Secret supper clubs are all the rage, so we’ve heard (we’ve never found one). Right now, somewhere in Vancouver, the Swallow Tail Supper Club is entertaining diners with fine food, cocktails,… [read full post]
The Blog of the LCSNA
Month: November 2011
What Middletown Read: Very Little Lewis Carroll
…So when I learned about What Middletown Read, a database that tracks the borrowing records of the Muncie Public Library between 1891 and 1902, I had some of the same… [read full post]
Alice’s great-grandson writes for Huffington Post
Hugh St. Clair: interior designer, creative consultant, columnist for the Lady Magazine—and great-grandson of Alice Liddell. An article by Hugh appeared yesterday on the Huffington Post: What Was the Real… [read full post]
Video interview with Tate Liverpool curator
Rounding off our coverage of the Tate Liverpool’s Alice in Wonderland exhibition, here’s a video interview with co-curator Christop Schulz that gives some tantalizing glimpses of the artwork on display…. [read full post]
Catalog for Tate Liverpool Alice exhibition looks great
The catalog for the Tate Liverpool’s Alice in Wonderland exhibition is now for sale on the Tate’s website. Edited by Gavin Delahunty, head of exhibitions and displays at Tate Liverpool, and… [read full post]
Raven Gregory writes a prequel to “Return to Wonderland” called “Alice in Wonderland”
Graphic novelist Raven Gregory has now written several installments in the Wonderland universe, beginning with Return to Wonderland (2007) and followed by various Tales and Escapes. The original Return to… [read full post]
Thought-provoking article in Prospect Magazine by Richard Jenkyns
Issue 187 of Prospect Magazine contains a good article on the influence of the Alice books written by Richard Jenkyns, professor of Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. The article… [read full post]
Celebrating Looking-Glass Day in Puerto Rico
In celebration of Looking-Glass Day, we have a heart-warming report from guest blogger and LCSNA member Emily Aguilo-Perez in Puerto Rico. Today, Friday November 4, 2011 I celebrated Looking-Glass Day… [read full post]
New book about Tony Sarg and a video of his “mechanical book”
There is a new children’s book about Tony Sarg, master puppeteer and inventor of the first balloons for New York’s Macy Day Parade. Sarg was also the creator of Tony… [read full post]