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Of Fantasy and Daughters
I read my daughter’s first fantasy book to her when she was one week old. Every evening I swaddled her up and rocked her to sleep while reading aloud another chapter of Diana Wynne Jones's Howl’s Moving Castle. What else was I supposed to do with a tiny speechless creature with...
British (and Aussie and Kiwi!) invasion
Our fandom knows no borders! Some of our best-loved fantasy authors come to us from across the pond (or, in Garth Nix's and Margaret Mahy's cases, across the equator). We've highlighted a few essential articles by/about each author, as well some adoring blog posts; click on an author's name to...
If you only had a brain
Farah Mendlesohn called my attention to this bit of fuckwittery from The Guardian, in which their art critic Jonathan Jones opines that the late Terry Pratchett wrote "trash" while the equally late Günter Grass was a "true titan of the novel," so why is everyone more sad about the passing of Sir Terry?...
Remembering Terry Pratchett
Just two weeks ago, the nerd world lost the beloved Leonard Nimoy. Today, we’ve been served another crushing blow: Sir Terry Pratchett has died at 66 after a struggle with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. The fact that my Twitter feed is full of Pratchett love and lore is enough to choke...
Terry Pratchett's 2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction Award Speech for Nation
by Terry PratchettI am sure that there are writers out there who are capable of telling the world, clearly and succinctly, why and how they wrote the books on which their names and likenesses now twinkle.These would be real writers, who keep things in filing cabinets rather than in piles....
Review of Dodger
Dodgerby Terry PratchettMiddle School Harper/HarperCollins 360 pp.10/12 978-0-06-200949-4 $17.99Library ed. 978-0-06-200950-0 $18.89e-book ed. 978-0-06-219015-4 $9.99Who would have the skill, the sensibility, and the sass to put Charles Dickens into a novel and then proceed to write that novel in full-octane Dickensian style? Terry Pratchett, of course. Like his namesake in...
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