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I’ve been working on a post about how fiction should not make abstractions out of events that would be horrors in real life, should not mine tragedy for art’s sake, should not forget humanity in its examination of the human condition. And then something happened that made my musings — which, ironically, I see were [...] Sylvia Plath has been a subject of conversation lately because of the publication of a newly discovered poem about her suicide by Ted Hughes. I had already been thinking about her, though, because of an article I read about a production of her poem “Three Women,” written as a radio play for the BBC. It [...] This month’s Life in Comics column at Publishers Weekly is a little more revealing than I usually write these columns to be. It’s about money. And about the difficult choices I have had to make to work in comics. I’ve been avoiding the topic because not only is it a vulnerable position to be in, [...] Two of my siblings have birthdays this coming week, so yesterday I went to buy birthday cards. It is lazy of me, a writer, to rely on mass-produced sentiments, and, as I looked through the cards, that became all too clear. Most of the sibling-to-sibling cards were about “growing up together” or “when we were [...] A couple of Mateo-related announcements. First, here are some samples from Mateo’s photo session from a couple of weeks ago. The photographer, Christine Szeto, is marvelous. She came to our house and got the best expressions from Mateo. Second, I’ve made a blog specifically for mothering-related stuff called Mateo and Me. This site will be [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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