Kenison, Burns's editor and friend, has packaged this second book respectfully and affectionately, adding an overlong, eulogistic portrait in which she limns the author's creative growth and painful but productive final years. Readers should prepare for an interrupted work-in-process, an uneasy sense of a writer's voice about to be stilled. While it's tempting to relax and enjoy the outrageous southern situations, humor and attitudes here, the knowledge that the narrative will abruptly end (leaving conflicts sadly unresolved) dictates a cautious approach. Olive Ann Burns classic bestseller brings. Although the completed chapters do not cover their marriage, the births of their four kids or their hardships, these events are foreshadowed in fact, most of the characters are based on Burns's immediate family and the story draws on their experiences. Not since To Kill A Mockingbird has a novel so deftly captured the subtle crosscurrents of small-town Southern life. Encouraged by local matchmakers, Will nervously courts schoolteacher Sanna Klein. This new visit to the fictional town of Cold Sassy, Ga., features the original novel's protagonist, Will Tweedy, now 25 and too dang skinny to fight in WW I. As she battled cancer, Burns (1924-1990) completed 14 chapters of a sequel to her 1984 bestseller Cold Sassy Tree, leaving behind at her death part of a 15th chapter and notes on how she intended to develop the novel's characters and plot.
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Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before he's planning to leave Japan and relocate to Vancouver. Jay Wiseman, author of SM 101: A Realistic Introduction, defines edgeplay as "play above-average in terms of its physical and/or emotional risks and below-average in terms of its predictability." Wiseman is an author, educator, and activist with over thirty-five years of experience in the BDSM scene, and he is credited with being a pioneer of the SM community in San Francisco, where he is the founder (merging with prominent BDSM author Janet Hardy) of Greenery Press, a BDSM and GLBT-friendly publisher. This term is subjective, as what is considered safe, sane and consensual (SSC) or risk-aware consensual kink (RACK) varies with each player. For people not involved in the BDSM, or kink scene (the subject of this week's cover story), most forms of sadomasochistic or SM play would be considered edgy, but within the scene there are certain activities that are generally recognized as being high-risk, even for experienced players, and these are categorized as edgeplay. |