18 October 2017

“Comics and Medicine” Coming to MICE, Oct. 21

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The Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE) is coming up this weekend, and on Saturday I’ll moderate a panel on “Comics and Medicine...
06 October 2017

Choice Bits from M. T. Anderson

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Entertainment Weekly’s interview with M. T. Anderson about his new novella, Landscape with Invisible Hand , focused on its timeliness and...
04 October 2017

Years before Lord of the Flies

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William Golding’s Lord of the Flies sits in a long line of novels about shipwrecked voyagers stretching back to the beginning of the Engl...
02 October 2017

Dahl’s Chocolate Boy

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Last month I wrote about the suddenly fashionable but not really new news that Roald Dahl had originally described Charlie Bucket as blac...
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30 September 2017

Pocketing the Bad Machinery Series

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I heartily enjoy John Allison’s Bad Machinery graphic novels, following a team of teen detectives in the fictional mid-sized city of Tackl...
16 September 2017

The Original Charlie Bucket

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The press in both Britain and America is abuzz with reports that Roald Dahl originally wrote of Charlie Bucket, hero of Charlie and the C...
14 September 2017

“The only one there is you.”

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From novelist David Burr Gerard at LitHub, writing about the biggest influences on him as a storyteller : And if I hadn’t fallen in love a...
08 September 2017

Golding and the Girls

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Recently news broke that a Hollywood studio optioning a remake of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies with marooned schoolgirls instead s...
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05 September 2017

Julia Anne Young Reenvisioning Oz

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Artist Julia Anne Young created this model as an exercise for an SCBWI New Jersey conference. Maria Middleton, Art Director for Random Ho...
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29 August 2017

No Need to Visit Skull Castle

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Seeing Dirk Gringhuis’s 1964 Mystery at Skull Castle in David Maxine’s collection made me curious about it. Fortunately, David has alread...