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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Ray Stoeve
“I think I might be trans. I mean, I know I am. I think.” These are the first lines narrated by Dean Foster, the protagonist of Ray Stoeve’s debut YA novel Between Perfect & Real. Dean knows he’s a...
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Kristy’s Invisible Hand and Das Baby-Sitters Club Kapital”
My first encounter with girls as ardent capitalists happened between the covers of Ann M. Martin’s Baby-Sitters Club books. The original series totaled 131 installments and from the series’ first page,...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess grew up in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. After surviving genocide and 1,150 days under the Serbian military siege, she emigrated to the United States in 1996. She then earned...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Robin Gow
Robin Gow reclaims the label “degenerate” in service of honoring queer narratives in religious contexts. A native of rural Pennsylvania, they are the author of the poetry collection Our Lady of...
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Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for Foreshadow
We are thrilled to bring you this exclusive first look at the cover of Nova Ren Suma and Emily X.R. Pan’s forthcoming anthology, Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and Writing YA,...
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A Poethead’s Guide to the Galaxy: Talking with David Hernandez
For years, David Hernandez has been a literary luminary, shining his light down a path I am eager to follow. His first collection of poems, A House Waiting for Music (Tupelo Press, 2003), was published...
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Angie Thomas
Writer Angie Thomas grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, in a neighborhood plagued by drug dealing and gun violence. While earning her BFA in creative writing at Belhaven University, a predominantly white...
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The Rumpus Interview with Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson has been winning lifetime achievement awards since her early forties. An Olympian in the event of taking home Newbery and Caldecott Honor Medals, Woodson won the Margaret A. Edwards...
View ArticleReading YA Lit as an Act of Resistance
These and many other stories hope to remind us that the freedom to choose our own reading is a form of resistance against the looming threat of a totalitarian state…YA literature has situated itself as...
View ArticleThe Art of Quitting
At Book Riot, Kelly Jensen discusses the scarcity of quitters in YA novels, and quitters’ importance in showing readers the accomplishment of self-preservation.Related Posts:The Women of YADaddy Wasn’t...
View ArticleDaddy Wasn’t There
Anyone who made it through high school English can probably recall reading a story or two about young protagonists finding themselves in the absence of parental guidance. From whence does this orphan...
View ArticleBringing Asexuality to YA Fiction
Asexuality is often left out from discussions around queer visibility in pop culture. At Bitch Media, Lucy Mihajlich shares how she was told by an agent that her young adult dystopian trilogy,...
View ArticleSave the Children
Graeme Whiting, headmaster of the Acorn School (motto: “Have courage for the truth”) of Nailsworth, Great Britain, recently published a blog post condemning “sensational” fantasy novels such as the...
View ArticleRamona Quimby All Grown Up
Beverly Cleary guided generations of girls and boys alike through the rocky, messy, color- and dream-filled days of childhood with her long-running Ramona series, which manages to stay at the forefront...
View ArticleA Trip to Malory Towers
At Aeon, Nakul Krishna revisits Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers, a series of boarding school novels, for a glimpse at the ethics that join Blyton’s novels together.Related Posts:Ramona Quimby All Grown...
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The Rumpus Interview with Manuel Gonzales
Manuel Gonzales’s first book, The Miniature Wife, a collection of short stories, was often compared to work by George Saunders, Aimee Bender, and Karen Russell. Three years ago, shortly after the...
View ArticleYA Novels Help Parents Talk Sex
A discussion with your kid about the birds and the bees might be one of the more intimidating moments of parenthood, but YA novelists can lend a hand. When YA writers confront modern issues of sex,...
View ArticleNew Ambassador for Young People’s Lit
The Library of Congress is, for the first time, naming a graphic novelist as the Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. The honor goes to Gene Luen Yang, author of the graphic novels American Born...
View ArticleAll Mixed Up
Is The Hunger Games feminist? Does it matter? Flavorwire’s Sarah Seltzer wonders whether we’re asking the wrong questions:It seduces us with a good-vs.-evil premise, but then muddies the entire thing...
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #5: Rad Girls
We should all implant these terrific girls in our brains. Reading excellent kid’s books as an adult reveals the world to us in new ways, reminds us of childhood and teaches us about our young selves...
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