From the Wall Street Journal, a review of several young adult novels. The first, Sally Gardner’s Maggot Moon, sounds enticing: “dystopia feels new again; it reclaims its power to shock.”
Month: March 2013 (Page 4 of 4)
Good news from a great band. Four years after their last release, Scottish band Camera Obscura will release a new album later this year. 2013 Marks a good year for new releases, with music from My Bloody Valentine, Stripmall Architecture, The National, Daughter, Mew, and more.
An all-too-brief article on the current trend in young adult fiction: dystopian nightmares.
Recent article on what really drove Orwell to write 1984 (intellectually), and how many communists disavowed Orwell. both prior to and after the publication of the book.
Once I registered for the New York marathon through the lottery, but since they changed their rules I gave up on that big marathon. Now it appears that the Chicago marathon, whose initial registration system crashed when too many people attempted to register for the 25k spots, will switch to the lottery for the remaining 15k spots. Will they make this a permanent change? I think it’s likely, since marathons are becoming sold out everywhere now.
