Adam Grant

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Cover for I Who Have Never Known Men DEEP UNDERGROUND, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl-the fortieth prisoner-sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, and fled to Casablanca with her family during WWII. Informed by her background as a psychoanalyst and her youth in exile, I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic novel of female friendship and intimacy, and the lengths people will go to maintain their humanity in the face of devastation. Back in print for the first time since 1997, Harpman's modern classic is an important addition to the growing canon of feminist speculative literature. "All the loneliness and oblivion of a deserted world won't stop us from following the narrator as far as she can go... Each revelation that directs her steps is a small miracle."—The New York Times "A consistently gripping experience."-TLS "It is surprising that a book with the psychological detail of a nightmare elicits in the reader feelings of such profound intensity. "—Le Monde "The delirium of I Who Have Never Known Men suggests the work of a feminine Kafka."—Le Nouvel Observateur Fiction / Literature
A brick wall with the graffiti "No ICE in west Marin" some cars parked up front
Japanese garden with a little bridge and many manicure plants and some traditional Japanese structures in the background
An envelope reading "Epstein Files"
The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up in disarray--the machines have formed alliances, chosen their own names, and picked up some disturbing beliefs. Each must be interrogated. But one of them is missing. In this barren, hostile landscape where even machines have nightmares, the astronauts will need to examine all the stories--especially their own--to get to the truth
Sony voice recorder. Long black rectangle. About the length of half a pen and as wide as a nickel. Sleek with the buttons hidden from view on the edges
A Zendo on a hill in a Japanese garden
Anyone who dials the phone number 917-555-5829 first hears a melodic lullaby followed by a man coldly repeating seemingly random numbers. No one knows who is doing this or why. Theories abound. Are they launch codes? Is it an encoded message? The phone number becomes an internet sensation but no one is able to crack it. One day, a podcaster closely following the mysterious number dials the number on a live broadcast but there is no lullaby, no numbers. Only the sound of a woman addressing the caller as "Hank" and pleading desperately for help. Anyone who calls the number afterwards only gets a busy signal. The police are constantly called in by the concerned public but without an actual crime or identifiable victim, their hands are tied. It is up to the fans of the phone number to investigate. The trail runs cold until a numbers fan discovers a connection with a declassified government document from the 50s with haunting similarities yet scant details. Lullabies, random numbers, and a location known only by "The Tuning Room." The internet sleuths investigate until the podcaster becomes the first human being to get a call back from the number.
Japanese garden at Hakone Gardens in Saratoga
My scrivener project showing the outline of my chapters in my book "The Cure"
Blood Meridian by Cormack McCarthy
A bridge at Hakone gardens in front of a Zendo
Cover for "Run" by Blake Crouch
Showing kobo with The Three Body Problem open
Woman has undergone a procedure to erase the grief of losing her husband. She now knows him only in theory. A stranger with a face and a name she was once married to and lost. Then a girlfriend from his past dies. The official reports call it accidental but she finds keepsakes he left behind strongly point otherwise. In fact, it suggests a vaguely identified victim will be next. She must now piece together the life of someone she no longer knows to convince authorities the killer is still at large.
The book cover for "The Cure" a novel
Page in scrivener showing a character backstory written out with the actual content.
A list of files with people's names, each is a character backstory text doc.
A chapter fully written out
A chapter showing five documents in it, each corresponding to a scene
A list of my chapters, each one with a very short summary in the title.
Showing the list of the story circle parts
Showing my outer rings area collapsed
A list of premises with small descriptions
Order page for the Kobo Clara color e reader with the light blue cover
An app for writing novels with different folders with custom icons: Manuscript, characters, places, front matter, notes, outer rings, premises, research, template sheets, trash. One folder is blackened out.