Wildwood

I had been anxiously awaiting Wildwood for months. If you recall from a few months ago, I’m a huge Decemberists fan (largely in part to the literary nature of their lyrics). So when I heard Colin Meloy was writing a Narnia-esque trilogy to be illustrated by his wife, award-winning artist Carson Ellis, I could not

Jane Austen: A Life Revealed

I have a confession to make: I’ve never read a Jane Austen book all the way through. Even though the entire thing was assigned to me when I was a student, I only dipped into Pride and Prejudice in high school but never finished. At the time, Jane Austen’s books just never interested me. These

Laurie Halse Anderson reads “Listen”

Living Dead Girl

Trigger warning. I’m not going to write much about the Wall Street Journal‘s ignorant article on young adult literature that was published this weekend. Plenty of people have done an amazing job of writing about it, including YA authors and book bloggers who are far more knowledgeable about the genre in their rebuttals than I

Bumped

Last month, a pregnant teen named Gaby Rodriguez surprised her high school (and eventually made international headlines) when she revealed to onstage to her peers that she wasn’t actually pregnant. Her “pregnancy” had been part of her carefully planned senior project in which she pretended to be pregnant so that she could examine the fallout