In honor of Roald Dahl...

This is Roald Dahl month, although I'm not quite sure who was in charge of that pronouncement. But it does mark the publication of an authorized biography of the author, who was, if nothing else, a complex individual. 'Dahl’s kids’ stories, on the other hand, are full of characters who transcend narrative logic....The keynote of Dahl’s children’s books is delight in wild invention—and delight, too, in the way that invention manages to braid the two opposed strands of his personality, the nasty and the charming, into something unique in the history of storytelling.' More...