Talk:M. T. Anderson

Books for the college bound.
Feed is on that list... Maybe for the awards section... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.165.122.204 (talk) 04:34, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Bibliography Revisions
Regarding the previous bibliography:

There needs to be a few new sections added to the page in general, many of which could use these sources. I'd recommend a section dedicated to feed, since articles indicate that it's the most significant work. Within this section could be a subsection on dystopian literature (Booker article as well as any other dystopian themed articles), as well as a subsection about young adult literature in schools, or in general.

Also, the interview with M.T. Anderson was a primary source, so I've replaced it with another young adult literature article.

Construction and Validation of a Quality of Life Instrument for Young Adults Henian Chen, Patricia Cohen, Stephanie Kasen, Kathy Gordan, Rebecca Dufur and Elizabeth Smailes Quality of Life Research, Vol. 13, No. 4 (May, 2004), pp. 747-759 Published by: Springer


 * Bullen, Elizabeth, and Elizabeth Parsons. "Dystopian Visions of Global Capitalism: Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines and M.T Anderson’s Feed." Children's Literature in Education 38.2 (2007): 127-39. Print.

Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People by Noga Applebaum Review by: Michael Levy Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3 (November 2010), pp. 493-494 Published by: SF-TH Inc
 * Technophobia for the Young

Richard Lederer The English Journal, Vol. 56, No. 8 (Nov., 1967), pp. 1132-1135 Published by: National Council of Teachers of English
 * Shaping the Dystopian Nightmare


 * "Everything must go!" Consumerism and reader positioning in M. T. Anderson's Feed. Clare Bradford. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. 2.2 (Winter 2010) p128. Word Count: 3481. From Literature Resource Center.


 * Feed. James Blasingame. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. 47.1 (Sept. 2003) p88. Word Count: 750. From Literature Resource Center.


 * Books for adolescents. James Blasingame. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. 47.1 (Sept. 2003) p88. Word Count: 424. From Literature Resource Center.

Elizabeth C. Cooksey and Ronald R. Rindfuss Sociological Forum, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 2001), pp. 731-755 Published by: Springer
 * Patterns of Work and Schooling in Young Adulthood

Review by: Brett Cooke The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Winter, 1996), pp. 769-771 Published by: American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
 * Dystopian Literature: A Theory and Research Guide by M. Keith Booker

Author: Bullen, Elizabeth Author: Parsons, Elizabeth Primary Title: Dystopian Visions of Global Capitalism: Philip Reeve’s and M.T Anderson’s Journal Name: Children's Literature in Education Cover Date: 2007-06-27 Publisher: Springer Netherlands Issn: 0045-6713 Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law Pages: 127 - 139 Volume: 38
 * Reference Type: Journal Article

Rowenator (talk) 00:35, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Short Fiction
I moved the short fiction stuff from the awards section to the works section and placed the names of the editors of the collections after the name of the collection they edited rather than after the name of a particular short story, since I assume they did not actually edit M.T. Anderson's contributions. It made more sense to me. If I'm wrong, I apologize. Peace and safe travelling,--RainbowWerewolf (talk) 07:17, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Outline
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Suggestions for Improvement
I'm still not really sure who M.T. Anderson is or what he is about. You could try and add more about his bibliography and try to add some of his more popular works of art. Also, the section about Feed is very vague. Why is Feed important to the author and the readers? The references all seemed to check out but overall, the article has very little information about the author. Try to add more of where his work came from and what the author is trying to get across to the reader. Fallscarlett13 (talk) 20:02, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * This is a good suggestion - you are going to have add more material here in sentence form and rely less on the lists that were already in the article. Wadewitz (talk) 14:06, 11 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree, there needs to be more discussion about "Feed." Is it his most popular novel? Was it his breakthrough novel? How has his writing career been since? Before? Also, I would like to see more about what other people think about Anderson's works. I see a lot of interviews (and I like that they have their own section in the references), but there are hardly any reviews or critical literature under the reference section. Sometimes book reviews contain a lot more than just reviews. Kida5887 (talk) 18:37, 11 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure about saying his books are for children and "young adults". I am reading "Landscape With Invisible Hand" right now. Yes, it's an easy read, and a short one, with a few somewhat difficult words from a kid's point of view. (Also, the F-word is used quite a bit.) As an adult, I find his light-hearted take on this particular dystopia disturbing. The dystopia itself, with its friendly aliens who have destroyed the human economy and are destroying the human way of life by being technologically helpful, is somewhat horrifying. For instance, his teenage narrator casually and without anger mentions people getting down on all fours to eat their lawns. There are other little "throw-away" horrors, like huge alien factories (or something) that destroy everything around them. Is he anti-technology? Is this a satire on the Industrial Revolution? The "Invisible Hand" of the title likely comes from Adam Smith. There are deeper waters here than the article implies. Wastrel Way (talk) Eric

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Futuristic language
What justifies the word "unique" in "The unique use of 'futuristic' language" in the article? This was famously done by Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange and I doubt that has been the only such attempt. Zaslav (talk) 01:54, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

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Article Name Question
As it currently stands, the name of this article is "Matthew Tobin Anderson." However, as far as I'm able to tell, he's credited as "M.T. Anderson" on all of his books. While his pen name is mentioned in the article (and I think also has a redirect that leads to this article), since it's the name he's likely more well known by should the title of the article be changed to "M.T. Anderson" to reflect this? As a similar example, the article on P.G. Wodehouse is called "P.G. Wodehouse" and not "Pelham Grenville Wodehouse." I'm still fairly new to Wikipedia editing so I'm not sure how to change the name of an article or what kind of a process has to be followed before that can happen. Kirby Macintosh (talk) 21:12, 12 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Since nobody weighed in I decided to just go ahead and make the move. If this was the wrong choice on my part I take full responsibility. Kirby Macintosh (talk) 18:45, 14 August 2022 (UTC)

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Update website address
Hi – friendly request that we update the website URL listed for MT Anderson's bio to https://mtanderson.com (change from https://mt-anderson.com). I'm implementing this change on the author's behalf, so can't propose make the Wikipedia edit myself. Thanks! Ehbhd (talk) 16:48, 13 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Done. Kirby Macintosh (talk) 00:23, 5 July 2024 (UTC)