{"id":2684,"date":"2014-04-20T08:22:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T12:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2014-04-20T08:22:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T12:22:48","slug":"soman-chaininis-world-without-princes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2014\/04\/20\/soman-chaininis-world-without-princes\/","title":{"rendered":"Soman Chainini’s WORLD WITHOUT PRINCES"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just started reading the second installment of THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL, and I’m looking forward to April 30, 6pm, when Soman Chainini will be at the Harvard Coop to talk about his book. \u00a0He will be in conversation with Gregory Maguire, and I will introduce and “moderate” the conversation.<\/p>\n

I love the playlist for the first volume, which reminds me how much fun he is having with the trilogy.<\/p>\n

The School for Good and Evil<\/em>\u00a0Reading Playlist by Soman Chainani<\/h4>\n

One of my goals in writing\u00a0The School for Good and Evil<\/em>\u00a0was to give the book new energy from chapter to chapter, so you never feel like you’re in the same place twice. For each of the 30 chapters, I’d pick a book (sometimes a piece of music or an article) that I remembered loving as a child or adolescent and obsessively reread it until I put the chapter to bed. None of the books had explicit links to\u00a0The School for Good and Evil<\/em>\u00a0— in fact, most of them aren’t even fantasy. But in the end, I realized I had a ‘playlist’ to my own imagination, at once light and dark, good and evil.<\/p>\n

Compiled between April 2011 through March 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. The Princess & The Witch<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary Poppins<\/em>, P.L Travers.<\/p>\n

2. The Art of Kidnapping<\/strong><\/p>\n

Peter Pan<\/em>, JM Barrie<\/p>\n

Music Video: “Oh, Father” (Madonna,\u00a0Like a Prayer<\/em>)<\/p>\n

3. The Great Mistake<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em>, Lewis Carroll<\/p>\n

The Bad Beginning<\/em>, Lemony Snicket<\/p>\n

4. The Three Witches of Room 66<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Talented Mr. Ripley<\/em>, Patricia Highsmith<\/p>\n

The Steampunk Bible<\/em>, Jeff Vandermeer<\/p>\n

5. Boys Ruin Everything<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interview with a Vampire<\/em>, Anne Rice<\/p>\n

6. Definitely Evil<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Witches<\/em>, Roald Dahl<\/p>\n

7. Grand High Witch Ultimate<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Magicians<\/em>, Lev Grossman<\/p>\n

8. Wish Fish<\/strong><\/p>\n

9. 100% Evil<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Magician King<\/em>, Lev Grossman<\/p>\n

10. Bad Group<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hobbit<\/em>, JR Tolkien<\/p>\n

11. The School Master’s Riddle<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Golden Compass<\/em>, Philip Pullman<\/p>\n

12. Dead Ends<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brideshead Revisited<\/em>, Evelyn Waugh<\/p>\n

TV: Downton Abbey, Season 1<\/p>\n

13. Doom Room<\/strong><\/p>\n

14. The Crypt Keeper’s Solution<\/strong><\/p>\n

Room with a View<\/em>, EM Forster<\/p>\n

15. Choose Your Coffin<\/strong><\/p>\n

16. Cupid Goes Rogue<\/strong><\/p>\n

Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil<\/em>, John Berendt<\/p>\n

17. The Empress’ New Clothes<\/strong><\/p>\n

18. The Roach and the Fox<\/strong><\/p>\n

Auntie Mame<\/em>, Patrick Dennis<\/p>\n

Auntie Mame Around the World<\/em>, Patrick Dennis<\/p>\n

Madonna Style<\/em>, Carol Clerk<\/p>\n

Music Video: “Express Yourself,” Madonna<\/p>\n

“Viva Donatella,” Lauren Collins. New Yorker. 9.24.07<\/p>\n

19. I Have a Prince<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lord of the Flies<\/em>, Wiliam Golding<\/p>\n

20. Secrets and Lies<\/strong><\/p>\n

21. Trial by Tale<\/strong><\/p>\n

And Then There Were None<\/em>, Agatha Christie<\/p>\n

22. Nemesis Dreams<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Secret History<\/em>, Donna Tart<\/p>\n

Music Video: “Bedtime Story,” Madonna (Bedtime Stories)<\/p>\n

23. Magic in the Mirror<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Line of Beauty<\/em>, Allan Hollingshurst<\/p>\n

24. Hope in the Toilet<\/strong><\/p>\n

25. Symptoms<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em>, Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n

TV: Downton Abbey, Season 2<\/p>\n

26. The Circus of Talents<\/strong><\/p>\n

27. Promises Unkept<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blindness<\/em>, Jose Saramago<\/p>\n

Music Video: “Frozen,” Madonna (Ray of Light)<\/p>\n

28. The Witch of Woods Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Crucible<\/em>, Arthur Miller<\/p>\n

Music Video: “What It Feels Like For a Girl,” Madonna (Music)<\/p>\n

29. Beautiful Evil<\/strong><\/p>\n

30. Never After<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Alienist<\/em>, Caleb Carr<\/p>\n

Music Video: “Falling Free,” Madonna (MDNA)<\/p>\n

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Just started reading the second installment of THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL, and I’m looking forward to April 30, 6pm, when Soman Chainini will be at the Harvard Coop to talk about his book. \u00a0He will be in conversation with Gregory Maguire, and I will introduce and “moderate” the conversation. I love the playlist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2688,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}