Briana Muñoz spits fire into a microphone. She belts out words that form a dance circle of their own accord, which is fitting considering Muñoz has been a danc...
When I was fifteen, I was set on becoming an author.
This decision included spending my evenings in my small-town coffee shop, wearing non-prescription glas...
Michael Torres' debut poetry collection, An Incomplete List of Names, dropped a few weeks before Election Day. The poet's voice almost feels prophetic now....
Cherríe Moraga’s "Native Country of the Heart" is a mother-daughter story and the story of a time and a place. Most trenchantly, though, it’s a rumination on memory....
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, ...
“We’re all keeping secrets,” muses Louise, the protagonist in Sarah Pinborough’s new young adult thriller Behind Her Eyes. Louise’s words reflect the novel’s th...
Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author, opens up to me about his family, his life and struggles. The man behind Drown, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and This is How You Lose Her is not usually an open book. On this day he was. Kind of....
A zine is a tiny book that you make on your own. It can be about anything. People capture the story of their lives in zines, little diaries and time capsules folded down the center. An abridged version of “magazine" or "fanzine", zines have been reproducing the voices of people on the fringes since their punk-rock inception....
Author Meg Cabot
What do you get when you put a princess in combat boots or a hot 100-year old ghost in a high school girl’s bedroom?
Two hit young adult...
