Neil Gaiman forwarded this note from Daniel "Lemony Snicket" Handler:
— Read the restThe Academy of Art University here in San Francisco – the biggest art school in the country – recently expelled a student for writing a violent short story, and then fired his instructor for teaching a story by David Foster Wallace the administration also found offensive.
This holiday season, Bay Areans can contribute to the Gift of Reading book-drive and help turn kids onto great, life-changing literature. I'm going to do a run to my local when I get home and round up as much of the following as I can for donation — books I read and wish I'd read when I was a kid:
— Read the restA third literary link for today. Kelly "Stranger Things Happen" Link turned me on to the "Wolves of Willoughby Chase" books by Joan Aiken last fall in NYC, and I've been hooked ever since. These are a series of juvenile adventure stories set in an alternate Victorian England (and abroad, on the high-seas). — Read the rest
JK Rowling's behind schedule on Harry Potter #5, and she isn't making any promises. Prepare to wait. Also, where the hell is the ninth Lemony Snicket novel, dammit?
Vote for your favorite alternabooks in the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Awards. Some of my favorites from this year are on the ballot: Kelly Link's "Stranger Things Happen," Haruki Murakami's "Underground," Chomsky's "9/11," Shoichi Aoki's "Fruits," Joe Sacco's "Palestine," and Lemony Snicket's "The Hostile Hospital." — Read the rest
