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I read Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policeman’s Union (Fourth Estate, London 2007) which I’ve had on the reading pile since it came out. There are many elements that I perhaps don’t understand or see yet but the abiding reference is where Bina compares life to the cartoon ...
Books
Michael Chabon
Dave Eggers The Wild Things is a retelling of the Maurice Sendak book that dovetails and segues from the forthcoming Spike Jonze film. Rather than trying to retell a classic story, Eggers explores what the Wild Things are and how Max re-appraises his world.
Max is coming to terms with his ...
Film
Dave Filoni
Just a quick note but I’ve just finished Jesse Bullington’s The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart for review in Interzone. Although I don’t want to pre-empt what I’ve just written for the review before it appears, this is one of those books which more than makes the ...
Other
The latest Children’s Literature and Youth Culture Colloquium (CLYCC) talk was given by Bill Gray on George MacDonald and the influence of English Romanticism on his writing, called “At the Back of George MacDonald: Romanticism, Fairy Tales and the ‘Redemptive ...
Books
George Orwell
It has been a while since I’ve read any Anne Rice novels. I loved Interview with the Vampire and still think it is a masterpiece and a brilliant novel of faith, a crie de couer that worked through the death of a child and the resulting emotions. Despite flashes, such as Cry to Heaven and [...]
Books
Anne Rice
Supernatural
I went, partially, out of curiosity to the IBBY conference at Roehampton at yesterday which was themed around Graphic Novels and comics. I find it slightly odd going to these events as I’m not a professional scholar/researcher nor do I work as a librarian – I do it for fun since my ...
