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The Importance of Dark Stories; or, Kate Talks for a Long Time about Lois Lowry and Crying a Lot
Wednesday night I got to meet Lois Lowry and spend 45 minutes in conversation with her before her appearance in conversation with Anna Holmes and Lizzie Skurnick of Jezebel.com. I was the guest of Jen Doll at the Atlantic Wire (you can read her interview here), because the two of us are reading The Giver Quartet for her YA for Grownups column (first part here), and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt had asked if we’d like to meet Ms. Lowry since she was going [...]
Subversive Reading! Awesome!
It’s Banned Books Week! Wooohooo! Because I do like the fact that we take a week to discuss banned and challenged books, here goes me. I thought I’d pick a few frequently banned or challenged books that I haven’t read before and see what the horror is all about. Results to come in a Subway Literature post next week. My first stop was to the American Library Association’s Banned and Challenged Books resource pages. There’s a great little section where you [...]
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I wrote this book. Daniela Volpi took this picture.
Messing around on Pinterest
