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>An object lesson in metaphorical consonance
May 31, 2009 By 6 Comments
>Looking over his shoulder
February 4, 2009 By 21 Comments
>and not liking what he sees, Stephen King dismisses Stephenie Meyer as not able to “write worth a darn. She’s not very good.” What do you think possessed the old gas bag? Maybe he doesn’t like the way she spells her name? In mentioning his “formative influence” on J. K. Rowling and praising her work, [...]
>J.K. Rowling wishes they paid by the word.
January 6, 2009 By 19 Comments
>Agent Amanda Urban on the economics of book publishing: “Books can only support a certain retail price,” she said. “It’s not like you have books that can be Manolo Blahniks and books that can be Cole Haan. Books are books. A book by James Patterson costs the same as a book by some poet.” Which [...]
>Demography and the Newbery
January 2, 2009 By 11 Comments
>Not since . . .
December 23, 2008 By 42 Comments
>For those of you lucky enough to live in the Bay Area, the Oakland Public Library is again sponsoring its Mock Newbery discussion, this year at the Golden Gate branch. (I would love to be able to tell people I worked at the “Golden Gate Library.”) Librarians Sharon McKellar and Nina Lindsay have assembled a [...]
>Fun with Intertextuality
October 30, 2008 By 13 Comments
>Well, it’s not like there’s an election or financial crisis or anything.
October 10, 2008 By 15 Comments
>"Well, here’s one thing in the mail that is not a bill."
September 26, 2008 By 7 Comments
>Said Beverly Cleary in her Newbery acceptance speech, quoting from a letter written to her by a young reader. Cleary went on to bemoan the cookie-cutter class-assignment letters she received by the thousands, and who can blame her? But who can top her? Lisi Harrison (The Clique), that’s who, caught by Chasing Ray in a [...]
>Holding Mary Sue’s Feet to the Fire
September 22, 2008 By Leave a Comment
