>From the would-be author who insists to his would-be editor that “my grandkids love this story” to the award committee member who says “my ten-year-old thought this book was boooorrrring,” the children’s book world is replete with those who use their own children as test subjects. Expanding the notion of “my kids” to those children [...]
>Support your local superstore!
November 29, 2008 By 13 Comments
>When the Joke’s On You
November 7, 2008 By 12 Comments
>I’m having some trouble with PW editor Sara Nelson’s hand-wringing over the use of King & King by advocates of California’s Proposition 8, which this past Tuesday overturned the right of gay couples to get married in that state. Nelson was upset by a TV ad produced by the Yes on 8 campaign that featured [...]
The perils, once again, of the passive voice
October 18, 2008 By 2 Comments
>Well, that’s one way around it.
September 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
>There’s a thousand library trustees just like her.
September 4, 2008 By 19 Comments
>I wouldn’t elect Sarah Palin to anything, but this old censorship charge is really reaching. As far as we know, as mayor of Wasilla she asked the public library director three times about the possibility of removing “objectionable” books from the collection. Three times the director said no. (Positively biblical!) Then Palin tried to fire [...]
>How Green Are Its Pocketses
August 19, 2008 By 6 Comments
>PW’s Rick Simonson has some uncomfortable questions for Chelsea Green, the publisher who is wrapping itself in virtue and giving Amazon first dibs on its new Obama book at the same time. Fuse #8 has been hosting a serendipitous discussion on the propensity of book blogs to link to you-know who. I’m so old I [...]
>Fans and readers
August 4, 2008 By 22 Comments
>We didn’t receive a review copy of Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn, so you won’t find any spoilers here. What I’ve been finding fascinating in a train-wreck kind of way are the vox populi debates over at Amazon.com, particularly a discussion thread attempting to start a RETURN THIS BOOK campaign in protest of Meyer’s “betrayal” of [...]
>In lieu of a gift
May 10, 2008 By 20 Comments
