People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely.

Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.