Kelly Writers House hosts ‘Steve Cobs’ and other literary treats
The Daily Pennsylvanian
February 6th, 2013
Last night, the simple lessons of children’s literature found an older audience of writers and readers alike at the Kelly Writers House.
Arielle Brousse, assistant director for development at the Writers House, organized an event titled “Sensible Nonsense” to discuss the wisdom and lessons learned from children’s books.
Brousse explained that she derived the event’s name from Lewis Carroll’s book “Through the Looking Glass.” She quoted a line from one of the book’s characters, the Red Queen: “You may call it ‘nonsense’ if you like,” she said, “but I’ve heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!”
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