Suggests that Chris Crutcher, therapist and author of novels for young adults, views the world as a place where God, if He exists, does not prevent or cause good or bad things to happen to people. Suggests that Crutcher sees the human spirit as the ultimate determinant along with human relationships. (TB)

Provides an index to Robinson, Shaver and Wrightman's "Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes" (1991) that is designed to supplement the table of contents and facilitate the efficient location of information about a particular instrument. A guide to the index is included. (two references) (EA)

Shares the experiences of children's author Gary Soto interacting with children while visiting schools for Author's Day. (SR)

Discusses writing with Calvin Trillin, journalist, humorist, and writer of fiction and nonfiction. (SR)

Details the successes of Ernest Raymond's novel "Tell England." Includes reviews of the book and details of the author's life. Discusses the reason's for the enormous success of the book, Raymond's treatment of the relationship between the young men, and his treatment of their deaths. (PRA)

Discusses some of the ethical dilemmas faced by writers who prepare marketing materials in engineering organizations. Describes social, political, economic, and legal changes in the professions during the last 30 years and the growing influence of market-driven decisions on ethical decision making. (PRA)

A well-known author of novels for young adults talks about her own youth and her desire to be a writer. Supportive librarians, English teachers, and parents are mentioned as positive influences, and how she began writing specifically for young people is explained. (EAM)

Discusses structural differences between author-publication systems and journal-article systems, i.e., articles can have more than one author. Frequency functions are examined; and a new conceptual explanation of Lotka's Law, based on convolution theory, is proposed. (Contains eight references.) (LRW)

Provides a rationale for the information science community to consider the needs and challenges of spatial information issues as well as overviews of the seven articles on spatial information contained in this special topic issue. Brief biographies of the 16 authors are included. (six references) (KRN)

Introduces a series of eight articles that look at the intellectual or cognitive aspects of text and images from which researchers and system designers may derive new principles or refine those in use. Each article is briefly described, and background information on each author is provided. (KRN)

Examines the magic of the Peter Rabbit stories, and explores Beatrix Potter's life to understand her special gift as a writer and artist that brought her animal world so vividly to her readers. (SR)

Offers a preliminary retrospective on the achievement of Robert Westall, a distinctive and prolific voice in modern children's literature. (SR)

Reconsiders the modern classic "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert Pirsig. Discusses three issues from the book that speak to the technical writer in particular: finding the proper perspective, using metaphoric writing, and avoiding gumption traps. (SR)

Discusses the differences between male and female utopian (and dystopian) writers. Notes that some male utopian and dystopian writers emphasize science and product, stressing social and political theories of class control and struggle, whereas some female utopian writers stress conservation, community, and collective action. (RS)

In this interview, author M. E. Kerr reflects on writing for young adults, including her inspiration, her characters, and the issues she incorporates into her works. (KRN)