I am posting (for the first time) some links to website I enjoy. I hope it works. The link to The Believer Magazine is in reference to Thursday's discussion. It's an interview with Maurice Sendak, one of his last.
I'll put up a few more links and see how that works.
I have enjoyed the Brain Pickings website. They send out a newsletter every Sunday which contains all sorts of interesting tidbits. In July they ran a story about children's books written by adult authors. No, not that adult, authors who were considered not to be children's book authors. Aldous Huxley, Langston Hughes, Salmon Rushdie and others. James Thurber caught my attention, he wrote "The Thirteen Clocks" which is sort of a dark fairytale along the lines of Rumplestiltskin. I was able to get the book from the library and ended up enjoying it quite a bit. As I am interested in writing children's books, I found the website very helpful for gaining new perspectives on children's book authors and the subjects they choose to write about.
ReplyDeleteBrain Pickings is also one of my favorite sites. I follow them on Twitter, and get updates and links every day or so, sometimes more often. I'm also a fan of Thurber -- 13 Clocks, "The Unicorn in the Garden," the Thurber Carnival, and many others are on my shelves. I wonder if you could find some good online Thurber sites to link to.
ReplyDeleteBy the by, you can create hotlinks in a Blogger post -- just use simple HTML code. Just before the phrase you want to link, type a carat bracket "<" followed by a lowercase "a" and then the sequence "HREF=" --then after the equal sign paste the URL you want to link to, surrounded by double quotes. At the end of the URL and the close quote, type a left carat bracket ">". Then, after the phrase you want to use as the link type a slash followed by an "a" framed by two carat brackets -- that's all there is to it.
For instance, I'll do this within my reply, and recommend Thurber House -- see if that works!
I'm afraid that might have sounded more complex than it needed to -- I had to avoid typing the actual code so that the comment would post cleanly. But there's a tutorial for this here which says it more clearly!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the suggestion! I was able to get it to work this afternoon. I'll take your advice and look for more on Thurber, the Thurberhouse website is the only one I checked so far.
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