Thank you to Dr. Tompkins for passing along this encouraging article from Inside Higher Ed about the current crisis in English jobs.  Some of the ideas discussed in this article are very similar to my own thinking about what my eventual career path may entail. Via Jill, I am slowly engrossing mysel...

I figured I'd post another review this week since I've got a decent number in the hopper, with a couple more to be written in the next few days. I don't read enough short fiction in the genre, as I've said before so I begain rectifying that very quickly this year when I read Jonathan Strahan's indis...

For today's Year In Review post, I look back at the big trends and hot topics that cropped up in YA lit in 2008. That is, outside of the whole "Twilight" explosion (see my thoughts on that phenomenon in Part One of Anastasia's earlier YIR coverage.) Crossing the Young Adult/Adult Divide This year th...

Xeni Jardin has a post today about her “unpublishing” of Violet Blue-related posts that caused so much controversy. Go read it now before she decides to take it down. The post is fairly long but doesn’t really say anything beyond reaffirming that their her posts and she’ll ta...

The Boing! Boing! vs. Violet Blue death match at least gives BB fans something to do between Cory Doctorow’s posts plugging his book. For those of you who don’t care about Boing! Boing!, the short version is they had some sort dispute with sex blogger Violet Blue, and about a year ago we...

As new media gets big, it remains small at heart — and not in a good way. Boing Boing, the popular tech-culture blog, has offered a tardy defense of its mass deletion of posts mentioning a sex blogger from its archive, and it amounts to this: Because Boing Boing started as a personal blog, it's en...

Few books have had the impact on me that WASTELANDS: STORIES OF THE APOCALYPSE did. I started reading editor John Joseph Adams’ definitive collection of end-of-the-world tales from the last 20 years while on vacation in Cambodia, and that’s where things started getting weird. WASTELANDS ...

Science fiction’s roots lie in fare intended for consumption by young adults, but as the genre has grown up and authors struggled for legitimacy in literary circles, the YA contingent has gotten the short end of the stick, subsisting on licensed material and crappy patronization (MAXIMUM RIDE ...

“I just finished listening to the audiobook of Michael Chabon’s new novel, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, a hardboiled alternate history novel set in a world where Israel falls in 1948 and its population of Jews relocate to a territory carved out of Alaska, a territory that is thei...

Seattle was incredible! We stayed at the Executive Pacific Hotel downtown, maybe four or five blocks from the shore and within walking distance of Pike Place Market and the monorail. It was also across the street from the beautiful new Central Library and a block from a Specialty’s bakery – ...