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Nicholas Hogg (born 26 June 1974) [1] [2] is an English novelist, short story writer and poet from Leicester, His first novel, Show Me the Sky, was published in 2008 and was followed by The Hummingbird and the Bear in 2011 and Tokyo in 2015. Hogg also writes poetry and short stories that have been published in various anthologies and journals.
Founders Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake met while they were architecture students at the University of Pennsylvania in the mid-1970s. [2] Their architecture professor Steven Izenour introduced them to architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, and the pair went to work at Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates, the firm where Izenour was also employed.
A number of the stories have a decidedly H. P. Lovecraftian flavor and the influence of Charles Fort, as does much of Kiernan's fiction published since Tales of Pain and Wonder. The stories are also united by a theme of cultural decay and loss of meaning in 20th-century society, as expressed by the collection's epilogue, Kiernan's only ...
The author provided afterwords for each story, discussing their inspiration. According to an interview conducted by Jessa Crispin, the title is a reference to the suicide of Kiernan's close friend, Elizabeth Tillman Aldridge, in 1995. [2] Kiernan's Alabaster, written in 2006, is dedicated to Aldridge as well. [3]
At the beginning of the 1980s, Besson was a member of a circle of writers and historians around Olga Mavrogordato (née Boos), widow of Colonel Arthur Stephen Mavrogordato. This group, of which Anthony de Verteuil and Michael Anthony were also members, was dedicated to publishing works about the history and cultural traditions of Trinidad and ...
3. The designers of Messrs Y. DeLima and Co. Limited, who conceptualised the Hummingbird Medal. 4. Mr Ebenezer Edwards designed the Public Service Medal of Merit Some of the winners who won medals in past years are listed below: [3] [4]
Stephen King has given a blunt three-word response to discovering that 23 of his books have been banned from school libraries in Florida, a law that is now being challenged by six major book ...
Caitlín R. Kiernan is the author of many science fiction and dark fantasy works, including sixteen novels, many comic books, and more than three hundred published short stories, novellas, and vignettes collected into more than twenty collections.