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Managers are used to being judged by statistics: games won and lost, goals scored and conceded, shots on target, percentage of possession, money spent,The best online shop for sale the hot sell Men's HyBridge Jacket. and recouped, in the transfer market. 

Joe Kinnear got judged by a different set of stats while he was Newcastle's interim manager, and they looked like this: 36 f-words, six b-words, four c-words; swearword total: 53. And that was just one press conference. 

It turned out he was unhappy with reporting of his leadership of the club, and wanted to make his feelings known to local journalists. "I can't trust any of you," he said, in one of few full sentences safe for a family audience, before setting out his policy for dealing with the press. "I will pick two local papers and speak to them and the rest can fuck off. I ain't coming up here to have the piss taken out of me. I have a million pages of crap that has been written about me. I'm ridiculed for no reason. I'm defenceless. It's ongoing. It just doesn't stop." 

To be fair, managers are under a lot of pressure and exposed to a great deal of public scrutiny, and over time it is easy to imagine this burden becoming hard to bear, and cracks starting to show. Thing is, at the time of his savage press conference, Kinnear had been at Newcastle for precisely one week. 

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2) Avram Grant, Chelsea, April 2008 

Reporters at the manager's press conference that followed Chelsea's 1-0 win at Everton in April 2008 could only dream about hearing 53 expletives. Despite a victory and a performance that proved, as the Guardian's match report put it, that "Chelsea were evidently superior to Everton", Avram Grant's post-match performance was both silly and sullen. In five minutes and 39 seconds of semi-silence Grant produced only 137 words, of which eight were "no", one was "yes", 21 were "I don't know" and five were "I have nothing to say". "He looked and sounded pathetic," we said, "his mumbling, incoherent comments undermining a pre-match appeal to be taken seriously." 

Strangely his interview with the BBC, conducted moments before the press conference,Women Canada Goose Whistler Parka. had been entirely unremarkable, and after delivering his thoughts on the game to Radio 5 Live he was asked about his job security. "I've been in life for many years now and pressure is part of it," he said. "Journalists who say we are having a bad season are trying to do their job, but maybe not in the right way." Grant's contract with Chelsea was terminated the following month. 

3) Rafael Benítez, Liverpool, January 2009 

For a while, it was just an ordinary press conference. Rafael Benítez seemed relaxed as he looked ahead to Liverpool's visit to Stoke City but then he was asked about Sir Alex Ferguson, who had recently suggested that Benítez's side, leading the Premier League at the time, would choke under the pressure. He reached into a jacket pocket and retrieved a piece of paper.You want to shop moncler jackets because of their reputation? He unfolded it and started to read. What came next was premeditated reputation suicide.A great blend of our authentic Canada Goose Montebello Parka functionality and cutting edge style. "Maybe they are nervous because we are at the top of the table but I want to talk about facts," he said, introducing the word which he was to repeat five times in the next few minutes, and which continues to haunt him. "All managers need to know is that Mr Ferguson can talk about the fixtures, can talk about referees and nothing happens," he said. "We need to know that I am talking about facts, not my impression. There are things that everyone can see every single week." 

Inevitably, Liverpool did choke, and United won the league. Ferguson and Benítez continue to feud, with the Scot dismissing the Spaniard as "lucky" when he was appointed by Chelsea last year, and Benítez still sticking by his controversial three-year-old comments. "I always try to concentrate on my job but at that time with Ferguson I was defending my club," he said recently. "I could see what was happening from my point of view, and maybe now a lot of people are seeing the same things. I will not talk too much about that because it's obvious. What I said at that time was what I thought and what I'm seeing now is similar." 

4) Giovanni Trapattoni, Bayern Munich, March 1998 

Things were not going well for Giovanni Trapattoni at Bayern. Three successive defeats had brought out the critics, some of whom were members of his squad: Thomas Strunz, Mehmet Scholl and Mario Basler had all spoken about a lack of harmony between the players and the manager.View our complete selection of Canada Goose Camp Down Jackets. 

Trapattoni wanted to defend himself and he wanted to do it in German. The fact that he could not speak German was not going to stop him, and what he lacked in linguistic fluency he made up for in a virtuoso display of table-banging fury. "These players complain more than they play!" he fumed. "Strunz! Strunz has been here two years, played 10 games, is always injured! How dare Strunz!" The players, Trapattoni said, were "weak like a bottle empty", and finally he concluded with the words "Ich habe fertig", literally "I have ready", but intended to mean "I have finished". 

The conference was swiftly turned into a rap song, some of Trapattoni's more bizarre phrases, particularly his sign-off, immediately entered popular usage and Strunz has since credited the outburst with setting him up for a career in the media once he hung up his boots. "I was shocked. "But in order to work in television, as I do now, I needed a certain degree of notoriety. Trapattoni brought this to me."

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A painting that may be among the best works by the late Knoxville impressionist Catherine Wiley has come home to East Tennessee. 

The vibrantly colored portrait of a farmhand was recently purchased by the Knox County Public Library's Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection and Knoxville Museum of Art. Pooling resources and getting additional money from supporters, the two institutions bought the 1915 "Morning Milking Time" at a Dallas,Working out of power manage to shop moncler jackets property. Texas, auction in November. The oil on canvas went on exhibit last week in the KMA's "Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee" exhibit. It will remain at the museum for now but will be shared by it and McClung. 

Born in 1875 in what's now Lake City, Wiley was known for her brushwork and ability to capture light on canvas. She attended the University of Tennessee, studied art in New York and taught drawing and painting at UT. But her professional life was cut short in 1926 when she was placed in a Pennsylvania mental institution. She died 32 years later, never having painted again. 

The bid price for "Morning Milking Time" was $62,500. Additional fees, including the auction house commission, raised the final purchase to about $77,000,Cheap parka Canada Goose Yorkville Parka will have fleece. said McClung Collection Manager Steve Cotham. Cotham and his assistant Laura Martin outbid six other bidders with their telephoned bid. "That was kind of our outer limit," he said of the price. 

The 40-inch tall painting shows a mustached farmhand wearing a broad-brimmed hat. Looking directly out of the canvas, the man stands in a field carrying two empty pails in his right hand and a brown coat over his left arm. 

The farm worker is a different subject for Wiley who often painted women and children in domestic settings. It's believed the subject of "Morning Milking Time" was a worker on the northwest Knox County farm of the artist's sister, June Wiley Letorey. 

Both Cotham and Knoxville Museum of Art Executive Director David Butler said the portrait is an example of Wiley's best. 

"She had such a facility with paint and could use it so masterfully," Butler said. "His face is so expressive and has such personality and character. Look at all the colors in his jacket — purple and peach and brown and blue. It's not a fancy subject but the way she puts paint on the canvas is just kind of breathtaking." 

Cotham said Wiley admired the works of 19th-century French painter Edouard Manet who influenced Impressionist artists. "Morning Milking Time" reminds him of Manet. "I think it's one of her really good works," he said. 

An Ohio-based art dealer who knew the KMA was interested in Wiley's work alerted the museum about the auction, said Butler. He joined forces — and finances — with Cotham to buy the work. 

"Of course you don't know how much it will go for, but neither of us felt like we had the depth of reserves to just go for it alone. I think our stakeholders like that we are going together and supporting one another. It's just kind of a win-win," Butler said. 

Before being auctioned the painting was in the art collection of the mortgage giant Countrywide Financial, Cotham said. It was briefly loaned back to East Tennessee in the early 1990s as part of an exhibit of Wiley's art. 

The McClung and the art museum individually own other Wiley works. The KMA owns three other Wiley paintings and four drawings.What are ss uniform manager salaries? Two of those paintings also are in "Higher Ground," including the 1913 oil "Woman and Child in a Meadow" the museum bought for $107,000 last year at a Case Antiques Auction in Knoxville. 

The McClung has the single largest collection of Wiley's works, which includes more than three dozen paintings, some dozen drawings and her scrapbooks. Wiley family members gave the McClung the art in the 1970s. Many of those paintings hang on the walls of the McClung's third-floor home of the East Tennessee History Center at 601 S. Gay St. 

The museum doesn't have a designated acquisition fund,It necessary for you to own theduvetica jackets Women. something Butler hopes to start in the future. Museum supporters gave the KMA its part of the painting's price. Cotham also got some funds donated and pooled them with money from a bequest from the late Lucille Deaderick.Search a wide selection of supra shoes for sale. Ironically, it was Deaderick who helped the McClung acquire the Wiley works years ago. 

"The more we do this the more people know we are interested in Catherine Wiley," Butler said. "I think we will continue to make discoveries. It's been wonderful that people really identify with her and that she's from here and they love her work."

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In September 2012, the Dragon's Back Race returned and many competitors used the Vapour Storm during their race. Steve Birkinshaw was one and won a race that was only fully completed by 29 competitors (out of an elite field of 91 starters). Two decades after her victory in the first Dargon's Back Race, Helene Whitaker returned to the mountains of ales and was the first woman to finish (and fifth overall). 

University of Denver police say a man hides and then assaults women walking with a group of people. It's happened twice in two days near the DU campus. 

Police believe the same man is responsible for both attacks. Campus police are working with Denver police to track down the suspect. 

Both attacks happened on the campus about a half a mile from each other a little more than 24 hours apart. One attack happened in the 1900 block of South High Street. Police say a white male in his 20s engaged in forcible fondling.The Canada Goose Expedition Parka is one amongst the foremost in style international models. He was wearing something that looks like a maroon pullover jacket with a some kind of DU logo. 

The suspect is acting alone, but not necessarily attacking women walking alone. 

“I think it's definitely unsettling, especially, you know, the campus tries to promote safety in numbers,” DU student Emily Vucinovich said. 

Police say in two reported incidents, after midnight on both Thursday and Friday, the suspect appeared from cover and grabbed the buttocks of a female who was walking with other women. 

“I think it's better to walk with a male friend,” another student said. “I think it's still not safe.” 

The other assault happened in an alley between Boettcher West and South Race. 

“I think I'm definitely more aware and a little more scared than I used to be,” another student said. 

The suspect is described as a white male in his 20s, 5-foot-9, slim build with brown hair over his ears and in front of his eyes. He was wearing black shorts, white socks and white shoes. 

“We can't have people doing this stuff to other people around here,” student Elliot Shimmin said. 

Regardless of the report the suspect attacked women in groups, there is still safety in numbers. 

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Women are not allowed to serve in artillery, armor, cavalry, and infantry combat units of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. That includes the 109th Field Artillery in Wilkes-Barre - which also has armories in Nanticoke and Plymouth - and the 109th Infantry Regiment in West Pittston.Does anyone know if shop chanel bags are available online? Women are allowed in support units like the 228th Brigade Support Battalion, which has its Golf Company stationed under the 109th's roof in Wilkes-Barre. 

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It took two years for me to wear my puffy white Michael Kors coat, but I felt oh-so comfy and stylish when the temperature was hovering just below freezing. It was my best incentive to leave the house. I bought it at the end of the season in 2011. By then it was too warm to wear, but for $74.99, I wasn't going to leave a $300 coat with a coyote fur-trimmed hood, waterfowl-feather filler and contrasting black zippers and sweater cuff. 

Winter of 2012 was unseasonably warm. I considered my coat to be insurance. I didn't even bother to take the tags off. Then, hello,Lady Gaga designed cheap monster beats headphones to satisfy her passion for fashion and sound. winter 2013. I owned the perfect coat, and I did not have to hunt, scramble or think twice about leaving home without being wrapped in cozy, stylish comfort. 

To be frank, I'd wear a sleeping bag stuffed with dry wall insulation if I had to. I hate the cold more than I like looking coordinated, as far as I'm concerned. 

As far as I'm concerned, there are seven essential coats. You don't need all of them today. You don't need all of them this year. You can have more (I do), but over the course of a decent adult life of splurges and sacrifice, you deserve seven simple, reasonable, purposeful coats. 

The following examples are tailored for women, but the analogous men's fashion choice isn't so hard to figure out. 

Look for quality — a good lining, pockets, zippers, elbow movement. Make a budget each year. You don't have to go over your budget, but you should be willing to spend it all on one fabulous coat that you'll wear for at least a decade. 

The good news is that you're probably not starting from scratch, you probably have coats. If any of them feel utilitarian, hum-drum, blasé or otherwise uninspiring, seek out its replacement. Opportunities await you at every outlet. And if something sings to you and the price is right, don't wait for it to go on sale. Every coat is a statement piece. 

OK, let's start with the coat that gets the most wear. 

Midweight. My go-to is a midweight, mid-thigh red double-breasted coat with textured cuffs and pocket details that I got on sale from Target and had altered (total price, less than $100). My dream mid-weight coat is from Mackage, but the budget and the stars have not aligned just yet. 

If you lead a typical into-the-car, into-the-building type life, this is probably the class of coat you'll get the most mileage out of.The Canada Goose Manitoba Jacket has a removable hood and is a slim, modern fit which makes it ideal for city streets or Arctic tundra.Canada Goose Manitoba Jacket Find a color. I like a solid color on a go-to coat, but that's just me. I've coveted plenty of patterned wool concoctions. 

Lightweight. My next-most-used coat is the lightweight one. I'm usually always a little chilly, so this is that coat I can wear buttoned up on a chilly day or open when I just need a little insulation. My lightweight coat is a purple plaid, and it's got a self-fabric belt, which I usually hate, but I like it here. The collar stands tall and has buttons that anchor it down, but not flat so there'd be some volume there. 

I think a lighter coat should be a little more playful, hence the purple plaid. This is something that shouldn't be staid. Keep it light in body and spirit.The slim fit makes this Canada Goose Camp Down stylish jacket a perfect choice for women on the go. 

Blazers. I have a few. These are less about warmth and more about formality. No easier way to dress up a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. Instant business casual. And it's great for summer when the cold weather is the air conditioning inside. Cardigans are nice, but the structure of a blazer will always look more polished and professional. My favorites are a Laundry by Shelli Segal blazer from Nordstrom,with buttons that wing out sideways rather than straight up and down, and a brown corduroy blazer I got at a thrift shop with elbow patches from Ralph Lauren. 

Raincoat. Rain, rain go away until you have the right coat. I recently found a Tahari raincoat, thigh length at Marshalls for less than $30. I preferred the longer length because rain likes to hit below the belt. It's got a slightly crumpled texture that I love.Really Canada Goose Trillium Parka has taken our understanding. The collar is kind of wonky and broad, and it's got just a hint of sheen. It was so insanely cheap that I bought it in two colors: navy and black. I do not advise this. I am not proud of that moment, but I simply could not decide. Now I realize they are so similar that it really doesn't matter. At least now, the coat will last twice as long. But don't do this. Most will probably prefer a more casual, perhaps a waxed canvas raincoat or old-school trench for their puddle-splashing days. 

Leather. A leather (perhaps vegan leather is your preference) jacket is a must. I prefer cropped and motorcycle influenced, but that might not be your style. This season is a great time to find something with leather sleeves but not entirely sculpted of leather, which is a great wardrobe addition. Some might prefer a blazer or a mid-length, but if you have a waist to flaunt, a cropped moto jacket is your best friend. It can sass up a cocktail or summer dress and it makes a T-shirt and jeans evening-party ready. A dangling buckle is all the better, but go for slightly weathered not ultra-shiny. This is the jacket that should fit like a glove. 

But one warning, the cut of a leather coat is more likely to show your age if the cut isn't on trend. Save up for this one and splurge on something worthwhile. 

Parka. I call this the monster coat, hood required, and it should be able to handle blizzards, ski trips or long outdoor hikes, if that's your thing. Sooner or later, baby, it's going to be cold outside, really cold and you don't want to be caught off guard. No matter where you live, a decent parka is a good idea. When it drops to single digits with a nasty wind-chill factor, I'm a huge fan of the Canada Goose Artic Squad line. It's loaded with serious coat weather features, including my fave — fleece-lined breast pockets for your hands — and it's pure utility. Although I like the look of it, I love the fact that it makes me forget that the weather outside is frightful. The coat is expensive, around $700 for the Trillium style, but seems made to last a lifetime, so the only real decision is if you want to spend that lifetime in lime green, pink or a respectable dark neutral. My Kors coat plays second-fiddle to this heavyweight, but a friend's super warm Victorinox Swiss Army Novgorod down parka with military influences is another great option. It includes straps to actually wear the coat like a backpack-style cape (not that we recommend that). 

Cocktail. This is my catch-all for a fancy coat. Something that looks appropriate over an evening gown or semi-formal frock. You can opt for a majestic opera coat or simple swing coat, but this shouldn't be for every day. A special occasion coat should be special, so you should take your time finding it.

I am wearing my serious face, so listen up. I have whinged on about January sales and resolutions and now it's time to look forward to happier times. I've been studying what's coming for spring/summer 2013. It's important to do this before it hits the rails for planning purposes and, hurrah, this looks like being a good fashion summer for those of us who are … more mature. The pelmet skirt has disappeared up its own waistband, shorts have assumed more respectable proportions and idiot neck-breaking shoes are, by and large, over. 

I'm making one assumption here: if you're reading this then, like me, you have an interest in fashion. Please don't read on if you're expecting me to solve developing world debt in 700 words – the fashion pages are not where this happens. Good. I will now flick designer names at you. 

The suit is being revived – another hurrah! I dislike work suits, they are Dullsville, but I do love a sharply tailored jacket with an interesting something or other underneath. Don't confuse "sharply tailored" with close fitting – they are not the same thing. For a better illustration of what I mean take a look at Armani, Max Mara and, of course, Margaret Howell. Think minimalist with femininity. Think flowing lines. This is versatile, wearable, lovely stuff.

Black. I love black. You know I love black. This year we'll be seeing the black summer dress, which means the way to wear black is out of context. If you've got decent arms and shoulders then get them out – in fact, get them out even if you haven't. Who cares – it's summer! One word of warning: by all means go for something slashed low at the front, like the frocks shown at Akris, Ann Demeulemeester or Saint Laurent but be very careful about the bosom area. Anything over a B cup and you'll look more Beryl Cook than Audrey Hepburn. If you have a fine pair of collar bones and a lean sternum will look just fine, although perhaps employ a modesty pin or tape to keep everything where it's supposed to be. 

On the subject of modesty, you're going to see lots of gauzy, filmy, see-through things around. Wearing these as they come is not an option, but the trend is to layer up lightweight fabrics and textures. Not only does this work for over-50s, but it's also a wonderful way to smudge outlines a bit. 

There was a good deal of white on the catwalks. I think my favourite "Wimbledon" dress (Zara, 25 quid, five years ago) will no longer cut it – it's too girlish. "Girlish" is a problem with head-to-toe white on older women. However layers of white hold the light and throw it upwards to the face in a most flattering way. Keep it simple without too many frills and furbelows. Look at Tibi and Valentino to get the gist. 

Florals will be with us again. Choose carefully though, unless it's a heavenly grownup Bottega Veneta-type frock. 

Splits – as in split skirts. This might not seem an obvious one for we of the wrinkled knee (of which I am one) but if you do it like Meadham Kirchhoff and pop a pair of capri pants underneath it would work brilliantly. Controversially, I'm much in favour of a good quality, plain,The Canada Goose Camp Down maintains a high fashion profile. mid-length legging, which does much the same thing to disguise knees. 

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While the hoax surrounding Manti Te'o has drawn inevitable comparisons to the situations on MTV's Catfish , it's important to distinguish between Te'o's catfish and (at least some) of those on the show. The Te'o perpetrator seemed solely intent on manipulating and embarrassing his victim. On a recent episode of Catfish, however, one young man forges a fake virtual identity for less malicious but decidedly darker, sadder reasons. 

In case you missed it, let me recap the episode: Tyler, a young, handsome jock engages in a two-year online relationship with Amanda, a gorgeous blonde coed, only to discover “Amanda” is actually a dude named Aaron. Of course, Tyler is a victim, but we also learn that as an openly gay, slightly overweight, effeminate teen in rural Michigan, Aaron is tormented by self-hatred. “I don't want to be gay,” he says.Cheap buy moncler jackets on sale in our shop christian louboutin. He says how being Amanda feels “better than being myself” and how he wishes he could run away. So he did. To the Internet, where he could escape reality and become someone he could accept and someone others would accept too. 

When I heard the T'eo story and watched Catfish, I initially assumed people so deceptive only exist at the margins of our society or as bottom-feeders of its moral depths.He is most popularly known for his duveticamall, commonly referred to as "sammy red-bottoms." And yet, while we're not so lonely or manipulative or extreme, each of us is like Aaron, to a certain extent, hiding behind a screen, using Facebook, online dating, and other social media platforms to construct and portray distorted versions of ourselves, versions of who we'd like to be or of who we'd like others to think we are. Maybe we don't hate ourselves like Aaron or want to escape our bodies, our identities, or our lives completely—but we do like to construct somewhat of a fantasy,BF3 player dogtags from christian louboutin boots with details about dogtags taken and lost dogtags. to build and believe in an online version of ourselves that's prettier, better, and happier than we may be in reality. 

On Facebook and other social media sites, the way we manipulate our online image is often benign, subtle,Find buy christian louboutin in many styles and colors. even subconscious. Taking photos when we look a certain way from a certain angle wearing certain outfits in certain places with certain people. Tagging some. Un-tagging others. Airbrushing, cropping, removing red-eye, and deploying any number of Instagram effects. Even our wall posts, status updates, and Tweets convey specifically engineered messages about how we want to see ourselves and be seen by others. 

The way we maintain our online dating profiles is blatantly calculated and deliberate. We try to obscure or omit our shortcomings and emphasize or exaggerate our positive characteristics. I want my photos to portray me as dually playful and sophisticated,Offer hermes handbags, fashion birkin handbags and other styles prada bags. social and introspective. I'm careful to emphasize my athletic physique and downplay my big ears, imperfect complexion, and the fact that I'm only wishfully 5'10”. I say things on my profile like, “I give stellar hugs,” because it conveys traits I'd like to have: a physically imposing but inviting presence, masculinity but sensitivity, confidence and tenderness. In reality, I give average to slightly above average hugs. 

You metaphorically airbrush your online persona too. And who can blame us? After all, it comes from a natural desire to portray attractive versions of ourselves in the hopes of self-validation and validation from others. It's very rarely an indicator of moral depravity (as in the Te'o case) but instead an instinctual and universal desire that motivates us all. My ideal self is a little taller, broad-shouldered, clearer-skinned; Aaron's is blonde and female. We have the same intentions and use the same means to become that. 

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I recall it as if it were yesterday: stepping inside the sprawling bookstore, which smelled faintly of dust; walking past the periodicals, where gay porn titles peeked at me ever-so-discreetly from the uppermost row; and crossing to the back of the store, reaching "my" row, and nervously looking about before finally stepping up to the shelves under a large sign that read, "Gay Studies." I felt uncomfortable standing beneath it, as it labeled not just the shelves but my own burgeoning identity, and committing to this unfamiliar label so publicly felt entirely premature.We work with all Garmin Cycling computers. While the "gay" part I understood, it was only years later that I realized that the second part of the sign was equally true, as I was studying the world I would soon fully inhabit. 

Coming out has changed greatly in the years since, but what I found through the books on that shelf provided for me the same reassurance as those emerging today seek; through the stories I learned that I was not alone. Novels by such authors as Larry Kramer, Armistead Maupin, Andrew Holleran and Felice Picano filled me in on this mysterious world where other men openly searched for love, but one book from that time stands out to me as unique and resonated with me deeply.Welcome to RadioShack Cycling jersey online! 

Patricia Nell Warren's groundbreaking novel The Front Runner follows coach Harlan Brown and his protégé Billy Sive as they discover love against the backdrop of the Olympics and a changing world. As a young man, I had yet to find a book that spoke to my generation, and I identified both with Brown, as he emerged from his more rigid, conservative environment, and with Sive, who embodied the new, free-spirited era exploding on the horizon in front of me. 

Prior to The Front Runner's publication in 1974, Warren authored her first novel, The Last Centennial, published in 1971. She had also published three volumes of Ukrainian poetry independently, in addition to amassing a large body of unpublished work. Though the debut of The Front Runner introduced Warren to a new legion of fans, she was surprised to find that the book rankled some in the literary establishment who were uncomfortable that such a seminal gay male romance had been written by a woman. It didn't seem to matter to them that she had come out in 1974 as a lesbian.Offer prada bags, handbags, factory directly, More buy more discount. 

In the following years, however, Warren solidified her reputation in both the gay and literary worlds with continuations of The Front Runner saga (Harlan's Race and Billy's Boy), as well as novels The Fancy Dancer, The Wild Man and The Beauty Queen, and nonfiction (including Lavender Locker Room and My West). 

Whether as an American writing Ukrainian poetry, a runner helping usher women into the sport, a woman writing gay male fiction or a writer taking control of her own work as a publisher with Wildcat Press, Warren has long been a game changer, moving into uncharted waters and navigating them for others. She graciously agreed to take time out from her busy schedule to talk with me about her body of work, issues facing the LGBT community and the rewards and challenges of having written a literary classic. As a bonus, she also reveals more about the prospects for the long-awaited film adaptation of The Front Runner, and about the continuation of that tale in a fourth book. 

Kergan Edwards-Stout: Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me. In reviewing your work, I became very curious about the key, pivotal moments in your life. What most shaped you and your journey? 

Patricia Nell Warren: It wasn't so much a moment but an experience of being raised on a ranch in the West at a very particular time. So much of what we think of as LGBT literature is based on an urban worldview, but growing up in a rural setting, as I did, is very much a part of who I am today. Looking back, now that I'm 76, that life gave me a very different viewpoint, as you're living in a situation where,Big SKY Cycling and Fitness is a family owned shop serving the Helena area since 1986. any day, there could be a storm that wipes out the wheat crop. That kind of day-to-day existence is challenging,View profiles and information for the Team SAXO BANK Cycling 2012 race team and riders here. and in many ways, at heart, I'm still a ranch kid. In fact, I'm co-writing a book on that with my brother, called Kids on a Ranch.