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...inaugural series represents an auspicious beginning. “I personally think it sacralizes the place to perform Beckett here,” he said. “I just think doing Beckett early in the life of a theater is bound to bring it good luck...
...whirlwind of countless characters and lightning-quick changes of scene. But it does succeed in offering, in Farooqi's words, "a bridge between [Adventures] and the modern world." Non-Urdu-speaking readers can at last appreciate an epic "on par with anything in the Western canon." And, with luck, the classical pantheon populated by indomitable Achilles, cunning Odysseus and righteous King Arthur will now be joined by a new beloved hero: mercurial, mighty Amir Hamza, astride his winged-demon steed, soaring to the heavens...
...years since you released the Pulitzer-Prize-nominated “The Beds We Lie In.” Is there a reason behind this long period between releases? Kathleen Spivack: Two presses folded with my work in proofs. I just hit a period of bad luck. I had other work forthcoming and just couldn’t make a go of it. There’s been a huge publishing crisis. I think it affected a lot of people…But I’ve been writing and have had books ready, ready to go. It?...
...freeborn (the "sterling") were bitterly opposed to giving up their social placement above the ex-convicts and their children (the "currency"). But the "lower orders"--that is, most 19th century Australians--fiercely resented the pretensions of the nobs and were well aware that in a pioneer environment Lady Luck was a more powerful queen than Victoria Regina. This was rammed home after the discovery of gold in Ballarat in 1851, just after the California gold rush. "All the aristocratic feelings and associations of [England]," wrote John Sherer, an observer of the gold rush in 1853, "are at once annihilated...
...different from their mining ancestors. The metaphor of all wealth production is gambling, and Australians are among the most shamefully obsessed gamblers in the world. We have 20 times as many "pokies"--poker machines--per person as Americans. Our styles of wealth production enforce the belief that superiority is luck and only luck: no moral lessons apply. The Puritan impulse toward social responsibility that created the American system of educational, cultural and scientific philanthropy hardly exists in Australia...