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.

28 August 2018

The Shift from Woodman to Woodsman

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One of the attractions at OzCon earlier this month was a showing of James Ortiz’s The Woodsman , produced in New York in 2015 . It was a str...
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27 August 2018

Looking Back on an “Errand of Mercy”

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A couple of years ago, I collaborated with artist Olivia Li, cover artist Catalina Rufin, editor E. J. Barnes, and the Massachusetts Histo...
23 August 2018

Another Job Lost to Advancing Technology

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From the Los Angeles Review of Books ’s interview with Holly Tommasino, who created the hand-lettered journal entries in the original Bab...
21 August 2018

Discovering Lost Tales of Oz

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Joe Bongiorno’s Royal Publisher of Oz releases its latest book today : the short-story anthology Lost Tales of Oz , featuring illustrations ...
07 August 2018

Heading Out to Oz

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“In May I began describing, photographing, and re-housing a discrete collection of posters within the Ludlow-Santo Domingo (LSD) Library c...
06 August 2018

Emilie and Ella

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I had the pleasure of seeing Emilie Boon’s picture book Ella and Monkey at Sea develop in a writers’ group. It’s just been published, a...
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13 December 2017

Happy Holidays from Highlights

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This week H-Net’s American Studies discussion site published Patrick Cox’s article “What's Wrong with Christmas in Highlights for Chi...
07 December 2017

Guest Reviewer on The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage

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Godson has some things to say about The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage : …the book ostensibly isn’t on the scale of the trilogy. I was ...
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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...
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