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The Joys and Challenges of Writing for Kids

BY   KOUROSH ZIABARI AND CARYL HART – JANUARY 27, 2019 In this edition of The Interview, Fair Observer talks to the award-winning children’s author, Caryl Hart . Writing for children is a delicate and sensitive job. Children’s authors should be able to strike a balance between their own past while keeping in touch with the realities of their young audiences …

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Super anti-Semitic literature can get an uncritical shout-out in the New York Times

by Becket Adams | December 17, 2018 I learned two things from the New York Times’ interview last week with author Alice Walker. First, she enjoys super anti-Semitic propaganda. Second, she can recommend said propaganda to the Times’ millions of readers, and the newspaper won’t say boo about it. I’m not sure these were the takeaways the paper had hoped …

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