The 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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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