Archive for January 30th, 2008
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Playing Quidditch for the Other Team
(a.k.a. Why Rowling’s “Outing” is a Literary Crime.)
Umberto Eco wrote that authors should die when their novels are complete, so as not to “trouble the path of the text”—advice Harry Potter’s J.K. Rowling has clearly chosen to ignore. Not only has she thus far refused to die, but last October she stirred the cauldron of […]