"An engrossing read that asks big questions about autonomy and freedom in every sense of those words." -Sarah Neilson, A Them Best Book of Summer Cain as influences, suggesting X will be a wild ride into the unknown." - Thrillist This noir-inflected dystopian thriller follows true-crime obsessive Lee as they move through those spaces and attempt to unravel a mystery involving the titular 'X.' Author Davey Davis has cited Sarah Schulman, Dennis Cooper, and James M. "Anytime the jacket copy on a book promises to explore 'warehouses, bathrooms, and dungeons across New York City,' it has our attention. Buy this book." -Sarah Thankam Mathews, The Cut It’s delicious it’s so gay it locates and names the state as easily as it locates and names desire. "Davey Davis’s X is the real deal, lacerating the reader with its swagger, prose, and heat. "In this dystopian yet all-too-imaginable read, a new friend of Lee’s goes missing around a U.S.-led purge of migrants and refugees, resulting in a tale as sexy as it is alarming-and making it the perfect thing to read at Riis Beach all summer long." -Emma Specter, Vogue Andrew's Cross or a sex date at the novel's underground Fist club, hope beckons and snaps right around the corner like the quick of a whip." -Jim Piechota, Bay Area Reporter But whether in the form of a bloody BDSM release while tied to a St. Delectably provocative, adventurous, urgent, dizzying, mouthwateringly kinky, queer, and not for the faint of heart, Davis has conjured an ashen gray world where the end is near, but sex remains hot and ready on the tongues of the surviving outcasts. "One of Davey's enormous talents is world-building through tightly wound, imaginative descriptions of characters, moods, and places. will leave you, in the same way it leaves its narrator, wondering: What are you ignoring? What can’t you admit to yourself? And is it already too late, or have you just given up?” -Hugh Ryan, The New York Times Book Review X documents a dystopia that has only just arrived, suggesting that perhaps there was a moment when we could have taken a different path. the overall effect is masterly, a perfect mating of style and subject. “ X is lyrical and nonlinear, with sentences that feel like carved obsidian: dark, sharp and shiny.
"Davis is a remarkably self-assured author, and X is a dizzying, beautiful novel, and a fascinating look at a subculture that mainstream American art has frequently shied away from." -Michael Schaub, NPR The Millions, A Most Anticipated Book of the Year We’ll practice receiving notes and re-directs.Praise For This Book A Bustle Most Anticipated Book of the Month We’ll create a basic road map for any audition by analyzing the script, exploring relationships, objectives, motivations, obstacles, actions, and storytelling arc. We will also cover everything “outside of the acting” from industry standards for self tapes & at home set-ups to finding auditions, representation, and other resources.
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Learn how to create and deliver dynamic performances, while maximizing the “digital canvas” for self tapes or zoom call backs, with an emphasis on clear, active choices, grounded in truth.
In this course, actors will dive deep into the ins and outs of virtual on-camera auditioning with an accomplished working actor and coach in the Southeast/Atlanta market. Virtual | The Virtual Audition Room: Technique for Virtual Auditions & Callbacks