I’ve just come across an argument on one of children’s mailing lists regarding Jaclyn Dolamore’s debut novel, Magic Under Glass. The publisher, Bloomsbury USA, have put a white girl on the cover of a novel where the protagonist is dark-skinned which reprises the cover issues that Justine Larbalestier originally had for her novel, Liar.
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The Guardian reports that another book in the seminal Gormenghast series is to be published in 2011. “Titus Awakes” was taken from notes left by Mervyn Peake byhis widow, Maeve Gilmore, who completed the book before her death which appears to bring the story to a natural conclusion. Sebastian Peake, who has championed his father’s [...]
Just a quick note to mention that the new term list for the Oxford Children’s Literature and Youth Culture Colloquium series of seminars has now been posted. I’ve presented and been to a couple of these and they really are good. Shame their not online afterwards though.
Jonathan Lethem is one of those writers whom I admire but don’t pretend to always “Get”. On and off, I’ve begun (re)reading his books which I’ve got on my shelf and I’ll probably try and get hold of his comic as well. I think I interviewed him for The Third Alternative (as it was then) [...]
I’ve started catching up on some favourite authors who I’d put down whilst trying to finish my own book and finally got around to reading Makers by Cory Doctorow. Right from the top, I think this is Cory’s best novel to date and his most accomplished. Makers is a generational musing on the idea of [...]
I’ve just watched Gerald McMorrow’s debut sf film, Franklyn, which I wanted to see when it came out by it appears to have by passed Oxford. It is an extension of an earlier short film, Thespian X, which featured the suicide attempt video. The film shows four characters – Preest (David), Emilia (Sally), Milo and [...]