![]() “The kid starts off on a farm somewhere, with meager beginnings… A little bit of baseball in there helps, too,” he said. Nappi said he thinks the story works well as a country song. ![]() The song is catchy, and this reporter has struggled to get it out of his head since first hearing it. MP Music House provided the Herald with a pre-release copy of the song, and the track’s emotional country vocals tell the Mickey Tussler story with guitar flourishes that evoke well-known country-rock acts like the Eagles and Neil Young. Petrone said he was drawn to the success of Nappi’s books. When he learned about the Mickey Tussler series, he told Nappi he wanted to turn it into a single. They stopped to talk to their neighbor Tom Petrone, a co-president at MP Music House, a songwriting and music publishing business. The track, called “Buckle Up and Dig In,” came about after Frank and his wife, Julia, also an OHS teacher, ran through their Massapequa neighborhood one day. 15, MP Music House will release a country music tune based on Nappi’s series. ![]() ![]() “I told them, ‘Eh, I’m not sure,’” he said, “but then there was the second one.” After that, there was a third and, before long, a TV movie. After Frank Nappi, an Oceanside High School literature teacher for 29 years, wrote “The Legend of Mickey Tussler,” a novel set in the late 1940s, about an autistic farm boy with a strong pitching arm who makes it to the major leagues, people asked Nappi about a sequel. ![]()
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My father, Ben Eldridge, was the banjo player in an influential bluegrass band called the Seldom Scene. I was fortunate to grow up knowing Tony, who, though gracious to everyone he met, was very enigmatic and untouchable. ![]() ![]() From his first days as a 16-year-old recruit at the newly seized Guantánamo Bay, he blazed a path for empire: helping annex the Philippines and the land for the Panama Canal, leading troops in China (twice), and helping invade and occupy Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Mexico, and more. Wherever the flag went, “The Fighting Quaker” went-serving in nearly every major overseas conflict from the Spanish War of 1898 until the eve of World War II. Bestselling books were written about him. Smedley Butler was the most celebrated warfighter of his time. Katz is a groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power-and how its legacies shape our world today-told through the extraordinary life of a complicated Marine. ![]() ![]() Gangsters of Capitalism by 2019 ASU Future of War Fellow Jonathan M. ![]() ![]() I love fantasy adaptations because of the worlds we get to see brought to life on-screen, and I am so incredibly excited to see the storied city of Lkossa and the enchanting Greater Jungle come to life! What are you most excited to see brought to life on screen? ![]() It’s also being adapted for film by Netflix. I’m also so grateful that, thanks to social media, I’m able to see that connection playing out firsthand by hearing from readers from all corners of the world as they read my books! It is a beautiful thing, to connect on such a universal level with so many people through storytelling. It is mind-blowing to realize that the words I once wrote on my laptop in a little apartment are now going to be translated in languages that make it accessible to readers all over the world. ![]() Your debut novel, Beasts of Prey, is being translated into 10 languages across five continents, what does that mean to you? When I’m reading a fantasy novel, my imagination runs wild, I get to ask “what if?” I have the opportunity to wonder. I think what I enjoy most about it is the transportive nature of fantasy - the stories can truly take you to new worlds. ![]() What do you enjoy most about the fantasy genre, whether that’s when you’re writing or reading it?Īyana Gray: Fantasy has been my favorite genre to read and write for as long as I can remember. ![]() ![]() ![]() He intends to Feng Chi-shun is a naturalized US citizen, but considers Hong Kong - where he grew up and attended medical school - his home. In his spare time, he plays golf and tennis, and shoots a mean game of pool. He is an aficionado of wine and cigars, and a part-time punter attracted to roulette, poker, mahjong and horse racing. ![]() Feeling deprived as a child, he is making up for lost time by living life to its fullest. He has also been a columnist for the South China Morning Post, the leading English-language newspaper in Hong Kong. Trained as a pathologist, he has published close to 100 scientific articles on his medical research. His formative years were spent in Kowloon’s Diamond Hill district, where people were poor but life was rich. ![]() Feng Chi-shun is a naturalized US citizen, but considers Hong Kong - where he grew up and attended medical school - his home. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Sometimes the pieces snap in in the wrong order but keep walking past it every so often and eventually you’ll see what you need to do!” “Books are puzzles,” Henry reminded a writer who complained of feeling “majorly” stalled. ![]() Her answers are available in a series of saved stories on a variety of topics: Revision, First Drafts, Literary Agents, Writer’s Block, Dialogue, Characters and - my personal favorite - Pep Talk 2. On Instagram, where she describes herself as “#1 NYT best-selling dog in a human body” (her latest novel, “People We Meet on Vacation,” recently debuted at the top of the trade paperback list), Henry invited followers to ask questions about the publishing process. ![]() Last summer, when Emily Henry’s adult debut, “Beach Read,” promoted her to best-sellerdom, she extended a (virtual) hand to other writers climbing the ladder. The ones who appear in this column have arrived - for the moment. Needless to say, these conditions are subject to circumstance, but most authors stay the course with a combination of guts, Googling and infrequent glory. You have no official job description or employee handbook and, sorry, you’re not getting an evaluation. ![]() You can’t turn to a colleague with a gripe or a silly question you work alone. PAY IT FORWARD Aside from lighthouse tending, writing may be the most solitary profession. ![]() ![]() ![]() Are you pear-shaped or apple-shaped?įat accumulated in the lower body (the pear shape) is subcutaneous, while fat in the abdominal area (the apple shape) is largely visceral. In women, it is also associated with breast cancer and the need for gallbladder surgery. ![]() Visceral fat has been linked to metabolic disturbances and increased risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Visceral fat, on the other hand, lies out of reach, deep within the abdominal cavity, where it pads the spaces between our abdominal organs. Abdominal, or visceral, fat is of particular concern because it's a key player in a variety of health problems - much more so than subcutaneous fat, the kind you can grasp with your hand. But we've now been put on notice that as our waistlines grow, so do our health risks. ![]() Extra pounds tend to park themselves around the midsection.Īt one time, we might have accepted these changes as an inevitable fact of aging. As people go through their middle years, their proportion of fat to body weight tends to increase - more so in women than men. Though the term might sound dated, "middle-age spread" is a greater concern than ever. ![]() Visceral fat more of a health concern than subcutaneous fat ![]() ![]() ![]() Though he had been writing since he was a child (winning a YMCA contest at age 14), he began taking writing courses at the University of Victoria in 1970, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing there in 1974. In 1967, he moved to Victoria, British Columbia, running a pizza restaurant called Caesar's Italian Village and driving a taxi. When he was ten, the family moved to Edmonton.Īs an adult, he held a variety of jobs in Edmonton, including as a clerk for the Government of Alberta and managing a credit bureau. "I'm one of these people who woke up at age five knowing how to read and write," he says. Kinsella was raised until he was 10 years-old at a homestead near Darwell, Alberta, 60 km west of the city, home-schooled by his mother and taking correspondence courses. William Patrick Kinsella was born to John Matthew Kinsella and Olive Kinsella in Edmonton, Alberta. His work has often concerned baseball and Canada's First Nations and other Canadian issues. William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBC was a Canadian novelist and short story writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two writers shared this, and an editor: Jim Silberman of Random House was famously Thompson's editor for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Ellison's for his essay collection, Shadow and Act. (Ralph Ellison was also known to copy entire stories from Hemingway for the same reason. Mencken and harbored dreams of being "universally hailed as the new 'Granny' Rice." Later, while he had a "plum" job as a copyboy at Time, he would type The Great Gatsby and A Farewell to Arms in their entirety in order to study their sentence structures. ![]() Years earlier, while still "Airman Thompson" of the Air Force (and sports editor of his base's newspaper), he wrote letters in the style of H.L. The young man in Puerto Rico was one still beholden to his literary heroes and still speaking in their voices-in his fiction, anyway. But the author of The Rum Diary was then, despite his virtuosic talent for the picturesque threat and brutal insult, the same as that of the Fear and Loathing books in name only. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the ice melted rapidly over the next several weeks, and by the end of September sea ice had thinned to some of the lowest levels seen at that time of year. ![]() Thanks to the frigid temperatures, sea ice levels around Antarctica were at their fifth highest extent on record in August, the Post reported. While Antarctica logged the coldest known average winter temperature, satellites have detected individual temperatures that are far lower as low as minus 144 F (minus 98 C), according to the Post. Ozone protects Earth's surface from harmful ultraviolet rays and depleting it can expand the ozone hole over Antarctica. ![]() Ozone is a gas made up of three oxygen atoms that is found high in the atmosphere. What's more, a strong polar vortex also leads to more ozone depletion in the stratosphere, which strengthens the polar vortex even more, according to the Post. ![]() |