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Jen Robinson alerted me to the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award for YA fiction, new to ALAN/NCTE but not to me. Years ago, Walden offered this award to YALSA, which turned it down because of her insistence that the winning book demonstrate "a positive approach to life." We (I was on the board then) didn't want to get into the position of deciding somebody else's road to happiness. That said, it's nice to see Walden get some recognition again--back in the 50's-60's she wrote several crypto-lesbionic sports novels notable for their fearless female main characters and basketball play-by-plays as exciting as anything penned by the boys.
2 Comments on Blast from the Past, last added: 8/6/2009
I read all of Amelia's books as a teen and am not sure what your commentary means. Just because some of her heroines were good at sports doesn't mean they were lesbians. Her non-sports books were about aspiring actresses, teachers, and some books were about spies. If you read her books, you would recall that she celebrates the femininity of her characters, regardless of their sports prowess (or other skills).
One I remember was about a girl who was partly Hungarian. Her mother was the housekeeper for a rich family so she had to cope with being an immigrant and being confronted by a rich spoiled girl her own age.
Walden had more versatility than some current authors whose books read like an abused teen of the week.
What I meant was that gay kids could find themselves in her books, that the intense alliances between her female characters could, should one so desire, be construed as having romantic overtones.
Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's opera The Mother of Us All is a wildly fantasized biography of Susan B. Anthony, who, wondering and worrying over whether her celebrity has obscured her cause, asks of her supporters (in her tremendously moving final aria), "Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know do you know?"
You know. Go vote.
0 Comments on Just one more musical moment as of 11/4/2008 11:25:00 AM
and the 70s I've been, listening to Julie Andrews marvelously read her new autobiography Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (Hyperion) and reading Sheila Weller's Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the Journey of a Generation. Forget the "You're So Vain" gossip--did you know "Car on a Hill" was about Jackson Browne? And J. T.'s "You Can Close Your Eyes"? Joni.
But, really, it's been like eating a whole plateful of madeleines. My baby-boomer cohort ( a word Weller uses way, way too often in an otherwise delicious book) will understand.
3 Comments on Lost in the 60s, last added: 4/24/2008
Looks like a good book. I can't help but wonder where Melanie is? Thanks, James Baldwin Spokane WA my site: LetHerIn.org
Roger Sutton said, on 4/24/2008 6:39:00 AM
No Melanie but something tells me these girls would have pushed her off her roller skates. Laura Nyro is mentioned often, each time referred to as intense and fat.
TarBabyJim said, on 4/24/2008 7:59:00 AM
Thats funny Roger. Now I know I have to buy this book. Is there any meantion of any of these girls getting mixed up with cults or strange religious things? Melanie has been into every religion or cult you could think of. I am dealing with this on my web site right now. Ever heard of Amma the hugging saint? Melanie has done got mixed up with her. LetHerIn dot org
I think she's actually managed to reverse the meaning of the song - I didn't think that was possible!
Judith
Josephine Cameron said, on 4/11/2008 10:28:00 AM
gotta love the skirt-swish move. :)
Elizabeth said, on 4/11/2008 1:56:00 PM
Why aren't you guys commenting on the fact that Roger was on Community Audtions????
"Star of the day, who will it be/ Your vote may hold the key/ It's up to YOU (fingers pointing at the TV audience) Tell us WHO Will be star of the day!"
Roger, if only we'd known you then, we would have all voted for you by the now adorably passe method of sending in postcards.
B.J.Newman said, on 4/11/2008 5:40:00 PM
I bet Pete Seeger and Lee Hays must have heaved when they took in what had been done to their song.
What I want to know is: Roger, did you have any of those great dance moves? I liked the spinning guy, myself.
That clip made me laugh out loud! I don't know which was funnier--Debbie, trying to really "rock" it, or those nutty dancers. I remember those "cocktail" dresses, and the hair, and whole the decorative motif. I certainly embraced that lounge look at some point when I was very young.
Of course, now it has been so long, I would do my hair and put a dress on like that in a heartbeat--if I could....
nw said, on 4/12/2008 3:24:00 PM
My favorite was the quartet of backup singers. Which Edward Eager book is it where the dad stands with the other men and sings "chickadee tidbits"?
gail said, on 4/13/2008 3:48:00 PM
I thought that was wretched, but I couldn't stop watching.
I often think American Idol is so popular because people miss variety shows. Then I see something like this and go, "No, we don't."
J Larios said, on 4/15/2008 1:51:00 PM
So where's the YouTube clip of Pete Seeger in a yellow sharkskin suit singing Mack the Knife?
Fran H said, on 4/16/2008 4:12:00 PM
Good for you for going on Community Auditions, Roger. I never had the nerve (never mind being able to sing or dance).
little brother said, on 4/17/2008 8:29:00 AM
I still think Roger's was better. And he had a wicked groovy outfit as well.
My Oscar hopes: No Country for Old Men, Coen brothers, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, none of them*, Amy Ryan, Persepolis; don't care about the rest but think the un-nominated Eastern Promises shoulda won for Best Score.
My predictions: No Country for Old Men, Coen Brothers, Daniel Day-Lewis, Javier Bardem, Julie Christie, Ruby Dee (Richard's pick because I can't decide), Ratatouille. Atonement for Best Score although it sucks big bombastic rocks.
*I know this isn't an option. It's like the Newbery and Caldecott: once you've decided that "choosing the best" is a defensible activity, then something has to win. We're talking comparatives, not superlatives, a distinction not observed in Zadie Smith's recent short-story contest. So I guess I'll go with Julie Christie. She makes me go misty.
0 Comments on Forget Celebrity Writers . . . as of 1/1/1900
Anonymous said, on 2/26/2008 7:36:00 AM
who cares about Oscar?
Roger Sutton said, on 2/26/2008 11:29:00 AM
Well, you, obviously.
Anonymous said, on 2/26/2008 8:01:00 PM
surely there must be something more deserving of comment on a HB site?
I read all of Amelia's books as a teen and am not sure what your commentary means. Just because some of her heroines were good at sports doesn't mean they were lesbians. Her non-sports books were about aspiring actresses, teachers, and some books were about spies. If you read her books, you would recall that she celebrates the femininity of her characters, regardless of their sports prowess (or other skills).
One I remember was about a girl who was partly Hungarian. Her mother was the housekeeper for a rich family so she had to cope with being an immigrant and being confronted by a rich spoiled girl her own age.
Walden had more versatility than some current authors whose books read like an abused teen of the week.
What I meant was that gay kids could find themselves in her books, that the intense alliances between her female characters could, should one so desire, be construed as having romantic overtones.