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Live Potter Pundits Tonight!!

by revgeorge on March 6, 2010

Just a reminder that the Potter Pundits will be appearing live tonight, March 6, 2010, at Pace University in the NYC area.  For those who can’t make it in person (and I suspect that’s many of us), the good news is that Pottercast will be offering a livestream of the event.  You can find the livestream here.  The event starts at 7PM Eastern Standard Time.  Tune in to hear the Potter Pundits–Travis Prinzi, John Granger, and James Thomas–discuss Harry Potter as great literature!

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John Granger’s Spotlight!

by Travis Prinzi on December 10, 2009

John Granger has a fantastic new website up, with a great special offer for pre-ordering his new book, Spotlight: A Close-Up Look at the Meaning and Artistry of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga.

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John Granger’s New Teaching Post

by Travis Prinzi on June 7, 2009

Where does the Hogwarts Professor teach when the school of Witchcraft and Wizardry is not in session?

Forks High School, with a creepy class of vampires, werewolves, and academics.

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The Hog’s Head at Azkatraz!

by Travis Prinzi on March 5, 2009

Great news!  The Hog’s Head PubCast will be included in the Azkatraz Podcast Palooza on Monday, July 20th!  This is going to be a fantastic session of the PubCast, as I will be joined by John Granger and James Thomas for a panel discussion.  This was our proposal:

The topic will be a discussion of the postmodern social-justice elements of the series: how Rowling advocates character transformation leading to outward social change as her method and prescription for creating a just society.  We’ll discuss how literature works within a culture to reflect it and critique it, and how, in particular, the symbols and themes of the Potter series accomplish this.

And we’ll even have a lot of fun doing it.

Since I don’t want to both moderate and be a panel member, I have another exciting announcement about this podcast: It will be moderated by our favorite Potter Podcasters: Greg and Penny of HP Progs!

We’ll be preceded by SpellCast, and followed by Hogwarts Radio (whom I’ve joined before and will again) and an reality-TV type event that will select the next great Potter podcast.

This event just keeps getting better and better.  If you haven’t registered yet, do so!  I have great news about my Azkatraz proposals, which I’ll share soon, and a couple podcasts coming soon, one of which is recorded and just needs some editing.  Stay tuned!

By the way, for HogPro fans who also visit here: John Granger’s website is working on recovering itself.  Should be back to normal soon.

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More Twilight Talk at HogPro

by Travis Prinzi 02.10.2009

Since we’ve had some interesting Twilight discussion here, I figured some of our readers would be interested to know that John Granger is blogging away on the series, drawing specific parallels between the initial critical response to Harry Potter and the current critical response to Twilight.

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Your ‘09 Reading Plans?

by Travis Prinzi 01.10.2009

What’s the first book you’ve finished or will finish in 2009?
I just finished Paradise Lost, by John Milton, as read by Nadia May.
As far as actual eyes-on-print goes, I’ll probably finished The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit before anything else.
I usually don’t make out much of a reading plan, because books I wasn’t planning on [...]

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Around the Common Room

by Travis Prinzi 12.07.2008

John Granger in Touchstone – Book Binders: What I Learned About Great Books & Harry Potter.  This is an interesting read, and Mr. Granger has much more about this coming in his book, Harry Potter’s Bookshelf, available for pre-order.
You’ll also want to stop over at Hogwarts Professor, where John’s been on a roll with posts [...]

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“I see with a myriad eyes”

by Travis Prinzi 11.09.2008

A great C.S. Lewis quote courtesy of The Kibitzer:*

In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I [...]

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