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Interview style: Declare something dead; blame men for something; interrupt
I had so much fun doing this podcast with former YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) president, the completely delightful Michael Cart, that I barely let him get a word in edgewise. Things we discussed (as broken down by producer Linda Braun):
- Shelf Discovery
- The range of human experience covered in teen novels.
- How teens read and what they get out of reading realistic fiction.
- Books including Secret Lives by Bertha Amos, Jacob Have I Loved, Phyllis Reynold Naylor’s Alice series, and The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp.
- Reasons why novels for girls and women do not receive the respect they deserve.
- Skurnick’s career & the readership of her Jezebel columns.
- The future of print reviewing and the changing world of reading in electronic and print formats.
