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In a new plan to expand an already sprawling convention, New York Comic Con is expanding its panel roster to an off-campus site. No longer constricted to the behemoth that is the Jacob Javits Center, NYCC will now be hosting a series of Television-centric panels at the somewhat nearby Hammerstein Ballroom. Ironically, this new panel venue […]
The coincidental occurrence of events that seem related but can't be explained as having some kind of conventional causal relationship is known as synchronicity. I know this because I just looked it up.
Okay, you will all recall, I am sure, that last weekend one of my young relatives and I got going on popular vs. literary fiction. And then, just two days later (Two days is a recurring theme--see my last post.), I stumbled upon a couple of posts on that very subject. (Getting goosebumps?) Nathan Bransford says that in genre (popular/commercial) fiction, the plot tends to be above the surface and that in literary fiction it tends to be below the surface. If I'm understanding his entire post, popular fiction could be said to be about exteriors and literary fiction about interiors.
Now, this same week, I receive a call from my local library (not yours, A Reading Fool) telling me that the copy of The House in Norham Gardens by Penelope Lively that I'd requested through ILL had arrived.
Though I'm interested in Penelope Lively, I only requested this book because Michelle at Scholar's Blog is leading a book discussion on it this month.
Have you got all that? Have you got how random it all is? How unconnected?
Everything that happened earlier in the week led up to my reading The House in Norham Gardens. Everything that was discussed in the car and read on-line led up to my reading that book.
The House in Norham Gardens is about a teenager living with elderly aunts in a house the family has owned for four generations. It is filled with stuff from the family, right down to great-grandma's fancy clothes. And including an item that great-grandpa, the anthropologist, brought back from New Guinea--an item that represented ancestors to the people there just as all the old things Clare lives with represent all her relatives.
This may be the most literary book for young people I've ever read. Most definitely, the plot is interior. Nearly everything that happens, happens in Clare's mind. She is changed as a result of the incidents in the book, but they almost all involve her own thoughts. The exterior events that are described are almost all of a very mundane, daily-life variety. The writing is very lush and detailed and focuses on life.
The House in Norham Gardens was originally published in 1974. (The edition I read is not the one pictured here. I couldn't even find mine on the Internet.) As I was reading it, I kept wondering if it would be published today. I don't think it would. We're in love with the first-person narrator now (she said, almost always using a first-person narrator herself), and a "YA voice" that is nowhere near as introspective as it thinks it is. Perhaps A Certain Slant of Light could be described as literary. Maybe The Book Thief. But I can't think of anything I've read that comes close to The House in Norham Gardens in the literary with a big L category.
Is anyone interested in this kind of thing now? Are people prepared to read it?
*The first paragraph of this post was edited because I realized I made a mistake in my recollection of an event I attended. Plus, the material was pointless and unnecessary.
That’s how the New York Auto Show has such big crowds without the show floors being crowded: people come in, look around for a few hours, then leave. (For about $16…and you can walk up and buy a ticket from an ATM.)
I believe that’s why there was less grumbling from San Diego this year. There were enough outdoor/offsite events which drew members away from the show floor and convention center.
As I mentioned in my NYCC 2020 report (in 2012: http://www.comicsbeat.com/new-york-comic-con-2020-a-look-back/), there are many spaces nearby for expanded panels and other events. The Best Buy theater (once one of the largest movie theaters in the city) is on Times Square (43rd). Penn Station hosts the Theater at Madison Square Garden, site of the NBA draft. There’s Skylight at the Post Office (hosting New York Fashion Week events), and the AMC movie theater across the street from Hammerstein.
Closer are a few clubs, like SIR Stage 37. Not large spaces, but similar to the recent MoCCA Fest. I wonder what gets used for Toy Fair?
Of course, once Hudson Yards and other projects get built, then you’ll actually have a vibrant neighborhood surrounding Javits. Will it have large spaces? Aside from the Culture Shed, not really, although Starwood might build a large hotel nearby.
Heh… Get enough large hotels nearby, and you have San Diego on the Hudson!
If these are the types of panels they hold in Hall H, the trudge to Hammerstein isn’t worse than those SDCC lines. But it’s definitely inconvenient. I think it’s great news, however, that they are expanding beyond the Javits. They used to make Toy Fair work with outside hotels–it’s awesome if they commit to growing at the City redevelops that West Side. From the outside looking in, it feels like SDCC spends a lot of time trying to get smaller–which is a bummer.