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Jerry Griswold

“Beautiful World, Where Are You”

A review of Sally Rooney’s new novel

Sep 22, 2021

“Beautiful World, Where Are You”

Sep 22, 2021

Watch Jerry Griswold’s Zoom Bedroom Book Launch

With an international crew of notable guests and laughs aplenty, Jerry Griswold’s “Behind Children’s Books” is launched

May 19, 2020

Watch Jerry Griswold’s Zoom Bedroom Book Launch

May 19, 2020

Published Today: “Behind Children’s Books”

May 15. Jerry Griswold’s new book offers “Backstories & Revelations” about classic and contemporary children’s stories

May 14, 2020

Published Today: “Behind Children’s Books”

May 14, 2020

New Book! “Behind Children’s Books”

Backstories & Revelations by Jerry Griswold

Apr 18, 2020

New Book! “Behind Children’s Books”

Apr 18, 2020

Chicago, Mike Royko

“Like a famished alley mutt, he digs away at the bone of truth”

Mar 24, 2020

Chicago, Mike Royko

Mar 24, 2020

How Penguin Books describes me

Jan 22, 2020

How Penguin Books describes me

Jan 22, 2020

The Doctor Dolittle Stories

They began with injured horses in World War I

Jan 15, 2020

The Doctor Dolittle Stories

Jan 15, 2020

Things Japanese or Jerry’s Nihonjiron

“Japan” for American writers, Zen & kids’ books, my Tokyo interview with Marcia Brown, Miyazaki, Banana Yoshimoto, Zen lit crit, more

Dec 11, 2019

Things Japanese or Jerry’s Nihonjiron

Dec 11, 2019

Mickey Mouse on his Birthday

Disney’s politics in the era of the New Deal and FDR (from the NYTimes Book Review)

Nov 17, 2019

Mickey Mouse on his Birthday

Nov 17, 2019

Halloween & Día de los Muertos

Food and the dead, Irish begging door-to-door, Tim Burton’s “Nightmare Before Christmas,” Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”

Oct 29, 2019

Halloween & Día de los Muertos

Oct 29, 2019

Jerry Griswold

Jerry Griswold

Writer/critic/professor/journalist: children’s literature, culture, film, travel. Seven books, 100's of essays in NY&LA Times.

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