{"id":14920,"date":"2014-05-30T11:46:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T18:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2014\/05\/30\/14920.html"},"modified":"2014-05-30T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T18:46:20","slug":"some-links-about-narnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2014\/05\/30\/some-links-about-narnia\/","title":{"rendered":"Some links about Narnia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just read a lovely, excellent piece by Molly McArdle on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mollymcardle\/have-you-forgotten-the-deep-magic\">joys, and failures, of Narnia<\/a>. &ldquo;I write as someone who was left behind, as anyone who has read and loved a magical book is, marooned in the world we tried so hard to escape.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>(And on a side note, Buzzfeed continues to publish some excellent work.)<\/p>\n<p>McArdle's essay articulated a lot of things I've felt and thought about over the years, which made me want to link to or mention a bunch of other things as well. So here are some notes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Jo Walton's story &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2000\/20001023\/relentlessly_mundane.shtml\">Relentlessly Mundane<\/a>,&rdquo; one of the first stories we published in <cite>Strange Horizons<\/cite>.<\/li>\n  <li>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/12\/13\/3270.html\">review of <cite>The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/cite><\/a> (the 2005 movie).<\/li>\n  <li>As I've mentioned elsewhere, &ldquo;that lamppost in the snowy wasteland is pretty much the iconic image of fantasy in my head.&rdquo;<\/li>\n  <li>Neil Gaiman's story &ldquo;The Problem of Susan&rdquo; (which I don't think is available online in an authorized form, but can be found in Gaiman's collection <cite>Fragile Things<\/cite>, among other places), Ursula Vernon's story &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redwombatstudio.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/14\/elegant-and-fine\/\">Elegant and Fine<\/a>,&rdquo; and others. I was sad to miss the Problem of Susan panel at this year's WisCon (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjaminrosenbaum.com\/blog\/archives\/000732.html\">Ben's discussion from a few years ago<\/a>). I know many of y'all loved the <a href=\"http:\/\/ink-splotch.tumblr.com\/post\/69470941562\/there-comes-a-point-where-susan-who-was-the\">feminist-Susan-grows-up-in-America<\/a> piece; I was put off by the America thing, but there's good stuff in it. And of course there are many many other discussions of the Problem of Susan, from a variety of angles.<\/li>\n  <li>See also Theodora Goss's &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2005\/20051003\/goss-f.shtml\">Pip and the Fairies<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/li>\n  <li>As I've noted elsewhere, &ldquo;when I first read <cite>The Dark Is Rising<\/cite> at age ten and a half[, I] was sure that when I woke up on my eleventh birthday (even though it wasn't midwinter's day) I would be let in on the secrets of the Old Ones.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>...I feel like there was more I was going to say here, but that'll do for now. Even if you don't follow the rest of the links, I recommend the McArdle piece.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a lovely, excellent piece by Molly McArdle on the joys, and failures, of Narnia. &ldquo;I write as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,44,59,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-movies","category-religion","category-speculative-fiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}