![]() To Priya Parker and Anand Giridharadas-thank you for helping us launch the book and series in such meaningful ways.To our friends, agents, editors, and partners at Penguin Random House and WME-thank you for sharing this vision and making the pages of Atlas of the Heart come to life.To the in-studio audience-thank you for traveling with us! Thank you for the tears, laughter, and asking beautiful, hard questions that kept us thinking.To my fellow teachers and episode guests-thank you for your voices and contributions to this world.“In the Middle of Love” is the perfect way to open and close the episodes. ![]() ![]() To Jake Wesley Rogers-thank you for moving us with your presence and your music.To our creative partners, executive producers, showrunner, and the entire staff and crew at Den of Thieves-thank you for the rumbles, for the hard conversations, and for producing a series that we all love and believe in. ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() Enter Margaret Hale, daughter of a dissenter. This new world does not have time for tea or balls, and it certainly does not have time for religion. This is the world of contracts, economics, riots, unions, violence, and mistreatment. This is the world of farmers, merchants, tradesmen, businessmen-people who must work in order to survive. People are not nice, nor do they have the time for leisure activities. Writing almost 100 years after Austen, Gaskell’s North and South is a smoky world filled with hardship. If Jane Austen excelled at critiquing the gentry and upper class, at showing the foils of societal constructs of how to live and behave-especially when it came to women, Elizabeth Gaskell excelled at showing the troubles of the rising low and middle classes. ![]() Some want their children to be better instructed than they themselves have been. Some want resolutely to learn, though they have come to man’s estate. ‘A private tutor!’ said Margaret, looking scornful: ‘What in the world do manufacturers want with the classics, or literature, or the accomplishments of a gentleman?’ ‘Oh,’ said her father, ‘some of them really seem to be fine fellows, conscious of their own deficiencies, which is more than many a man at Oxford is. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her daughter is Juman Malouf, a writer, illustrator and costume designer who is the romantic partner of American director Wes Anderson. She left Beirut again in 1975 at the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War and moved to Saudi Arabia to work and write there. She returned to Lebanon to work for the Lebanese newspaper An-Nahar until 1975. ![]() She continued her gender-segregated education at the American College for Girls in Cairo, Egypt, graduating in 1966. She attended the Almillah primary school for Muslim girls where she received a traditional education for Muslim girls, before continuing her education at the Ahliah school. Her father and brother exerted strict social control over her during her childhood and adolescence. Hanan al-Shaykh was born Beirut, Lebanon, in 1945, into a strict Shi'aįamily. Hanan al-Shaykh ( Arabic: حنان الشيخ born 12 November 1945, Beirut) is a Lebanese author of contemporary literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Confused, hurt, scared, and alone, Kyle must make his way across a hostile continent to a family he's not even sure has survived the effects of the attack. Kyle narrowly escapes when his airplane crashes on take-off, only to find himself stranded 2,000 miles from home in a country that has been forced, from a technological standpoint, back to the 19th century. ![]() The blast, an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP), destroys every electrical device in the country, and results in the crippling of the power grid, the shutting down of modern communications, and bringing to a halt most forms of transportation. Kyle Tait is settling in for his flight home to Montana when a single nuclear bomb is detonated 300 miles above the heart of America. On a Friday afternoon before Labor Day, Americans are getting ready for the holiday weekend, completely unaware of a long-planned terrorist plot about to be launched against the country. ![]() ![]() ![]() The baking teams are put on the clock and rush to build a completely sensory world for the judges to explore, including ice sculptures and faux bloodied door arches. The newly shared Snoop & Martha’s Very Tasty Halloween trailer introduces viewers to the decked-out decorations at the duo’s Halloween party at Tasty Manor. The confectionery works, which call for the bakers to draw from the concept of fear, will be judged by Snoop and Martha alongside food content creator Alvin Zhou. The show takes the classic food competition arrangement to a new level as teams of three bakers go above and beyond to build an edible 12×12-foot project. Snoop & Martha’s Very Tasty Halloween begins streaming on October 21st via Peacock. In a move that seems to have been born in a meme generator, Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart have teamed up with BuzzFeed Studios and Magical Elves for a Halloween-themed baking competition. ![]() |