Yet again, someone is wringing their hands about the content of young adult fiction. This time it’s Meghan Cox Gurdon in the Wall Street Journal. I responded to a similar article ten months ago. The arguments were a little different, but the main concern was the same — that the subjects of YA fiction are [...]
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Keeping my brain whirring this week around the web: Could Conjoined Twins Share a Mind? Tatiana and Krista Hogan share a portion of their brains, but to what extant do they share their minds as well? The scientific implications are, of course, tremendous, but as I writer I wonder about the subjective experience of these [...] Associate Professor Stefane August, Brooding Mentor Dream Boat I’ve just started reading The Marriage of Sticks by Jonathan Carroll, and at about 75 pages in, I knew I needed to come up with a counterpart to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, the effervescent ingenue who brings magic to the life of some world-weary boring [...] As long as we have been human, we have been contemplating mortality, trying to find meaning in life, and suffering in our grief. I know I will never understand Michel’s death, so I am trying to find some solace in the continuity of human emotion. People mourned their dead thousands years ago as they mourn [...] 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 [...] |
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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