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Or like she cut me open and smeared my insides all over a glass pane, for everyone to witness.” Shortly after finishing my first read, I texted my friend: “It was as though she performed open heart surgery on me and I was awake. “Closer Baby Closer” marries the stylistic maturity of “Sweetdark” with the intense relatability of “Graffiti,” marking it as her strongest collection yet.īrown demonstrates a piercing ability to describe intimate moments from past relationships with painful specificity, articulating buried grief over ex-lovers that sometimes seem to escape language. Whereas “Graffiti” contained some of her most vulnerable and relatable work, her second collection, “Sweetdark,” sees Brown venturing into new stylistic territory with distinct technical prowess. “Closer Baby Closer” also happens to be my favorite work of hers. “Closer Baby Closer” is her first title published under Doomsday. From her first collection, “Graffiti,” which features poems about adolescent fears, to her two novels, “The Truth About Keeping Secrets” and “The Things We Don’t See,” Brown’s dark, moody lyricism and pensive writing style has held an unrelenting grip on her readers.īrown founded Doomsday Press, an independent publishing company, in 2022, after realizing that traditional publishing just wasn’t her thing. Savannah Brown is 26 years old, and has already accumulated an impressive literary career. In this version, the stepmother starts out as a governess to Zezolla, the Cinderella character. It also draws from the Italian “Cat Cinderella” for the stepmother’s backstory. In reference to the Grimm tale, there is a rumor going around the royal court that Ella’s stepsisters cut off parts of feet in order for the slipper to fit. However, there are a few things taken from other versions. There are glass slippers and a godmother (though not a fairy godmother, as we will discuss later). Teller mainly draws from the well-known Perrault version of the story. You can read the previous ones here, here, and here. Let’s jump into All the Ever Afters! My Rating: 5 stars Warning: Contains spoilers As a Retelling: Today we’re taking a look at the fourth “Cinderella” retelling of this feature. But considering I’ve been trying to get this finished for a month and a half, I’m not sure how that will go. My semester is over, so I’m hoping to post a few of these during my summer break. Welcome back to Fairy Tale Friday! It’s been a very long time. From Dhaka to Cincinnati: Charting Transnational Narratives of Trauma, Victimization, and Survivalġ0. Transnational Feminisms: Locating Muslim Women at the Crossroadsĩ. Faith-based Challenges to the Women’s Movement in Pakistan Islamic Feminism between Interpretive Freedom and Legal Codification: The Case of Sisters in Islam in MalaysiaĨ. Intersecting Dynamics: Representational Activism and New Mobilities among “Muslim Women” in Indiaħ. 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The nature of Marlowe's service to England was not specified by the council, but the letter sent to Cambridge has provoked abundant speculation, notably the theory that Marlowe had become a secret agent working for Sir Francis Walsingham's intelligence service. Its doubts (perhaps arising from his frequent absences, or speculation that he had converted to Roman Catholicism and would soon attend college elsewhere) were set to rest, or at least dismissed, when the Privy Council sent a letter declaring that he was now working "on matters touching the benefit of his country," and he was awarded his master's degree on schedule. Marlowe earned his bachelor of arts degree in 1584, but in 1587 the university hesitated in granting him his master's degree. He went to King's School and was awarded a scholarship that enabled him to study at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, from late 1580 until 1587. 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