Wednesday, 22 July 2015

Chinoiserie and 1920s-Style Multiculturalism

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The Newbery medal-winner for 1926, Shen of The Sea: Chinese Stories for Children, by Arthur Bowie Chrisman, is another Newbery winner that ...
Thursday, 16 July 2015

Why the Future of Publishing May Involve Rotten Tomatoes

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One of the paradoxes of our time is that while people often claim that publishing is in its death throes, it’s never been easier to get publ...
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Saturday, 14 July 2012

Crispin, a Kid on a Quest. You Know, Like Many of the Other Newbery Medal Characters.

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In the Newbery Medal winner for 2003, Crispin: The Cross of Lead , by Avi life for Crispin, a boy of thirteen living in England in 1376 A.D...
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Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Etsy's Unique and Handmade Problems

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If I’m going to write about Etsy, I should probably begin by saying that up until this past spring, I loved Etsy. Etsy was, if not in exact...
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Monday, 25 July 2011

By Way of Sorrow, Indeed

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Someone on Metafilter.com linked to the lovely slideshow above on YouTube yesterday, saying a friend of his had put it together in celebr...
Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Jean Teasdale and a Life Spent On An Escalator

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Satire is a difficult thing to review for the same reason that Saturday Night Live sketches generally don’t make good movies: because sati...
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Saturday, 13 March 2010

Some Vintages Age Better Than Others

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A few months ago I came across a copy of Especially Father , by Gladys Bagg Taber, in Value Village. The book, written in 1948, seemed to b...
Sunday, 13 December 2009

Marie Antoinette and the Recession

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Of late there has been a lot of copy generated about coping with the recession. Salon for example has been running a series of lifestyle ar...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009

The Lesser Sibling and the Short End of the Stick

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Katherine Paterson’s Jacob Have I Loved has been sitting on my desk for quite some time, waiting for me to review it. I remember not likin...