Will Rogers – författare

In the early years of his performing career, Will Rogers was a vaudeville performer of limited prominence. Around the age of thirty-five, however, this Oklahoma cowboy philosopher shed his role as local stage entertainer and moved toward fame as a Broadway star and nationally beloved humorist. This documentary history, volume four in the definitive five-volume Papers of Will Rogers, reveals Rogers's personal and professional transformation during what may have been the most productive period of his diverse career.Between 1915 and 1928 - the years covered by this volume - Rogers developed his unique monologues of topical humor, sampled the relatively new medium of radio, and pursued a career in silent films. He also tried his voice in sound recordings, witnessed his work as a writer reach millions of readers of daily newspapers, became one of the most sought-after speakers on the dinner circuit, and embarked on a three-year tour of the nation's lecture halls.In addition to Rogers's personal correspondence with family members and friends, editors Steven K. Gragert and M. Jane Johansson present more than one hundred letters and telegrams to and from people Rogers touched both inside and outside public life, including prominent figures in politics, show business, literature, industry, government, publishing, and the arts. Much of this material, gleaned from private collections, interviews, manuscripts, and sound recordings, has never before been published.

This collection of essays asks contributors to take the capaciousness of the word "queer" to heart in order to think about what medieval queers would have looked like and how they may have existed on the margins and borders of dominant, normative sexuality and desire. The contributors work with recent trends in queer medieval studies, blending together modern concepts of sexuality and desire with the queer configurations of eroticism, desire, and materiality as they might have existed for medieval audiences.

The old speaker in Middle English literature often claims to be impaired because of age. This admission is often followed by narratives that directly contradict it, as speakers, such as the Reeve in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales or Amans in Gower's Confessio Amantis, proceed to perform even as they claim debility. More than the modesty topos, this contradiction exists, the book argues, as prosthesis: old age brings with it debility, but discussing age-related impairments augments the old, impaired body, while simultaneously undercutting and emphasizing bodily impairments. This language of prosthesis becomes a metaphor for the works these speakers use to fashion narrative, which exist as incomplete yet powerful sources.

It’s been one year since the massacre at Anderson Lake, and you, Kristen, and Ryan are ready to start fresh. An exclusive weekend invite brings you to the ivy-covered halls of Good Hope University. But when the doors lock behind you and a corpse turns up in your dorm bathroom, it’s clear your visit is about to turn into a waking nightmare. Trapped in a kill box where every door conceals a sinister surprise, you’ll need to outwit each new terror if you hope to escape alive. From the sensible to the downright unhinged, every decision you make shapes the outcome. Will you play it safe, push your luck, or follow your morbid curiosity into the unknown? In this coloring book thriller, no path is off-limits, and the strangest choices might just unlock the wildest rewards. With more than 60 pages of horrific illustrations to color and multiple branching paths—plus bonus riddles, story achievements, and bizarre death scenarios—you’ll need all your slasher smarts and survival grit to make it through this twisted sequel. TEST YOUR SENSES: Go left, or go right? Trust your friends, or trust your instincts? In this thrilling sequel, you’ll once again color your way to survival—if you have what it takes. TWISTS, TURNS, AND TROUBLE: Nothing is what it seems when a college campus hides blood-soaked secrets. From plot twists to jump scares to looming danger around the corner, horror fans and movie buffs will get to prove how they would survive the ultimate horror story. 60+ PAGES TO EXPLORE: Over sixty intense and bloody pages of thrills and chills for you to color your way to safety. Don’t look back!