“A narrative experience like ‘The Lizzie Bennet Diaries’ is compelling in part because of the great bones of Austen’s story and characters, for sure. But equally compelling is the story form, the opportunity for consumers to engage deeply with those characters…”
“Fans will not only have the opportunity to interact with the story, but actually be a part of it.”
On top of everything else that they do, libraries with collections of thoughtfully published art books are also, essentially, museums.
“There’s a shift towards a more multimodal ways of communicating through digital videos, VoiceThread, and graphic novels/comics that is more appealing and engaging to adolescents who now expect such multimodal ways of learning…”
“I feel there’s a direct line between readers of all stripes — young and old, Pulitzer Prize-winners and middle school students — because they all have a such a strong response to the novel. Community happens around ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’…”
A year ago, I wouldn’t have considered examining trailers in a reading group…
What does “spiritual” mean to us, culturally?
The most obvious question about the popularity of horror is one in which we question ourselves: why do people gravitate toward dark content?
It is important to remember that the stories I’ve mentioned were never really called “horror stories” because horror as a genre is essentially a ploy to make certain properties more marketable to a segment of the population.
Megan Kociolek: “Libraries are mystical places…”
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