![]() ![]() The Throwback Special is a moving and comic tale filled with pitch-perfect observations about manhood, marriage, middle age, and the rituals we all enact as part of being alive. ![]() Along the way, mishaps, misunderstandings, and grievances pile up, and the comforting traditions holding the group together threaten to give way. Over the course of a weekend, the men reveal their secret hopes, fears, and passions as they choose roles, spend a long night of the soul preparing for the play, and finally enact their bizarre ritual for what may be the last time. With wit and great empathy, Chris Bachelder introduces us to Charles, a psychologist whose expertise is in high demand George, a garrulous public librarian Fat Michael, envied and despised by the others for being exquisitely fit Jeff, a recently divorced man who has become a theorist of marriage and many more. Here is the absorbing story of twenty-two men who gather every fall to painstakingly reenact what ESPN called “the most shocking play in NFL history” and the Washington Redskins dubbed the “Throwback Special”: the November 1985 play in which the Redskins’ Joe Theismann had his leg horribly broken by Lawrence Taylor of the New York Giants live on Monday Night Football. "Chris Bachelder is a witty, compassionate troublemaker, and we need more like him." -George Saunders Winner of The Paris Review's Terry Southern Prize for Humor Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction Winner of The Paris Review 's Terry Southern Prize for Humor 'Chris Bachelder is a witty, compassionate troublemaker, and we need more like him. ![]() Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction ![]()
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![]() ![]() Glamorous as ever and every bit as engaging as you’d expect, Wilson discussed everything from the early days of her career to experiences with racism in the Deep South and run-ins with royalty. It was the eve of the publication of her book, Supreme Glamour, a passion project of Wilson’s: She worked for years to track down the group's lost costumes and establish an archive, the Mary Wilson Collection. ![]() In 2019, I caught up with Wilson while she was in residence at New York’s Carlyle Hotel, performing nightly shows at Café Carlyle. With their boundary-breaking mix of style and talent, the trio helped pave the way for Black R&B musicians both at home and abroad. ![]() The original girl group, which featured Wilson, Diana Ross, and Florence Ballard, formed in 1955 and would prove to be one of Motown Records' biggest exports. Mary Wilson, the Supremes founding member who died last week at 76, may have been born in Greenville, Mississippi, but it was Detroit, where her family relocated when Wilson was three, that would propel her to icon status. ![]() ![]() ![]() Van Allsburg found himself struggling for time in the studio and decided to sketch his ideas at home. After graduation, Van Allsburg set up a sculpture studio. ![]() He graduated in 1972 before moving to Providence, Rhode Island to attend the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated with a master's degree in sculpture in 1975. He initially studied law, but found that the art classes he took were more interesting, so he majored in sculpture. His family later moved again to East Grand Rapids where he attended middle and high school.Īfter school, he attended the College of Architecture and Design at the University of Michigan, which included an art school at the time. The new house was so close to his elementary school that he could walk there for class. At the time, his family lived in an old farm house, but they moved to a new house in the outskirts of Grand Rapids when Chris was three years old. Van Allsburg was born in East Grand Rapids, Michigan as the second child to Richard and Doris Christianen Van Allsburg. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the party is crashed by less enlightened souls. It is the eve of the new millennium, and vampire princess Christina Light is throwing a party in Tokyo, attended by the leaders of the worlds of technology, finance and culture. The new novel in the acclaimed alternate history vampire series from Kim Newman. ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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Nearby, however, are nine still-bigger giants who do eat humans ( I is a nice and jumbly giant but human beans is like strawbunkles and cream to those giants, says the BFG) - and it's to protect the world from them that Sophie and the BFG hatch a scheme: He will mix a dream from his collection and send it to the Queen of England to apprise her of the threat then, when she awakens, Sophie will be on her windowsill, and the BFG waiting in the garden, to convince her that the dream is true. He also expresses himself in a mixed-up, cutesy manner that is simply tiresome. But Sophie's kidnapper is really friendly (hence BFG for Big Friendly Giant) and does not eat humans as she had feared, but occupies himself gathering and dispensing dreams. 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