backstories
Jan. 31, 2019
How You Transformed Penn Badgley Into a Creepy Dreamboat It’s hard work to make a guy that handsome into a believable creepmobile.
twitter justice
Jan. 31, 2019
The Latest YA Twitter Pile On Forces a Rising Star to Self-Cancel Amélie Wen Zhao won a huge book deal, but succumbed to a campaign alleging Blood Heir ’s insensitivity months before its publication.
end of an era
Jan. 9, 2019
The Millions Will Live on, But the Indie Book Blog Is Dead Serious readers’ favorite source of outsider reviews, just acquired by Publishers Weekly , was essentially the last of its kind.
appropriation
Dec. 17, 2018
New Plagiarism Accusations Spark a Twitter Debate on ‘After’ Poems Another poet accused of theft — or is it just a centuries-old form of homage?
Poetry Twitter Erupts Over a Plagiarist in Their Midst Ailey O’Toole was a young poet on the rise, until colleagues found she’d stolen their verse.
backstories
Jan. 26, 2018
How The Alienist Re-created 1896 New York in Budapest “Just when we thought the show was going to die a sad death, someone said, ‘Have you thought of Budapest?’”
Why Did a Texas School District Ban the Year’s Most Popular YA Book? Katy Independent School District superintendent Lance Hindt appears to have flouted his district’s policies to pull the book from shelves.
Kirkus Editor-in-Chief Explains Why They Altered That American Heart ReviewEarlier this week, the magazine pulled a review amid online criticism of the book.
young adult fiction
Aug. 7, 2017
The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter Young-adult books are being targeted in intense social-media callouts, draggings, and pile-ons — sometimes before anybody’s even read them.
How Stranger Things Subverts the ‘Douchebag Boyfriend’ ’80s-Movie Trope When it comes to the show’s teen love triangle, it becomes more about subverting classic ‘80s tropes than honoring them.