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Katherine Rundell: belief

11 Jan 2023 Conversations with Tyler Katherine Rundell on the Art of Words

“I think she’s a writer’s writer who is somebody who believed that children should never be spoken down to. And I think a lot of her children’s fiction is so weird and so full of the furies and anxieties that are extending from childhood into adulthood, that those books would also read as great texts for adults, the obvious one being maybe something like Fire and Hemlock or Howl’s Moving Castle.”

— Katherine Rundell

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Katherine Rundell
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belief
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11 Jan 2023
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Why is she interesting? I think she’s a writer’s writer who is somebody who believed that children should never be spoken down to. And I think a lot of her children’s fiction is so weird and so full of the furies and anxieties that are extending from childhood into adulthood, that those books would also read as great texts for adults, the obvious one being maybe something like Fire and Hemlock or Howl’s Moving Castle. Sir Walter Raleigh — overrated or underrated?…

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