An Interview with No Pictures
Tom Lutz talks with B.J. Novak about storytelling and his forthcoming children’s book.
Tom Lutz talks with B.J. Novak about storytelling and his forthcoming children’s book.
Tom LutzDec 9, 2014
Love and murder and teenage girls in Memphis.
Susannah LuthiOct 13, 2014
What is groundbreaking within one cultural context can seem routine a few years later.
Rumaan AlamSep 23, 2014
In a society where people believe that “teenagers don’t care,” at least not about anything important, what is it like to read as teenager?
Angela YuenSep 22, 2014
The distressingly human lives of vampires today
Becca RothfeldSep 19, 2014
ALMOST TWO CENTURIES have elapsed since the word “zombie” was introduced into the English language. Back in 1819, Romantic poet Robert Southey first...
Clair McLaffertyAug 12, 2014
On Richard Linklater's 'Boyhood'
Wai Chee DimockAug 1, 2014
“I only know what it’s like to read The Fault in Our Stars as a woman in my mid-30s who is friends with a woman in her mid-30s who, like Hazel Grace...
Briallen HopperJul 16, 2014
Luckily, Jillian Tamaki’s exquisite drawings redeem This One Summer.
Austin EnglishJul 11, 2014
“I think all my books for teenagers have ended up being about being heard. Being taken seriously. Being treated as a complex creation who doesn’t...
Patrick NessJun 18, 2014
McCormick Templeman reads Brandy Colbert’s buzzed-about debut novel Pointe — and wishes she wrote it herself.
McCormick TemplemanMay 10, 2014
I NEVER EXPECTED to write science fiction. If you’d told me in college that one day I would be most known as an SF writer for young adults, I would...
Beth RevisDec 13, 2013
'Serious' authors who have written Y.A./Children's lit
Courtney SenderJul 10, 2013
Triptych image: Catelynn Booth, "In Sun and Shadow III," 2013 Watercolor and gouache on paper 1: How to Read “Have you read them all?” a friend...
Sarah MesleJun 2, 2013
MADELEINE L’ENGLE’S A WRINKLE IN TIME is one of those books that I read compulsively as a child, in my under-the-bed fort, smearing the pages with...
Jenna BragerDec 10, 2012
EVEN BEFORE I OFFICIALLY hit adolescence I’d read and loved most of Judy Blume’s books. I pored over Are you There God? It’s Me Margaret several...
Nina BerryNov 27, 2012
On "Deenie," "Tiger Eyes," "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret"
Andrea Kleine, Nell Beram, Nina BerryNov 27, 2012
THE AGE AT WHICH I learned to read coincided with the age at which I learned to dance. Both things would come to define me. I was a dancer. I was a...
Meg HowreySep 26, 2012
"The books are letting her talk about her life in a safe way that offers her a quick out should she need it."
Gigi AmateauJun 1, 2012
Absolutely Squiffling: Growing Up with Roald Dahl WHEN I WAS TEN — or thereabouts — I decided to read everything that Road Dahl had ever written...
Janelle BrownMay 31, 2012
James, the giant peach, Bobby Crapser and me By Paul Acampora I HAD A LOT to be afraid of in the summer of 1975. I was 12-years-old. Watergate and...
April Henry, Paul AcamporaMay 31, 2012
On 'Magic Hours,' 'Miss Fuller,' 'The Dangerous Book Four Boys,' 'The Fault of Our Stars,' and 'The Guardians.'
Susan Salter ReynoldsMay 6, 2012
IF ONLY I COULD STOP crying long enough to write about this damn book. (Since John Green is a "YA," or Young Adult novelist, I am getting an enormous...
Susan Salter ReynoldsMay 6, 2012
"Block paints Los Angeles in late-eighties' Rococo: Patrick Nagel doing the Go-Gos in dayglo."
Bennett MadisonApr 23, 2012