Whatchamacallit Narrators

I will say straight-up that some of my favorite writers use intrusive narrators, third person omniscient narrators, direct address narrators, whatever you want to call them.  That is, I like those who are not quite in the stories, but not quite out of them either, telling them. And so I'm loving the conversation going on at Betsy Bird's post, "The Personalities of Intrusive Narrators."

Betsy begins with a mention of Adam Gidwitz's wonderful forthcoming A Tale Dark and Grimm which I have just f...