I'll hold down the fort

Communications at the Children's Book Council. Marketing & Publicity at Guernica Magazine.

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Guernica 2014 Annual

The guernicamag Annual cover is here, and she's a beaut! Get yo' mitts on it!

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Robo-bees: Scientists building tiny fliers to pollinate crops

"Last year, Harvard University researchers led by engineering professor Robert Wood introduced the first RoboBees, bee-size robots with the ability to lift off the ground and hover midair when tethered to a power supply.”

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Humera Afridi: Malala Yousufzai and the Bonesetter’s Alchemy

On girls, shame, healing what’s broken, and why education is the path to creating an honorable Pakistan. -- guernicamag

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Cyanide, Uranium, & Ammonium Nitrate: When Kids Really Had Fun With Science: http://bit.ly/1sn4fEp  collectorsweekly

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"Just what we've been waiting for. A DIRTY TEENAGE NOVEL". nypl​archive of librarians’ harsh #kidlit reviews: http://bit.ly/1o6ysHn  quartz

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The NYT let me paint some maniacal cats to illustrate my buddy Tim Kreider’s newest, beautiful essay. I highly recommend reading it.

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Rumpleteazer's got nothing on lisahanawalt​'s maniacal cats.

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A Boy Named Shel: the Silverstein biopic cometh! http://avc.lu/1mzKiUb  

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Thanks for being born, Edward Hopper. The Met's beautiful slideshow: http://met.org/1qwZ2Ly

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Work with some of the best graphic novels out there -- firstsecondbooks​ needs a designer! http://bit.ly/1kaesTA . Image from '3 Shadows' by Cyril Pedrosa.

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Two Couples, One Mortgage: http://theatln.tc/U4YrS5  @TheAtlantic 

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Called it. Japan Is Selling Zoo Jeans, Fashionably Ripped by Lions, Tigers & Bears: http://bit.ly/1nofZQo  

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"But Steig's books are like perfect smooth stones, complete in themselves, with no seams to be found. The only thing you can do is hold them and enjoy the holding." -- jonklassen in the guardian ▸▸ http://bit.ly/1qYC8up

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All Children Deserve to See Themselves in Story: CBC Diversity, 2.5 Years In ▸▸ http://bit.ly/1qHUGin

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Bing! On July 21, newyorker goes free for 3 months before introducing metered paywall: http://nyti.ms/1w0HaGh 

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It’s a dancing bear!

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Flannery O’Connor and the Habit of Art

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At The Paris Review, an excerpt from Flannery O’Connor: The Cartoons.

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Golden Fish, 1960 by Nikolay Kudryavtsev