![]() ![]() ![]() It always helped me escape from my problems. ![]() The following is an edited transcript.ĬNN: How old were you when you started writing?Ĭabot: I was 7 years old and that's when I wrote my first story, "Benny the Puppy." One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. 6 on the New York Times bestseller's list. They are fun, escapist first-person narratives with a relaxed style that draw readers in from page one.ĬNN chatted with Cabot while she's on tour promoting "Abandon," which debuted at No. It's not her first time reimagining a myth - 2005's "Avalon High" put the King Arthur tale to a contemporary test.Ĭabot's empowered heroines find themselves in sticky situations from the White House to the underworld while combating the normal pressures of being a teenager. She returns to the teen scene with " Abandon," which follows Pierce Oliviera and John Hayden as they navigate high school, putting a creative twist on the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades. The mind behind 44 teen novels, Cabot has also written adult and "tween" fiction. Many readers already know her conversational tone from " The Princess Diaries" series and films. (CNN) - Talking to best-selling author Meg Cabot, you can almost hear where her charming, quirky heroines find their moxie to command popular series or standalone novels.Īn accidental princess, lightning-strike victim and a girl who sees dead people are just a few of Cabot's relatable teenage characters. ![]()
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This book is so refreshing, from its dedication to its invention of a sci-fi world where you could happily live as a background character, as opposed to all the protagonist-and-laser-centric stories we’re used to. And when Dex meets a new friend, Splendid Speckled Mosscap, on a philosophical journey to discover what people need, they travel pretty far afield to find the answer. But that missing something isn’t quite so easy to find. So, Dex decides to become the best tea monk (a barista/therapist on wheels) in all the land. And Dex is a devotee to a goddess of comfort. There’s a great respect for art and culture. Sibling Dex is a monk on Panga, which is a planet that’s a pretty swell place to live. My first exposure to her work was probably four years ago when I read A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, which is a bit like Firefly if instead of doing crime the crew worked in infrastructure and really like hugs. While I truly understand the appeal of world-saving fantasy, super hero, and sci-fi stories, it sure is nice to have something a little lower-stakes once in a while. ![]() ![]() Dedication: “For anyone who could use a break” ![]() ![]() ![]() LA is the international capital of television and motion pictures. The Big MoveĮvery year, thousands of 20-something guys and girls pack up their cars, leave their beloved suburban towns and head west to Los Angeles. Keep in mind, this is an unofficial and relatively shitty guide to working in Hollywood. We’re friends now.īelow is some information I’ve compiled over the last four-and-a-half years, based on my experience as a PA in the industry, as well as questions I’ve been asked by people considering the move to Los Angeles. George Sloan is a writers’ assistant on “How I Met Your Mother.” He graciously agreed to write up a primer for recent college grads considering making the move to Hollywood. 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There is only one catch: Sam must write frequent letters to the mysterious donor, detailing her progress.Īs Sam’s dark memory mingles with that of eligible novelist Alex Powell, her letters to Mr. Knightley) offers to put Sam through Northwestern University’s prestigious Medill School of Journalism. An anonymous, Dickensian benefactor (calling himself Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() The problem is, both her prose and conversation tend to be more Elizabeth Bennet than Samantha Moore.īut life for the twenty-three-year-old orphan is about to get stranger than fiction. An English major of the highest order, her diet has always been Austen, Dickens, and Shakespeare. Now, she will learn to write her own story―by giving that story to a complete stranger. Samantha Moore has always hidden behind the words of others―namely, her favorite characters in literature. ![]() ![]() Presenting a number of previously published essays, the Critical Readings section of this book begins with Barbara Somogyi and David Stanton's classic interview with Tan. Eder considers some of the mechanics of Tan's novel, including structure, narration, style, and themes after which Neil Heims compares and contrasts Tan's book with Michael Cunningham's The Hours. ![]() Evans returns to place the book in an appropriate cultural and historical context-looking specifically at the four decades following World War II. ![]() Camille-Yvette Welsch begins by surveying the critical reception of Tan's works, particularly Joy Luck. The volume opens with Evans' introduction in which he emphasizes the artistic excellence of Tan's text, as well as a brief biography of her life and responses to the book from The Paris Review.Ĭritical Contexts section of this volume presents four original survey essays that provide the reader with a useful framework for studying Tan's novel. Essays also examine traditional Chinese beliefs in the novel, compare Joy Luck to other novels. ![]() ![]() It considers the structure, narration, style, and themes of Joy Luck, comparing them with Michael Cunningham's The Hours. This volume presents an array of scholarship on a novel that is quickly becoming a modern classic, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. ![]() ![]() ![]() Written in a light-hearted and conversational style, this book is a must-read for fans of Seinfeld and anyone who wants to learn something from “the show about nothing.” It is an ideal supplement for all economics classes. 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