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 Edgar Rice Burroughs. Show all posts

Showing posts with label AUTHOR Edgar Rice Burroughs. Show all posts

28 August 2013

“A kind of literary amnesia” about Violence

The Boston Globe ’s recent interview with Michelle Ann Abate , professor of children’s literature at Ohio State, included this discussion...

31 March 2012

First Glimpse of Barsoom

Edgar Rice Burroughs ’s Barsoom books and I have never had a close encounter. But they were clearly significant to artist Ty Templeton, whic...

06 March 2012

Baum and Burroughs

Publicity for the upcoming John Carter movie has brought a little new attention to Edgar Rice Burroughs’s friendship with L. Frank Baum. Ye...

26 June 2009

Dr. Greystroke, I Presume?

And from Twilight we move to another exploration of the border between the wild and the civilized, between animal instinct and noblesse obl...

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