A Creative Crisis
Deciding to write a different kind of historical novel in the face of a more repressive environment, but not giving up my commitment to social justice.
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Giving Characters Agency in Restricted Spaces
How writers can give their protagonists agency even if the characters are very young or live in very restricted environments.
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The Lost Democracies of the 21st Century
A discussion of the fates of democracies that gave way to dictatorships from the mid-1990s to the present. How many of them are democracies again?
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Gambling With Freedom
An election in which our very democracy and freedoms are at stake, and what we lose if we lose them to shiny promises and violent solutions.
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Rally Against Project 2025
Why I’m going to a rally to protest Project 2025. What it is and why it’s a danger.
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Winner, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2023!
