>For yet another made-up memoir. As a culture we’ve become convinced that only real stories are true stories, or do I have that the wrong way around? Tangentially, does anyone else think it’s hilarious that the book tour for an addiction memoir is sponsored by Starbucks?
>And then they were upon her, and with good reason, too.
October 3, 2007 By 11 Comments
>Fuse8 posts a link to what she accurately characterized as another hand-wringing piece about allegedly depressing YA novels on reading lists, but I am even more depressed by the author (a professor of creative writing, no less) condemning some “young adult fiction”, unnamed, where “a town holds a lottery. At first it seems like an [...]
>Uh-oh
August 8, 2007 By 20 Comments
>So Baby Einstein is actually bad for babies? While this study will probably only provoke more rounds of the coffee-hurts-you-coffee-helps-you kinds of further studies, I’d love to let the Freakonomics guys loose on this one. There are so many other correlations: if the Baby Einstein videos don’t do what they promise, it could be because [...]
>He Knows When You’re Asleep at the Wheel, Too
August 3, 2007 By 15 Comments
>Yep, it’s 96 degrees out there but we’ve started pulling together our “Holiday Books” review section for the November issue. We will have some good books to tell you about there, I promise, but meanwhile I thought I would mention three concepts that might need to go back to Santa’s workshop for some retooling: –celebrating [...]
>And here I thought Monday would be timely.
July 19, 2007 By 20 Comments
>But the New York Times and Baltimore Sun got the jump on us, with reviews today of the new Harry Potter. And bravo to them: while Scholastic is entitled to try and stoke the flames of publicity–I mean, “preserve the magic moment”–by insisting on all kinds of secrecy, it’s equally the job of the press [...]
