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Author Archives: Lindsey Crittenden
Sick Day
Sickly characters hold a certain romanticized (sickly) appeal. Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden. Mary Ingalls (once she went blind) in the Little House books. Jane Eyre’s pious childhood friend Helen Burns. Beth in Little Women. Joan Didion in her … Continue reading
A Utility Porch Of One’s Own
Like many writers I know, I’m lucky enough to have an office at home. For years, I wrote at a desk in a corner of the living room in whatever apartment I had at the time. (I wanted to keep … Continue reading
The Moral of Pierre
Most people think of Where the Wild Things Are, appropriately enough. But this week, hearing on the radio that Maurice Sendak had died at the age of 83, I thought first of Pierre, the petulant child of the eponymous “cautionary … Continue reading
Posted in reading, spirituality
Tagged Alligators All Around, Aristotle, cautionary tales, Chicken Soup with Rice, children's books, conflict, crisis, Lindsey Crittenden, Maurice Sendak, moral tales, narrative, narrative reversal, Nutshell Library, One Was Johnny, Pierre, resolution, Where the Wild Things Are
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