Please join the Far-Flung bloggers on Twitter tomorrow morning for a short interview in short format (140 characters) with Jamison Odone, who has recently issued an Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland… [read full post]
The Blog of the LCSNA
Month: March 2010
Susan Sanford’s Dreaming Alice
Susan Sanford, an artist from Oakland, California, has a lovely book out called Dreaming Alice. Her humble biography: “The author has read many books and looked at many pictures, and… [read full post]
Study Visit to Guildford with the Lewis Carroll Society UK
Places are still available on the Lewis Carroll Society UK (LCS) study visit to Guildford. The four-day trip will take place 15-18 July, 2010. Members of the LCS and guests… [read full post]
Nursery curtains or crazy shirts? New Alice fabrics
Windham Fabrics have recently released a good complimentary set of cotton prints with patterns inspired by Tenniel’s illustrations for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The designs were created in collaboration with… [read full post]
Help Alice solve puzzles, wait tables in new computer games
Alice needs your help! The the type of help, however, varies from game to game. Help her fall down the rabbit hole! Help her avoid death by playing cards! Help… [read full post]
A few Carroll letters at the Rosenbach: “a very small portion of brain”
The website Letters of Note has two Lewis Carroll correspondences up today, both to Isabel Seymour in 1869. They are part of the Rosenbach Museum & Library’s collection in Philadelphia,… [read full post]
“Algebra in Wonderland” in Sunday’s New York Times
I’m curious what members of the LCSNA think of this article on the Sunday New York Times Opinion Page, “Algebra in Wonderland” by Melanie Bayley. The author is a “doctoral… [read full post]
Disney Japanese Pocket Puzzle to enrage and delight
And now for something completely different: drive yourself mad with a Disney-themed interlocking pocket puzzle, sold online at ThinkGeek.com. The puzzles are based on the classic mechanical games involving two… [read full post]
Just the day to see Alice in Wonderland… (1903)
At 12.01am this morning the curtain rose on Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. If the last five months of hype have left you cold, how about being truly perverse and… [read full post]
Criticizing the Critics, & futterwacking around the Alice Movie Paradox
[Warning! Spoiler alert! It was all a dream!] When Lewis Carroll published a few thousand copies of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865, with no hype or buzz, it received… [read full post]