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...Little Lit " (Raw Junior, LLC; 64pp; $19.95) follows the principles of last year's best-selling "Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies." Contributors include members of the comix "underground" as well as children's book illustrators and adult authors with no experience in the comicbook medium. These smartly-written, sumptuously colored comix then get published as a large-size hardcover collection so that even adults feel little when they turn the pages. Kids may like the fact that the hardcover makes it easier to draw on the pages...
Goodall, who is widowed, has an adult son Hugo, who lives in Dar es Salaam with her three grandchildren. "Unfortunately, he's not at all involved in anything I care about," she says. "He does fishing. He takes people out sports fishing, but he's also mixed up in commercial fishing." Don't look for fish or anything animal on Goodall's plate. She has been a vegetarian for nearly 30 years...
...Zulmai leans against a rusty Russian tank on a hill overlooking the Taliban-controlled city of Taloqan. He is 18 but joined the mujahedin at 15, just as his four brothers did. One brother has already been killed, and Zulmai falters when asked if children should be fighting an adult's war. A Northern Alliance Foreign Ministry official named Musadiqallah steps in: "Our cause is so great that even our children want to join us in fighting the enemy...
...work of A.R. Ammons is a major influence on my poetry. Ammons’ rural upbringing was at the heart of his poetry throughout his life, though he did not live in his home state of North Carolina as an adult. I identify very much with this indebtedness to a place in which one cannot live. Robert Frost, another poet much indebted to one American region, is also very important to me at the moment...
...hands after they bring in their mail, in an attempt to ward off anthrax, while 34 percent say they?ve started throwing away junk mail without opening it (sorry, advertisers). Seventy-five percent say parents should keep children away from mail until it?s been checked out by an adult. And a surprisingly low number (44 percent) of Americans say it would be a "major problem" if the USPS stopped home mail delivery altogether...