The Gregory Maguire article in today's Globe prompted me to check the Harper Collins website to see if he will be doing any readings in the area. Sadly, the Events/ News page has precious little information. I went to The Concord Bookshop and saw that he will be reading TODAY at 3:00 pm. Gotta run!
[…] "There's very little about politics in fantasy worlds," Maguire said. "I thought this will be my contribution to the genre, if possible. Make it political, make it dirty, make it sexy."Posted by rv at November 13, 2005 12:37 PM to bookMaguire started writing when he was in sixth grade in Albany, N.Y. The middle child in a family of seven kids, he found escape and privacy in his own writing as well as in more famous literary lands.
Narnia, Neverland, Wonderland, Middle Earth. Maguire explored them all. And like the precocious sixth grade fictional character he also read, Harriet the Spy, Maguire documented all of his adventures in a spiraled loose leaf journal -- which he keeps to this day.
"There are ways in which I feel the most fully alive when I'm actually engaged in the most total fabrication of life," Maguire says of slipping into his world of talking animals and colorful landscapes. […]