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Maybe Genius is really hitting it out of the park today (and by “today” I mean “the day I picked to catch up on my last month of feeds”). Here’s a handy list of dystopian tropes. I’m thinking about using it to create Dystopian Bingo. Would you play with me? … Continue reading
I recently had to think about this ubiquitous question from a different angle when asked to read a colleague’s manuscript to see if it could work for a YA market. Why is it or is it not a YA novel now? What changes could she make to turn it into … Continue reading
Paolo Bacigalupi (Ship Breaker) is interviewed in School Library Journal this month: “Master of Disaster”. He talks about his take on the now-trendy post-apocalyptic genre. Reading the interview I had the unsettling feeling that he stole the kind of thoughts that are churning around in my brain all the time … Continue reading
YA Highway just posted an interview with my internet friend Noa Wheeler, an editor at the Macmillan imprint Henry Holt. Can’t wait to meet her (and hopefully lots of other people I only know digitally) in 2 1/2 weeks at BEA!
The current Horn Book Magazine includes a letter from Madeleine George, author of Looks, one of the books Kathryn Nolfi calls out as fatphobic in her article from the January issue, “YA Fatphobia”. (I discussed that article a bit here.) I think George raises a particularly interesting question here: More … Continue reading
My friend Rebecca showed me a lovely essay today: “The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re Going to Miss Almost Everything”, by Linda Holmes. It’s about the impossibility of being “well-read” (or well-watched, or well-listened), given the vast quantities of writing, theater, movies, music, and TV that have been and are … Continue reading
My colleague posted this article, by “Professor X,” a private and community college professor: “An Anti-College Backlash?” (The Atlantic, Mar. 31, 2011) Oh, there’s so much going on here. I can’t address all of it right now, but here’s a start: [F]our-year college is perhaps not for everyone. Rather, for … Continue reading
I’ve been trying to figure out how to write this post for a couple of days now. Thankfully, my friend Deborah mostly did it for me for Kirkus, beautifully. I have been a Diana Wynne Jones fan as long as I can remember, since the hilarious Lives of Christopher Chant … Continue reading
Tu Books, the imprint of Lee & Low devoted to multicultural MG & YA genre fiction that I’ve been all excited about revealed the covers for their first 3 books! That’s right — three, not the two I blogged about in Sept. I wasn’t especially excited about the first two, … Continue reading
My colleague the delightful Arianna of Wandering Librarians and I are goofing off this fine Friday afternoon. This Twitter feed is the result: OneSentenceYA. How would you sum up your favorite (or least favorite) novels in a sentence?
