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Comment on More on John Smelcer’s The Trap by Following up: John Smelcer « American Indians in Children's Literature

Following up: John Smelcer « American Indians in Children's Literature — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:50:29 +0000

[...] A colleague, Perry Nodelman, author of The Pleasures of Children’s Literature (a textbook I use), has blogged about John Smelcer here. [...]

Comment on Drafting by pernodel

pernodel — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:08:17 +0000

Thanks, Rebecca–just ordered it.

Comment on Drafting by rebecca

rebecca — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:04:07 +0000

The sequel to Skin Hunger will be out on Aug. 4, FYI. It's called Sacred Secrets and follows the same two threads.

Comment on J.L. Powers’s The Confessional by J.L. Powers

J.L. Powers — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:14:10 +0000

Came across your post by accident. Quite a deconstruction of my novel, the setting, and, incidentally, a little bit of me.

Don’t plan to comment on any of it except one thing: Actually, I quite like El Paso. I think it has many of the quintessential problems of a border town, and I did try to expose some of those problems in THE CONFESSIONAL, but it’s home and it’s full of wonderful people who show incredible resilience in the face of benign neglect on the part of the U.S.-Government on the one hand and, paradoxically, incredible surveillance through DEA, Border Patrol, military, and police apparatus.

While I disagree with some of your conclusions, I really appreciate your thorough analysis of the book. Thanks.

Comment on J.L. Powers’s The Confessional by Posts about el paso juarez as of May 31, 2009 | EL CHUCO TIMES

Posts about el paso juarez as of May 31, 2009 | EL CHUCO TIMES — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:17:11 +0000

[...] Mexican drug trafficker allegedly associated with Los Zetas) evade U.S. counternarcotics efforts J.L. Powers’s The Confessional – pernodel.wordpress.com 05/22/2009 Powers, J.L. The Confessional . New York: Knopf, 2007. The [...]

Comment on E.R. Franks’s Life Is Funny by E.R, Franks Life is Funny, One More Time « Nodelmania: Perry Nodelman’s Alternating Narratives Project

Wed, 27 May 2009 01:07:21 +0000

[...] More Time Posted on May 26, 2009 by pernodel I’ve found a review of Life is Funny, discussed in my last post, that I wrote back when the book was pubished in 200. It takes quite on different slant on some of [...]

Comment on Conventional Attributes of Masculinity by Dennius Foon’s Skud « Nodelmania: Perry Nodelman’s Alternating Narratives Project

Sun, 24 May 2009 16:07:12 +0000

[...] man–the perfect hero, the perfect student, the good citizen–a representative of what my handout in the last entry identifies as “warrior masculinity.” Brad, a hockey player, has taken what appears to [...]

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Comment on Helen Frost’s Keesha’s House by pernodel

pernodel — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:47:32 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Rebecca. I decided to keep my notes for this project as a blog mostly so that the sense of an actual audience would keep me writing in full sentences that I could hope to understand later on–unlike my usual messy scrawlings. Now I just tend to assume that perceptive readers like you are out there, and it’s immensely helpful in letting me guess about how to go aobut communicating an idea.

Comment on Helen Frost’s Keesha’s House by rebecca

rebecca — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:59:29 +0000

I don’t comment often because I haven’t read most of the books you’re posting about, but I just want to let you know that I really enjoy this blog. I always feel my brain being stretched by your critical writing, Perry, even when I don’t know from the source texts. Cheers!