Free Download Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BYF7JQ7W | 2023 | 15 hours and 45 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 458 MB
Author: Mary Rodgers, Jesse Green
Narrator: Jesse Green, Christine Baranski
The memoirs of Mary Rodgers―writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried everything." "What am I, bologna?" Mary Rodgers (1931-2014) often said. She was referring to being stuck in the middle of a talent sandwich: the daughter of one composer and the mother of another. And not just any composers. Her father was Richard Rodgers, perhaps the greatest American melodist; her son, Adam Guettel, a worthy successor. What that leaves out is Mary herself, also a composer, whose musical Once Upon a Mattress remains one of the rare revivable Broadway hits written by a woman. Shy is the story of how it all happened: how Mary grew from an angry child, constrained by privilege and a parent's overwhelming gift, to become not just a theater figure in her own right but also a renowned author of books for young readers (including the classic Freaky Friday) and, in a final grand turn, a doyenne of philanthropy and the chairman of the Juilliard School.

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Free Download Adrian Parr, "Outspoken: A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century"
English | ISBN: 0228016932 | 2023 | 208 pages | PDF | 11 MB
In a world of increasing right-wing populism, global capitalism, and a climate emergency, leading thinkers come together to interrogate the meaning and practice of being outspoken. The violence, nativism, persecution, and social hostilities of the twenty-first century demand a call to order: philosophical and theoretical communities must commit their intellectual resources to confronting and articulating the structures, desires, and resentment driving the dismantling of democratic values. Action in the absence of understanding and political vision devoid of inclusive ideas are all the more vulnerable to taking a reactionary turn. Contributors to this volume challenge the return of fascism, dehumanization of immigrants, distrust of science, intolerance of fair and equitable economic models, and suspicion of inclusive political platforms. All, in their own way, tackle the burning question of how we might reimagine twenty-first-century life in the face of divisive forces. Outspoken includes essays by some of the world's most radical thinkers - Rosi Braidotti, Henry A. Giroux, Amelia Jones, and Slavoj Žižek, among others - who together chart multiple progressive courses for political antagonism and social intervention.

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Night Shift (Outspoken Authors) by Eileen Gunn
English | August 16, 2022 | ISBN: 1629639427 | True EPUB | 128 pages | 7.3 MB

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