All the links I’ve been saving:
- There’s a new episode of Crossover Appeal up, and this one has my favorite book rec list so far.
- Beautiful photographs inspired by fictional meals.
- It’s been fifty years of staying gold.
- This is so far beyond my scarf budget, but I love this Amelia Earhart scarf!
- Fascinating article about editor extraordinaire Ursula Nordstrom and the queer history of publishing.
- And the problematic “acceptance” narrative for stories featuring trans characters.
- I am so anti-Max, sorry not sorry.
- Questioning stereotypes about disabilities in fiction.
- I need to check out this mural inspired by Rita Dove’s poetry the next time I’m in Charlottesville.
- Love seeing teens with jobs in YA novels.
- Readers on printed books and ebooks. (Me? I love both!)
- Magical learning in all its forms.
- On writing, day jobs, and the labor movement.
- And yep, writing is work.
- Major love for Pura Belpré, librarian extraordinaire. And maybe check out the book award that bears her name!
- I’ll take a good boarding school book any day.
- Also, fairy tale retellings.
- Book conservators: keeping books in tact, one page at a time.
- “Sometimes I miss the “newness” of [being a teen]. There were many new things that I was experiencing. Discoveries about myself and others and life. I try very hard to keep that newness going even now in my old age.” Love this interview with Francisco X. Stork!
- On approaching problematic books as a white reader.
- Some words to work into your regular conversation.
- Jane Austen knows about building suspense.
- Multicultural readers deserve to see themselves in books.
- Using technology to save a dying language.
- In college and looking for an awesome summer job? Apply to be a counselor at Young Writers Workshop!
- Fighting the writing fear.
- Judging books like Mary Berry judges cakes.
- Need to add these graphic novels to my reading list.