Apr
27
Dry-humping, humiliation, and much respect to Judy Bloom
April 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Crushes, cliques, fumbling firsts and countless passed notes — high school is fertile literary ground. But rarely have so many of its defining moments and mortifications been explored so exuberantly as in When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School, a new collection of 25 original essays edited by John McNally. [...]
Apr
26
BEASTS! a book about monsters
April 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Creatures from mythology and folklore — beasts that man at one time thought actually existed — make up the fantastic (in both senses of the word) compendium called Beasts!, recently published by Fantagraphic Books. Jacob Covey, Fantagraphic’s art director, has gotten an impressive group of nearly 100 artists and cartoonists to create original interpretations of [...]
Apr
25
The Forbidden Library
April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The Forbidden Library is a great site that lists all “questionable” books…for example: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll. Banned in China (1931) for portraying animals and humans on the same level, “Animals should not use human language.”