Ted Naifeh’s Courtney Crumrin series

2017-07-24T14:50:08-04:00

It begins with Butterworm "the neighborhood's oldest resident", the tale slipping between his bared teeth:  Courtney Crumrin: The Night Things, written and illustrated by Ted Naifeh (Oni Press 2012). He introduces readers to Courtney Crumrin, who is new in town. Her parents have run out of credit and have begged rooms with

Ted Naifeh’s Courtney Crumrin series2017-07-24T14:50:08-04:00

Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be? (2012)

2014-10-07T14:54:33-04:00

It seems perfect. Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be? is not really a novel. And this is not really a review. It's a collection of my collisions with understanding. Opening sentence: "How should a person be?" Subtitle: A Novel from Life Off the page, there is an interview with Shelagh

Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be? (2012)2014-10-07T14:54:33-04:00

Talking Time: Life after Life, The Luminaries

2015-10-20T07:58:55-04:00

Random House, 2013 The slippery question of time is often posed on the page. And with books, it’s different. In music, listeners are engaged at a pace dictated by the composer’s notation, beats counted as the bars pass, the audience arriving synchronously at the end of the piece.

Talking Time: Life after Life, The Luminaries2015-10-20T07:58:55-04:00

Ellen Hopkins’ Crank Trilogy

2014-06-26T15:07:30-04:00

How fully can an author inhabit an addict's world and still spin a story coherent enough to engage the teen reader? Margaret K. McElderry Books(Simon & Schuster Books), 2004 In the 1970's, kids might have turned to the anonymously penned Go Ask Alice (1971), which was billed as

Ellen Hopkins’ Crank Trilogy2014-06-26T15:07:30-04:00

Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies Series

2019-08-28T13:13:59-04:00

At the beginning of the novel, where an epigraph might appear, is a note from the author, explaining that Uglies was shaped by a series of email exchanges between Scott Westerfeld and author Ted Chiang about his story “Liking What You See: A Documentary”. At the end of Ted Chiang's

Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies Series2019-08-28T13:13:59-04:00
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