coming of age

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• Failure to Launch Generates Dramatic Tension

  
  Memory Writers Network — Authority: 405
  Emerging into adulthood is sometimes dubbed "launching," a term that reminds me of a woman in a fur coat smashing a bottle across the bow of a ship being sent to sea on its maiden voyage. My launching did not include getting hit with a bottle of champagne, but I was hit with other substances which contributed to my ...
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• On Writing a Realistic Novel

  
  A Motley Vision — Authority: 509
  I’m cross-posting this from my blog partly because I think it’s relevant to our site focus — and relevant to some other recent posts — and because I don’t think very many people even know yet that my blog exists. Thanks for your indulgence. It’s interesting being the author of a novel about a topic ...
  3 days ago

• Psych-Out (1968) – Daily Movie Wallpaper – Ladies and Gentlemen… The Seeds!

  
  Cinema is Dope — Authority: 127
  [ View Image (1024x724) ] [ View Image (1280x905) ] The Daily Movie Wallpaper Monday, November 9, 2009 Another image from the funeral scene and this time with the band, The Seeds , rocking out in Psych-Out . A Month Long Celebration of Psych-Out (1968) at CID: November 2009 Each day in November ...
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• New Releases: The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen

  
  pornokitsch — Authority: 124
  As a book collector, Im recommending a strong buy order on this one. The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet is a unique coming of age story with beautiful design - the ideal gift book released just in time for the holiday season. Tecumseh Sparrow Spivet is the cartographically-obsessed child of a cowboy and an ...
  3 days ago

• Psych-Out (1968) – Daily Movie Wallpaper – Warren has a bad trip!

  
  Cinema is Dope — Authority: 127
  [ View Image (1024x783) ] [ View Image (1280x979) ] The Daily Movie Wallpaper Sunday, November 8, 2009 Warren ( Henry Jaglom ) has a bad trip while Ben ( Adam Roarke ) and Elwood ( Max Julien ) try to help him come from it in, Psych-Out . The psychedelic saw scene is one of the more memorable and catchy ...
  4 days ago

• Psych-Out (1968) – Daily Movie Wallpaper – The Funeral

  
  Cinema is Dope — Authority: 127
  [ View Image (1024x721) ] [ View Image (1280x901) ] The Daily Movie Wallpaper Saturday, November 7, 2009 I love this image of Max Julien and Jack Nicholson at the funeral scene in, Psych-Out . When I first started thinking about doing a month long celebration for this film, this was one of the many ...
  5 days ago

• Listing Vetted: The Khandroma Project — fairly solid

  
  Web Fiction Guide — Authority: 124
  The Khandroma Project is the personal, interactive and ever-evolving portfolio of Khandroma.  The Khandroma Project has it all from experimental/hybrid fiction to poetry to stream-of-consciousness writing.  Come on in, kick off your shoes, grab a cup of tea and get comfy! Comments, feedback, and constructive ...
  6 days ago

• Princeton Student transfers to the School of Hard Knocks or Learning Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple

  
  Memory Writers Network — Authority: 405
  Recently, I saw a memoir "American Shaolin" by Matthew Polly, a young man who dropped out of Princeton to study Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple in China. I was stunned to learn the place was real and even more astonished that it still existed. At first I resisted reading the book, afraid the real world might ruin my ...
  1 week ago

• Psych-Out (1968) – Daily Movie Wallpaper – Jenny Davis in Love…

  
  Cinema is Dope — Authority: 127
  [ View Image (1024x782) ] [ View Image (1280x978) ] The Daily Movie Wallpaper Thursday, November 5, 2009 Again it feels like I’m repeating myself when I say that although Psych-Out might not have had a more typical Hollywood budget at its time (micro budget perhaps would be closest comparison) but what ...
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• Psych-Out (1968) – Daily Movie Wallpaper – Warren is the psychedelic artist for Mumblin’ Jim

  
  Cinema is Dope — Authority: 127
  [ View Image (1024x780) ] [ View Image (1280x975) ] The Daily Movie Wallpaper Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Henry Jaglom is Warren, who makes psychedelic art and posters for Adam Roarke and Jack Nicholson’s band Mumblin’ Jim in Psych-Out . A Month Long Celebration of Psych-Out (1968) at CID: ...
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• When You Reach Me-- Rebecca Stead

  
  BookEnvy — Authority: 114
  Fans of Madeleine LEngle s A Wrinkle in Time: this book is for you. Its also for those of us who want a charming story with a slight mystery and a touch of fantasy. Miranda lives in New York City in 1979. Her mother is a hippy turned almost-lawyer and they live in an apartment building in a safe-ish ...
  1 week ago

• 8 High School Sex Lessons I Learned From Judy Blume

  
  Lemondrop.com — Authority: 699
  Filed under: Sex , Humor , Dating & Love If youre a girl and spent any time in the library as a kid, you inevitably read some Judy Blume. (Hopefully along with "The Babysitters Club" and "Goosebumps.") Perhaps, like me, you actually felt guilty reading some passages, or found yourself ... Read more   ...
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• Psych-Out (1968) – Daily Movie Wallpaper – Bruce Dern is The Seeker

  
  Cinema is Dope — Authority: 127
  [ View Image (1024x779) ] [ View Image (1280x974) ] The Daily Movie Wallpaper Tuesday, November 3, 2009 Jess Saes: God is alive and well and living in a sugar cube Bruce Dern is The Seeker in Psych-Out . Although I believe Mr. Dern had a very tight shoot and brief stint, what is there is a memorable ...
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• Psych-Out (1968) – Daily Movie Wallpaper – Elwood, Jenny & Stoney

  
  Cinema is Dope — Authority: 127
  [ View Image (1024x710) ] [ View Image (1280x888) ] The Daily Movie Wallpaper Monday, November 2, 2009 Elwood ( Max Julien ), Jenny ( Susan Strasberg ) and Stoney ( Jack Nicholson ) in a poetic and brimming with life image from Psych-Out . A Month Long Celebration of Psych-Out (1968) at CID: November ...
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• Psych-Out (1968) – Daily Movie Wallpaper – A Month Long Celebration

  
  Cinema is Dope — Authority: 127
  [ View Image (1024x784) ] [ View Image (1280x980) ] The Daily Movie Wallpaper Sunday, November 1, 2009 Kicking off the month long celebration for this film with this classic pose of Jenny David ( Susan Strasberg ). It is this photograph and image that makes its way and weaves itself through nearly all the ...
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• Crossing Stones

  
  Becky's Book Reviews — Authority: 500
  Frost, Helen. 2009. Crossing Stones. FSG. 184 pages. Youd better straighten out your mind, Young Lady. Loved, loved, loved this verse novel by Helen Frost. Its historical fiction. A drama following the lives of two families. The Jorgensens and The Normans. The year is 1917 (and 1918). Weve got many narrators (both ...
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• Listing Vetted: Nona Umbra — exceptional

  
  Web Fiction Guide — Authority: 124
  In the August of their twelfth year, Will Colven and Gaby Rice were hunted by invisible hounds.  Under the care of Will’s family, they fled from town to town, from motel to motel, unable to rest, unable to seek help.  Their separation ended the hunt, but not the questions.  Who was after them?  What did [...]
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• DISNEY ANIMATION: BRING A LITTLE JOY TO EVERY HEART

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 503
  It seems like just about every prominent fairy tale was at least briefly considered to be the follow-up to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, even before it was clear that the Disney Studio would survive that films anticipated box office failure. Of course, when Snow White instead proved to be one of the great hits of ...
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• Listing Vetted: Brave Men Run — fairly solid

  
  Web Fiction Guide — Authority: 124
  “Brave Men Run” is the story of Nate Charters. Born different, unsure of his origins, he’s an outcast at Abbeque Valley High School, a self-proclaimed “boy freak” with few friends and low self-esteem.  When the Sovereign Era dramatically dawns, Nate finds himself in a quest to discover the truth: is he more ...
  2 weeks ago

• BURNED A LOT, BUT LEARNED A LOT

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 503
  There are so many reasons to hate Oscar season - the intensely patronising time of year when studios clump all of their prestige-style movie into an increasingly small number of weeks just prior to New Years Eve - but the one that is especially annoying to me right now is the way that the distributors insist on ...
  2 weeks ago

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