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>January-February Horn Book Magazine
>The new Magazine is out but I haven't seen a copy yet--here's hoping the color looks as good as we wanted! Fanfare, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award speeches, and other selected content can all be linked to from the table of contents posted on the website.
I hope everybody had good holidays. Mine were a blur of movies (I see on child_lit that everyone is offended by Avatar but the one I'm fuming at is It's Complicated), colds, candy and presents, including a highly entertaining dvd set of Wagner's Ring cycle, which has Brunnhilde wandering existentially through the whole thing and a naked guy swimming in an aquarium as the Rheingold itself.
But now it's back to work. I'll be sunning myself in tropical Minnesota next weekend, speaking to the children's lit students at Hamline University (which for some reason is employing similar imagery to my Rheingold dvd) and then you all are coming to Boston for ALA. On that Saturday, I'll again be at the Horn Book booth asking "Five Questions for . . ." of M.T. Anderson, Kristin Cashore, Lois Lowry, and Mitali Perkins. I'll post the schedule this week.
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LaurieA-B
>"A lot of people love The Giver although I hate that its institutionalization will probably lessen the chance that readers could have to discover and "own" it on their own. That's the downside of books in the classroom."I may borrow this to describe a book as "institutionalized" in the future. And, yes.
Posted : Jan 09, 2010 06:54
lyndalepress
>Roger, are you only speaking to a closed class at Hamline? I don't see your name on the Residency Public Schedule.Posted : Jan 07, 2010 11:05
Roger Sutton
>I enjoyed all the performances in It's Complicated, it was just the assumptions that had me bothered.A lot of people love The Giver although I hate that its institutionalization will probably lessen the chance that readers could have to discover and "own" it on their own. That's the downside of books in the classroom. I also think it's hard to make much of the ambiguity of the first book's ending when the sequels go on to close off the possibilities.
Posted : Jan 06, 2010 05:50
Melinda
>I'm bummed that I won't see you at Hamline -- I always skip the winter residency because my work has too much overtime going on this time of year to let me go. Also, I am a wimp. But the folks at Hamline are great. You'll love 'em.Get Thinsulate mittens and hats before you go because they work best against -25 weather.
Posted : Jan 05, 2010 08:21
Mitali Perkins
>Looking forward to your five questions, Roger. The NYT ran a profile on IC's director Nancy Meyers, in which she discussed the posh settings she loves to use:"Meyers herself is unapologetic about creating sets that look as if they might be photographed in a shelter magazine, most notably the mouthwatering Hamptons house in “Something’s Gotta Give,” which did actually make an appearance in Architectural Digest. “The fact that there is nice fabric on the chairs is fun,” she says. “It’s appealing. It softens the message.” When I ask her whether she has ever been criticized for spending so much time, effort and money on interiors, she recalls someone once describing her aesthetic as “the cashmere world of Nancy Meyers.” Then, sounding like an auteur of the domestic sphere, she says: “I can’t explain why I choose to do that. As long as we’re building the interior of Jane’s house from scratch, which we did, it’s decorated that way because it’s her style. I like that stuff.”
Posted : Jan 05, 2010 04:22