Late post today, as Intern Jenny and I spent the day sending books out, processing contracts, and answering queries. Between reading those, however, I did get a chance to read this, from GalleyCat: Hyperion will publish a memoir that tells the other side of the story behind the memoir, Eat, […]
YA lit
Preppy shoes and an email from KLo that continues our discussion from yesterday, sort of: Basically, what I write sort of borders somewhere between YA and adult fiction. Is there any hard and fast answer for where exactly that line is? There’s an easy answer, but there are exceptions. For […]
Not sure exactly how I feel about this, so I'm opening it up to comments in an attempt to get a dialogue going, and maybe I'll be able to sort out my own thoughts. Basically, I saw this piece on MediaBistro yesterday which reads as a pretty rough indictment of YA (the author Caitlin Flanagan proclaims "I hate Y.A. novels; they bore me."), but at the same time, the full-length piece in the Atlantic from which the MediaBistro extract is pulled is a lush paean to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series.
This guy doesn't have enough blogs, he has to take over mine as well? Man! In any case, here's his latest column from Locus Magazine's special Young Adult issue.