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 Norton Juster. Show all posts

Showing posts with label AUTHOR Norton Juster. Show all posts

05 November 2011

Brother, Can You Paradigm for the Tollbooth?

With all the attention flowing to The Phantom Tollbooth on its fiftieth anniversary, I decided to do what Peter Sagal warned against : to r...

04 November 2011

Synesthesia, the Phantom Phenomenon

Leonard Marcus ’s interviews for the new Annotated Phantom Tollbooth and the recent New Yorker article by Adam Gopnik bring out what see...

03 November 2011

The Phantom Tollbooth in Its Time

In a New Yorker article about the fiftieth-anniversary editions of Norton Juster ’s The Phantom Tollbooth , Adam Gopnik wrote: It’s a co...

28 June 2006

going back through the Phantom Tollbooth

Peter Sagal , host of NPR's uproarious Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me! , wrote a fine essay in the Chicago Tribune about reading The Ph...

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