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“Yesterday this picture was worth millions…Today, it is worth nothing, and nobody would cross the street to see it for free. But the picture has not changed. What has?”
This morning on the radio I heard that a Colorado (the specific location wasn’t given) teenager named Robert Hibbs was, in fact, a troll, standing at a bridge and demanding a dollar payment from anyone who wanted to cross. There was no word on whether he was bearded or wearing a loincloth, although […]
While she’s not as well known as some others, Betsy Byars is simply one of the best writers for young readers and teenagers around. She’s well-known for many of her books including The 18th Emergency and the Golly Sisters Series, but some of her darker novels do an excellent job of exploring the feelings of […]
Earlier this week I saw my first Aranea cavatica of the year just above my deck. According to to Peter F. Neumeyer’s The Annotated Charlotte’s Web, this is the species of spider E.B. White had in mind when he wrote Charlotte’s Web. They are beautiful spiders, and I always like seeing them around my house […]
When my mother gave me a copy of Danny Dunn On The Ocean Floor she was fostering my dream of someday being a marine biologist. She may have instead sparked a more latent ambition to someday be a writer. The story was exciting, I liked the characters, and I remember being struck by a ship […]
In a book review in New York Magazine, Dan Kois begins a review of two graphic novels for young adults by emphasizing the the fact that they’re found in the manga section of the bookstore. I’m giving away my ignorance here because I thought graphic novels were one thing and manga were another, and he […]
When I was fourteen I got my first chemistry set, and my father gave me a small workbench in the basement where I could conduct experiments. I became a serious chemistry nut. My allowance and any extra money I earned started going to the Rock City Machine Company, which is still in business, and which […]
Turning classic works of literature into comic books isn’t a new idea. I remember in school when my teachers were trying to get caught up on grading papers or picking the glitter out of their lunches or taking smoke breaks they’d put a stack of comic book versions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ivanhoe, […]
The Internet is making libraries obsolete. Libraries as a place people use to conduct research are going the way of the dodo. Nobody goes to the library anymore. That’s the assumption some people make, but a brief note in the Chronicle of Higher Education summarizes a report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project […]
In his hilarious travel blog, Charles Starmer Smith says, “Willy Wonka would be proud” and calls a chocolate-powered car “a typically British hair-brained scheme”, but, as he explains, the project also had a serious message. British adventurers Andy Pag and John Grimshaw drove six-thousand miles from England to Timbuktu in a car powered entirely by […] |
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