The October 2018 Edition of
The Big Thrill is Here! In this issue, we kick off a new column, “Tales From the Script,” with an interview by
April Snellings with the one and only R. L. Stine and
how he navigates the film and television world. Also in this issue are interviews with Steven James, J. D. Barker, Kyle Mills, Lisa Unger, Brenda Novak, Wendy Tyson, E. M. Powell and 30 more. In “Author Guided Tour,” J. A. Jance shares the lowdown on Arizona’s
classic crime spots and in “Trend Report,” Dawn Ius investigates whether the marching
orders have changed for today’s military thrillers. Link to
Special Features, Interviews and New Releases at http://www.thebigthrill.org/the-big-thrill/current-issue/
Tapioca is a starchy product made from cassava tubers. These tubers
are native to Brazil and much of South America.
Tapioca is available as flour, meal, flakes, and pearls. Tapioca pearls are commonly used to make tapioca
pudding and bubble teas. Tapioca is also
used as a thickener. Tapioca is almost
entirely starchy carbohydrates (carbs). People who limit their consumption of carbs
or who are concerned about how starches impact blood sugar levels may perceive
tapioca as unhealthy. Tapioca is high on
the glycemic index scale. The glycemic
index measures how fast blood sugar levels increase after eating. Tapioca is
known for being easy on the stomach.
Many people find it easier to digest than flours made with grains or
nuts. Read more at "11
healthy nutrition facts about tapioca" b at https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318411.php
A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg
zany (ZAY-nee)
adjective Amusingly strange,
comical, or clownish. From French zani,
from Italian zanni, a nickname for Giovanni.
The term has its origin in the comedy theater commedia dell’arte popular
in 16-18th century Italy. Giovanni,
Italian form of the name John, was originally the generic name of the servant,
a stock character who tried to mimic his master, himself a clown. Earliest documented use: 1596
punchinello (pun-chuh-NEL-o) noun A
grotesque or absurd person. From Italian
(Naples dialect) polecenella (a short, fat buffoon, principal character in
Italian puppet shows), diminutive of pollecena (turkey pullet), ultimately from
Latin pullus (young chicken). From the
resemblance of punchinello’s nose to a turkey’s beak. Earliest documented use: 1662
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From: Andrew
Pressburger Subject:
Punchinello Stravinsky composed the one-act ballet Pulcinella,
based on a Neapolitan theme, which had antecedents in the commedia dell’arte
and may have been earlier attributed to the 18th c. baroque composer
Pergolesi. Stravinsky tried to imitate
the style of this earlier period. His
first symphony, better known as the Classical Symphony, was a similar attempt,
in which he used the four-movement symphonic form, but filled it with a modern
content, based on dissonant chords and atonal harmonies.
From: Bruce
Colbert Subject:
Punchinello Does this bring back
the children’s
song http://www.songsforteaching.com/folk/punchinella.php
for anyone? Took me all the way back to
circa 1979 elementary school!
Across New York City, more than 70 restaurants are
tossing their oyster shells not into the trash or composting pile, but into the
city's eroded harbor. It's all part of Billion
Oyster Project's restaurant shell-collection program. The journey from trash to treasure begins
after an oyster half shell is turned upside down and left on an icy tray. Once discarded, it joins hundreds of thousands
of other half shells collected in blue bins and picked up (free of charge) from
restaurants five days a week by Billion Oyster Project's partner, The Lobster Place, a
seafood supplier. The shells are trucked
over to Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood and once a month are brought en
masse to Governors Island in the heart of the New York Harbor, just yards away
from both Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.
There, rolling shell hills sparkle in the sun while "curing" out
in the elements for one year, a process that rids them of contaminants. The shells then get a final cleaning and are
moved to Billion Oyster Project's hatchery at the Urban
Assembly New York Harbor School, a public high school on Governors
Island that offers technical and vocational training in the marine
sciences. In an aquaculture classroom's
hatchery, student-grown oysters produce larvae in an artificially induced
springtime environment. In one to two
weeks, each larvae grows a "foot"—a little limb covered in a kind of
natural glue—and then is moved to a tank full of the "cured"
restaurant shells, which serve as anchors for all of those sticky feet. This phase is critical: If larvae can't find a place to attach, they
die. One reclaimed shell can house 10 to
20 new live oysters, depending on shell size.
Once the larvae have a foothold, they're now "spat" and ready
to begin their metamorphoses. Andrea
Strong https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/10/654781446/oysters-on-the-half-shell-are-actually-saving-new-yorks-eroding-harbor Thank you, Muse reader!
Ursula K. Le Guin, loved by millions for her fantasy and science-fiction novels, ponders
life, death and the vast beyond in “So Far So Good” (Copper Canyon), an astute,
charming collection finished weeks before her death in January, 2018. Fans will recognize some of the motifs
here—cats, wind, strong women—as well as her exploration of the intersection
between soul and body, the knowable and the unknown. The
writing is clear, artful and reverent as Le Guin looks back at key memories and
concerns and looks forward to what is next: “Spirit, rehearse the journey of the body/
that are to come, the motions/ of the matter that held you.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/ursula-k-le-guins-final-poems-and-other-best-collections-to-read-this-month/2018/10/10/46e51c14-c044-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.72cb2b5c1a70
TWO POEMS BY URSULA K. LE GUINFROM SO
FAR SO GOOD, A COLLECTION OF HER FINAL POEMS https://lithub.com/two-poems-by-ursula-k-le-guin/
10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. open seven days a week “Art must be an integral part of the
struggle,” Charles White
insisted. “It can’t simply mirror what’s taking place. …
It must ally itself with the forces of liberation.” Over the course of his four-decade career,
White’s commitment to creating powerful images of African Americans—what his
gallerist and, later, White himself described as “images of dignity”—was
unwavering. Using his virtuoso skills as
a draftsman, printmaker, and painter, White developed his style and approach
over time to address shifting concerns and new audiences. https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3930
Arguably a masterpiece by the illustrator Norman
Rockwell, “Shuffleton’s Barbershop”
(1950), a work he donated to the Norman Rockwell Museum in the Berkshires, was
sold privately by the New York auction house Sotheby’s to The Lucas Museum of
Narrative Art. While that museum is
under construction, the painting is on loan to the Norman Rockwell Museum for
18 months. Through October 28, 2018 the picture is the centerpiece of a stunning,
richly documented, special exhibition Keepers of the Flame: Parrish, Wyeth, Rockwell and the Narrative
Tradition. This special exhibition includes
more than 60 original works by those masters and nearly two dozen other
American and European painters. Maxfield
Parrish (July 25, 1870 – March 30, 1966), Newell Convers Wyeth (October 22,
1882 – October 19, 1945), known as N. C. Wyeth, and Norman Perceval Rockwell
(February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) were the dominant artists of the golden
age of American illustration. If one
picture speaks a thousand words, then the language of these paintings, books,
and posters have shaped the American psyche. Wyeth created over 3,000 paintings and
illustrated 112 books. Parrish produced
almost 900 murals, calendars, greeting cards, and magazine covers. Rockwell is best known for some 300 covers
of Saturday Evening Post. His
“Four Freedoms” a series of 1943 oil paintings, reproduced as posters, were a
part of the war effort. An exhibition
and accompanying sales of war bonds raised over $132 million Charles Giuliano http://artsfuse.org/171644/visual-arts-commentary-keepers-of-the-flame-the-revenge-of-the-middlebrow/ Read about an unbroken line of pupils and
painters and see pictures at https://www.nrm.org/2017/02/parrish-wyeth-rockwell-and-the-narrative-tradition/ Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Glendale Rd, Stockbridge,
MA 01262 (413) 298-4100 hours:
10 a.m.-5 p.m. seven days a week
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October 15, 2018
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