Brrr

CNN.com has a great interview with Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked, Son of a Witch and the brand new Lion Among Men (and other books). In the third Wicked installment, the main character is Brrr (the Cowardly Lion). Check out the interview to see where he got the name Brrr from!

Maguire on Brrr:

"His character arises in the hollow space in our perceptions between that giant roaring lion at the MGM logo ... the ideal lion, and the kind of sad, sacked, out of work, vaudeville performer in lion pajamas that we see when Dorothy actually runs into the lion on the Yellow Brick Road.

In other words, there's a huge disconnect between the image we project of ourselves -- the best we might ever hope to possibly be -- and the way we feel about ourselves at our absolute worst -- when we're the most down in the dumps. There's a huge space in between there. So the novel's really in some ways about character and taking control of the destiny of your own character."