The Handwritten story card Ms. Rowling did for charity is now posted at “What’s Your Story.” She closes the story with the explanation: “From the prequel I am not working on — but that was fun!”
I have two thoughts. [Read more…]
Rowling Rocks Harvard: On Failure & Imagination
June 5, 2008 by 37 Comments
Harvard has posted the transcript to Ms. Rowling’s Commencement Address. I give it five stars, not because it had any JFK or Churchill moments, but because it avoided the disaster it might have been and did all that a graduation speech can do.
The pitfalls she avoided? [Read more…]
Ms. Rowling at Harvard: What Will She Say?
June 2, 2008 by 31 Comments
This is the Big Week! Joanne Rowling comes to America’s big-name University campus Thursday to deliver the Commencement Address. Not quite the big deal we enjoyed last summer, but something to anticipate, nonetheless. What will she say?
Here are my three guesses: [Read more…]
Convention Alley 2008: HogPro & Hog’s Head Together!
May 21, 2008 by 7 Comments
For those of you thinking about whether to come to Ottawa next month to attend the ‘Harry Potter for Grown-Ups’ Conference (Convention Alley 2008) and who needed just one more reason to sign up and make a room reservation, here are two or three reasons! [Read more…]
Michael Ward on Prince Caspian, Mars, and CSL
May 18, 2008 by 25 Comments
Hogs Head Tavern landed an interview with Michael Ward, author of Planet Narnia, when he was in New York earlier this year and it is a WOW event. Of the many articles and reviews of the movie ‘Prince Caspian’ just released by Walden/Disney, all of which discuss the book as an aside or in lengthy comparisons, none of them captures what the book is about as powerfully as does Michael Ward in his answers to Johnny’s excellent questions at the Tavern. [Read more…]
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