June has always been a big birthday month, not mine, but for several friends and family members. There is at least one birthday each week, today is my husband’s birthday; tomorrow would have been my paternal grandmother’s birthday, and yesterday was one of my dearest friend’s birthday. It’s also a big month for literary birthdays.
To begin with, we have Thomas Hardy, who was born on June 2, 1840. Hardy was a poet, novelist, and family sources, say that he was a curmudgeon who would whack you with his cane if you annoyed him. Now, I don’t have proof of this; Hardy is a cousin, on my mother’s side, and this story was one my grandmother had been told by her mother. He was, however a grief-stricken recluse whose pain was reflected in his works. He died on January 11, 1928.
Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbevilles, and meeting her "cousin" Alec proves to be her downfall. When Angel Clare offers her love and salvation, she must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future.
The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Hardy contains poems from moments of Vision, Satires of Circumstance, Veteris Vestigia Flammae, Heredity, Short Stories, Afterwards, and an index of first lines.
A poet born in New Jersey on June 3, 1926, Allen Ginsberg is considered to be a “founding father of the Beat movement”. An ally to gay rights, he was also an anti-war activist, who originated the phrase “flower power”. He died on Apri 5, 1997 at the age of 70.
Fantasy and Horror novelist Joe Hill was born June 4, 1971. Joe Hill has won several awards for his writing allowing him to become an established author, in his own right, before being outed as Stephen King’s son. Hill has also written several graphic novels.
After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Perrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart, and an incredible new power which he uses in the name of vengeance.
Now a Netflix Original Series Three never-before-collected stories set in the world of Keyhouse, showcasing the depths of depravity and heart-breaking heights that New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez have to offer.
This special deluxe release finally reprints the oft-requested and long-denied Eisner-winning one-shot, "Open the Moon" Plus the other long-sold-out one-shot, "Grindhouse" PLUS, the even more hard-to-find IDW 10th anniversary Locke & Key tale, "In the Can" Extra covers, behind-the-scenes photos, and more make this a truly worthy addition to the series the A.V. Club called a "modern masterpiece."
Gwendolyn Brooks born June 7, 1917, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize was named Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968. In 1990 she became a Professor of English at Chicago State University, where she worked until her death on December 3, 2000.
The first novel by this world-class poet, Maud Martha captures the essence of Black life. Gwendolyn Brooks portrays one woman's quest and love for life despite its difficulties. Whether she confronts teenaged love and marriage or the challenges of womanhood and adulthood survival, we come face to face with Maud Martha--recognizing that her beauty and strength reside deep in every one of us.--Page [4] of cover.
William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865. 1923 Nobel prize winner for poetry, this Irishman is considered to be one of the 20th centuries greatest poets of the English-language. Yeats died on January 28, 1939.
Joyce Carol Oates, who also writes under the pseudonyms Rosamond Smith and Lauen Kelly, was born on June 16, 1938. Oates is an award-winning author whose writing covers a wide range of genres and historical settings.
From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all. Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the stories in Lovely, Dark, Deep display Joyce Carol Oates's magnificent ability to make visceral the terror, hurt, and uncertainty that lurks at the edges of ordinary lives. In Mastiff, a woman and a man are joined in an erotic bond forged out of terror and gratitude. Sex with Camel explores how a sixteen-year-old boy realizes the depth of his love for his grandmother -- and how vulnerable those feelings make him. Fearful that her husband is disappearing from their life, a woman becomes obsessed with keeping him in her sight in The Disappearing. A Book of Martyrs reveals how the end of a pregnancy brings with it the end of a relationship. And in the title story, the elderly Robert Frost is visited by an interviewer, an unsettling young woman, who seems to know a good deal more about his life than she should. A piercing and evocative collection, Lovely, Dark, Deep reveals an artist at the height of her creative power.
In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes: the "man without a shadow," who will be known, in time, as the most-studied and most famous amnesiac in history. A vicious infection has clouded anything beyond the last seventy seconds just the fog of memory. Over thirty years, the two embark on mirrored journeys of self-discovery: Margot, enthralled by her charming, mysterious, and deeply lonely patient, as well as her officious supervisor, attempts to unlock Eli's shuttered memories of a childhood trauma without losing her own sense of self in the process. Made vivid by Oates' usual eye for detail, and searing insight into the human psyche, The Man Without a Shadow is eerie, ambitious, and structurally complex, unique among her novels for its intimate portrayal of a forbidden relationship that can never be publicly revealed.
Science fiction author Octavia Butler was born on June 22, 1947. Winner of several awards, Butler was inducted into the Science Fiction hall of fame in 2010. She is known at the “grand dame of science fiction”.
A graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's groundbreaking science-fiction classic offers an unflinching look at slavery, race, and the role of women in society
Laura Olamina's daughter, Larkin, describes the broken and alienated world of 2032, as war racks the North American continent and an ultra-conservative religious crusader becomes president.
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