As we conclude working with Bantock’s epistolary novel Griffin and Sabine, I wanted to provide some links in case students wanted to investigate the story and art further. Both the publisher’s website and Nick Bantock’s website are fun to explore. You can find interviews (one of which I think I used for class), art from the other stories, some interesting biographical information, and what Bantock’s newest creation is.
I also wanted to link to the editorial I referenced from The New York Times in class about the use of the line “things fall apart” from Yeats’s “Second Coming” as the title of a critical report on the Iraq War, especially after all the interesting discussions I heard about his poem in class.
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Are you doing an epistolary novel this year? That was fun. Griffin & Sabine was one of my favorites.
Mr. Quale, did you read the sequels to Griffin & Sabine? I believe Ms. Christiansen had them last year, but I never got around to read them. I agree with Rachel. Analyzing that book was probably one of my favorites last year because I LOVE SYMBOLISM.
Maybe in your future years of teaching you could somehow do a class epistolary novel instead. That might be pretty cool. A lot of work, but mucho fun.
I’ll put in a fax from the future.
Dude, where’s the epistolary novel handout?
Okay, nevermind. I found my calendar.
…and I’m actually using it!
…not really, just the back of it.