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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:08:48 -0500
I'm so glad you spoke up, Patty Campbell, to remind us about your
"Sand in the Oyster" column in The Horn Book (Jan/Feb 1999). Maybe we do need to coin a word to describe "documentary" fiction, or that fiction not adhering to conventional requirements for a novel. Hmmm, does a book need to be "literary" in order to be successfully written?
Perhaps Nina's observation about "Megaboy" being a commentary on the media portrayal of a violent act is apt, even if Ginny Walter didn't intend that.
Marc's reminder about the nature of the avant garde is helpful. (So is Marc's own book "Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde published by Clarion in 1998.) But does a reference to the avant-garde mean that we've discovered our new word or phrase? I think not.
I also invite your comments about the visual elements in "Making Up Megaboy." Or have you been commenting on them as a part of the whole without mentioning them specifically? ...Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Mon 12 Jul 1999 05:08:48 PM CDT
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:08:48 -0500
I'm so glad you spoke up, Patty Campbell, to remind us about your
"Sand in the Oyster" column in The Horn Book (Jan/Feb 1999). Maybe we do need to coin a word to describe "documentary" fiction, or that fiction not adhering to conventional requirements for a novel. Hmmm, does a book need to be "literary" in order to be successfully written?
Perhaps Nina's observation about "Megaboy" being a commentary on the media portrayal of a violent act is apt, even if Ginny Walter didn't intend that.
Marc's reminder about the nature of the avant garde is helpful. (So is Marc's own book "Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde published by Clarion in 1998.) But does a reference to the avant-garde mean that we've discovered our new word or phrase? I think not.
I also invite your comments about the visual elements in "Making Up Megaboy." Or have you been commenting on them as a part of the whole without mentioning them specifically? ...Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Mon 12 Jul 1999 05:08:48 PM CDT
