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• 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 [...]

• Philip Nel’s ‘Tales for Little Rebels’

  March 3, 2010 in Postmodern Polly

  Philip Nel’s Tales for Little Rebels I thought was published some time ago but NYU is putting out an edition on the Ides of March that I want to mention here because it makes an important point about children’s literature, all literature really, and how we think about this subject.
  Full disclosure: I know Philip Nel [...]

• The Hunger Games ‘Pearl Plot,’ version 2.0

  March 1, 2010 in Hunger Games

  I will be writing about Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games Trilogy in this post, and, specifically, I will be talking about the first two books in that series as well as speculating about the finale. Fair warning: if you choose to read this before reading Hunger Games and Catching Fire, if you read a book for [...]