31 August 2013

I Was Expecting Someone Much Older, Too

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I enjoyed Publishers Weekly ’s roundup of publishing industry veterans’ memories of their early days on the job in days of electric typew...
30 August 2013

Surveying OIP Derangement Syndrome

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There are a lot of questions now about how the US government should respond to Syrian government atrocities, though the Constitution’s requi...
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29 August 2013

A New Angle on Narrative Momentum

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A few days ago, author Gail Gauthier raised the topic of “momentum” as it applies to narrative on her Facebook page. In physics, an objec...
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28 August 2013

“A kind of literary amnesia” about Violence

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The Boston Globe ’s recent  interview with Michelle Ann Abate , professor of children’s literature at Ohio State, included this discussion...
27 August 2013

Ruffles and the Invaders

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Here’s a magical moment from L. Frank Baum ’s Queen Zixi of Ix , first published in St. Nicholas magazine under the title (for reasons that...
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25 August 2013

Titans vs. X-Men

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A Twitter comment from UK artist Randolph Hoyte alerted me to Chris Sims’s Comics Alliance essay on Marv Wolfman and George Pérez ’s Ne...
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24 August 2013

The New Didacticism

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The International Reading Association’s Literacy and Social Responsibility Special Interest Group has announced a new award for children’s b...
23 August 2013

Rep. Kerry Bentivolio’s Plan to Avoid Being a Laughingstock

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Rep. Kerry Bentivolio of Michigan provided this week’s example of OIP Derangement Syndrome . As quoted by Buzzfeed and elsewhere , Bentivoli...
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22 August 2013

The Visual Display of Edward Tufte

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About a quarter-century ago, I was a young Editorial Assistant at a publishing company, and someone handed me a copy of Edward Tufte ’s Th...
21 August 2013

What Fell Out of 52 Pickup

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It was a warm, clear day when I heard that crime novelist Elmore Leonard had died after well over eighty years and forty books. That news ...