![]() ![]() His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. ![]() Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Pileggi co-wrote the pilot of the CBS television series Vegas, which first aired in September 2012. He also authored Blye, Private Eye (1987). He served as an Executive Producer of American Gangster (2007), a biographical crime film based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas. Pileggi also wrote the screenplay for the film City Hall (1996), starring Al Pacino. The movie versions of both were directed and co-written by Martin Scorsese. He is best known for writing Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family (1985), which he adapted into the movie Goodfellas (1990), and for writing Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas and the subsequent screenplay for Casino (1995). Pileggi began his career as a journalist and had a profound interest in the Mafia. In the 1950s, he worked as a journalist for Associated Press and New York magazine, specializing in crime reporting for more than three decades. Nicola "Nick" Pileggi was a musician who played slide trombone in a cinema orchestra for silent films he subsequently also owned shoe stores. ![]() Pileggi was born and raised in Brooklyn, the elder son of an Italian immigrant father, Nicola ("Nick") Pileggi from Calabria and an American-born mother, Susie. He wrote the non-fiction book Wiseguy and co-wrote the screenplay for Goodfellas, its 1990 film adaptation, for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. ![]() Nicholas Pileggi ( / p ɪ ˈ l ɛ dʒ i/, Italian: born February 22, 1933) is an American author, producer and screenwriter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marcus’s financial needs brought him under the influence of an experienced con man, Herbert Itkin. Lindsay, bedazzled my Marcus’s pedigree by marriage, did not know Marcus was broke and in debt. In March 1966 Lindsay brought Marcus to City Hall and appointed him an assistant to the mayor charged with running the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. In 1965 Marcus attached himself to the mayoral campaign of John V. At age 35, his main path to advancement was his 1962 marriage to Lily Lodge, the daughter of John David Lodge, former governor of Connecticut and ambassador to Spain. ![]() ![]() Marcus’s corruption brought down political leader Carmine DeSapio, New York City contractor Henry Fried, Mafia figures, union leaders and Consolidated Edison executives. The James Marcus story is told with a knowing, fluid and jaundiced style by Walter Goodman in A Percentage of the Take: A Classic Case of Big-City Corruption (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux) (1971). Here are three examples from favorite books that visit past scandals in complete and revealing detail. New York City has a long and rich history of scandal and corruption. ![]() ![]() ![]() after all, she is the daughter of the Siren Queen. Despite the danger, Alosa knows they will recover the treasure first. ![]() When Vordan exposes a secret her father has kept for years, Alosa and her crew find themselves in a deadly race with the feared Pirate King. And she takes great comfort in knowing that the villainous Vordan will soon be facing her father's justice. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. The capable, confident, and occasionally ruthless heroine of Daughter of the Pirate King is back in this action-packed YA sequel that promises rousing high seas adventures and the perfect dash of magic.Īlosa's mission is finally complete. ![]() ![]() ![]() Particularly during the Care Bear years.’ ‘Well, despite the financial advantages, there were lots of times that I wished I was an only child too. He was stuck halfway between the Inns of Court and Glastonbury tonight. Then she remembered that technically she wasn’t an only child technically, she had two half-sisters.Įllie risked a glance sideways at her father’s lawyer, sure he was going to spend the walk back to Highgate being cold and distant, but instead he smiled at her. ‘When I hear stories like that, I’m glad I’m an only child,’ Ellie told him as they crossed over the road and walked through the gap in the hedge that led back onto the Heath extension. ‘I used to charge her fifty pence a time to read her a bedtime story.’ ![]() ‘Considering I turned up uninvited, they made me feel very welcome.’ ‘They were really nice,’ Ellie said, as he held the gate open for her. ‘Sorry to drag you away, but if we’d stayed any longer, I think they’d have started making plans to adopt you.’ ![]() Ellie didn’t hear what Ruth thought about this, but she looked over at David, who treated her to a chilly smile. ![]() ![]() ![]() JavaScript is a loosely typed language, so JavaScript compilers are unable to detect type errors.Ī controversial feature in JavaScript is prototypal inheritance. The bad ideas include a programming model based on global variables. The very good ideas include functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and an expressive object literal notation. JavaScript is built on some very good ideas and a few very bad ones. ![]() Its association with the browser makes it one of the most popular programming languages in the world. ![]() JavaScript is an important language because it is the language of the web browser. In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders. After all, how can you build something good out of bad parts? I discovered that I could be a better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts. Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. While I like it that the book is small and dense, it still contains unnecessary stuff like all those railroad diagrams used to visualize things a programmer should already know from other languages. The book is like the language it covers: it has good and "bad" parts. about the parts of the language you should use. JavaScript: The Good Parts is, as the title indicates, about the good parts of the JavaScript programming languages, i.e. ![]() ![]() ![]() Abby is obsessed with family perfection: they are all to be seen and admired by the neighbourhood as they sit in decorative arrangement on their vast and fabulous porch. They have four children, mainly grown up and with children of their own. Abby is the wife of Red, who takes over the house and business after Junior’s sudden death. Although members of each generation receive respectful attention and space, two characters dominate: Abby and Denny. ![]() The novel moves back and forth through time, ranging from the 1950s to the present day, from the original construction of the house through its long occupation to its final abandonment as the family disperses. The titular spool serves as a metaphor for the passing down of these things, a powerful reassurance. The house passes down through the generations, along with Junior’s construction company and the inherited twists of character and talent that reappear in different permutations, nature and nurture at odds, surprising and unquenchable. It is the story of three generations of the Whitshank family, starting with Junior, his wife and two children, and, most importantly, the house he built, the repository of his life’s significance. ![]() Anne Tyler’s 20th novel will bring joy to her legions of admirers. ![]() ![]() Their narratives really inspired me as a writer. One of my favorite things about this new series of yours is that it’s inspired by 80s movies! Where did this fabulous idea come from? What’s your favorite 80s movie?īoth my parents worked, so I watched a lot of cable television, which meant tons of movies. That means we get fake dating, makeover (it’s his makeover), and friends to lovers, all in one book! ![]() My Fake Rake is a mash up between Weird Science, Can’t Buy Me Love, and Some Kind of Wonderful. Twenty years later, the boys are now grown men in a close friendship, and each one finds their own HEA in the pages of the Union of the Rakes books. The whole premise of the Union of the Rakes might sound familiar to ‘80s film fans: five very different boys meet at Eton when they’re assigned to an all-day punishment in the library. ![]() Thank you so much for having me back! I’m very excited to introduce my Union of the Rakes series to your readers, since it combines two very important things in my life: my love of the Regency, and my love of the ‘80s. Welcome back to Fresh Fiction, Eva! Can you tell us more about your new series, Union of the Rakes, and book 1 in particular, MY FAKE RAKE? ![]() ![]() When a young boy named Keith checks into Ralph’s room, they find that mice and boys who share a love of motorcycles naturally speak the same language and become friends. Ralph is a medium-sized mouse who lives in the Mountain View Inn. The Mouse and the Motorcycle is a marvelously imaginative story delivered with just the right blend of adventure and fun. Maybe I just love the idea of a young mouse who trills with the speed of a tiny red motorcycle trimmed with shiny chrome and dual exhausts. Maybe I remember being a bit irresponsible and wanting so much to grow up. There’s just something about that precocious little fella that gets me every time. As a kid, I dearly loved Ramona, but my all-time favorite Cleary character has to be Ralph S. ![]() In honor of Beverly Cleary, who passed this year at the age of 104, I’ve chosen three of her works for this week’s MMGM. Greg Pattridge hosts Marvelous Middle Grade Monday (MMGM) on his Always in the Middle website each week. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Will doesn’t believe it-carnivals don’t typically come to town after Labor Day-but Jim is hardly able to contain his excitement. Then, an advertisement for a traveling carnival, Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show, blows through the air and wraps around Jim’s leg, and it is supposed to arrive the next day. At fifty-four, Charles is old enough to be Will’s grandfather, and each time Will runs into him at the library it is a “surprise-that old man, his work, his name.” After checking out their books, Will and Jim run home through the center of town, and they are confronted by the faint sounds of carnival music and the smell of cotton candy. The boys then make their weekly run to Green Town’s local library, where Will’s father, Charles, works as the janitor. Fury is quickly on his way, but Will and Jim are left anticipating a natural disaster, and they immediately nail the metal contraption to Jim’s roof. Fury has sold over one hundred thousand lightning rods to “God-fearing” customers, and he gives Jim one free of charge and instructs the boy to nail it high on his roof, or else he’ll be “dead come dawn.” Mr. ![]() It is one week before Halloween when thirteen-year-old Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade are approached by a traveling lightning-rod salesman named Tom Fury who predicts an epic storm. ![]() |