Narrative Junkie

Interesting article but...

...what about the theater community's bias against me, personally? How about an article on that, New York Times?

• Rethinking Gender Bias in Theater (NY Times)

Chekhov on the Web

• 201 Stories by Anton Chekov

Catcher in the Rye fading

Was my favorite until around age 30, and have read it more times than any other book. But haven't tried reading it lately, and now, for many,  it's  Get a Life, Holden Caulfeld.

Hildy reviews children's literature

Here are some book reviews from my 9-month old daughter:

• Brown Bear Brown Bear - Fit in my mouth perfectly. Highly recommended. 
• The Hungry Caterpillar - Fun to gnaw on, but turned soggy after a few minutes.
• Green Eggs and Ham - Don't be fooled! When you put it in your mouth, you can't taste the food.
• The Cat in the Hat - Blue cover tastes same as other colors. A disappointment. 
• Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes - Who's the idiot who thought anyone could get their pie hole around any part of this humongous tome? Clearly designed by sadists who would deprive book lovers of a seemingly delicious nosh. I sincerely hope someone goes to jail over this.

Oh boy do I relate

• Literary Rejections on Display

Skullduggery in academia

Delicious gossip from the world of belles-lettres.

Thank you

• Angels & Demons' Actor: Dan Brown 'A Terribly Bad Writer'

DaVinci Code was a one-star book, in my opinion.

Green Eggs and Ham review

A major disappointment after the Seuss masterpiece "The Cat in the Hat." Not much going on here except some clever wordplay. Plot and character development need major work. All in all, who does Seuss think he's kidding with this phoned-in, dashed off attempt at cashing in on his considerable brand name? Seuss - get real! If you cannot dig deeper into your bag of tricks, then it's time to focus on your day job as a healthcare professional.

Amazon "glitch"

A lot of LGBT books affected. Very strange.

Sad article

A New Chapter of Grief in Plath-Hughes Legacy (NY Times)

Before his death in 1998, the English poet Ted Hughes published a searing volume about his life with Sylvia Plath called “Birthday Letters.” The poems, almost all addressed to Ms. Plath, explored the beauty and then fracturing of their marriage before her suicide in 1963. One poem, though, was written to their children, Frieda and Nicholas. Titled “The Dogs Are Eating Your Mother,” it warned of ravenous Plath devotees who “will find you every bit as succulent,” and it offered a kind of blessing to Nicholas, who had long kept the literati at bay:

So leave her.
Let her be their spoils. Go wrap
Your head in the snowy rivers
of the Brooks Range.
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