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Caine’s Arcade: Worth Ten Minutes of Your Life
There’s no getting around it. This film is nearly eleven minutes long. And in web surfing time, that’s like three years. But, but, but. This short film is brilliant and beautiful, artfully done, and it...
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One Thing I Did for Banned Books Week
Back in September, the Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group invited me to participate in “something special” that they had cooked up for Banned Books Week (September 30 – October 6). Essentially, I...
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A Public Service Announcement: How to Trade Halloween Candy
I’m passing this along, because it is brilliant and funny and easy for me to do. My thoughts go out to friends & family & everyone else contending with the ravages of this past storm, so I’m...
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“The Swimmer” in BEFORE YOU GO
Burt Lancaster starred in a literate little 1968 film called “The Swimmer,” based on a short story by John Cheever. I’m certain that I watched the movie as a kid, probably on The 4:30 Movie during Burt...
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Here Comes the Sun: Flashmob in Madrid Unemployment Office
Know this: Unemployment in Spain is at 26 percent. The country, and its people, are going through a very tough time. High taxes, plunging salaries, confusion, bitterness, anger, fear, desperation —...
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SCARY TALES LAUNCHES: Happy Pub Day to Me, Happy Pub Day to Me!
My new series, SCARY TALES, launches today — Tuesday, July 9th — with two books. I’m currently burning the midnight oil to write the fifth one. Or, um, I should be. Thanks for your interest and...
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JUST FOR LAUGHS: Mad Men Without Smoking
Both of my parents smoked. I grew up in a cloud of cigarette smoke. We’d go on long drives for our summer vacations in Vermont, seven children and my parents packed in a station wagon, and they’d smoke...
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Brilliant: B.J. Novak Reads “The Book With No Pictures”
In this bunny eat bunny world, we’ve seen celebrity authors come and go. Mostly come, in droves, especially after Harry Potter put a spotlight on the profit potential of the children’s book biz....
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This Week’s Greatest Thing Ever: Brush the Cat’s Teeth!
Thank you, interwebs! And hat tip to my pal, the brilliant Jen Sattler, who tirelessly hunts this stuff down to bring it to the attention-deficit masses. As it happens, tooth-brushing has figured...
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Completed: I’ve Now Posted a Full Reading of JIGSAW JONES: THE CASE OF...
– Greetings, my dearly beloved Nation of Readers. Both of you! I mean it, thanks for stopping by here of all places. I don’t know if anyone cares or not — it’s never stopped me before! — but I’ve been...
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Fan Mail Wednesday Triple Threat #324-326: Oooooh, Secret Codes!
I received three letters from the same classroom, each including a SASE (thank you!). Two of the letters came with secret codes. All of them were fairly similar and signed using only an initial (for...
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