Borrow six minutes of dusty sadness from this tremendous short.
Author: John Maher
John Maher is news and digital editor at Publishers Weekly and editor in chief at The Dot and Line, which he co-founded. His work has been published by New York magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and Esquire, among others.
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A philosophical investigation. Dr. Seuss would be proud.
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This is awful.
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As someone who writes about books by day and about cartoons by all the rest of the times, very little makes me happier than to read something about both. Well, here’s the good news! Literary Hub published just such a something today with Gabrielle Bellot’s “The Magic of Hayao Miyazaki’s Literary Imagination,” and it turned […]
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Talking Nickelodeon with Fred Seibert, the backstage architect of your childhood.