by snarly | Dec 9, 2020 | Artistic apologies, Historical Apologies
It was recently discovered that the late author Roald Dahl’s family had added a note to his web site. It was hidden, as Washington Post’s Ron Charles noted, “like a Golden Ticket hidden inside a Wonka Bar.” (The note took Snarly seven minutes...
by snarly | Oct 1, 2020 | Artistic apologies
Hi! It turns out that redesigning a site that was built in 2012 and looked it is no small feat! All hail Leha at Web People Media. Also, an announcement: There will be a SorryWatch book! Look for it in the winter of 2022. (Publication date pushed back because of this...
by snarly | Nov 21, 2019 | Artistic apologies, Youth apologizes
Behold an illustration from the brilliant Catherine Newman’s forthcoming children’s book (for kids 10 to 14), How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn Before You’re Grown Up. The book is basically a funny and readable...
by snarly | Nov 17, 2019 | Artistic apologies, Youth apologizes
Young Adult literature seems to exist in a constant state of social media drama! Much like young adults! Remember that author who literally stalked a reader who gave her novel a bad review on Goodreads? She then turned the act of stalking into a book deal. Or maybe...
by snarly | Sep 26, 2019 | Artistic apologies
Here is a beautiful poem. To us, it feels apology-adjacent. SMALL KINDNESSES by Danusha Laméris I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walkdown a crowded aisle, people pull in their legsto let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”when someone sneezes, a...
by sumac | Dec 22, 2018 | Artistic apologies, Historical Apologies
Here’s a problem: how to talk about an apology embodied in a long, arch, ornate, annoying poem without making people read the long, arch, ornate, annoying text. Because that would be annoying. Excerpts? Summaries and excerpts? We’ll try. The poem is “Lines...
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