Attention book lovers! Fantasy writer Neil Gaiman has a new book out, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and according to the NY Times, it includes a few Carrollian references… [read full post]
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Why Children’s Books Matter at NY Public Library
The New York Public Library has a new exhibit entitled The ABC of it: Why Children’s Books Matter that explores both the importance and potency of children’s literature. The exhibit draws… [read full post]
Errol Morris & Errol Morris write two different essays with identical words on New York Times blog
I wasn’t expecting postmodern philosophy when I opened the New York Times Opinionator blog this week, but there was filmmaker Errol Morris rambling on about truth, relativity, Jorge Luis Borges… [read full post]
Atomic Antelope’s Alice iPad e-book not boring according to the NY Times
There’s an article by Alice Rawsthorn in the Nov. 28th New York Times to complain about how “boring” the design for most of the new apps for the iPad have… [read full post]
New York Times obituary for Hypothesizer of Red Queen Theory
The New York Times today is running an obituary under the sing-songy heading “Leigh Van Valen, Evolution Revolutionary, Dies at 76.” The evolutionary biologist Leigh Van Valen’s eccentricities were legend… [read full post]
Dalí’s Alice in Wonderland featured on Pawn Stars
There’s an interesting anecdote in a June 4th 2010 New York Times article about Pawn Stars, a History Channel television show about Las Vegas’s Gold and Silver Pawn Shop. Shelby… [read full post]
Alice in Slasherland
The Vampire Cowboys Theater Company out of Brooklyn is just finishing up a run of a play called Alice in Slasherland by Qui Nguyen at the Here Arts Center (145… [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]
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]
Alice’s Kitchen Sink Released on March 2nd, 2010
Paramount’s Alice in Wonderland (1933), directed by Norman Z. McLeod, has been mentioned a lot in the past few weeks, as the first big Hollywood all-star blow-out adaptation of Lewis… [read full post]