip of Prince Valiant in which the eponymous character dressed as a demon. Etrigan is commonly depicted as a muscular humanoid creature with orange or yellow skin, horns, red eyes, and pointed, webbed ears, who frequently speaks in rhymes. Created by Jack Kirby, Etrigan is a demon from Hell who, despite his violent tendencies, usually finds himself allied with the forces of good, mainly because of the alliance between the heroic characters of the DC Universe and Jason Blood, a human to whom Etrigan is bound. ![]() Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, agility, and sensesĮtrigan the Demon is an antihero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.Jason Blood, Jason of Norwich (Jason Blood) Etrigan the Demon as he appeared on the cover of Action Comics Weekly #638 (February 1989).Īrt by the character's creator Jack Kirby. ![]() ![]() ![]() They fell in love, moved to the Adirondacks and started a horse-powered organic farm on a whole-diet Community Supported Agriculture model. Kimball was a freelance writer living in New York City and beginning to long for the idea of "home" when she went to interview Mark, a young, charismatic organic farmer in Pennsylvania who turned her life upside down. The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love, by Kristin Kimball, falls into that category, although the author stumbled into farming in one of the most old-fashioned ways imaginable-she became a farmer's wife. ![]() City person moves to the country, takes up farming, can't believe how much work it is, writes a book: a healthy stack of titles along these lines has come out in the last decade or so, as a new wave of back-to-the-landers and locavores has discovered the joys and perils of small-scale agriculture. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the past few months, several girls from the villages surrounding Ely have vanished. A village girl has disappeared-and she's not the first. ![]() When a friend in Cambridgeshire falls ill, Allie is sent to Ely, where her path will cross with Lord Peverill, a young aristocrat who would be a most suitable match for the young healer. if they can find a man who will appreciate a woman with such unusual gifts. But the young woman is nearly twenty, and her father, Rowley, Bishop of Saint Albans, and his patron, the formidable Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, have plans to marry Allie to an influential husband. Allie is already a skilled healer, with a particular gift for treating animals. After the death of her friend and patron, King Henry II, Adelia Aguilar, England's vaunted Mistress of the Art of Death, is living comfortably in retirement and training her daughter, Allie, to carry on her craft-sharing the practical knowledge of anatomy, forensics, and sleuthing that catches murderers. "Superb.an appropriate homage"-Marilyn Stasio, New York Times The much-anticipated final installment in Ariana Franklin's popular Mistress of the Art of Death historical mystery series, finished by the author's daughter after her death. ![]() ![]() ![]() With detailed introduction and challenging interpretive essay, this volume uncovers in particular the importance of motherhood, sexuality and female orality to the inception and expression of Margery Kempe's singular mystical experiences and adds to contemporary debate regarding the agency of holy women during the later middle ages. ![]() This new excerpted, thematically organised translation of the challenging text focuses on passages which will contextualise for the reader its author's reliance upon the experiences of her own maternal and sexualised body in an attempt to gain spiritual and literary authority. Simultaneously exasperating, endearing, vulnerable and eccentric, Margery Kempe, mother of fourteen children and wife to a bemused John Kempe, provides us with an autobiographical account of her own singular brand of affective piety - excessive weeping, lack of bodily control, compulsive travelling, visionary meditations - and the growth of what she regarded as an individual and privileged mystical relationship with Christ. A unique narrative of sin, sex and salvation, The Book of Margery Kempe comprises a text which has continued to perplex and fascinate contemporary audiences since its discovery in the library of an English country house in 1934. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of their "masculine" skills – physical strength, for instance – are no longer required as factory jobs are outsourced internationally. ZB: You suggest, though, that it's working-class men who have the impetus to really re-examine male roles. And so, yes, men are CEOs and some people are still uncomfortable with women in power – but what I'm writing about hasn't been going on all that long and you wouldn't expect the very tippy-tops of towers would be flipped overnight. It's about men's self-image and what they will become in the future. HR: It's not just a blue-collar problem – it's a deeper cultural problem. ![]() ZB: And yet the first reaction I get when I tell people I've been reading The End of Men is that most CEOs are still male … so how is this the "end" for them? Is there really a crisis of masculinity? Or is what you're writing about – women becoming primary breadwinners – more a blue-collar thing: guys losing factory jobs and not knowing what to do with themselves? Stephen Marche: I think every man should read this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() At first she is resistant, but then figures it will be a welcome respite from the cutthroat advertising business, not to mention a networking extravaganza. But soon she will have to use every one of her adroit skills on a case that hits painfully close to home.Īvery’s workaholic aunt, Carolyn Salvetti, is certain her (hopefully soon-to-be ex) husband sent her the gold embossed reservation to the posh Utopia Spa in the mountains of Colorado. Her razor-sharp mind and ability to gather data and decipher evidence has made Avery an expert crime analyst for the FBI. This traumatic experience propels Avery into a life of law and order. The man responsible is serving time in a Florida prison. Then, when she was eleven, she witnessed her grandmother’s violent death, before Avery herself was shot and left for dead. Abandoned by her rapacious, conniving mother when she was only three days old, Avery was raised by her grandmother and beloved aunt Carolyn. ![]() Now, in this breathless new novel, Garwood has written her most electrifying thriller to date.Īvery Delaney has always tried to put the past far behind her. ![]() As her legion of fans can attest, she strikes the perfect balance between excitement and insight, action and heart. ![]() In the course of her career, she has mastered the art of creating characters who live and breathe in compelling, page-burning stories that never fail to surprise. When it comes to gripping novels of unrelenting suspense, Julie Garwood is in a class by herself. ![]() |