bully poem
I keep meaning to post this, from Lois Lowry’s blog. Generally I am baffled by and scared of poetry, but not this poem. (I just attended a screening of a documentary in progress about bullying, so...
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harry potty
A twitpic of the wall of a bathroom stall upon which someone has written the entire first chapter of Harry Potter I. From PostSecret.
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please post conspicuously
A U.S. Department of Fisheries promotional campaign from 1911. Thanks, Julie…
View Articlethe hollywood girlie-fication of hermione
Wonderful essay in the Guardian about how Hermione’s bookishness, confidence and activism got tamped down over the course of the movies.
View Articleare women people?
Yesterday the web site The Hairpin ran some excerpts from Are Women People?, a 1915 book of poetry by suffragist Alice Duer Miller. Every snippet was delicious and amazing. Here’s my favorite: Why We...
View Articleshit book reviewers say
You are probably so sick of the Shit Whatevers Say meme. And you’ve probably already seen this video by Melville House co-publisher Dennis Johnson. But I hadn’t. I’m slow. (That’s why I review...
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josie introduced me to a poet
My daughter has been raving about the poems of Valerie Worth and was shocked that I did not know who she was. (Jo reminded me that Worth’s poems are in Sharon Creech’s Love That Dog, which we both...
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TANGENT!
I have been HOWLING over Fashion It So, the tumblr devoted to analyzing the fashions of Star Trek: The Next Generation, all morning. God bless io9 for pointing this wonder out. It is GENIUS, GENIUS I...
View Articlei’m not sorry
I must modestly tell you that Susan and I are on fire over at SorryWatch. If you are not reading it, you should be. Recent posts of awesomeness include (she said modestly) my EXPOSE of Chris Matthews’s...
View Articlea book under my own name!
From Publisher’s Marketplace this week: Tablet parenting columnist and frequent NYTBR contributor Marjorie Ingall’s REVENGE OF THE JEWISH MOTHER, in which the author lays out the ten commandments (“Why...
View Articlethis is not a Henry Jenkins quote
I hate thinkexist and goodreads quote lists and all those dumb quotation-compilation sites. THEY LIE LIKE RUGS. If you can’t track down a book, paper or speech in which the person said the thing,...
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Books, talk, and DRAAAAMA in a good way (at last)
For the New York Times Book Review this past weekend, I reviewed four wild fantasy novels. Make that three wild fantasy novels and one dystopia about climate change that feels not fantastic at all at...
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