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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Time for a Gothic revival?
Roger Sutton over at the Horn Book‘s blog has echoed one of his reader comments about a desire for a Gothic revival. His comments seem to be timed with the Daphne du Maurier revival last year (the centenary of her … Continue reading
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Eoin Colfer interviewed by Newsweek
I’ve just come across a link to this interview with Eoin Colfer published in Newsweek where he talks about his new novel, The Airman, his influences and sending gliders of from a Norman castle. I love the new book and … Continue reading
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Carcanet to release Mervyn Peake’s collected poems
Sebastian Peake‘s blog gives details of the collected poems of his father, Mervyn, coming out from Carcanet later this year. Most famous for Gormenghast, Peake was a great poet and a fantastic illustrator – both of which talents are a … Continue reading
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Guillermo de Toro to take on the Hobbit?
It appears that Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, Cronos) is in talks to take on the Hobbit film. Jackson is up to his eyeballs in projects but will be the executive producer with creative control. The film itself will … Continue reading
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Faerie gets technical in the Spiderwick Chronicles film
LinuxJournal has a piece on the use of Linux to render the CGI in the forthcoming Spiderwick Chronicles movie which comes out in the UK on 21 March. (Sorry, annoyingly its behind a pay wall at the moment online but … Continue reading
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ODNB’s January additions
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography have added Joan Aiken (of the fabulous Wolves of Willoughby Hall fame), Anthony Buckeridge (of the Jennings school boy stories) and Norman Thelwell (whose pony images are to die laughing for) to the online … Continue reading
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NY Times on Brian Selznick’s obsessions
Brian Selznick, whose The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Amazon) won the Caldecott Medal earlier this month, is that wonderful of beings: the slightly off-centre obsessed geek and it shows in his great novel. Hugo – an orphan, thief and clockmaker … Continue reading
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Chris Riddell gets political at the Guardian Newsroom
Chris Riddell, the illustrator half of Paul Stewart/Chris Riddell, has an exhibition of his political cartoons for the Observer newspaper. The cartoons are always pointed and humorous whilst getting the themes of the year across to the reader. The exhibition … Continue reading
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Snoopy takes on the Nazgul
This afternoon as break from what I was doing, I searched for Nazgul on Google as I was curious as to who else had used the Nazgul type creature in either book or film and came across this wonderful story … Continue reading
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Ursula LeGuin books speak…
Ursula LeGuin has started putting MP3s onto her site. Currently she has an extract of the Wizard of Earthsea and some poems from Wild Angels (Introduction, Ars Lunga, The Young, Tao Song). There are planned extracts from Buffalo Gals and … Continue reading
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