Wednesday Hangovers - Gwenda Bond

The fabulous Cynthia Leitich Smith interviews my favorite scholar, Leonard S. Marcus, who has turned out a host of amazing books about the history and art of children’s literature, including Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom (he has a great compilation of commentary about her in the current Horn Book issue, btw), The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy, and Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon, to name a tiny sampling of my favorites (read: the ones I’ve read so far).
When the news stings, Matt Ruff suggests tiny piggies!
The Stranger has a former bookseller’s thoughts on book thievery, and books most frequently stolen. (Via Scott Edelman.)
Kids and lying.
Carrie Jones takes her recent discussion of writing characters with disabilities to the Fangs, Fur & Fey community on LJ; see also a follow-up post on writing mental illness.
Jules on David Almond’s My Dad’s a Birdman, which is on my ever-growing stack.
io9 has a good, trivia-filled tribute post on Gary Gygax, the Dungeons and Dragons creator who passed on this week. I am utterly charmed by all the personal stories everywhere about how D&D changed people’s lives; keep it up.
Ghostbusters! (Via Jenny D.) Also known as the movie most quoted in my daily life.
Michael Chabon has a fun essay in the New Yorker about the clothe de superhero.
NPR on Harriet the Spy. (Via Stephany Aulenback.)