>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 [...]
>Tasha Tudor
June 24, 2008 By 2 Comments
>The wedding . . .
June 15, 2008 By 1 Comment
>In lieu of a gift
May 10, 2008 By 20 Comments
>Star of the Day
April 10, 2008 By 11 Comments
>Going down a dark hall
January 30, 2008 By 47 Comments
>I’d like to second Elizabeth’s hopes (see comments in Monday’s post) for a Gothic revival. I’ve just finished listening to Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier, narrated by Tony Britton. When I told friends I was reading it, to a woman they started talking about their adolescent (around 10 up, I think) mania for Du [...]
>It’s Following Me!
January 15, 2008 By 1 Comment
>I’m home from ALA and the Caldecott considerations only to bump back into the Newbery: Gary Schmidt and a gaggle of his Calvin College students are currently navigating their way to our offices. They are all in town this month for a course on “The New England Saints,” (Hawthorne, Dickinson, etc.) so I’m guessing this [...]
>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
>A reader requests . . .
February 13, 2007 By 14 Comments
>. . . a “children’s lit. guide to Boston.” She’ll be visiting from Australia next month and wants to know what children’s-book places she should try and see. I don’t get out much, but of course you can’t miss the ducklings, and while you’re there you can see the original address of the Horn Book [...]
