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	Teenreads.com -- Author Profile: Francesca Lia Block
		Weetzie is the memorable creation of author Francesca Lia Block, and the character has been inviting readers to her bizarre, glittery version of la-la land for nearly ten years --- ever since she appeared in Block's first YA novel, WEETZIE BAT, in 1989.
		Block grew up in the same L.A. that Weetzie loves and became hopelessly homesick for it when she moved north to attend the University of California at Berkeley.
		Block shares the concerns of many other YA writers when it comes to criticism of and opposition to their subject matter.
	www.teenreads.com /authors/au-block-francesca.asp (1189 words)

	Francesca Lia Block
		Francesca Lia Block was born, and still lives, in Los Angeles with her husband, daughter and a springer spaniel named Vincent Van Go-Go Boots.
		Like the star of her first novel, Weetzie Bat, Francesca once had bleached-blond hair, wore engineer boots with 1950s prom dresses, drove around in a red-and-white 1955 pontiac convertible and slammed to bands in underground clubs.
		The daughter of a poet and a painter, Francesca Lia Block's work has been influenced by the visual arts, by her love of Greek myths and fairytales, as well as by music and dance.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /authors/Francesca_Lia_Block.htm (235 words)

	Francesca Lia Block, Nymph
		Readers of Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat and other young adult novels may not be surprised to learn that she writes erotica as well.
		Her novels are textured with a strong appeal to the senses throughout her magical plots populated by vivid characterizations.
		In Nymph, Block's distinctive narratives are laced together with the vocabulary of erotica.
	www.rambles.net /block_nymph.html (386 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Necklace of Kisses by Francesca Lia Block
		Now she returns, perhaps in search of her lost passion, and meets an otherworldy cast of characters, among them a blue-skinned receptionist, an invisible cleaning lady, a seductive fawn, and a sushi-eating mermaid who gives her a kiss that sets the wheel of self-discovery in motion.
		Block invests every scene with equal shots of magic and realism, rendering her heroine and supporting players in vivid, poetic detail.
		For many fans of Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie was a major part of their adolescent lives.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/necklace_of_kisses1.asp (524 words)

	Francesca Lia Block: Web Resources
		Francesca Lia Block: Web Resources for Weetzie Bat and Baby Be-Bop
		Francesca Lia Block: On The Rose and the Beast (interview, at HarperChildren's)
		"The Rebirth of the Postmodern Flâneur: Notes on the Postmodern Landscape of Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat" by Jan Susina (Marvels and Tales 16.2 [2002], pp.
	www.k-state.edu /english/nelp/childlit/block.html (107 words)

	Francesca Lia Block, Weetzie Bat
		I just got my library card for the local public library last week, and the first thing I did was head over to the young adult section to discover what kind of precious literary gems were waiting for me. The minute I saw this book, I snatched it up.
		Block's style of writing and the short length of the novel make it difficult to tell you any more without revealing major plot points, thus spoiling the book.
		Block's descriptions, as well as the utterly creative details about Weetzie and her friends, give the novel a surreal, magical air.
	www.rambles.net /block_weetzie.html (364 words)

	Francesca Lia Block
		With language that is both lyrical and distinctly her own, Francesca Lia Block turns nine fairy tales inside out.
		Escaping the poisoned apple, Snow frees herself from possession to find the truth of love in an unexpected place.
		We interviewed Francesca Lia Block to find out more behind her latest dazzling book.
	www.harperchildrens.com /hch/author/features/block (763 words)

	Francesca Lia Block from HarperCollins Publishers
		Francesca Lia Block is the bestselling author of the Weetzie Bat series and the novel Ruby.
		Francesca Lia Block's luminous, postmodern fairy tales chronicle the thin...
		It was certainly helpful to have two authors in terms of creating contrasting narratives.
	www.harpercollins.com /authors/11812/Francesca_Lia_Block/index.aspx (223 words)

	Beautiful Boys: Two Weetzie Bat Books by Francesca Lia Block
		Two darkly magical Weetzie Bat stories about the search for self from Francesca Lia Block: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop.
		Francesca Lia Block's luminous, postmodern fairy tales chronicle the thin line between fear and desire, pain and pleasure, cutting loose and holding on in a world where everyone is vulnerable to the most beautiful and dangerous angel of all: love.
		But this is what I could not give up: I could not give up myself Psyche has known Love—scented with jasmine and tasting of fresh oranges.
	www.harpercollins.com /books/9780060594350/Beautiful_Boys/index.aspx (302 words)

	Atom books by Francesca Lia Block (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Francesca Lia Block is renowned for her groundbreaking novels and stories - postmodern, magic-realist tales for all ages.
		Born in Los Angeles, where she still lives, Block writes fiction and non-fiction that pulsates with the language and images of the city's sprawling subculture.
		If you're under 13, please ask a parent or guardian to subscribe on your behalf.
	www.atombooks.co.uk /francesca_liablock.html (577 words)

	Francesca Lia Block - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francesca Lia Block (Born in Los Angeles, California on 3rd January 1962) is the author of many highly original young adult books, most famously the Weetzie Bat series.
		It was renowned for its use of imagery, especially in describing the city of Los Angeles.
		Block was born in Los Angeles to a poet and a painter, their creativity an obvious influence on her writing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francesca_Lia_Block (329 words)

	Francesca Lia Block (Richard Gehr)
		(Block loves to circumscribe her characters' enthusiasms with sensuous lists of names, foods, aromas, sounds, whatever.) At home Weetzie is a tourist, the contented denizen of such unforgettable 1970s hot spots as Oki Dog, Canter's, and the late, lamented Tick Tock Tea Room.
		Block's only so-called adult fiction, Ecstasia, was an in-your-face allegorical fantasy about a youth-obsessed Los Angeles (renamed Elysia) in which the old are left to either struggle in the desert or decompose somewhere underground.
		Magic is everywhere in Francesca Lia Block's lyrical and resonant fables, which always point back to the primacy of family, friends, love, location, food, and music.
	www.levity.com /rubric/block.html (855 words)

	Salon Mothers Who Think \| Wild Things: Strange brew
		Francesca Lia Block writes young adult novels so far out of the mainstream that I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the Association of Suburban PTAs had banned them from information centers across America.
		Block perfectly captures the hallucinatory loneliness of a first breakup as Witch Baby wanders around the cold city looking for clues, camps out in the empty apartment where Weetzie's father once lived, forgets to eat.
		Block rearranges some of the most successful elements of "Missing Angel Juan" in her new novel, "I Was a Teenage Fairy." Both books feature a smartass, tough-but-sensitive adolescent and a supernatural companion.
	www.salon.com /mwt/shul/1998/10/13shul.html (1623 words)

	Favorite Teenage Angstbooks: A Cool Bit with Francesca Lia Block
		Francesca Lia Block has been crowned Girl Goddess #1 by teens far and wide for her slinkster-cool Weetzie Bat tales about hip, savvy young adults who find meaning in Shangri-LA, I mean, Los Angeles.
		Francesca: There's something about the way you say that that is very moving to me. There's a big part of me that is very dark and sad.
		Francesca: I don't know how in touch my mother was with her darkness when I was growing up, but she always encouraged me to be truly myself.
	www.grouchy.com /angst/flb.html (1550 words)

	Salon Directory
		(Block is also the author of several non-Weetzie young-adult novels and one intriguingly kinky volume of adult erotica.) In "Necklace of Kisses" Weetzie is a 40-year-old mother of two; she still wears vintage orange sneakers and a pink-and-green Pucci tunic, but she hasn't loved any new music, she thinks, since Kurt Cobain's death.
		But "Necklace of Kisses" also reinforces what a lyrical but economical writer Block is. Her tributes to Los Angeles, "a city that was partly paradise, or at least pretending to be paradise," with its smoggy sunsets, wild animals and night-blooming flowers, will make you pine for the place even if you think you hate it.
		When Weetzie seems too obsessed with fashion to be taken seriously (which is almost always), Block reminds us that her heroine also knows that "the world is a sad and scary place," and fabulousness her only defense.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2005/08/24/block/index.html (819 words)

	Technorati Tag: francescaliablock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Weeztie Bat Grows Up John Rogers of the Associated Press interviews Francesca Lia Block, author of the popular Weetzie Bat series, which was set in...
		Francesca Lia Block’s book “Necklace of Kisses” was one of my favorite of the Weetzie Bat Collection.
		When I discovered Francesca Lia Block at a Half Price Books in 1998, it was like finding a new drug...
	www.technorati.com /tag/francescaliablock (317 words)

	FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK The Offficial Website for author FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK bio
		Author, Francesca Lia Block is renowned for her groundbreaking novels and stories—postmodern, magic-realist tales for all ages.
		The daughter of a poet and a painter, Block has been influenced by the visual arts, by her childhood love of Greek myths and fairytales, as well as by music and dance.
		Block described her work as "contemporary fairy tales with an edge," where the real world and its trouble find solace through the alchemy of creative expression and love.
	www.francescaliablock.com /bio.htm (281 words)

	Francesca Lia Block: Ecstasia; Primavera
		Block's books (Dangerous Angels and Girl Goddess #9) can see that I was an instant fan of her work.
		Block does make one minor reference to this problem in Primavera, however, when one of the characters acknowledges that the respect for elders never entirely sank in.
		While discussing Francesca Lia Block in the Break Room here, Jessica said of Block's worlds that "They just usually seem to be like they're set in a shimmery soap-bubble world, reflecting ours — but, you know, smaller.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_block_ecstasia_primavera.html (1657 words)

	Bookreporter.com - GUARDING THE MOON by Francesca Lia Block
		Block is supported in her first year as a mother by her loving husband and mother, surrounded by friends and adored by her two dogs.
		Block shares much of her own troubled emotional past, her feelings of self-doubt and eating disorder.
		Block does not speak for all new mothers but shares her story in such a moving way that makes it highly readable and recommendable.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0066213673.asp (526 words)

	PW: Harper Introduces Francesca Lia Block To a Wider Audience - 5/18/1998 - Publishers Weekly
		Francesca's audience is mainly paperback, but the small size of the [single volume] paperbacks makes them easily lost on shelves." The collection is being released in paperback only, and Harper hopes that the large trim size, provocative cover art and increased page count will make it stand out on shelves, both adult and YA.
		Block's ambitions as a writer, Cotler believes, are much broader than one particular market.
		Harper's plans to focus attention on Block and her books include readers' group guides for adults, speaking engagements at colleges, Internet promotions and a party in Los Angeles to coincide with publication of the fall book.
	www.publishersweekly.com /article/CA165635.html?pubdate=5/18/1998&display=archive (682 words)

	Amazon.com: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold: Books: Francesca Lia Block (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Francesca Lia Block, whose Weetzie Bat novels have often been called pop fairy tales, here turns to the real thing for some very different imaginings of Snow White, Thumbelina, Cinderella, Rose Red and Rose White, and other tales.
		Block's stories are more resonance than retelling, fevered dreams behind which the outlines of the traditional tales move fitfully like figures glimpsed now and then through a summer fog.
		As always, Block's poetic allegories of adolescence are strikingly original and a bit dangerous, a feast for connoisseurs of YA fiction and savvy older teens.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060281294?v=glance (1657 words)

	SwankiVY's Lovely Literature Page--Francesca Lia Block! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Francesca Lia Block is an amazing writer whose books are very well-received by the young adult community.
		Block's book stick to their usual poetic style, and it is simply a joy to read.
		Block's poetic nonfiction book, detailing her experiences in the first year of being a mother.
	members.aol.com /swoopity/flb.html (3677 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Hanged Man: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Block does not fall into the trap of trying to "tie up" loose-ends-it's not that kind of story.
		Block's writing is a very true approximation of a sensitive yet jaded teenager trying to come to grips with her life.
		Block's style of writing brings you, the reader, straight into the lives of her characters.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060245379 (816 words)

	Amazon.com: Echo: Books: Francesca Lia Block (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Block (The Rose and the Beast) moves to a new level of complexity without sacrificing accessibility for this exquisitely wrought coming-of-age story.
		Block's structure and imagery, however, manifest a new sophistication and subtlety, as passages and metaphors "echo" one another throughout.
		Block's world is one of glitter and glamour and sex, powdery drugs and moonlight and faerie and blood and feathers.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060281278?v=glance (1711 words)

	Dangerous Angels - Francesca Lia Block
		The slinkster-cool novels in Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat series have finally been compiled into one delicious volume.
		Block's unique, poetic style immediately draws readers into an intoxicating magical-realist world populated by empathetic, original characters (as well as a few ghosts, fairies, and genies): "He kissed her.
		With language that is both lyrical and distinctly her own, Francesca Lia Block turns nine fairy tales inside out.
	www.geocities.com /FLB_DangerousAngels (1570 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Necklace of Kisses - Francesca Lia Block - Paperback
		But those just meeting Block's whimsical entourage and sparkling prose will also appreciate the book's message: that magic can be found in stolen moments and, in Dirk's words, though "love is a dangerous angel," it's well worth the risk.
		With vivid imagery, Block, the 2005 recipient of the ALA Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement in young adult fiction, has conjured another enchanting and lyrically surreal journey of love and self-discovery.
		Fifteen years ago, Block, the 2005 recipient of the American Library Association Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement, brought to life Weetzie Bat, a punk-rock L.A. princess with an internal lightning rod for modern magic.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=e56oqrWBle&isbn=0060777516&itm=2 (1669 words)

	Francesca Lia Block (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Former taboos --- sex, in all varieties (gay, straight, gay-straight menages), 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 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.
	www.charlottezolotow.com /francesca_lia_block.htm (311 words)

	Francesca Lia Block Shrine - FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Francesca Lia Block was born on December 3, 1962 in Hollywood and raised in Los Angeles (San Fernando Valley), CA.
		Block grew up in the San Fernando Valley in an unstructured hippie household where her mother wrote poetry and her father painted.
		Block's mother would tell stories of her childhood — living at the Garden of Allah, hopping up to the counter at Schwab's for lunch.
	glowinthedarkstars.com /modules/xoopsfaq/index.php?cat_id=2 (1799 words)

	Weetzie Bat:Block, Francesca Lia:0064408183:eCampus.com
		Ten years ago Francesca Lia Block made a dazzling entrance into the literary scene with what would become one of the most talked-about books of the decade: Weetzie Bat.
		This "poetic roller coaster swoop" has been repackaged with a sleek new design and is available in both hardcover and paperback editions.
		Block's sophisticated, slinkster-cool love song to L.A. -- the book that shattered the standard, captivated readers of all generations, and made Francesca Lia Block one of the most heralded authors of the last decade.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0064408183 (93 words)

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