When I got back from the gym yesterday, Twitter was all aflutter with commentary on an article about masculinity in young adult literature written by a teacher who worries she has no good YA to give her son that will help guide him to his “manhood.” There was so much discussion, I actually couldn’t find… Continue reading Where Have All the Cowboys Gone: Young Adult Fiction and Manhood
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What You Should Read
Joel Stein, who seems like a pretty big douche-bag, even though I think he’s just trying to be funny,* thinks you, and by ‘you’ he clearly means adult men, should not be reading Young Adult books. That’s the premise of his article, “Adults Should Read Adult Books” posted on the NYT’s Room for Debate opinion… Continue reading What You Should Read
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