"that flighty temptress"

[eldritchhobbit]

* Julie Phillips' biography of a science fiction legend, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best biography of 2006.

* From Marvel Comics land: R.I.P., Captain America?

* Harold Bloom has gone off again on Harry Potter. (This is not the first time: see here and here, for example.) In the process, he asserted, "I cannot think of a major work I have not ingested." Somehow, I get the suspicion that our definitions of "major work" would differ.

* And last but not least, re: my own recent news, here are couple of press releases about my husband, making it official:
* Yesterday's press release (LRC)
* Last week's press release (BU)


"...let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."
Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Comments

[dannyboy8406.livejournal.com]

I don't know why people feel they have to harp so on Harry Potter.... its not really that different from any other fairy tale out there.... I suppose these people actually reading the books and seeing what they're about is totally out of the question?

BTW congrats to you and your husband on the new position!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

I suppose these people actually reading the books and seeing what they're about is totally out of the question?

Ha! Good point. Heaven forbid they should read what they're criticizing!

Thanks for the congrats, as well.