- Lots of good stuff in the LA Times book coverage this week: Ed Park’s favorite SF titles of 2007, Sonja Bolle’s favorite kids titles (I so want that NYReview reprint of Uncle), and Denise Hamilton on the magic of Beverly Cleary and Klickitat Street (those books do hold up so, so well).
- Scott sets the record straight on the lies circulating about the His Dark Materials book; he’s a smartie pants.
- Liz Hand points out some great books from 2007 you may have missed in the Village Voice.
- Jenny D points to Atul Gawande’s New Yorker piece on the value of checklists in preventing medical errors; I recently finished Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance and highly recommend it.
- Uma Krishnaswami on writing with children in Delhi.
- My MFA program — the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults — has just revamped its Web site.
- Terry Teachout attends an advance screening of Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd and gives me hope that it will be excellent.
- Finally, the must-read Nobel speech of Doris Lessing. Seriously, read it: We have a treasure-house of literature, going back to the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans. It is all there, this wealth of literature, to be discovered again and again by whoever is lucky enough to come up on it. Suppose it did not exist. How impoverished, how empty we would be.
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Gwenda, I wanted to post a link to a Youtube comparison of four actors doing Sweeney Todd but didn’t think I could figure out how to post it in comments. So my response to your comments is in my own blog.
http://maureenmcq.blogspot.com/2007/12/sweeney-todd-is-coming-sweeney.html#comments