![]() There have been interviews on NPR, and recommendations from Time magazine, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, and other outlets. Regardless of her complex relationship with Santa Cruz, her return is triumphant, thanks to the new book, which has been well-received in media reviews across the country. “It’s incredible honor to read at Bookshop, which was one of my favorite places to spend time growing up.” If her attitude toward her hometown is ambivalent, her feelings toward Bookshop are much less complicated. Popkey comes to Bookshop Santa Cruz on Jan. But there’s light magic, and then there’s dark magic.” Of the San Lorenzo Valley in particular, she says, “It’s a magical place. And at the age of 18, she left Santa Cruz for good. She graduated from Pacific Collegiate School in 2005. ![]() ![]() Popkey, who now lives in Massachusetts, grew up in a series of homes with one divorced parent or the other, mostly in Ben Lomond and Bonny Doon. A lot of my adolescence was spent trying to figure out how I felt in relation to the place I grew up.” But I’ve always been a little tighter-wound than your average Santa Cruz resident. “There is an easygoing vibe that the city has. “I think I had a feeling growing up that I was emotionally out of sync with Santa Cruz,” she says. And if her new book has any sense of restless spiritual dislocation to it, that may have started in her childhood. Though she claims no one would ever guess it, Popkey is Santa Cruz County born-and-raised. The subtext comes from the 32-year-old novelist herself. There are no references to Boardwalk rides or banana slugs. The book is set, in part, in California-but in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Fresno. Whether it was meant to or not, the book will be seen as an uncomfortable if bracingly honest documentation of #MeToo disclosure. And those conversations and anecdotes always seem to lead, whether obliquely or explicitly, to themes of female desire, infidelity, violence, and victimization at the hands of predatory men. Miranda Popkey’s newly released Topics of Conversation is a debut novel composed of a series of fictional encounters between an unnamed narrator and several other women over the course of 17 years. But the subtext? That’s a different story. Lollipop now sits at 33.4% (34%), Kit Kat at 22.6% (24%), Jelly Bean at 11.6% (12.8%), Ice Cream Sandwich at 1.1% (1.2%), and Gingerbread at 1.0% (1.2%).ĭecember’s numbers can be seen right here.The first buzzed-about novel of the 2020s has no overt Santa Cruz themes or references. In terms of new numbers, we’re looking at Nougat jumping from 0.4% of the pie to 0.7% and Marshmallow shooting from 26.3% to 29.6%. What times those were, overclocking single-core processors to melt our hands while blacking out everything via cheesy embossed themed ROM for an extra 3 minutes of battery. Struggling to deal with this…reflecting back. Google updated the Android distribution numbers for January 2017 and Froyo has finally been retired from the list, having dropped below the 0.1% threshold needed to stick around. You ready for it? Seriously, are you ready for this? Well, if you read the title, you know it, but yes, Froyo is finally dead! Oh man, we’ve got yuuuuuge breaking news on the Android distribution front.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |