Showing posts with label AUTHOR Philip Pullman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AUTHOR Philip Pullman. Show all posts
27 December 2019

The Oxford and Cambridge Schools of British Fantasy

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From Slate’s interview with Maria Sachiko Cecire, professor at Bard and author of Re-Enchanted: The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature...
07 December 2017

Guest Reviewer on The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage

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Godson has some things to say about The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage : …the book ostensibly isn’t on the scale of the trilogy. I was ...
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04 November 2015

A Golden Time for a New Golden Compass?

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The news that there’s a deal for a television adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series is very intriguing for us fans. It...
22 September 2014

Philip Pullman in Three or Fewer Dimensions

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Princeton’s Cotsen Children’s Library has a podcast called “Bibliofiles,” and this comes from its new conversation with author Philip Pul...
21 November 2012

Pullman on “your appalling self-consciousness”

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More from the Mother Jones interview with Philip Pullman : The central moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is...
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12 November 2012

Philip Pullman’s School Story

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From the Mother Jones interview : The range of individuality [in] children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the sam...
09 December 2011

Tolkien the Teacher

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Back in early 2010 , I quoted reminiscences about J. R. R. Tolkien at Oxford from Diana Wynne Jones and Susan Cooper , as collected by Leo...
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14 December 2010

Harry Potter and the Flawed Interpretation

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Last month The Awl published Maria Bustillo’s attack on the Harry Potter series in the guise of a review of the movie adapted from the six...
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08 May 2010

Another Recollection of Tolkien

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Back in March I quoted recollections of Prof. J. R. R. Tolkien from Diana Wynne Jones and Susan Cooper , found in Leonard Marcus book of ...
19 September 2009

I Was a Rat’s Narrative Voice

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Philip Pullman ’s short novel I Was a Rat! offers an example of his unusual approach toward narrative voices, which I highlighted last Satu...
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17 December 2008

Golden

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Three books , eight to thirteen years old, previously read but not harshly, to be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London for an estimated £1,500-2...
11 August 2008

G. P. Taylor Seizes His Opportunities

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In the fall of 2007, G. P. Taylor , author of Shadowmancer and less successful books, issued an open letter to his American fans on the dir...
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20 March 2008

Revisiting Baum and Pullman

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Back in my first month of blogging, I posted an entry called "Pullman and Baum tackle the same scene" . It noted some parallels be...
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02 January 2008

The Real Star of The Golden Compass?

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All along, my main question about the Golden Compass movie was whether it would get Iorek Byrnison right. Would the studio be able to find...
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01 January 2008

A Dull Adaptation, and There Wasn't Enough of It

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There's an old joke about people complaining that the food at a resort is almost inedible, and what's more, the servings are too sma...
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29 December 2007

Pullman Pulls for the Omniscient Narrator

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Today's Guardian newspaper offers a column by Philip Pullman about the power of narrative voice. He seems to suggest that the style o...
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04 December 2007

Looking Out for Iorek Byrnison

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As soon as I received the last issue of The Atlantic , I turned to Hanna Rosin’s article “How Hollywood Saved God,” which was said to be ab...
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11 October 2007

Bombast Launched against The Golden Compass

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William A. Donohue , president and sole voice of the politically conservative Catholic League , has proclaimed a crusade against the upcomin...
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25 March 2007

Pullman Panel Promotion

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Following breadcrumbs laid through the woods at Educating Alice , I found Saestina's report on a panel in Oxford where Philip Pullman p...
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14 December 2006

Visiting the Far North

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The producers of the first Golden Compass movie, due in late 2007, have unveiled the necessary website . To heighten the sense of being in ...