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tomorrowmuseum.com - 6/21/2009

Archive » Why Teenagers Read Better Than You

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Asked to picture a reader — a passionate reader — many of us will think of ourselves when we were young. Tucked under covers with a flashlight, staying up until the morning, so desperate to see the story play out. Maybe you didn’t have friends to sit with during lunch period, so you hid in the ...

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omnivoracious.com - 6/17/2009

Omni Podcast: China Mieville on "The City & The City"

— omnivoracious.com — After a busy few days of talking to authors at BookExpo America and a couple of weeks... editing the results, it's time to start sharing the more than a dozen interviews Daphne and I did with a pretty spectacular group... (more) Omni Podcast: China Mieville on "The City & The City"

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omnivoracious.com - 6/15/2009

China Mieville, Author of The City & The City: Guest-Blogging This Week at Omnivoracious

— omnivoracious.com — Omnivoracious is proud to welcome China Mieville as a guest blogger this week. Arguably one of the... most important fantasists of the last decade, Mieville made his mark with the insanely imaginative Perdido Street Station. The novel single-handedly ... (more) China Mieville, Author of The City & The City: ...

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jeffvandermeer.com - 6/17/2009

“God, that’s a merciless question”: China Mieville’s Interview From Weird Tales

— jeffvandermeer.com — Last year, I interviewed China Miéville for Weird Tales’ 85th anniversary issue. Yesterday, I posted a short... excerpt of the interview on Omnivoracious as part of an announcement about China blogging there. (For those of you living under ... (more) “God, that’s a merciless question”: China Mieville’s ...

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Links for 21st June 2009
Velcro City Tourist Board — Fresh from the clogged tubes of teh intarwubs… Why Teenagers Read Better Than You "There are several reasons why so many teenagers are passionate readers. A book is a pathway inside another person’s head. When you are young, you have few deep relationships, maybe no real emotional connections with others at all. You connect in the text. At that age, it is a revelation to see an author has the same dreams and insecurities as you do. Plus, there is a confidence and conviction to a fiction narrative’s voice. You are eager for ...

June 22, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — ... Holden Caulfield. John Hodgman roasts President Obama. Jeff VanderMeer on Are You Meandering Around a Castle for 200 Pages? Well, Stop That, Suckah! David H. Hendrickson on Measuring Progress. Jacques Barcia on Optimism in Literature around the World and SF in Particular, part 5: Brazil, “the Country that Could Have Been and Maybe Will”. Ransom Stephens on Booking the Future. Tomorrow Museum on Why Teenagers Read Better Than You. Brian Sanderson on The YA Invasion. ...

Young Adult fiction: are we confusing marketing with markets?
Futurismic — ... Joanne McNeil of Tomorrow Museum has a post hailing teenagers as being the most enthusiastic readers of all, contrary to media handwringing over declining youth literacy. Her central point is very valid: that teenagers who get into books discover a channel through which they can learn a lot about the world (and the people in it) without having to refer to the usual authority figures. [image by ...