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The New York Times Book Review has lately been doing an extraordinary job of celebrating books written for children and young adults. There's more coverage. There's a greater sense of context. There's the feeling that all of this matters greatly.
Take a look at
the upcoming Pamela Paul essay on the back page—she's talking about Sendak, Silverstein, Dr. Seuss, and rule breaking. Listen, then, if you have the time, to the podcast slipped in alongside the story. In it Adam Gopnick and Pamela Paul discuss, among other things, the ideal reviewer of children's books; what qualifies anyone to have an opinion? Sam Tannehaus asks good questions. He elicits some really smart answers.
I just sat here in the dark listening to the recording all the way through.
I'm going to stand up now, feeling heartened.
I have found the time, after too much time, to look back over the 186 pages of the novel-in-progress I had been writing before edits of other books came in, and client work, and a mini-house makeover (paint, the excision of cob webs, the scrubbing of a deck, the lightening of closets). I sat there, yesterday and early today, on the living room couch, and I read.
The proper foundation, I have discovered, has been laid.
It is time to take the book forward, to see, as E.L. Doctorow in this wonderful New York Times video interview says, just what the book will reveal itself to be. You work it out as you go along, he says.
Yes, indeed. You do.
I love my Saturday mornings with the NYT Book Review and a cup of tea. Since we get a hard copy delivered, I rarely visit the NYT online. Thanks for telling me about that podcast - it was interesting.
I've loved Sendak, Silverstein and Seuss since my childhood and revelled in the badness. I enjoyed sharing them with my kids too. My Wild Thing son insisted on that story every night for 2 years. We could both recite it by the end.
I'm pleased to see children's books getting more attention in the NYT as of late. However, this week only middle grade and picture books were reviewed. What happened to YA? Then again it seems like have the articles on YA in the NYT don't seem to get the genre at all.