Is Laura Wilder’s ‘Little House on the Prairie’ Series Right for Kids These Days?
Should the fact of Laura Wilder’s dated prejudices lead us to abandon Little House on the Prairie and its sequels?
Dan Barrett
I am a freelance writer who has worked for PopMatters, SparkNotes, BookPage, and Kirkus, among other publications. You can often find me teaching and tutoring in upper Manhattan. I have a degree in English from Yale and a graduate degree in education from Fordham, and I am currently at work on a Y.A. novel about being young, gay, and Catholic in Buffalo, NY.
‘Death of the Black-Haired Girl’ Will Get Under Your Skin
Robert Stone has set his terrific new novel at a fictional school called "Amesbury". But don't be fooled. The institution he indicts is Yale University.