Against Monoculture
With the cancellation of two YA novels already this year, the PEN America annual meeting and panel discussion moderated by PEN Executive Director Suzanne Nossel on the topic "Writing Wrongs:…
With the cancellation of two YA novels already this year, the PEN America annual meeting and panel discussion moderated by PEN Executive Director Suzanne Nossel on the topic "Writing Wrongs:…
A discussion of the award-winning documentary Free Solo and how it especially resonated with go-it-alone me.
Exchanging a sensitivity read for an expert read prompts a discussion on the difference between the two.
Although I didn't achieve my 2018 New Year's Resolution I achieved a lot of things related to it, making the year a mixed bag.
How does a writer deal with conflicting advice about the process or content of a work-in-progress? Mine had to do with fear.
Announcing We Are KidLit (formerly We're the People) and our first Twitter chat featuring a critical read of Little House on the Prairie.
A report on my very first #nErDcamp, on Long Island, which will definitely not be my last.
The importance of small press and self-published books as an antidote to uniformity and repression, and a discussion of an outstanding new YA title.
On attending the launch of the anthology We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, an essential book for our time.
It's back-to-school week here in New York, and my daughter is preparing for her first class of fifth graders who will arrive tomorrow. And I'm scheduling my own back-to-school events…