YARN editors were thrilled to interview Malinda Lo, the brilliant and witty author of “Ash.” If you haven’t yet had a chance to read “Ash,” (which you definitely should) it’s the Cinderella story retold with a fairy/lesbian twist. Malinda’s prose recreates an ancient world, where fairies dominate the forests alongside farming villages, and carriages carrying [...]
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 [...]
Interviews
Barry Lyga Interview, Part 2
And here’s Part 2 of our “astonishing” interview with Barry Lyga.
YARN: “Boy Toy” is an amazingly difficult novel to describe in terms of plot. However, it seems like Josh’s main issue is not so much the actual sexual abuse but the memory of it. Could you elaborate on the fine line between the two [...]
Interviews
Interview with Barry Lyga, Part 1
Guts. If there’s a word that describes Barry Lyga’s amazing novels, it’s that. Guts. I mean, what other writer is willing to totally reveal his comic book geekdom in his first novel (“The Amazing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”), then discuss the complicated sexual abuse of a teen boy by a female teacher in his second book (“Boy Toy”) [...]
Interviews
Interview with Meg Cabot!
We’re indebted to the imagination of Meg Cabot. She takes the dreams of every girl…and then allows us to live them. What if I suddenly found out I was a princess? What if I magically became a runway model? But Meg’s heroines show us that life’s problems don’t suddenly disappear with newfound beauty, power or [...]
Interviews
Interview with Susan Beth Pfeffer
We’re big admirers of Susan Beth Pfeffer. Her career in writing children’s literature has lasted 40 years (“Just Morgan” was published in 1970) and 75 books, which would be remarkable enough–but it’s an amazing writer indeed who can produce the breakthrough “New York Times” bestselling “Life As We Knew It” (LAWKI) on Book #74. [...]
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