Taffey Anderson, a mother in Halsey, Oregon, was shocked--shocked, I tell you--when her 13-year-old son came home from his high school library with a copy of The Book of Bunny Suicides. So disturbed was she that she's refusing to return the book, lest another impressionable mind be warped by its cartoons depicting rabbits on the … Continue reading And Don’t Get Her Started on Watership Down
Author: Anders
Who’s That Guy?
The English-speaking literary world is still scrambling to learn more about Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. The New York Times published selected excerpts two weeks ago. Now the New Yorker has announced that its October 23 issue will include a complete Clezio short story, "The Boy Who Had … Continue reading Who’s That Guy?
Sit, Stay
The film version of JR Ackerley's paean to his pooch My Dog Tulip is well underway--68 minutes of an expected 88 minute run time have been completed. The book is an unflinching look at dog ownership--and to judge from the clips on http://www.mydogtulipfilm.com, the movie isn't prettying up Ackerley's frank and funny book. Voice actors … Continue reading Sit, Stay
Musings from Magers and Quinn 