>Rocco has a great interview over at SLJ with Paula Fox, who wrote one of the greatest novels I have ever read (One-Eyed Cat) and who is at the heart of the oddest piece of children’s book gossip I have ever heard.
>You have to love someone who could call her own granddaughter a psychopath
May 16, 2011 By 2 Comments
>Take it from the old stage manager
January 6, 2011 By 25 Comments
Lurve is in the air
February 5, 2009 By 4 Comments
and Claire has been busily sighing and swooning on your behalf. See her latest booklist of love stories. Speaking of Claire, she’s been pushing me for years to read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, which I’m finally doing. And loving, not least for the following exchange, among the most indelible in American literature: The bird turned, [...]
>Yes, boys, but when no one is looking?
October 30, 2008 By 7 Comments
>Katie Couric apparently asked McCain and Obama about their favorite books and got pretty convincing answers: McCain chose For Whom the Bell Tolls and Obama Song of Solomon. As I said in the comments on yesterday’s post re Palin’s reading choices, “What are you reading?” and “What is your favorite book?” aren’t as easy to [...]
>Well, it’s not like there’s an election or financial crisis or anything.
October 10, 2008 By 15 Comments
>Well, that’s one way around it.
September 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
>Magnum Opera
December 1, 2007 By 18 Comments
>When Renee Fleming announced that upon consideration she would not, in fact, be singing Norma at the Met (or anyplace else), my first thought was, good call, Renee, but my second was to wonder if writers have any equivalent kind of challenge. Bellini’s Norma is something of a Mount Everest for sopranos. She’s an allegedly [...]
>Meg Cabot as Alistair Cooke
November 27, 2007 By 4 Comments
