Outstanding Books Starring Latinx Characters
As a Latina, I’m always on the hunt for some good Latinx representation in the stories I read. Years ago, I had hardly found any books...
Girl Power: 9 Badass Girl Crews in YA
This round-up of badass girl crews in YA is sponsored by Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera. Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City. That...
3 on a YA Theme: YA Books About Hockey
Sponsored by Carolrhoda Lab ®, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group Riley was born to be a cliché. A “Manic Pixie Dream Boy” from TropeTown, he’s always...
Virginia Woolf and Margaret Kennedy’s Literary Confessions Book Discovered: Critical Linking, March 13, 2019
Sponsored by our What’s Up in YA Giveaway of a $100 gift card to Amazon! Enter here. My cousin and I recently unearthed a gem. We...
The Impact of #MeToo in France: An Interview with Lénaïg Bredoux
Aida Alami: Many speak of the “séduction à la française” as a way of accounting for Denis Baupin’s alleged conduct toward women. Lénaïg Bredoux: This is...
How Do You Like Your Quotes? Straight or Curly?
Welcome to Do You Copy, a new semi-regular column on copyediting (copy editing? copy-editing?) that investigates some of the editorial life’s deepest mysteries. When is an...
FLASH GIVEAWAY: Win a PRIDE & PREJUDICE Tote!
A little pop-up giveaway for those interested: we have three Pride & Prejudice totes to give away. For putting things in and taking them places. You...
Eliot Reflects on “Prufrock”
The 92nd Street Y has released a never-before-heard 1950 recording of T.S. Eliot reading many of his most famous poems and delivering comments on craft, the...
Dream Girls Just Wanna Have Agency
Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation hands power to the sleeping beauty Since childhood, I have been drawn to the various iterations of the Sleeping...
What If You Can’t Afford “A Room of One’s Own”?
The writing community needs to start talking openly about financial insecurity When I first read Virginia Woolf’s dictum that “A woman must have money and a...
