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 getting rid of the parents. Show all posts

Showing posts with label getting rid of the parents. Show all posts

14 June 2012

The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Mothers

From Dwight Garner’s review in the New York Times of Colm Tóibín’s New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families : His essen...

03 July 2009

“The Nearby Explosions”

In anticipation of Independence Day, here's a quick extract from Steve Macone 's Boston Globe essay about the temptation and danger...

02 February 2008

Orphans 'R' Us

I was struck by this quote from a Publishers Weekly interview with the venerable Lois Lowry , on the occasion of her new book, The Willoug...

31 January 2007

Definitely a Dead Mother Book

Publishers Weekly offers some interesting remarks from Susan Patron about how she came to write her Newbery-winning novel for the middle g...

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