Posted May 22, 2017 by Mara Brandsdorfer
The Spring 2017 issue of Rice University's magazine featured Memory's Encouragement by Tony Gorry: TONY GORRY, THE FRIEDKIN Professor Emeritus of Management at Rice, was one of MIT’s first computer science Ph.D.s, and he spent much of his career doing research on artificial intelligence. Now in his 70s and undergoing... [Details]
Posted April 24, 2017 by Mara Brandsdorfer
S. J. Dahlstrom, author of "The Adventures of Wilder Good" series, was presented with the Western Heritage Award for Juvenile Book at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum on April 22, 2017. The Western Heritage Awards were established in 1961 to honor the legacy of men and women for their works in literature, music,... [Details]
Posted March 27, 2017 by Mara Brandsdorfer
Author and librarian Betsy Bird writes about our forthcoming re-issue of THE WINGED GIRL OF KNOSSOS on her School Library Journal blog A Fuse #8 Production: Back In Print: A Newbery Honor Winner Returns From the Dead. [Details]
Posted March 22, 2017 by Mara Brandsdorfer
S. J. Dahlstrom, seventh grade teacher and author of the Wilder Good series, writes about trying to get a struggling, disinterested student to read: "I began throwing books at him non-stop. I pointed him out to our plucky librarian and got her involved." Eventually, after discovering Doug TenNapel graphic novels, Dahlstrom writes, "He... [Details]
Posted March 06, 2017 by Mara Brandsdorfer
The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a story on James Rahn, auhor of Rittenhouse Writers, and the success of his Rittenhouse Writers Group: Part writing teacher, part therapist, James Rahn has midwifed countless short stories and novels in the three decades since he founded the Rittenhouse Writers’ Group (RWG), a fiction workshop he offers... [Details]
Posted February 23, 2017 by Mara Brandsdorfer
The Green Colt, the fourth book in the Wilder Good series, was just named the winner of the 2017 Western Heritage Award for Juvenile Book. The Western Heritage Awards are sponsored by the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum to honor works in literature, music, film, and television that commemorate... [Details]
Posted February 06, 2017 by Mara Brandsdorfer
The Triple Crown Awards released their 2017-18 list of finalists. Wilder and Sunny, the third book in "The Adventures of Wilder Good" series, is a finalist for the Lamplighter Award for grades 6-8. The first Wilder Good book, The Elk Hunt, was also a finalist for 2015-16. Harding University’s Brackett Library and the National... [Details]
Posted October 05, 2016 by Mara Brandsdorfer
Grace Cavalieri, the founder/producer of “The Poet and the Poem” from the Library of Congress, praises Eva Brann's Doublethink/Doubletalk in the Washington Independent Review of Books:"Each fragment, a point of view, almost fits into the culture of poetry — slivers that reflect an opinion, judgment, or taste. Her remarks come... [Details]
Posted July 27, 2016 by Mara Brandsdorfer
Kevin Andrews' The Flight of Ikaros was #4 on The Telegraph's "12 Best Books about Greece list." They described the book as, "An educated, sensitive, Anglo-American archaeologist wanders the late Forties backcountry in surprising freedom as the war winds down." See the complete list. [Details]
Posted July 25, 2016 by Jared Hupp
The Wall Street Journal calls Stone Tablets a "masterwork" and Wojciech Zukrowski an "iconic writer." See the full review below. Thou Shalt NotA novel that explores the bloody legacy of Stalinism through an affair between a diplomat and a doctor. By Elliot AckermanWhen Wojciech Zukrowski first published “Stone Tablets” in... [Details]