Mad Tea Parties and politics are in the news again, but this time thrown by the Democrats. President Obama’s 2009 Alice in Wonderland-themed “star-studded” Halloween party is central stage in… [read full post]
The Blog of the LCSNA
Author: James Welsch
-Blogger for the Lewis Carroll Society of North America
-Editor at www.itwaslost.org (O it was lost for ever! and we found it not) an art & music weblog.
Salman Rushdie celebrates the 140th Anniversary of Through the Looking Glass in Vanity Fair
Well, he partially uses the short article in the January 2012 issue of Vanity Fair to plug his own children’s books, but his reverence for Looking Glass is genuine: By… [read full post]
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland read in Scientology Cruise Training Routines
An article by “Explainer” Brian Palmer at Slate.com seeks to answer the question “What do you do on a Scientology Cruise Ship?” “They hang out in the Starlight Room, play shuffleboard,… [read full post]
The Dude abides in Wonderland
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]
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]
Alice in Wonderland exhibit at Tate Liverpool
Want to see a lot of the great Alice art all in one place, from Carroll’s drawings to Dalí? Art and Illustrations of Alice make up a new exhibit at… [read full post]
Steampunk Looking-Glass Haunted House in NYC
Alice and Steampunk both seem good ingredients to make a perfect Halloween haunted house. If you’re in New York City this week, there’s a spooky new Steampunk Haunted House at… [read full post]
Disney’s Mary Blair featured in Google Doodle
If you went to google.com on Friday, you probably noticed a girl in an Alice-blue dress doodling on their logo. Their daily Google doodle honored classic stylish Disney artist Mary Blair, on… [read full post]
Full Schedule Posted of LCSNA Fall 2011 Meeting!
Our Fall 2011 meeting will again be at the marvelous Manhattan campus of the New York Institute of Technology, on Saturday, November 12. Speakers include Morton Cohen on Carroll’s epiphanies; Adriana Peliano,… [read full post]