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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ This week’s Postcard Story by my friend Will Ludwigsen is one of my favorites so far, and I’m not just saying that because he was inspired by a photograph … Continue reading
Posted in About Writing, Magpie Monday
Tagged Baba Yaga, Daniel Clowes, Drive, fantasy, Forest Rogers, Kat Howard, Lev Grossman, National Student Poets program, Peter Orullian, Petrograd, Philip Gelatt, Rasputin, Ryan Gosling, Scott Musgrove, The Daily Superpower, The Snow Maiden, Theodora Goss, Tyler Crook, Will Ludwigsen
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Gregory Maguire’s Wicked
Having a sometimes-strong streak of iconoclasm, I skipped Gregory Maguire’s Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper, 2000; all quotations are taken from this edition) when it first appeared to such huge acclaim and … Continue reading
Posted in About Writing, Criticism & Reviews
Tagged Geoff Ryman, Gregory Maguire, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Was, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ At left is my favorite book cover of the week for What It Means to Be Human: Historical Reflections from 1791 to the Present by Joanna Bourke (click to … Continue reading
Posted in Magpie Monday
Tagged Alison Richards, Cameron Cook, Ellen Kushner, Geoff Ryman, Grimm Brothers Brewhouse, Jo Walton, Joanna Bourke, Little Red Cap, Madolyn, magpie, Neil Gaiman, pie, Pop Art, POV, Roy Lichtenstein, style, The Simpsons, The Warrior Who Carried Life, The Witches of Lublin, Theodora Goss, What It Means to Be Human
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Magpie Monday
Here are some shiny things that caught my eye recently: ♦ In today’s housing market, here’s the route I may need to go: Via. ♦ For something a bit more expansive, click through to check out more pictures of Hope … Continue reading
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Tagged 24° Studio, Art Deco, Batman, Brave, cake, Dante Nuno, DC reboot, Descent, Fire and Icing, George Lucas, Greg Brotherton, Grégoire Guillemin, Hope Tree, Jambe Davdar, John Constantine, Justice League Dark, Neil Gaiman, Ocean's Eleven, Pixar, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ray Caesar, semi-colon, Silver Surfer, Steven Spielberg, superheroes, The Daily Superpower, The Simpsons, Ulises Farinas, Wonder Woman
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