For a long time I thought her name was Beverly Clearly. That’s because she wrote so clearly. For real: as a kid I would look at the covers of these wonderfully readable books, and “Beverly Clearly” was the author name I saw.
It’s rare that I have a chance to … Read the rest
“Wizard of Oz is on again”, I noticed recently while flipping through my favorite classic movie channels. Then I spotted the year on the movie listing: 1925.
Here it was, the early version I’d always been curious to see! This silent-era Wizard came out fourteen years before the great … Read the rest
Sure, every other obituary of 86-year-old Brooklyn novelist Daniel Keyes is going to talk about Flowers for Algernon. And, yeah, that was his best book. But I’m going to talk about The Touch
Two children’s books I loved as a kid (and still love as an adult) have been republished in attractive new editions. Whether you’ve read these two books before or not, they are awesome and well worth checking out.
Funny thing, a trollish article titled “Against YA: Adults Should Be … Read the rest
It’s probably the best tween book of the modern era; at least it’s the best one I can think of. Well, hell, everybody loves Harriet the Spy
The anniversary is already getting so much attention — an event on … Read the rest
(Here’s a fresh perspective on a classic writer by Alex Strike, a blogger and an essay writing specialist who can be found on Lifehack, Twitter or Facebook.)
When Vladimir Nabokov read his lectures on literature, he closed all the curtains in the room to make it totally dark … Read the rest
A couple of really great finds for you today …
My temperature was no better than lukewarm as I pondered the cover of a book called The Cool School: Writing from America’s Hip Underground
I would have never known about Barbara Park’s Junie B. Jones
Here’s a timely one, to cap off a week of truly bizarre politics in my country, the United States of America. An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments