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Review of Fangirl
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell High School St. Martin’s Griffin 438 pp. 9/13 978-1-250-03095-5 $18.99 e-book ed. 978-1-250-03096-2 $9.99 College freshman Cather Avery is resistant to big...
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Rainbow Rowell on Fangirl
Photo: Augusten Burroughs In our November/December issue, reviewer Cynthia Ritter asked Rainbow Rowell about the creating the many narrative layers (real world + fictional world + fanfictional world!)...
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Eleanor & Park: Author Rainbow Rowell’s 2013 BGHB Fiction Award Speech
Photo: Shara Hardeson The second thing they tell you when you’ve won the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award is that you’ll have to give a speech. They should tell you that first, and they should phrase it...
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Reading Rainbow (Rowell)
Who knew Rainbow Rowell had a new book (for adults)? Not me! Until I snapped it up at the Cambridge Public Library yesterday. A TV-writer mom bags out on her husband and kids during Christmas vacation...
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Eleanor and Park
Rainbow Rowell’s nontraditional romance novel Eleanor and Park portrays a young love that is genuine in its intimacy and awkwardness, as well as the painful realities of life that are well beyond the...
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Review of Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow
Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow by Rainbow Rowell High School St. Martin’s Griffin 522 pp. 10/15 978-1-250-04955-1 $19.99 e-book ed. 978-1-4668-5054-5 $9.99 In Fangirl (rev. 11/13),...
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Eleanor and Park | Class #2, 2016
Rainbow Rowell’s nontraditional romance novel Eleanor and Park portrays a young love that is genuine in its intimacy and awkwardness, as well as the painful realities of life that are well beyond the...
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Was Jo March a Ravenclaw? Authors, Fans, and Who Makes the Rules
Little Women illustration by Barbara Cooney (1955). Scarf composite by Charlotte Reber and Lolly Robinson. What are Harry Potter’s kids up to? Should Jo have married Professor Bhaer? Could Bella Swan...
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I Never Met a Fiction I Didn’t Like: Characters Creeping into Reality, from...
When @Call_Me_Gil started flirting with @AnneWith_An_E on Twitter, their followers took to calling them “Shirbert.” Yes, that’s two contemporary (fictional) young adults named Anne Shirley and Gilbert...
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The Book That Changed My Life: A Couple of Misfits
It’s obvious from the very beginning of Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park that the two of them are a couple of misfits. I couldn’t imagine how their worlds would overlap, much less merge, and I bet...
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