The Fault in Our Stars
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What to Read When You’re in the In-Between Place
Suleika Jaouad shares a reading list to celebrate BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kristopher Jansma
Kristopher Jansma discusses his second novel, Why We Came to the City, facing adulthood in his thirties, and working through grief and loss in writing.
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Survivor Literature
YA authors now find themselves walking the fine line between fiction and reality. They have a duty to portray illness accurately, as they must avoid harmfully romanticising dying…they must also be careful not to cross into territory which is too…
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The Novel Isn’t Dead, It’s Just a Movie
For the Atlantic, Dashiell Bennett explores “the symbiotic relationship between movies and books”: While it’s hardly novel to suggest that Hollywood is out of ideas, 2014 hasn’t done much to prove otherwise. Of the top 10 grossing films released last…
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John Green Sends Books to Ferguson
Scott Bonner, the director of the Ferguson Municipal Public Library, answered questions on Reddit over the weekend and discussed the needs of the community in light of the ongoing protests. The Ferguson library has continued to function, even as schools…
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A Teen’s Perspective
The Los Angeles Review of Books has posted “an honest review from a teen’s perspective” about The Fault in Our Stars.
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Tournament of Books X Begins!
Get ready for the Morning News’s tenth annual Tournament of Books, a “March Madness–style battle royale” to determine which work of fiction will reign supreme (though the site is careful to note that the competition “is not an attempt to…
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And the Winner Is…
After a month of victories and losses and thrilling deliberation, the Morning News‘s Tournament of Books has chosen a champion: The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson! The harrowing, North Korea–set epic beat out The Fault in Our Stars by John Green in…