Listen to an excerpt of Alex Segura's SECRET IDENTITY, read by Aida Reluzco.

It’s 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn’t care. She’s an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn’t have the creative zeal of Marvel nor the buttoned-up efficiency of DC, but it doesn’t matter. Carmen is tantalizingly close to fulfilling her dream of writing a superhero book.

That dream is nearly a reality when one of the Triumph writers enlists her help to create a new character, which they call “The Lethal Lynx,” Triumph's first female hero. But her colleague is acting strangely and asking to keep her involvement a secret. And then he’s found dead, with all of their scripts turned into the publisher without her name. Carmen is desperate to piece together what happened to him, to hang on to her piece of the Lynx, which turns out to be a runaway hit. But that’s complicated by a surprise visitor from her home in Miami, a tenacious cop who is piecing everything together too quickly for Carmen, and the tangled web of secrets and resentments among the passionate eccentrics who write comics for a living.

Alex Segura uses his expertise as a comics creator as well as his unabashed love of noir fiction to create a truly one-of-a-kind novel--hard-edged and bright-eyed, gritty and dangerous, and utterly absorbing.

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Secret Identity by Alex Segura, audiobook excerpt

Miguel, Gloria et Rachel ont bien connu les déboires de l’administration française. Obtenir ses papiers, qu’on vienne du Mexique ou du Cameroun, amène à devoir vivre l’expérience de la préfecture - pour ne pas dire le cauchemar de la préfecture. Visa temporaire, permis de travail à renouveler, récépissé, file d’attente, confrontation avec les agents, incohérences bureaucratiques… Ils ont fini par renoncer. Mais est-ce mieux au Canada et particulièrement à Vancouver ou Winnipeg ? Il faut y aller pour le savoir.

La route de l'Eldorado
Ils et elles ont quitté leur pays pour la France avant de choisir de s’installer au Canada. Ils et elles nous racontent la France, son accueil, ses opportunités, mais aussi ses blocages. Après leur expérience française ils ont finalement atterri à Montréal, Ottawa ou Vancouver, où Halima Elkhatabi les a rencontrés. Après la Route du Bled, Halima Elkhatabi tisse avec finesse onze récits qui racontent un double exil avec émotion et lucidité. Une coproduction ARTE Radio - Radio Canada qui permet de passionnants regards croisés sur la France et la Canada.

Enregistrements : 2021 - Entretiens et prises de son : Halima Elkhatabi - Réalisation et mixage : Charlie Marcelet  - Musiques originales : Samuel Hirsch - Illustration : Lola Penicaud - Production : Radio-Canada OHdio, ARTE Radio

La route de l'Eldorado (2/5) : Les 12 travaux de l’immigration

Author, Therapist, Coach, Husband & Father.

Here's some words from Ansar: 

Hey! I’m Ansar. Founder of ThrivinginRelationships.com, Author, Certified Therapist, Relationships Counsellor and Mental Health Coach. I specialise in teaching relationships based around Evolutionary Biology and Psychology related to attraction and mating strategies.

I teach you how to prevent and heal your relationship problems based on predictive framework supported by science.

With almost 50% of marriages ending in divorce in current times, I've dedicated myself to a mission to give individuals and couples just like you the skills, knowledge and solutions to overcoming the common causes of break-ups and divorces that I've acquired over the last 10 years. Here's a list of some of the problems I've successfully helped improve and overcome with my clients in the past:

Lack of intimacy

Infidelity

Abuse

Lack of compatibility

Physical appearance

Addictions (porn)

Getting married at an early age with regrets

Getting married for the wrong reasons

Lack of communication

Lack of equality and loss of identity

If you have a problem with any of the above or something else entirely different related to human behaviour and relationships then get in touch and see if I can offer you some direction too.

MD Ansar Ali - How To Understand Your Sabotaging Patterns In Relationships

Brian’s desperate for cash, until a random ghost writer answers his Craigslist ad for a roommate. Now, he’s about to get more drama than he ever imagined.

BIG thanks to Brian Boucher for sharing his story with Snap!

Brian wrote about this experience in New York Magazine titled “My Roommate, The Diamond Thief.” Read more about it.

Produced by Bo Walsh, original score by Dirk Schwarzhoff, artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 13 – Episode 28

Roommate Wanted

Steenz is a St. Louis based cartoonist, editor, and professor. They’re the cartoonist on the Ringo Award-Nominated syndicated comic strip ‘Heart Of The City’, the co-creator of Dwayne McDuffie Award-Winning GN Archival Quality, and is featured in short story anthologies such as Eisner and Ignatz Award-Winning Elements: Fire, Mine!, and Dead Beats. Steenz also launched and edited the popular RPG periodical Rolled & Told. They participate in and create community building comics related programming, and are frequent panelist at comic cons. Steenz currently teaches cartooning at Webster University while editing comics for independent publishers.

They live with their husband and two cats, and watches a lot of esoteric social documentaries.

To learn more about Steenz: https://www.oheysteenz.com/

The link to their Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1803389958/unico-awakening-manga-by-gurihiru-and-samuel-sattin?ref=lqonqx

Andrews McMeel Universal: andrewsmcmeel.com

Books, Kids, & Creations Interview with Cartoonist Steenz

Après une enfance miséreuse mais pas malheureuse dans la Marseille de l’après-guerre, Daniel Nieto devient un as du hold-up et finit sous les verrous. En 1976, il profite d’une permission pour s’enfuir en Italie. Il gravit les échelons du crime aux côtés du Jacques Mesrine local. Puis embrasse la carrière de kidnappeur.

Enlèvement à l’italienne
Rome. Fin des années 1970. Daniel Nieto, un braqueur marseillais, est en cavale dans l’Italie des années de plomb où le rapt est une véritable industrie. Il devient kidnappeur et enlève la fille d’un riche industriel du cinéma. Une relation contre-nature se noue entre l’otage et son geôlier. Elle sera fatale à ce dernier.

Une série documentaire de Marine Vlahovic
Enregistrements: Août 2020 à mai 2022 - Entretiens: Marine Vlahovic - Montage : Marine Vlahovic et Sara Monimart - Réalisation : Marine Vlahovic et Samuel Hirsch - Musique originale & mixage: Samuel Hirsch - Illustration : Zaven Najjar - Production : Arte Radio

Enlèvement à l'italienne (1/7): Voyage en Italie

Listen to an excerpt from I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED by Jennette McCurdy, read by the author.

I'M GLAD MY MOM DIED Audiobook Excerpt

Carl Frampton v Kiko Martinez II dominates the podcast with the Northern Irishman, Frampton, bidding to win his 19th bout in a row.
Mike Costello and Steve Bunce discuss the fight as well as who Carl Froch's next opponent should be and the future of Anthony Joshua. Sep 04, 2014

5lspecials: 5live Boxing: Frampton v Martinez 04 Sep 14

It's scary, baby!

This week, Snap sneaks after monsters going bump in the night.  

Listen to "Spooked" on NPR Stations nationwide, or click the link right now (if you dare) . . .  

Listen to the entire Snap Judgment "Spooked: The Origin"

Brian Tyler USGA THEME 1 MINUTE VRSN

In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk with Wendy Wise, technical director of emerging technologies at Turner Broadcasting System, and author of the recent article “How to pick the right authoring tools for VR and AR.” She is developing Learning Paths, which will be released on Safari in 2018, on how to get started with ARKit using Unity and XCode.

Wendy Wise on Developing for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators. At O’Reilly, a big part of our business is paying attention to what’s new and interesting in the world of technology. We have a pretty good record at having anticipated some of the big technology developments in recent history. For instance, we launched the first commercial Web site, GNN, in 1993; we organized the meeting at which the term “open source” was first adopted; we were early investors in Blogger, which helped launch the blogging revolution; and more recently, our Web 2.0 conference launched a world-wide meme. We call this predictive sense the “O’Reilly Radar.” And while we’re certainly not always right, we are, at least, good at making interesting guesses.

Our methodology is simple: we draw from the wisdom of the alpha geeks in our midst, paying attention to what’s interesting to them, amplifying these weak signals, and seeing where they fit into the innovation ecology. Add to that the original research conducted by our Research team, and you start to get a good picture of what the technology world is thinking about.

Wendy Wise on Developing for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

O'Reilly Radar