Even though we're a generation apart, there's a connection there is between us. >> I might as well spell it out now. Your mother and my grandmother were sisters.>> Yes. And your mother was my first cousin >> with whom you spent time in your growing up years when you both spent time in the same family house. >> Yes.>> Obviously, Midnight's Children is a work of fiction, but you you draw on the structure of your real of your true family. And >> my father was very annoyed. >> He was not the only one.I think ot ...

The ice cold medication shot up my arm and into my neck. The room was spinning. I rolled over and closed my eyes trying to make it stop. The pain in my back was still there. Was not quite as bad, but it made it really hard to move. The ER was busy. The monitors chirp next to me and in the distance like the drone of crickets on a summer evening. The head nurse called the staff together outside my door for morning meeting. "Don't forget to be kind today," she reminded them as if speaking to a class of kinderg ...

These are rare books, so a lot of them are pretty obscure. >> If Atwood can see around corners, it's because her visions have historical precedent. They come rooted in actual events.At the Thomas Fischer Rear Book Library in Toronto at what is archived stacks of her research, that is the hundreds of news clippings that substantiate her plots. So, this is folder upon folder of your research >> for Handmaid's Tail. >> Oh, yeah.Lots of it. She writes by a strict rule. If it didn't happen somewhere at some time ...

[Música] Pues estoy muy contenta de estar aquí. Yo soy Alex de la Mora y inicié mi carrera profesional como actriz porque yo quería hacer sentir a las personas. Me parecía importantísimo tocar corazones de los demás.Así que por muchos años me dediqué a actuar y después de divertirme mucho, de hacer mil veces el mismo personaje, de crear una comunidad de colegas a los que quiero mucho, me cuestioné si realmente mi trabajo estaba haciendo sentir a los demás. De pronto me empezó a parecer más interesante la id ...

Sherlock Holmes and Don Draper take inspiration from actual detectives and admen, respectively. This week’s recommended films and TV shows also blur fact and fiction https://t.co/CCf1vCSAR3 ...

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[Applause] So, sometime back in 2012, the first installment of the iconic book to movie series, The Hunger Games, was released in theaters. For those of you who are unfamiliar, The Hunger Games is a dystopian fiction in which the government called the capital enacts life or death challenges to enforce well to keep its command over the cap over the districts and controls. You would think with the disturbing topics this franchise tackles that the majority of the fan base would be focused on the literary or ci ...