Category: Books
Philip Pullman on Children’s Literature & the Critics Who Disdain It
Lit is lit books are books. We find certain books at certain times and they change us. Categories are for selling. From Daemon Voices: On Stories…
In Praise of Karel Capek
From the New York Times August 17, 2018 Two things keep Karel Capek’s “War With the Newts” from getting the recognition it deserves: its cover…
The Hacking of America – Jill Lepore –
Given all the empty positive talk that we are fed on a daily basis, and given all the lies and generalizations, it seems like the…
Giant Days
I like this series of stories about three roommates at college in Sheffield. The tensions and deprivations and role play of college life comes through…
Sarah Manguso
Check out, Sarah Manguso. Her website lists her books, and connects to lots of her articles. Is what she does “prose poetry”? Probably. But it…
Kaizen Aplied to Writing
Sarah Manguso: “The Japanese term kaizen translates literally to improvement, but it’s a term that has come to mean gradual, continuous improvement of a piece of collaborative…
Totoro’s Creator’s Favourite Children’s Books
HAYAO MIYAZAKI’S FAVOURITE CHILDREN’S BOOKS A small thrill ran through me when I saw that one of the books on Miyazaki’s list is Swallows and Amazons. …
Steve Almond: We Need to Make the Media We Need
We are swimming in a world of lies and hype. Politics and the consumer society are mostly based on telling us what we want to…
The Age of Anger byPankaj Mishra
It is more than time for all of us to think about the flaws in the worlds we believe in, the worlds we are trying to…
