22 September 2023

Fitzgerald and “Second Acts”

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At lunch today, a friend and I invoked the line “There are no second acts in American life,” and then weren’t sure where it came from. We th...
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22 August 2023

Baum’s Contradictory Characters

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In my Characters of Oz essay “A Good Man but a Bad Wizard?: The Shifting Moral Character of the Wizard of Oz,” I took the opportunity to ta...
15 August 2023

“Dorothy the Conqueror” Now Online

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Back in 2005, the International Wizard of Oz Club’s journal, The Baum Bugle , published my article “Dorothy the Conqueror.” It discussed t...
18 July 2023

Call for Presentations at the CharlOz Festival

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On September 27-29, 2024, the city of Charlotte, North Carolina; the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; and other organizations, loc...
11 July 2023

Contents of The Characters of Oz

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Last week I introduced The Characters of Oz , a collection of essays that I contributed to, edited by Dina Schiff Massachi. Since I don’t...
04 July 2023

The Characters of Oz and the Character of Oz the Wizard

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Later this year McFarland will publish The Characters of Oz: Essays on Their Adaptation and Transformation , edited by Dina Schiff Massachi...
29 August 2022

The First Part of “The Donnington Affair”

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In 1914, Max Pemberton published part of a murder mystery in a magazine called The Premier . It was titled “The Donnington Affair.” Pembe...
19 May 2022

Drama about a Dress

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One of the blue gingham dresses worn by Judy Garland in the MGM Wizard of Oz is up for auction. Or maybe not. WTOP reports that a court ...
04 April 2022

The Opening of the Emerald City

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My last posting explored the location of the original gateway into the Emerald City, the one Dorothy and her friends use in L. Frank Baum’s ...
02 April 2022

Seeking the Original Gateway into the Emerald City

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For fictive purposes, I’ve been trying to figure out the location of the original gate to the Emerald City and when more gates were added. ...