Oz and Ends

Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.

Showing posts with label AUTHOR E. B. White. Show all posts

Showing posts with label AUTHOR E. B. White. Show all posts

06 January 2022

“Every statement is an overstatement”

This passage appeared in a an essay by Adam Gopnik that appeared in The New Yorker in 2008. I’ve found it to offer one of the most useful ...

04 June 2012

The Game of Life, the Universe, and Everything

This weekend the Boston Globe reviewed Jill Lepore’s The Mansion of Happiness , an examination of American life and values through board...

13 April 2009

Hunting Down the False Passive

Mark Liberman at Language Log recently had cause to note how modern American prose stylists' dislike of the passive voice has morphed i...

20 August 2006

Some Opening: Charlotte's Web

Through McSweeney's , Ann Asher offers a discarded passage from Charlotte's Web , featuring the previously unrecorded character of L...

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