>In his powerful new picture book memoir The Wall (Frances Foster/FSG, forthcoming in September), Peter Śís quotes from his journals about the darkness following the Prague Spring of 1968: There is a whole science to learn about dealing with censors. You have to give them something to change. For instance, if you’re making a film [...]
>Well, you do know it’s going over the net.
March 29, 2007 By 11 Comments
>I like the commenter on Alison Morris’s new ShelfTalker blog at PW (welcome, Alison) who says that the cover for the new Harry Potter looks like our lad is serving a tennis ball. Maybe if I had read Harry while imagining he looked like Roger Federer I might have gotten further in the series than [...]
>Susan Patron has company.
March 23, 2007 By 3 Comments
>Martha sent me this,
March 8, 2007 By 13 Comments
>From the Man Who Did This Already, Already
February 22, 2007 By 5 Comments
>Did anyone catch the shoutout to Maurice Sendak on The L Word this week? He didn’t, but allowed to me this morning that Jennifer Beals nekkid would definitely be worth drawing (I’m not being gratuitous; see the recap). In any event, he was far more worked up about Susan Patron’s problems with a few librarians, [...]
>Oh, those sneaky sneaks!
February 17, 2007 By 36 Comments
>Bagging our principles
February 16, 2007 By 45 Comments
>Fuse 8 led me to Susan Patron’s defense of The Higher Power of Lucky’s Scrotum at PW online, and while it is admirably articulate and refreshingly undefensive, I am bothered by one line: “If I were a parent of a middle-grade child, I would want to make decisions about my child’s reading myself.” So would [...]
