25 July 2020

The Mystery of Baum’s Final Book

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This year I reread L. Frank Baum’s final Oz book: Glinda of Oz , published one hundred years ago. Unlike the preceding book, The Magic o...
23 July 2020

Making the Most of the Magic of Oz Manuscript

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Back in 2005 I examined L. Frank Baum’s handwritten manuscript of The Magic of Oz at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, comparing ...
21 July 2020

Plotting Magic

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The Magic of Oz remains one of my most favorite Oz books by L. Frank Baum because of how its plot works so well. The book has three nar...
18 July 2020

OzCon Preview: “Glinda the Good and Powerful” Panel

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Tonight I’ll be moderating a panel discussion for OzCon 2020 , which because of the pandemic will be online instead of in California. Our...
11 July 2020

Interpreting Incident at Hawk’s Hill through the Autism Lens

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How are we to make sense of the 1971 novel Incident at Hawk’s Hill and the actual 1873 event at its root? In 2004, Prof. Kenneth Kidd w...
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10 July 2020

How a Real Story Became Incident at Hawk’s Hill

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In 1873, a young boy went missing from his family’s farm in Manitoba. After more than a week, a man of Native and European ancestry found h...
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09 July 2020

How a Lost Boy Met a “Kindly Badger”

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Yesterday I quoted two period sources about a Manitoba boy who was missing for over a week on the prairie before being discovered in a badg...
08 July 2020

The Boy in the Badger Hole

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In June 1873, a young boy living on a farm in Springfield, Manitoba , outside Winnipeg, went missing. His family and neighbors searched th...
22 May 2020

Family Puzzles

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I grew up doing jigsaw puzzles with my family. There were puzzles for the whole family that took up a side table or a dedicated board. And t...
16 May 2020

New Fun with Jack and Bill

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In 1935, National Publications issued its first magazine collection of original comics. New Fun was thus the first comic book from the co...
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