| Articles: On Francesca Lia Block's Writing | ||
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| by Charlotte Zolotow She writes like a dangerous angel herself: heart open wide, wings on fire, on a mission of passion. Urgency mainlines every sentence. Former taboos -- sex, in all varieties (gay, straight, gay-straight ménages), with all possible consequences (love, hate, pregnancy, much-loved eccentric babies, relationships that fall together and rupture agonizingly apart) -- are wide open, yet treated without a scrap of sensationalism, topics falling naturally under the innocent spell of the liquid poetic prose-poetry and transcendent characters. The wholly original voice of Francesca Lia Block is part fairytale, part fantasy, part YA novel, part timeless come-off-the-page storytelling. Her plots are a lucid dream. Her characters' struggles are as contemporary in pacing and place, in what they eat and smell and where they travel in which vehicles, as they are eternal. They all seemed powered by the burning, impossible rage to love. Francesca Lia Block on being edited by Charlotte "Charlotte Zolotow is my fairy godmother. When she and Joanna Cotler decided to publish Weetzie Bat in 1989, my life was transformed. Charlotte gave me the opportunity to put my dreams into the world, where they could be viewed by others and become realities. Everything about her--the books she writes ( Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present) was my favorite book as a child), her brilliance, her kindness, her luminous radiance -- express a powerful love-magic that is so necessary in this world of ours. I adore Charlotte Zolotow and am honored to have been initiated by her." by Charlotte Zolotow |
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