Since we know you’ve come to depend on your regular doses of YA from YARN, we thought it was only polite to let you know that we’re taking a little break in August. Only a break from publishing new material, mind you. We’re still reading and hatching new plans–in fact, in September, we’ll be back [...]
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Cheating on YA
I’ve always been a monogamous reader. I like to read one book at a time because then I can totally immerse myself in the world the writer has created, without distraction from another imagined world. I mean, Jane Austen would probably roll over in her grave if she knew I wanted to take a break [...]
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Fear. Search and Destroy.
“That suggests that what you fear most of all is – fear. Very wise, Harry.” Professor Lupin, “The Prisoner of Azkaban” I don’t fear ‘scary movie’ fear. I dread it. I avoid it. I scuttle around it. But I understand it. I fear the type of fear that lurks in the corners of your brain [...]
Fiction
Fire Escape and Q&A with Mitali Perkins
Asha hurried through the aisle of pulsating washers and whirling dryers. The machines sang like a choir of middle-aged American ladies, but she ignored them. She was headed for the table marked “Give-Aways.”
The laundry room could have been a refuge if it hadn’t been for the other, darker [...]
Poetry
Poetry & Commentary by Terra Elan McVoy
So, my new book, “After the Kiss,” is finally out, and I’m incredibly proud and excited. Camille and Becca were fun characters to work with, and this was a neat book to write. I think the finished product turned out well. (And I hope you all do, too!) One of my favorite things about the [...]
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Wrecking the Classics
If you put Gertrude Stein and John Waters in a literary cage fight, who would win? My money would be on Gertrude Stein, scrappy, aesthetically ruthless and downright rude. John Waters, so thin, so well-dressed, would surely step aside, demurely (and dryly) saying, “Gentleman never engage in cage fights with ladies. That is, if Gertrude indeed is a lady” [...]
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