![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Beautiful, innovative, and full of the joy of one unconquerable soul.Ī paean to teachers and their surrogates everywhere. The triumphant soaring of imagination over reality is beautifully expressed in Ringgold's bold, vibrant paintings, newly rendered to tell this story, and with details from the quilt's glowing patchwork as a delightful continue along the bottom of each page. Combining the traditional association between flying and the escape of slaves to freedom with her own fantasies as a child who delighted in the sense of liberation and empowerment she felt on a rooftop from which she saw stars twinkling among the lights of nearby George Washington Bridge, Ringgold has fashioned a poignant fictional story about eight-year-old Cassie, who dreams that she can claim the bridge (and freedom and wealth) by soaring above the city she can even own the Union Building that her skillful father helped to build-though he is often out of work because he is denied membership in the union. As explained in a concluding note, Ringgold's "Woman on a Bridge" series, including Tar Beach (reproduction included), is now in the Guggenheim. ![]() A Harlem-born artist expands on one of her distinctive "quilt paintings" to create a marvelously evocative book that draws on her own imaginative life as a child. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In 1975, during the fall of Saigon, Phuc Tran immigrates to America along with his family. In this freewheeling chat with Phuc, we talk a lot about authenticity, identity & finding yourself, as well as becoming a parent & how he grew closer with his family. 'In Sigh, Gone, Phuc Tran offers a searing, trenchant, and hilarious chronicle of adolescence. For anyone who has ever felt like they dont belong, Sigh, Gone shares an irreverent, funny, and moving tale of displacement and assimilation woven together with poignant themes from beloved works of classic literature. ![]() Our Special guest this week is none other than Phuc Tran, Latin Teacher, Tattoo artist & the author of the punk rock memoir Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In! Sigh, Gone A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit in Phuc Tran Hardcover, 306 pages I was initially drawn to Phuc Tran's new memoir about growing up as the. 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From suggestions that Prince Charles tried to convince the Queen to abdicate to a rumoured romance between Prince Philip and a family friend, there's plenty to unpack about the fifth season of The Crown.Īs for what's next on our omg-did-that-really-happen!? list, we're certainly not alone in wanting to know more about Princess Diana and the tell-all biography she seemingly had a hand in writing.Įpisode two of The Crown sees the former Princess of Wales – played by The Great Gatsby's Elizabeth Debicki – secretly recording audio tapes for Andrew Morton, a journalist writing about the royal's life. ![]() The Crown is back on Netflix and season five has brought with it a lot – and we mean a lot – of drama. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters and issues that Rhodes illuminates paint a picture that shows us where we are today-from Barack Obama to a rising generation of international leaders from the authoritarian playbook endangering democracy to the flood of disinformation enabling authoritarianism. 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