YA literature is often criticized for the thing that makes it essential: recognizing and validating the daily dramatic ebbs and flows that come with adolescence.
Anna Fitzpatrick
Miriam Toews, author of All My Puny Sorrows, discusses fictionalizing her family history, how shame begets art, and creating a community with her writing.
There’s a very important difference between Young Adult books and books featuring young adults; just compare Tamara Faith Berger’s Maidenhead to Judy Blume’s Forever. But what that difference is, exactly, confounds booksellers, readers, and publishers alike.
Macabre books for young adults—the kind popularized by the unsurpassed Roald Dahl—deliver chills to young readers without alarming their parents, or whacking them over the head with morals. This way, they teach kids the joys of reading.
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