![]() ![]() William’s in-depth knowledge of and experience in the field of American art make him the ideal person to bring fresh perspectives to Wyeth's seven-decade career through exhibitions, long-term loans, public programs and publications." “His appointment is key to activating Betsy Wyeth's estate plan in which her remarkable collection of Andrew Wyeth's works would be accessible to the public and future generations of scholars in perpetuity. Duff Director of the Brandywine Museum of Art. “We are thrilled to welcome William to this new position,” said Thomas Padon, the James H. Funded by the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, this role emerged from an innovative collections-sharing partnership between the Brandywine, the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Wyeth Foundation-which was announced earlier this spring. Coleman, an experienced curator, art historian and teacher, will assume this newly created senior position at the Brandywine on October 17. ![]() as the Wyeth Foundation Curator of the Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Collection and Director of the Andrew and Betsy Wyeth Study Center. ![]() Chadds Ford, PA, September 8, 2022-The Brandywine Museum of Art announced today the appointment of William L. ![]()
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![]() Flight is a novel of family, ambition, precarity, art, and desire, one that forms a powerful next step from a brilliant chronicler of our time. With the urgency and artfulness that cemented her previous novel Want as “a defining novel of our age” ( Vulture), Strong once again turns her attention to the structural and systemic failings that are haunting Americans, but also to the ways in which family, friends, and strangers can support each other through the gaps. As tensions rise, the whole group is forced to come together unexpectedly when a local mother and daughter need help. Her nonfiction has been published by Guernica, Los Angeles Review of Books,, Catapult, Lit Hub, and others. ![]() ![]() Strongs first novel, Hold Still, was released in 2016. ![]() This is the first Christmas the siblings are without their mother, the first not at their mother’s Florida house. Over the course of the next three days, old resentments and instabilities arise as the siblings, with a gaggle of children afoot, attempt to perform familiar rituals, while also trying to decide what to do with their mother’s house, their sole inheritance. Want Lynn Steger Strong JThe following is excerpted from Lynn Steger Strongs new novel, Want. ![]() It’s December twenty-second and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry’s house in upstate New York. The new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Want, told through the shifting voices of a family gathering for Christmas in upstate New York after the death of their beloved matriarch, at odds over the settling of her estate-a novel about art, grief, shame, ambition, joy, and the American safety net. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pulled between old friendships, her artistic passion, and a new romance, Bitter isn’t sure where she belongs-in the studio or in the streets. but her friends aren’t willing to settle for a world that’s so far away from what they deserve. But outside this haven, the streets are filled with protests against the deep injustices that grip the city of Lucille.īitter’s instinct is to stay safe within the walls of Eucalyptus. From National Book Award finalist Akwaeke Emezi comes a companion novel to the critically acclaimed PET that explores both the importance and cost of social revolution-and how youth lead the way.Īfter a childhood in foster care, Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus on her painting surrounded by other creative teens. ![]() ![]() And stay tuned for further adventures from the Lords of the Underworld in 2010, as the stakes get higher, the quest more dangerous and the romance hotter! Join me on a journey through this darkly sensual world, where the line between good and evil blurs and true love is put to the ultimate test. After all, there’s nothing sexier than a strong, fierce man brought to his knees…. Watching him interact with Gwen, a woman who drives both him and his demon, Doubt, to distraction, was thrilling. He has always placed victory above everything else. ![]() I had such a wonderful time torturing…uh, writing Sabin’s story. When a powerful enemy returns, they will travel the world in search of a sacred relic of the gods-one that threatens to destroy them all. In a remote fortress in Budapest, twelve immortal warriors-each more dangerously seductive than the last-are bound by an ancient curse none has been able to break. I’m thrilled to present The Darkest Whisper, the fourth installment of my paranormal series Lords of the Underworld. ![]() ![]() I’d tell myself the stories Sendo used to regale me with or pretend I was writing a letter to Baba and Keton. I whispered to myself sometimes, when Ammi was asleep, to try and drown out the noise. If Ammi noticed, she never asked what was happening to me, never asked why my eyes would suddenly glow red, or why, in spite of the cold, I never needed a cloak, or why sometimes, when she called me Maia or Master Tamarin, it took me an extra beat to respond.Īt night, the voices grew stronger. The burns from my dress left only the memory of pain, not pain itself. Ammi had to remind me to eat, or I’d forget. Even when the winds were biting, I never felt cold. Once it grew colder, we’d have to find shelter in a village and pray His Majesty’s soldiers did not recognize us.Įver since I’d woken, something had changed. We subsisted on what she had taken from the palace kitchens, and our tent was the carpet pitched up with a flimsy rod of bamboo. For Ammi’s sake, I wished I had found Edan’s feast blanket in his chambers, the one we’d used in the Halakmarat Desert to conjure a twenty-course meal out of thin air. ![]() We made our way south, making camp far from the Road, usually in the woods. ![]() ![]() ![]() I couldn’t tell her I was bound to the demon guardian of Lapzur, that his call tugged at me more violently than Edan’s to the Tura Mountains. “Someplace the emperor and the shansen won’t be able to find us.” “But it’ll take us far enough,” I murmured. ![]() ![]() His second novel, "Shall We Tell the President", was a thriller about a plot to assassinate Edward Kennedy as though he became President. The book sold to 17 countries and became a successful serial for BBC Radio 4, then televised in 1990. After a bad investment left him on the verge of bankruptcy, he decided to try writing a novel to repay his debts to creditors.įor his first writing attempt, Archer had great success with "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less". ![]() That was the beginning of his elected positions in various political positions. He was a very accomplished athlete, becoming President of the University Athletics Club. London born Archer, grew up in Somerset, whose father was a printer by trade, was educated in Wellington School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. ![]() There are many who say that author Jeffrey Archer's life would make the subject of an excellent book. ![]() ![]() ![]() and the boy's father vanished in the storm only feet away. ![]() Police detective Joe Keenan has never been the same since that night, when he failed to save the life of a young boy. Mechanic and part-time thief Doug Manning's life has been forever scarred by the mysterious death of his wife, Cherie, and now he's starting over with another woman and more ambitious crimes. Photographer Jake Schapiro mourns his little brother, Isaac, even as-tonight-another little boy is missing. Now, as a new storm approaches twelve years later, the folks of Coventry are haunted by the memories of that dreadful blizzard and those who were lost in the snow. Families were torn apart, and the town would never be the same. but never one like this, where people wandered into the whiteout and vanished. The small New England town of Coventry had weathered a thousand blizzards. In Christopher Golden's first horror novel in more than a decade-a work reminiscent of early Stephen King-Snowblind updates the ghost story for the modern age. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their escape will require ingenuity, daring, and courage. In the far north on the coast of the ice-free Arctic Ocean, they are tricked by a community of fisher-folk living amongst the detritus of a lost civilization, in the plains caribou-wintering grounds, they help a tribe of nomads, caribou-hunters, defeat a rapacious enemy, only to be chased off by the tribe's clannish women, and in the polluted south, taken captive and enslaved by a cruel, regimented society, they meet the wild, genetically-varied horse-women of their dreams. ![]() SEX QUESTS: TWO TALES OF FUTURES POSSIBLE Gene RaidIn a post-apocalyptic, post-global-warming northern Canada, three intrepid adventurers, a bookish ecologist, a broad-chested, handsome hunter, and a disabled inventor, set out from their isolated home, the fertile valley of Erlandsland, to scour the uncharted wilderness for wives to bring back and replenish their community's in-bred gene pool. ![]() ![]() ![]() But war proves much more horrible than he'd thought so terrible, in fact, that he deserts, giving himself the disparaging name “Skedaddle.” Afterward, Charley takes refuge in the mountains with Granny Bent, a midwife with her own secret loyalties. “Fighting is important to Charley Quinn, 12, a street-tough New York Bowery Boy who runs away from his Irish-Catholic home to join the Union forces in Virginia. Rich detail…readers will love this rousing epic.” Kirkus Reviews. “ In this powerful story, based on real-life Civil War records and memoirs, young Yankee deserter Charley Quinn learns that his flight from his first battle doesn't brand him a life-long coward. He's not quite sure what will become of his life… Then he meets Granny Jerusha Bent, who takes him in as little more than a prisoner. ![]() When he deserts his company and runs through the terrifying woods filled with the dead soldiers of Confederate and Union soldiers alike, he has no idea how he'll survive the journey to the West on his own. After months of training to become a drummer boy, he finally sees his first battle in the horrid Wilderness of Virginia. He is anxious to have the opportunity to avenge his brother who died at the battle of Gettysburg. Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical FictionĬharley leaves the gangs of New York City to join the Union army at 12 years old. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lily is a really captivating narrator and while I had a slight issue with the love triangle between her, Brody and Qunce because it's completely obvious to everyone, surely, who she This is fun with a capital FUN! It's breezy, it's ultra-cute, and when reading it I spent much of my time making the kind of ‘squeeing’ noises usually associated with over-excitable youngsters rather than grumpy cynics like myself. ![]() With all this going through her mind, it's no surprise when she gets confused, leading to a kiss which changes everything. Of course, that will also means revealing her big secret. She's totally convinced that Brody is the right man for her, and needs to get him to realise this and take him home to meet her father. You think you've got problems with your love life? Spare a thought for Lily Sanderson, who has a huge crush on swimming god Brody Bennett, an obnoxious biker-boy neighbour Quince Fletcher, and a serious deadline problem. ![]() |