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News Source Romance Novels Dangerous? Alison Flood reports on author and psychologist Susan Quilliam’s statement about the affect romance novels have on her clients’ unrealistic view of love . Quilliam believes the women get wrapped up in the romantic fiction and struggle to distinguish between fantasy and reality.    Do you think a romance novel can really alter a reader’s perspective of love in the real world? Source Chatting with Beverly Clearly Rachel Brown interviews beloved author Beverly Clearly at age 95 . Clearly talks about writing children’s literature, balancing her family life with her writing career and her two published memoirs. If you could, which of your favorite author’s as a child would you like to interview?     Bringing Poetry and Painting Together Take a look at 11 slides of the art collaboration between poet Edward Mayes and painter Alberto Alfonso . The two men combined provocative first-line titl...

News Literary Blending with Fantasy/Sci-fi The Wall Street Journal discusses the line between genre and literary fiction, low and high art. Alexandra Alter dives into the  literary novelists’ struggle to compete with ubiquitous fantasy and science fiction.  Is the literary novelist’s move to blend their genre with popular fiction going to help or hurt them?     Analysis of All 7 Harry Potter Novels Sean Smith at The Boston College Chronicle talks about Romance Languages and Literatures Professor Emerita Vera Lee’s On the Trail of Harry Potter , “which she touts as the first book-length literary analysis of all seven Harry Potter volumes.” She breaks from previously published analyses to focus on how J.K. Rowling created Harry Potter and why. Would you purchase the literary analysis of the beloved YA series? Summer Reading List The New York Times runs down a list of 19 promising new books to keep you busy during the summer. Janet Maslin shows us that ...