![]() Now, with Women Talking, Miriam Toews presents another perspective, drawing on an uncharacteristically gruesome inciting incident to craft an ambitious novel that circumvents shock value in favour of a subtler rumination on language and power.īased on the true story of "ghost rapes" in a Bolivian Mennonite colony, Women Talking begins in the wake of an appalling discovery: a small group of male colony members have been using animal tranquilizers to rape hundreds of women and girls in their sleep. Emma Cline’s The Girls sidesteps the lurid and well-trodden ground of the Manson Family murders to meditate on gender and identity Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny takes a more literal approach to a recent child murder in New York, changing superficial details while tracking each intimate step toward the act itself. Any ripped-from-the-headlines premise faces the question of distance: How can an author access real events faithfully and effectively without further violating the people who experienced them? In recent years, a number of novelists have adopted varying degrees of remoteness in their fictionalized accounts of highly publicized female trauma. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Five hours later, Lennon was callously gunned down by Mark David Chapman in front of his Manhattan apartment (1980)Īnnie has always lead a somewhat private personal life. Each rose shown in these shots had to have the thorns removed by hand!Īnother notable Rolling Stone cover – Annie takes the last photo ever of John Lennon (with wife Yoko Ono). Here’s a Rolling Stone cover featuring Bette Midler. Here’s a few highlights from the relentless touring with them.Īfter rehab, Annie’s photography career continued to flourish. As one could imagine, this proved to be challenging for her, as she developed numerous substance abuse issues. Here we see a rather unique shot of President Nixon‘s helicopter taking off, with the subjects securing Nixon’s Presidential carpet (1974)īeginning in 1975, Annie toured with the Rolling Stones for eight consecutive years. Thompson, providing photos to accompany his articles. This was from one of her earlier photo shoots, which landed her photograph of John Lennon on the Rolling Stone cover.Īnnie would often hit the campaign trail with fellow political correspondent Hunter S. ![]() A family photo from 1966.Īnnie quickly developed a keen eye for photography at a young age. For those listening to the audio podcast, here are the photo examples from the YouTube video version of the show:īorn in Connecticut, Annie and her five other siblings would relocate routinely – all depending on where the Air Force needed her father stationed. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1988, she emerged from the cave with a determination to build a convent in Northern India to revive the Togdenma lineage, a long-forgotten female spiritual elite. In this mountain hideaway she faced unimaginable cold, wild animals, floods, snow and rockfalls, grew her own food and slept in a traditional wooden meditation box, three feet square - she never lay down. In 1976, she secluded herself in a remote cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas, where she stayed for 12 years between the ages of 33 and 45. Being the only woman amongst hundreds of monks, she began her battle against the prejudice that has excluded women from enlightenment for thousands of years. In 1963, at the age of 20, she went to India, where she eventually entered a monastery. At the age of 18, however, she read a book on Buddhism and realised that this might fill a long-sensed void in her life. ![]() After meditating for 12 years in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas, she became a world-renowned spiritual leader and champion of the right of women to achieve spiritual enlightenment.ĭiane Perry grew up in London's East End. This is the story of Tenzin Palmo, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End who became a Tibetan nun. ![]() Includes a bonus track of Tenzin Palmo introducing a retreat. ![]() |