Showing posts with label AUTHOR Susan Cooper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AUTHOR Susan Cooper. 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...
18 March 2013

Better Nate to Come?

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Tim Federle ’s Better Nate Than Never is a novel for tween readers that fills a particular niche: a story of a stagestruck boy that deals...
18 July 2012

The Influence of Middle-Grade Fiction on Wes Anderson

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Movie director Wes Anderson, born in 1969, grew up reading the children’s books that librarians praised in the 1970s. Not that there’s any...
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04 July 2012

Cooper, Coleridge, and More in James Treadwell’s Advent

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In its starred review for James Treadwell ’s Advent , Publishers Weekly concluded, “Readers of Susan Cooper and Alan Garner will rejoice...
09 April 2012

Defining a Sequel, for Marketing Purposes

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Godson’s Father James Treadwell’s fantasy novel Advent has been published in Britain, and is getting some fine reviews . He’s still wor...
29 December 2011

Piling on The Seeker

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Salon asked some children’s writers about movie adaptations, and a couple had interesting things to say about an uninteresting film, The Se...
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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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29 March 2010

Conflicting Recollections of Prof. Tolkien

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In his book The Wand and the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy , literary scholar Leonard S. Marcus asked a number of established ...
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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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24 January 2008

You Never Know What You Might Find

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It all started when a friend and colleague alerted me to the Toronto Public Library's Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books ,...
06 December 2007

Half in the Shadows

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Yesterday I started writing about my look back at Susan Cooper 's King of Shadows after hearing her speak of the book's genesis...
05 December 2007

Out of the Shadows?

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Back in October, I asked what major characters in children's fantasies were identified as gay before J. K. Rowling's post-publica...
18 November 2007

Susan Cooper in Cambridge

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On Thursday I had the pleasure of hearing Susan Cooper speak on “Unriddling the World” at the Cambridge Forum . As I did during the Horn B...
09 August 2007

Cooper in Cambridge

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I'm pleased to pass on the news that author Susan Cooper will be speaking twice in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this fall. The timing of t...
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30 July 2007

Gregory Smith: "Getting to Be Kind of Bad"

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Here's material from an MTV Movie Blog interview with Gregory Smith , who plays older brother Max Stanton in his next movie. (Thanks to ...
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17 July 2007

The Church Scene in The Dark Is Rising Movie

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Back when I first read about Fox Walden's plans to make of a movie of Susan Cooper's novel The Dark Is Rising this year, I queried ...
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02 July 2007

The Hype Is Rising

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As Fox Walden prepares to release The Dark Is Rising later this year, it's starting to ramp up the on-set interviews, sneak peeks, and ...
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05 June 2007

Now We Know Why He Was So Bitter

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An anonymous commenter calls our attention to this dispatch from the set of The Dark Is Rising , which states that among the upcoming movie...
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18 March 2007

So What's "Temporal Perspective"?

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Lee of the Mortal Ghost blog novel sent this comment to one of last week’s posting: Will you please explain what you mean by 'temporal...
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27 October 2006

Questions about the Dark Is Rising Movie

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The good news is that Walden Media and 20th Century Fox have made a deal to adapt Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising into a movie, schedule...
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