From: Meg Rothstein <811.52>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 12:38:15 -0500

Hi Dottie and all,

Thanks for commenting on my previous email. Just a small clarification: I was actually identifying the BSC as popular culture (or trying to), but was also saying that I think of Ann M. Martin as a versatile writer who has contributed other kinds of books to the fold.

I think you bring up a really interesting point about popular culture and an aspect of deception. There's often more than meets the eye, as you point out! A lot of popular culture icons, for example, are puppets or computer generated, etc. Do any of you remember how startling it was to look into the mesh eye of one of those overgrown Muppets or Bugs Bunnies only to see a REAL HUMAN in there?

I, personally, never felt deceived reading the Babysitters' Club series, as Ann M. Martin thanked the writers by name at the beginning of each book. That said, perhaps Ann M. Martin, the name, is popular culture while Ann M. Martin, the author, is not (or, that is, crosses boundaries between what is and isn't).

Meg

Quoting Dotti Enderle :
Received on Wed 14 Jul 2004 12:38:15 PM CDT