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Monthly Archives: January 2010
The Tantrum: Do Children Belong in Bars, Part 4
First, to the “5-foot-4, dark-haired Jewish girl in her early 20s” who wrote this brilliant Times article on baby-drinking in Park Slope: come on, my fine little journo-Jewess, don’t you think you’re being ein bissel ayngeleybt in zikh (take that, Crown Heights!). I mean, really, why does it have to be all about you? What about …
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The Great Eighth Avenue Paywall
OK, so we write a lot of posts that link to the New York Times. The articles produced by the fine journalists there are a source of inspiration, frustration and everything in between. Our reliance on the Grey Lady would qualify as a dirty secret of sorts, if it weren’t for the fact that we are …
Around the way girl
I would be remiss not to mention another decision reached in Massachusetts this week, one that was not at all moronic: at the midwinter American Library Association conference in Boston, the biggest prize in children’s literature, the John Newberry Medal, was awarded to Rebecca Stead for her book When You Reach Me. With a deep bench of …