{"id":829,"date":"2011-08-19T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/08\/the-return-of-brian-selznick.html"},"modified":"2011-08-19T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T19:52:00","slug":"the-return-of-brian-selznick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/08\/the-return-of-brian-selznick.html","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Brian Selznick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-MXyiNqr_sqA\/Tk7M9DuKkJI\/AAAAAAAABKc\/SE0xEUmr2UE\/s1600\/hugo+cabret.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-MXyiNqr_sqA\/Tk7M9DuKkJI\/AAAAAAAABKc\/SE0xEUmr2UE\/s200\/hugo+cabret.jpg\" width=\"134\"><\/a>IF you\u2019re the kind of grownup who enjoys smart, well-drawn children\u2019s novels, you might be as excited as I am to hear the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinventionofhugocabret.com\/about_brian_bio.htm\">Brian Selznick<\/a> has a new novel, <i>Wonderstruck<\/i>, coming in September.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I met Selznick a few years back on the publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theinventionofhugocabret.com\/index.htm\"><i>The Invention of Hugo Cabret<\/i><\/a>, his nearly wordless\u00a0 book about an orphan hiding out in a Parisian train station. (I have another, more recent connection with his work: He illustrated Barbara Kerley\u2019s <i>The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse and Hawkins<\/i>, a favorite of my dinosaur-loving son.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Selznick \u2013 who is descended from film producer David O. Selznick \u2013 and I spoke about the literary tradition of orphans, silent movies\u2019 genius of telling stories through images, and the groundbreaking work of Maurice Sendak. I\u2019m not the only one interested in the Cadecott Medal-winning book: Martin Scorsese\u2019s 3-D adaptation, with Jude Law and Ben Kingsley, comes out comes out in November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-KbkbDmCP_Wg\/Tk7M3BR3AQI\/AAAAAAAABKY\/UwDPSbMfDI0\/s1600\/brian_bio_photo.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-KbkbDmCP_Wg\/Tk7M3BR3AQI\/AAAAAAAABKY\/UwDPSbMfDI0\/s200\/brian_bio_photo.jpg\" width=\"160\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2007\/mar\/31\/entertainment\/et-selznick31\">Here<\/a> is my LATimes interview with Selznick.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>Wonderstruck<\/i>, according to a story in the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoollibraryjournal.com\/slj\/printissue\/currentissue\/891273-427\/wonder_boy_if_you_loved.html.csp\">School Library Journal<\/a>, will involve \u201ctwo interconnected\u00a0 tales,\u201d one all text, the other in black-and-white images. The first will tell of \u201c12-year old Ben Wilson as he leaves rural Minnesota for New York City, a few months after his mother\u2019s death, in search or a father he\u2019s never known. And the wordless companion story follows a New Jersey girls who\u2019s deaf and who embarks on a risky quest of her own, in 1927.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IF you\u2019re the kind of grownup who enjoys smart, well-drawn children\u2019s novels, you might be as excited as I am to hear the Brian Selznick has a new novel, Wonderstruck, coming in September. I met Selznick a few years back on the publication of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, his nearly wordless\u00a0 book about an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[142,34,164],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kid-lit","7":"category-literary","8":"category-scorsese","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}