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Susan Cooper: Role of Fantasy in Children's Lives

November 15, 2007

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Award-winning children's author Susan Cooper explores the ways that literary fantasy helps children understand the world of adulthood. How do children understand fantasy? What does it add to their lives? Why do adults find fantasy in children's literature objectionable, even threatening?

Cosponsored by the Cambridge Public Library and The Horn Book magazine with support from the Cambridge Community Foundation.

Topics: Culture & Identity | Literature & Philosophy

Sub-Topics: Authors | Children's | Criticism | Family Issues | Fiction

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Composing a Further Life

Mary Catherine Bateson

Anthropologist and expert on aging Mary Catherine Bateson discusses her book, Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom.

Robin Black: If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This

Robin Black, award-winning short story writer, reads from her first full-length collection, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This.

Christopher Hitchens and Rabbi David Wolpe: The Great God Debate

Christopher Hitchens

The polemic "anti-theist" writer Christopher Hitchens engages in "The Great God Debate" with Conservative Jewish leader Rabbi David J. Wolpe. Does God exist? Is religion a force for good or evil in the world? Can ancient texts be squared with modern science? Can morality be divorced from religion?

Belle Boggs: Mattaponi Queen

Short story writer Belle Boggs reads from her first book, Mattaponi Queen, a collection of connected stories, some of which have previously appeared in The Paris Review, Glimmer Train, At Length, storySouth and Five Chapters.

Best American Essays 2010

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John Callahan and Adam Bradley on Ralph Ellison

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Over Sea, Under Stone (Dark Is Rising Sequence (Simon Pulse))

Author: Susan Cooper

Publisher: McElderry (2007)

Binding: Paperback, 224 pages

Seaward

Author: Susan Cooper

Publisher: Simon Pulse (1987)

Binding: Mass Market Paperback, 180 pages

The Boggart

Author: Susan Cooper

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books (2004)

Binding: Paperback, 208 pages

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