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• ‘Twilight’ Dissed by ‘Focus on the Family’?

  March 19, 2010 in Uncategorized

  Chuck Colson, once Watergate conspirator, now Evangelical Christian spokesman and leader,  endorsed the Harry Potter series on his nationally distributed radio program, BreakPoint. He gave a big thumbs-up in November, 1999, at the release of Prisoner of Azkaban to the magic of the books, their  morality, and the opening Ms. Rowling created to the tradition [...]

• Hogwarts Professor in Arizona!

  March 16, 2010 in Hog Pro Notes

  The Very Hungry Caterpillar and I met up in Tucson on Saturday at the Festival of Books on the University of Arizona campus — and meeting celebrities like this wasn’t even the high point of my travels. If you’re interested, read on below the jump. If not, I’m back at home in my Lehigh Valley [...]

• Potter Pundits Live at Pace University! The Video

  March 7, 2010 in Uncategorized

  See the video recording here and read about it at the Hog’s Head.
  The short version is “It was a lot of fun.” I am very grateful to friends at The Leaky Cauldron (Melissa), The Group That Shall Not Be Named (Jonathon), and Pace University (Prof. Limbach), as well as to Travis Prinzi and James Thomas, [...]

• Twilight Guest Post: ‘On Romeo and Juliet’

  March 5, 2010 in Twilight

  I have really been neglecting my Twilight readers here because of the work I’ve been doing to unlock the artistry and meaning of The Hunger Games, but I hope after my trip to Phoenix and Tuscon next week to start some conversations about the status quo of ‘Meyer Studies,’ if you will, with special attention [...]

• ‘Why There Is No Jewish Narnia’

  March 5, 2010 in Hog Pro Notes

  I hope if you have five or ten minutes today that you will read ‘Why There Is No Jewish Narnia’ by Michael Weingrad in the Jewish Review of Books. I know very little about Judaism, but what Mr. Weingrad argues in his discussion of why there isn’t a Jewish fantasy tradition to speak of, confirms [...]