Tag: stuffed literary characters

November 23, 2018 by Betsy Bird

The Kidlit Stuffed Animals You’d Most Like to See

The subgenre. A marvelous method of uncovering the obsessions of your fellow human beings. I’ll give you an example. I like children’s literature, a subgenre of literature as a whole, but a broad one. There are a lot of different directions you can go with it. Subgenres within this subgenre, so to speak. I might […]

November 9, 2011 by Betsy Bird

Fusenews: In which I get to use the term “mankiest”

Daylight Saving (not “Savings” I just learned) has arrived and you know what that means? It means babies have a terrible sense of telling time. Just awful. And that, in turn, means I’d better crank out a lickety-split Fusenews before I hear the telltale sound of little eyelids opening. First up, The New York Times […]