Showing posts with label CRITIC Leonard Marcus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CRITIC Leonard Marcus. Show all posts
15 September 2014

Another Childhood Illusion Shattered

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Tonight I attended Leonard Marcus’s talk about Robert McCloskey on the centenary of the author-illustrator’s birth. (It turns out he was b...
26 November 2012

The Life Behind A Wrinkle in Time

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Yesterday’s New York Times Book Review asked Anne Lamott, “What book changed your life?” And she answered: “A Wrinkle in Time” saved m...
17 May 2012

Sendak as a Born Curmudegon

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Among all the encomia for Maurice Sendak that have appeared in recent days, I particularly appreciated Michael Patrick Hearn’s clear-eyed...
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04 November 2011

Synesthesia, the Phantom Phenomenon

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Leonard Marcus ’s interviews for the new Annotated Phantom Tollbooth and the recent New Yorker article by Adam Gopnik bring out what see...
01 October 2011

Cute Couples

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Yesterday Anita Silvey’s Book-a-Day Almanac spotlighted The Rabbits’ Wedding by Garth Williams : Published first in 1958, The Rabbits’ We...
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 ...
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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