Showing posts with label AUTHOR Lewis Carroll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AUTHOR Lewis Carroll. Show all posts
15 October 2014

The Gardner Centennial

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I left my testimonial about what Martin Gardner’s writing meant for my intellectual development.
27 January 2014

Alice in Guildford

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Charles Dodgson settled his sisters in Guildford, England, and died there in 1898. In 1990, the town commemorated his most famous work by...
02 May 2012

Actual Conversation at My House

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“Do you consider ‘outgrabe’ as a strong predicate or a modifier?” “I always read it as the past tense of a verb. ‘Mome’ is in the place ...
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02 November 2010

Vote Your Views

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Last month the Boston Globe published a reader letter that managed to span two of my professional interests, so I’m quoting it on both blo...
28 July 2010

An Impossible Thing Before Modernity

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Earlier this month Fuse #8 aired this issue : There was an interesting discussion on the child_lit listserv that I think is worth mentioning...
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27 May 2010

Whenever an Appeal Is Made to Law

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Late in Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz , his fourth novel in the series, L. Frank Baum took a cue from Lewis Carroll ’s Alice in Wonderland ...
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24 May 2010

Feeling Grateful for Martin Gardner

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I was sorry to read yesterday of the death of Martin Gardner , longtime columnist for Scientific American and, somewhat surprisingly, one o...
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12 December 2009

Story Museum Tells Half of the Story?

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Fuse #8 offered a link to the Story Museum , devoted to Oxford, England’s rich tradition of children’s literature. The website calls the ci...
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16 January 2009

Remembering Simple Joe Malarkey

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In last weekend's New York Times Book Review , the usually incisive Caleb Crain looks askance at a recent collection of mid-20th-centu...
15 October 2008

The Clerical Strain in British Children's Literature

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While in London last summer, I visited the Science Museum 's exhibit on British technological progress in the 1950s and 1960s, which was...
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27 May 2008

What Did You Do in the Oz-Wonderland War, Grampa?

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Earlier this month Bully at Comics Oughta Be Fun! offered a comprehensive (read: image-heavy) look at Oz comics , with particular attention...
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24 June 2007

Graphic Novels, Some More Graphic Than Others

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This will be COMICS WEEK at Oz and Ends since I’ve built up a bunch of thoughts on that topic and have nowhere else to put them. To start, h...
03 May 2007

Alice Doesn't Live There Anymore

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In The King in the Window , Adam Gopnik appropriates Lewis Carroll 's Through the Looking-Glass . I don't mean he alludes to the ear...
17 August 2006

Looking ahead and back at Looking Glass Wars

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Dial is preparing to publish The Looking Glass Wars , by Frank Beddor, which has already been fairly successful for Egmont in the UK. The pr...
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