Bigfoot Love Triangle (Spring Mix)
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Clocks have March-ed ahead, and we've passed the Vernal equinox, so ...
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InTheNo 7: Journalist Alfred Lubrano
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The geographic span between Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and New York's ...
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InTheNo 6: Conductor Donald Nally
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Donald Nally left his job as a music professor to found an ...
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InTheNo 5: Illustrator Matt Phelan
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After learning that the optioned screenplay he had quit his job to write would never be made into a movie, Matt Phelan took the ...
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InTheNo 4B: Poet Teresa Leo, Part II
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InTheNo 4A: Poet Teresa Leo, Part I
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Award-winning poet Teresa Leo is no stranger to rejection, a common outcome when submitting for publication and grants. She is also familiar with success -- her poetry has appeared in over a dozen publications and received several notable awards. In this first of two parts, we discuss how Leo composes poems, how fellow writers and artists help refine and inform her work, and what characterizes poetic writing. ...
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Skullcrusher Pirate Hotdish
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The holiday season continues apace. To mark , the onset of , the first day of Xmas gift returns, a belated , ...
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InTheNo 3: Musician Jonathan Coulton
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Just how far do you have to go when you quit your day job and pursue ...
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InTheNo 2: Psychologist Barry Schwartz
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What if nobody ever turned you down, and every possible option was available to you? Psychology professor Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less, explains how being asked to choose from an overabundance of options can actually lead to feelings of dissatisfaction and helplessness, rather than greater contentment. ...
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InTheNo 1: Author Tom Zoellner
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A broken engagement spurred journalist and author Tom Zoellner to ...
info_outlineAfter learning that the optioned screenplay he had quit his job to write would never be made into a movie, Matt Phelan took the opportunity to set his sights elsewhere. Now he has the dream job he's wanted ever since he was young: illustrating children's books, including this year's recipient of the Newbery Medal. He talks about his approach to illustration, shares some behind-the-scenes glimpses of how words and pictures are brought together in children's books, and reflects on the unique joy that children's books bring to readers of all ages.
Among the topics we touch on in this show:
- The Newbery Medal
- Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
- Phelan's website at www.mattphelan.com
- Phelan's sketch blog, Planet Ham
- The Flash Gordon series by Alex Raymond
- The Delaware Art Museum
- Dr. Seuss
- Wite-Out
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
In addition, several of the books Phelan has illustrated are mentioned. Among his works are:
- The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs, written by Betty G. Birney (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster, 2005)
- The New Girl...and Me, written by Jacqui Robbins
(Atheneum/Simon & Schuster, 2006)
- The Higher Power of Lucky, written by Susan Patron
(Atheneum/Simon & Schuster, 2006) - Rosa Farm, written by Liz Wu
(Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2006) - Floridius Bloom and the Planet of Gloom, written by Lorijo Metz
(Dial Press, 2007) - A Box Full of Kittens, written by Sonia Manzano
(Atheneum/Simon & Schuster, 2007) - Where I Live, written by Eileen Spinelli
(Dial Press, 2007) - Very Hairy Bear, written by Alice Schertle
(Harcourt Children's Books, 2007)