Commentary
Education or Escape, Reform or Release

After a long time of not visiting (I’m lazy and I don’t have any kind of blog alerts set up), I stopped by the teen marketing website Ypulse (www.ypulse.com) and saw this note about a new marketing initiative from Penguin called “Point of View.”  The note, which links to Penguin’s website by the same title, [...]

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Posted on 21st September 2009No Comments
Preaching to the Choir

Preaching to the Choir
So, I just finished reading Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother and this, combined with my memories of Steve Kluger’s My Most Excellent Year and (to a lesser degree) F. Paul Wilson’s Jack:  Secret Histories, made me wonder about the YA literary audience.  While I think that most of us would argue that the [...]

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Posted on 8th September 2009No Comments