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Troncoso's stories have been featured in many anthologies, including Camino Del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing ( University of Arizona Press ), Latino Boom: An Anthology of U. S. Latino Literature ( Pearson / Longman Publishing ), Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature ( University of New Mexico Press ), Once Upon a Cuento ( Curbstone Press ), City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature ( University of Georgia Press ), and New World: Young Latino Writers ( Dell Publishing ).
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Crossing Borders: Personal Essays ( Arte Público Press ) was also published in 2011, and is a collection of sixteen essays about how Troncoso made the leap from growing up poor along the border to the Ivy League, his wife's battle against breast cancer, his struggles as a writer in New York and Texas, fatherhood, interfaith marriage, and Troncoso's appreciation of Judaism.
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Troncoso's novel explores how a man of Mexican-German heritage navigates a complex moral universe, and how his experience reveals the differences and links between righteousness and evil in the quest for the truth.
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There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.
And they have done this on a very large scale, with a veritable flood of novels and stories which are either dystopias or narratives of adventure with dystopian elements.
Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;
Somehow, the pictures and stories of Soviet T-34 tanks on Cuban beaches and Russian Mig jet fighters strafing rebel troops has brought home to all of us the stark, blunt truth of what it means to have a Russian military base 90 miles away from home.
`` I have heard stories '', he writes, `` of the most terrible, the most unnatural actions, of the most monstrous murders, told with the most spontaneous, childishly merry laughter ''.
Two stories will illustrate what I have in mind.
But after that service, they decided to try to let the girls say grace at the table, have bedtime prayers, and Bible stories.
Adobe walls usually never rise above two stories because they are load bearing and have low structural strength.
In other stories, authors have used the word " android " to mean a wholly organic, yet artificial, creation.
Many of Christie ’ s books and short stories both set in the Middle East and back in England have a decidedly otherworldly influence in which religious sects, sacrifices, ceremony, and seances play a part.
There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).
While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.
Many of the stories have them travel to foreign countries, though others are set in and around their village.
Moreover, the ansibles Le Guin uses in her stories apparently have a very limited bandwidth which only allows for at most a few hundred characters of text to be communicated in any transaction of a dialog session.
The prose version has survived, but the Life is very much a hagiography: many of the stories it contains have obvious Biblical parallels, making them suspect as a historical record.
Many stories have developed since the founding long ago to become a part of America's folklore and cultural awareness, and non-native American folklore especially includes any narrative which has contributed to the shaping of American values and belief systems.
An Urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories that may or may not have been believed by their tellers to be true.
Kirk had long been researching fairies, and the book collected several personal accounts and stories of folk who claimed to have encountered them.
Images and stories of flight have appeared throughout recorded history, such as the legendary story of Icarus and Daedalus.
One popular technique is to mock external interfaces or data to mimic other stories which might not be played out during an iteration ( as those stories may have been relatively lower business priority ).
" Folktale scholar Hugh H. Trotti has argued that Boone ’ s account may have been the inspiration for some of the Bigfoot stories told in North America.
However, from a conservative approach, Joyce G. Baldwin argued that " old, authentic stories would have provided comfort to sufferers of later generations far more convincingly than a book of new parables.
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`` I've been in government and I can tell some pretty hairy stories about personnel difficulties, so I know what a problem he was ''.
Despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating.
It has been said that twelve cases related in The Labours of Hercules ( 1947 ) must refer to a different retirement, but the fact that Poirot specifically says that he intends to grow marrows indicates that these stories also take place before Roger Ackroyd, and presumably Poirot closed his agency once he had completed them.
The series, adapting several of the best-known Poirot and Marple stories, ran from 4 July 2004 through 15 May 2005, and has since been shown in repeated reruns on NHK and other networks in Japan.
Burkina has been the site of several development success stories.
Homosexual interpretations have been part of the academic study of Batman since psychologist Fredric Wertham asserted in his Seduction of the Innocent in 1954 that " Batman stories are psychologically homosexual.
This original " book of saviours ," made up of the stories of Ehud, Jael and parts of Gideon, had already been enlarged and transformed into " wars of Yahweh " before being given the final Deuteronomistic revision.
Her stories have been retold in song, film, ballet and animation.
The Brer Rabbit stories of Joel Chandler Harris had been family favourites and she later studied his Uncle Remus stories and illustrated them.
They were also published in PC Plus magazine for a short time, and several books of the stories have also been released.
David Kusche pointed out a common problem with many of the Bermuda Triangle stories and theories: " Say I claim that a parrot has been kidnapped to teach aliens human language and I challenge you to prove that is not true.
Daniel Dennett has argued for an approach he calls heterophenomenology, which means treating verbal reports as stories that may or may not be true, but his ideas about how to do this have not been widely adopted.
Cyberpunk stories have also been seen as fictional forecasts of the evolution of the Internet.
With studied playfulness, Smith and Lovecraft borrowed each other's coinages of place names and the names of strange gods for their stories, though so different is Smith's treatment of the Lovecraft theme that it has been dubbed the ' Clark Ashton Smythos '.
By the time of Howard's suicide in 1936, he had written 21 complete stories, 17 of which had been published, as well as a number of unfinished fragments.
In total, more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories featuring the Conan character have been written by authors other than Howard.
Editions after the Lancer / Ace series have been of either the original Howard stories or Conan material by others, but not both.
No official, unarguably complete version of the Tales exists and no consensus has been reached regarding the order in which Chaucer intended the stories to be placed.
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