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The Book That Changed My Life: Why Do I Like This Story So Much?
It was spring of my freshman year of high school. While working crew for the spring musical I’d made a new friend, a sophomore named Sarah. (She would become a lifelong friend, my only daughter’s cherished godmother.) Sarah loved books the way I do and was shocked that I’d never...
On Shoshana Flax’s “A Wrinkle in Troubled Times” (from 2016)
“Some of our very best fighters have come from your own planet.” —Mrs. Whatsit to Meg MurrayAbout Madeleine L'Engle's Newbery Award–winning novel, the writer Anne Lamott said the following in a 2012 interview with The New York Times Book Review:"A Wrinkle in Time saved me because it so captured the...
Girls in Towers
Madeleine L’Engle’s novel Camilla (titled Camilla Dickinson when first published in 1951 and recently reissued) features a bright and passionate fifteen-year-old who presents us with the essential question of the YA genre — how will this girl survive the emotional chaos of adolescence? In fairy tales, this same question is...
Interview with Molly Leach
About a month ago I began an email conversation with Molly Leach about her new cover and interior book design for Macmillan's 50th anniversary edition of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle In Time. Have you seen it? The dust jacket is an updated homage to Ellen Raskin's original, redrawing the circles...
Celebrating a Wrinkle
A couple of weeks ago Roger let me out of the office to attend the big 50th anniversary event for A Wrinkle in Time in NYC. I was going to post about this along with a piece on the new book design, but time's moving on, so watch for a...
>If you liked The Lost Symbol . . .
>It occurs to me that now that Robert Langdon has raced around Rome, Paris, and D.C. he ought to go to New York; precisely to Madeleine L'Engle's current residence, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. His readers would love her; hers, I'm not so sure about....
>Is Passion Old-Fashioned?
>Over on the PUBYAC listserv, Jan Hanson of the Longview Public Library in Washington is looking for it: "A HS teacher called and is asking for ideas of books that illustrate a teen with passion, as in "a passion for dancing" or a "passion for football."I love this query; it's...
>Madeleine L'Engle
>We commemorate Madeleine L'Engle with a profile written by her husband for the Horn Book on the occasion of her 1963 Newbery Medal. And we've got some reviews of her work up as well. I like what Ruth Hill Viguers wrote about The Arm of the Starfish; it can be...
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