Technical Notes on Video:

Video length is 1:31:01.

Robert M. Randolph, First Chaplain to the Institute, introduces the event and
Susan Flannery, Director, Cambridge Public Library.

At 3:27, Flannery begins.

At 7:12, Daryl Mark, Coordinator of Children's Services, Cambridge Public Library introduces the three speakers.

At 16:28, Moderator Roger Sutton starts the panel off with a question about the ubiquity of “atmospheric weather settings” in fantasy writing.

Sutton’s subsequent questions involve:
How Susan Cooper “stumbled” into fantasy writing;
How Maguire developed concurrently as a children’s literature critic and writer;
What “is this human impulse to make things up that are impossible;”
The connection between the real Hurricane Katrina and the upheaval and terror in Maguire’s What-the-Dickens;
Whether fantasy provides “the freedom to write bigger,” including getting in touch with dark things;
When a story needs fantasy;
The use of time travel in fiction;
Whether it’s “dismal to think we need fantasy;”
Whether in writing for children we “feel a compunction to tell the truth;”
How to respond to the Christian Right, which censors some fantasy writing.

At 1:10:34, Q&A begins.