Authors Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman talk about J.R.R. Tolkien and the devaluation of fairytale and fantasy and the alienation of children.
10/31 2010
11/11 2010
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11/14 2010
Link: "Reality Bites Back" Explores The Troubling Truth About Reality TV
I need this book.
If you had the power, are there reality shows that are currently on that you’d like to take off the air?
As much as I have problems with ‘The Bachelor,’ I wouldn’t call for censorship. But if you gave me a magic wand, and I could just zap off the air any shows that I wanted it would be ‘Toddlers & Tiaras’ and ‘Little Miss Perfect’ and that whole genre of baby beauty pageant shows, and it would also be the ‘Jon & Kate Plus 8’-style shows that have kids growing up on camera and flout SAG rules that protect child actors. These kids get exploited psychologically and in terms of labor.
I’d also get rid of shows about plastic surgery that prey on women with body dysmorphia, which is a serious psychological condition, and I would also get rid of shows like ‘Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew,’ all of the drug addiction shows. ‘Celebrity Rehab’ put Tom Sizemore and Heidi Fleiss in the same rehab when they had a history of domestic violence between them. Nobody should ever watch ‘Celebrity Rehab’ and think the goal of that show is getting those celebrities clean. The goal of ‘Celebrity Rehab’ is the goal of every reality show, which is heightened drama for ratings.
11/14 2010
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11/17 2010
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11/20 2010
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11/21 2010
Link: James Frey: Literary Lou Perlman
The controversial author is hiring young writers to join him in a new publishing company. The goal is to produce the next Twilight. The contracts are brutal.
Take some eager young authors, give them terrible contracts where they don’t own the rights to anything they produce, eventually get sued. I want to know who the YA equivalent of Justin Timberlake is.
11/22 2010
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01/10 2011
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