Putin, however, showed no willingness to meet with Zelenskyy, expressing anger Wednesday about what he said were Ukraine’s recent “terrorist acts” on Russian rail lines in the Kursk and Bryansk regions on the countries’ border.
“In all my years of therapy I never got to the bottom of my impulse toward treachery, especially toward people who’d helped me and befriended me,” he later wrote.Through much of the 1960s, he was writing novels that were rejected or never finished. Late at night, he would “dress as a hippie, and head out for the bars.” A favorite stop was the Stonewall, where he would down vodka tonics and try to find the nerve to ask a man he had crush on to dance. He was in the neighborhood on the night of June 28, 1969, when police raided the Stonewall and “all hell broke loose.”
“Up until that moment we had all thought homosexuality was a medical term,” wrote White, who soon joined the protests. “Suddenly we saw that we could be a minority group — with rights, a culture, an agenda.”Before the 1970s, few novels about openly gay characters existed beyond Vidal’s “The City and the Pillar” and James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room.” Classics such as William Burroughs’ “Naked Lunch” had “rendered gay life as exotic, marginal, even monstrous,” according to White. But the world was changing, and publishing was catching up, releasing fiction by White, Kramer, Andrew Holleran and others.White’s debut novel, the surreal and suggestive “Forgetting Elena,” was published in 1973. He collaborated with Charles Silverstein on “The Joy of Gay Sex,” a follow-up to the bestselling “The Joy of Sex” that was updated after the emergence of AIDS. In 1978, his first openly gay novel, “Nocturnes for the King of Naples,” was released and he followed with the nonfiction “States of Desire,” his attempt to show “the varieties of gay experience and also to suggest the enormous range of gay life to straight and gay people — to show that gays aren’t just hairdressers, they’re also petroleum engineers and ranchers and short-order cooks.”
With “A Boy’s Own Story,” published in 1982, he began an autobiographical trilogy that continued with “The Beautiful Room is Empty” and “The Farewell Symphony,” some of the most sexually direct and explicit fiction to land on literary shelves. Heterosexuals, he wrote in “The Farewell Symphony,” could “afford elusiveness.” But gays, “easily spooked,” could not “risk feigning rejection.”His other works included “Skinned Alive: Stories” and the novel “A Previous Life,” in which he turns himself into a fictional character and imagines himself long forgotten after his death. In 2009, he published “City Boy,” a memoir of New York in the 1960s and ‘70s in which he told of his friendships and rivalries and gave the real names of fictional characters from his earlier novels. Other recent books included the novels “Jack Holmes & His Friend” and “Our Young Man” and the memoir “Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris.”
“From an early age I had the idea that writing was truth-telling,” he told The Guardian around the time “Jack Holmes” was released. “It’s on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature — the holy book. There’s nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious and it should be totally transparent.”
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Lawrence Welk didn’t have a flush toilet where he grew up, but visitors toes el mayor desafío de su gobierno.
Según expertos y autoridades, la situación crítica se debe a la falta de inversión. El Estado no tiene fondos para comprar petróleo o piezas de repuesto para sus vetustas centrales termoeléctricas, en buena medida por las sanciones de Estados Unidos que presionan por un cambio de modelo político y dificultan el acceso de Cuba al sector financiero internacional.El gobierno anunció un plan que incluye la instalación de 51 parques solares para 2026 —varias decenas ya inaugurados— y la reparación de generadores con apoyo de China y Rusia, así como la continuidad en la contratación de plantas generadoras flotantes. Pero los especialistas tienen dudas de que esto alcance.
“Falta de petróleo, falta de gas licuado principalmente usado para cocinar, lo que quiere decir mayor consumo de electricidad disponible para la cocción de alimentos. Altas temperaturas de verano y posibles huracanes”, resumió Jorge Piñón, investigador del Instituto de Energía de Universidad de Texas en Austin. “Ni una buena telenovela mexicana te puede pintar una peor situación”, agregó.Natividad Hernández, que tiene un poco más de recursos que la familia del reparto Bahía, compró paneles solares, pero como su presupuesto no alcanzó para instalarles baterías sólo puede usarlos de día y en la medida en que haya un poco de corriente para arrancar su funcionamiento. Igual “son una gran solución”, dijo.