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Last night, 11 o'clock-ish, my hair flat, my eyes slightly swollen, my red and white striped socks in grotesque visual combat with my too-tight but also floppy-collared top, I read this story by Pamela Paul in the New York Times. You'll get the gist from the title, perhaps: "She Sounds Smart, but Look at Her Hair!" If you need more, I share this paragraph below—an email Paul received following her seemingly successful (televised) moderation of a book-fair panel in Miami.
“Had the unfortunate experience of seeing you on Miami Dade College video tossing your head around and continuously pushing the hair out of your face. What the hell is the matter with you? Why wear hair that covers your eye? You are an insult to women.”
Paul's piece goes on to feature a handful of other women (Lori Gottlieb, Rebecca Skloot, Bridget Todd) who spend time in the glare of the media sun talking real issues. Women who, after adding something to the intellectual exchange, are barraged later on by inane commentary. Hair. Baggy eyes. A twice-worn purple sweater. The works.
My first thought (and I have been having this thought a lot lately): Glad I am not famous or TV-worthy. Indeed, except for those few days after a stylist has blown some sense into my tresses, I am not even hair-fit for the gym. I've lost friends over the wilderness of the stuff that sprouts from my head. I've endured the exasperation of a colleague who, while perfectly balanced on a stool in a swanky bar, implored me to find a way to fix it.
I have tried. I cannot. Imagine what the anonymous, peering-in-from-their-living-room crowds would say about me were I equipped to endure the media glare in an attempt to say something that mattered.
My second thought (and this should have been my first): Why does it give so many people so much pleasure to be unkind, inconsiderate, ruthlessly shaming? What sports zone are we living in? Why have so many grown so vigorously immune to seeing the bigger picture, and of exercising compassion?
My third thought (and this follows on the heels of my compassion post) is this: What would happen if we all agreed to use our social media channels—our blogs, our Facebook walls, our Twitter, our LinkedIn—for unadulterated good? I know it's a tall order. Heck. There are times when I want to shout, and sometimes do. But what if, for this week ahead, starting now, we set aside our inner mean and only wrote kindly of others (or, as our mothers taught us, held our tongues)?
I'm going to give it a shot. Perhaps you'll join me.
And if you want to join me, pass it on.
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Pamela Paul, the editor of The New York Times Book Review, has signed a deal for her memoir. Henry Holt & Company executive editor Paul Golob negotiated the terms of the agreement with literary agent Lydia Wills.
The release date for My Life with Bob has been set for Fall 2017. Paul’s annotated journal, the “Book of Books” or “Bob” for short, was the subject of a widely-read essay. The New York Timespublished this piece back in April 2012.
Here’s more from the press release: “My Life with Bob serves as a codex of sorts for Paul’s comings and goings and rites of passage since the summer she began keeping a journal at age seventeen in rural France. Finding it impossible to maintain the typical teenage diary, she instead switched to recording the books she was reading and began filling in the margins with the texture of daily life as over time she poured through Moby-Dick during a lonely holiday on Ko Phi Phi, A Distant Mirror while in northern France, and Ethan Frome and The Secret History while hiking in western China. The journal also reflected the milestones of her life.”
If you want to know more about the new editor, you can follow Paul on Twitter. Huffington Post senior media reporter Michael Calderone broke the news, reprinting the full staff memo. Here’s an excerpt:
It’s now Pamela’s turn to take the Book Review in new directions. Her versatility as an editor and writer has strengthened the Book Review and many other sections, including the Magazine, Education Life and Sunday Styles, where she originated the biweekly “Studied” column. Her weekly Q. and A. with authors, “By the Book,” has been a wonderful new addition to the Review, and she has assigned a galaxy of great writers including Martin Amis, Colson Whitehead and Meg Wolitzer, among others. Pamela has also written for The Atlantic, Time, Vogue and The Economist, and she is the author of three books.
The New York Times will divide its Children’s Bestsellers list for chapter books, creating separate middle grade and YA lists. NYT editor Pamela Paul announced the news last night on Twitter. We’ve embedded her three tweets below.
The newly formed middle grade and young adult lists will account for both eBook and print book sales. However, the picture books list will continue to exclusively spotlight on hardcover titles. What do you think?
The Fault in Our Stars author John Green offered this comment on his tumblr page: “In news that only matters to publishing nerds, the New York Times has changed its bestseller lists to become format neutral (so it counts e-book sales and doesn’t distinguish between hardcover and paperback)…Those of you who follow my tumblr closely may know that for many weeks, I have been chasing Bill O’Reilly and promising to destroy him. But now we have been placed on DIFFERENT LISTS.” (via Publishers Weekly)
I have the great privilege of joining David Levithan, Ellen Hopkins, Eliot Schrefer, and Jennifer Hubbard this coming Friday, 7 PM, at Children's Book World in Haverford, PA. CBW is billing us as the Fab Five, and I have Philomel publicist (every author's dream publicist and my good friend) Jessica Shoffel to thank for making me Feel So Fab.
I hope that you will join us. The photograph above was taken during the Publishing Perspectives "What Makes a Children's Book Great?" conference held earlier this summer, where I had so much fun joining moderator Dennis Abrams on the author panel. The smart and savvy notables from left to right are Roger Horn (The Horn Book), Pamela Paul (New York Times), David Levithan (Scholastic editor and author phenom), and my good friend Jennifer Brown, a former school teacher, editor, reviewer, and jury panelist (not to mention head of children's books for Shelf Awareness) whom I always rightly refer to as this country's ambassador for children's books.
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What’s the best young adult novel of all time? NPR Books wants to know. The media outlet is running its annual poll, asking readers to nominate their favorite young adult titles for its top 100 list.
Voting has been narrowed down to 235 choices including: Lord of the Flies, Anne of Green GablesHarry Potter and The Hunger Games. A panel of book experts helped select this list of titles based on the quality, themes and readability of these books. Panel members include: Pamela Paul, The New York Times Book Review’s features editor and children’s book editor; Diane Roback, Publisher’s Weekly’s children’s book editor; Tasha Robinson, book editor for The Onion’s A.V. Club; and teacher/librarian Ted Schelvan.
Every reader gets 10 votes. Follow this link to see the full list and cast your vote.
Poor Dennis Abrams of Publishing Perspectives! He was given the task of interviewing me, and it was one of those days when I was talking too fast about, well, everything. That Dennis was able to create this beautiful profile for Publishing Perspectives says much about his talent for deep listening and fine cohesion. I am grateful, and I am so looking forward to the Publishing Perspectives Children's Book Conference, to be held on May 31st at the Scholastic Headquarters in New York City, where I'll be joining Peter Brown, John Rocco, and Raina Telgemeier on a panel Dennis moderates. Earlier in the day, conference participants will meet Pamela Paul, Jenny Brown, Roger Sutton, David Levithan, Ken Wright, Rosemary Stimola, and Erica Rand Silverman, among others.
I hope to find some of you there. And, again, thank you, Dennis.
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My friends: I'll be at the BEA on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, working for Publishing Perspectives, the fabulous book news pub for which I have written about Pamela Paul (New York Times Book Review children's book editor), Jennifer Brown (Shelf Awareness children's book editor), Lauren Wein (Harcourt Houghton Mifflin editor), Alane Mason (WW Norton editor, not to mention my first editor), and others. I'll be getting the inside scoop on some important stories. But I'll also be looking for you.
If you'll be there, let me know?
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As some of you know, I have been having a lot of fun writing for Publishing Perspectives—interviewing book editors like Michael Green, Tamra Tuller, Lauren Wein, and Alane Salierno Mason, review editors (and trend makers) Pamela Paul and Jennifer Brown, and technologists/book lovers like Eric Hellman.
On May 31st, I'll have a chance to represent for this fine publication as one of the speakers at the inaugural Children's Publishing Conference 2012, to be held at the Scholastic Headquarters. I'll be joining (among others) Pamela Paul of the New York Times Book Review, Jacob Lewis, CEO of Figment, Kevin O'Conner, who directs business and publishers relations for Barnes and Noble, NOOK Kids, and agents Rosemary Stimola and Ken Wright.
I hope those of you interested in the future of children's books will consider registering for this event. I know that I am looking forward to it.
The New York Times Book Review has lately been doing an extraordinary job of celebrating books written for children and young adults. There's more coverage. There's a greater sense of context. There's the feeling that all of this matters greatly.
Take a look at the upcoming Pamela Paul essay on the back page—she's talking about Sendak, Silverstein, Dr. Seuss, and rule breaking. Listen, then, if you have the time, to the podcast slipped in alongside the story. In it Adam Gopnick and Pamela Paul discuss, among other things, the ideal reviewer of children's books; what qualifies anyone to have an opinion? Sam Tannehaus asks good questions. He elicits some really smart answers.
I just sat here in the dark listening to the recording all the way through.
I'm going to stand up now, feeling heartened.
1 Comments on Pamela Paul and Adam Gopnik talk about children's books and the people who review them, last added: 9/17/2011
I love my Saturday mornings with the NYT Book Review and a cup of tea. Since we get a hard copy delivered, I rarely visit the NYT online. Thanks for telling me about that podcast - it was interesting.
I've loved Sendak, Silverstein and Seuss since my childhood and revelled in the badness. I enjoyed sharing them with my kids too. My Wild Thing son insisted on that story every night for 2 years. We could both recite it by the end.
I'm pleased to see children's books getting more attention in the NYT as of late. However, this week only middle grade and picture books were reviewed. What happened to YA? Then again it seems like have the articles on YA in the NYT don't seem to get the genre at all.
Denmark! Mention the country and children’s literature in one breath and what would most Americans think of? Well, if they were well-versed in the form they might think of Hans Christian Andersen. Our national interest in children’s authors from other countries is sparse, but once in a while someone pierces the collective unconscious. Unfortunately for us, Danish children’s literature begins and ends with the esteemed Andersen. For all we know, that country’s interest in kids’ fare began and ended with his reign. So it was with great interest that I became acquainted with one Halfdan Rasmussen. Former resistance fighter against the German occupation, human rights advocate, and children’s poet, the man wore many a hat in his day. Having already been introduced to U.S. kids in the previous publication The Ladder, Rasmussen returns to our public eye with a collection of younger fare. Sweet and jaunty by turns, A Little Bitty Man exhibits all the best aspects of classic children’s poetry. You may have never known this Rasmussen fellow before but after reading this you’ll be happy to make his acquaintance.
Thirteen poems of relative brevity are collected together. Ranging from the realistic to the fantastical, Rasmussen dares to spark young imaginations with this collection. In it you’ll encounter an elf with a singular method of retaining warmth in a chilly proboscis, a dolly with latrophobia, incontinent rainclouds, clever goats, literary fowl, and many more. Accompanied by the delicate, charming illustrations of Kevin Hawkes, this is one poetic introduction you’ll be happy to have made.
I can’t think of the last time a funny poem for kids made me laugh out loud. So imagine my surprise when I found myself reading the poem “You Can Pat My Pet” and ran across these two stanzas: “You can pat my dog for a dime / and my horse for an egg and a half. / You can pat my favorite aunt / if you give me your granddad’s moustache.” It proceeds to get sillier after that but I just love the exchange of aunt patting for facial hair. Rasmussen does not choose to be a funny poet for kids or a meaningful one. He’s both at once. For the most part, when Rasmussen is trying to be insightful, he succeeds. “What Comes Next” is lovely. “What Things Are For” feels like a natural companion to the picture book A Hole Is to Dig by Ruth Krauss. The sole fly in the ointment is “Those Fierce Grown-Up Soldiers” which is the kind of poem we’ve seen done a hundred times before, and never particula
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New York, she is so snowy these days! I’ve lived in this pleasant burg roundabout six years, by my count, but this is the first winter where the weather decided to bring back memories of my Michiganian (Michigander? Michiganolian?) youth. Well, a good Fusenews is the perfect solution for any snowy day. On to the top stories!
Some of us know Shaun Tan best because of his remarkable book The Arrival. Others first became aware of him through his Tales from Outer Suburbia. Now expect a whole new crew of folks to be introduced to him thanks to . . . his recent Academy Award nomination. Yup. I kid you not. Check out the nominees for Short Film (Animated) and there he is alongside one Andrew Ruhemann for an animated adaptation of The Lost Thing. It’s based on his picture book of the same name. Haven’t read it? Well, you lucky bum, you’re in for a treat. Perhaps anticipating this Arthur A. Levine is releasing a collection of three Tan picture books in one volume called Lost & Found. It’s due out on shelves this coming April. If you can wait that long, of course. In the meantime you can watch the trailer for the film here. Thanks to Marjorie Ingall for bringing the nomination to my attention!
Say, this is fairly big news that’s making the rounds relatively slowly. Are you aware that they have hired a new New York Times Book Review editor of children’s books? Yes, they’ve been a little low-key in the announcement but thanks to this podcast from the National Book Critics Circle we have learned that Pamela Paul has garnered the choice position. PW confirmed the choice here. Ms. Paul has a blog of her own, which will give you a better sense of who she is and what she has done.
History Question: Has a paperback edition of a work of children’s fiction ever incorporated the awards it won into the design of its new cover? If you answered, “No, and I doubt it ever will be,” think again.
One of my favorite little ole imprints is one that dedicates its time and attention to bringing out some of the strongest graphic novels for kids you will ever lay hands upon. I hope you will all help me raise a glass and offer many congrats to First Second for celebrating their 5th Anniversary this year. I’ve read a bit of that Zita the Spacegirl GN due out February 1st and it’s a fine example of what First Second does best. Cheers to all!
Hrm. The Scribd site is fast becoming the most dangerous one on the web. I say this because I pretty much could read
Storied Cities (Erica) said, on 1/26/2011 2:03:00 AM
A prequel to the Wizard of Oz? I think MY head just popped off. I’m glad you are keeping on top of things for me.
rams said, on 1/26/2011 6:23:00 AM
Let’s see. The kids in Edward Eager books several times say nice things about E. Nesbitt books (go ahead, force me to be specific, MAKE me go reread Half Magic and The Time Garden.)
Doret said, on 1/26/2011 6:36:00 AM
I am so happy to see Griff Carver: Hallway Patrol and The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman are Edgar Award finalist. And I want to read The Haunting of Charles Dickens
Caleb said, on 1/26/2011 6:39:00 AM
I love Even in Australia!
Cecilia said, on 1/26/2011 7:30:00 AM
I was born in Ann Arbor and my parents always told me to say I was a Michigander. No major snow yet here in D.C. but maybe this afternoon!
Book characters have given me many book recommendations–I had never read any of E. Nesbit’s books about the Bastable children before reading references to them in Missing Melinda by Jacqueline Jackson and Friendly Gables by Hilda Van Stockum. Memoirs of a Bookbat by Kathryn Lasky also has references to Judy Blume and Magic by the Book by Nina Bernstein has the characters magically transported into Robin Hood and Tolstoy.
Jean Reagan said, on 1/26/2011 8:50:00 AM
Betsy,
I clicked on the Picture Book Marathon link on your newsy bits, and it’s not connecting. Here’s the link again. http://www.picturebookmarathon.org.
Thanks.
Jean Reagan
Arthur Levine said, on 1/26/2011 9:05:00 AM
Thanks for the mention of LOST & FOUND, Elizabeth. We’ve actually moved the pub date UP a month, so that folks who are intrigued at the Oscars (or who just can’t WAIT) will be able to get it in their hands in just a few weeks!
Julie said, on 1/26/2011 10:24:00 AM
I vote for Michigander. At least that’s what we say in Ann Arbor.
Kathryn said, on 1/26/2011 10:27:00 AM
Edward Eager’s kids also read Masefield–Laura is reading “A Box of Delights” in the train on the way to their new home in Connecticut at the beginning of “Magic or Not.” And of course, the central plot device in”Seven-Day Magic” is a book that takes you into OTHER books.
The Melendys read a lot; in “Then There Were Five” there is an absolutely glorious description of Mark’s initiation into the pleasures of reading for pleasure.
And the Swallows and Amazons–particularly Titty & Dorothea–read, although theirs is mostly books originally aimed at adults (all the North Pole explorers in “Winter Holiday”; and at the beginning of “Pigeon Post” Dorothea is reading Rafael Sabatini on the train. . .hm, reading on the train is a definite theme.)
Maria T. Middleton said, on 1/26/2011 12:24:00 PM
Thanks so much for the blog mention! There are indeed some Middletons who dream of thrones (eh-hem, Kate…), but this Middleton only dreams of great design. And everything I know about designing children’s books, I’ve learned from working with Chad Beckerman. I’d be completely remiss (and a little fearful of flying pie) if I didn’t add my thanks to him for the inspiration.
Dhonielle Clayton said, on 1/26/2011 1:57:00 PM
Hi Betsy,
I’ll be there to summarize ! I loved the event and I’m sad I didn’t know about the Literary Salon sooner as I am a recent NYC transplant via the Washington, DC area.
Thanks for the shout-out…See you at the next event on Feb. 5th!
Dhonielle Clayton
teenwritersbloc.com
Several years ago, when I was just beginning to understand the transcendent possibilities of young adult literature, I wrote an essay for the Chicago Tribune, which the Tribune then titled "Welcoming posture of youngsters lures more writers." (February 5, 2006) Why, I asked, were Adam Gopnik, Isabel Allende, Michael Chabon, Louise Erdrich, Sue Halpern, Marilyn Nelson, and so many others writing for younger readers? I posited this possible explanation:
While some might claim that the wild success of the Harry Potter series has raised the stakes of--and interest in--writing for the younger reader, I'd like to suggest that something else might also be at work, something about the very hospitability of the young reader's mind. For aren't young readers typically blessed with capacious hearts and souls? Don't they tend to welcome the slightly askew into their midst? Don't they walk straight into topsy-turvy worlds, hail the wraith, admire the ghost, listen with care to the talking tree? Young readers, by and large, care more for stories than for labels. They censor less. They want the writer to get it right, or so it seems to me.
Today, in a wonderful essay for the New York Times Book Review, Pamela Paul explores why so many books labeled "young adult" are bought and savored by those well past their teen years (while also discussing the book club phenomenon Kidlit). Among the reasons put forth:
...good Y.A. is like good television. There's a freshness there; it's engaging. Y.A. authors aren't writing about middle-aged anomie or disappointed people. (Amanda Foreman)
A lot of contemporary adult literature is characterized by a real distrust of plot. I think young adult fiction is one of the few areas of literature right now where storytelling really thrives. (Lev Grossman)
There's an immediacy in the prose. I like the way adolescent emotions are rawer, less canned. (Darcey Steinke)
I know that many of you who read this blog read across genres and labels (and I am grateful). I wonder how you, then, might answer the question, Why are so many adults reading books that are (at the very least) marketed to teens?
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I think there are more possibilities for young adults -- they are on the edge of their lives with all doors open, which makes storytelling more unpredictable.
I know when I read good young adult books it conjures a combination of nostalgia and fresh possibility that is appealing. Also the heightened emotions of that age...living in the now with the intensity and importance of every little thing supplies a different energy.
I was going to leave a rather lengthy comment - I really enjoyed that article on the NY Times - and then realized I was drafting an entire blog post of my own on the subject! :) Anyway, thank you for inspiring me to take a second look at Pamela Paul's essay and think about it in more depth.
When I read "young adult" books, it's almost like being in a time machine. My outlook changes, is fresher, simpler, cleaner - as if the experience of age gets stripped away and I recall the purer, less jaded emotions of myself as a young person.
I second what you say. For my first venture in English (I previously published a book of short stories in Spanish) I decided on a YA book for the freedom it offered to write a real plot and deal with a mature and healthy teenage central character. You and some of your readers may like my book (the first in a series of three). Anyone interested is welcome to visit my blog, leave a comment and read about the book on the website. Thanks!
In this weekend's New York Times, Pamela Paul tackles the topic of the "de rigueur" book trailer ("The Author Takes a Star Turn"), citing the recent YouTube moments of, among others, Mary Karr, Jeannette Walls, and Kelly Corrigan. To quote from the story:
But in the streaming video era, with the publishing industry under relentless threat, the trailer is fast becoming an essential component of online marketing. Asked to draw on often nonexistent acting skills, authors are holding forth for anything from 30 seconds to 6 minutes, frequently to the tune of stock guitar strumming, soulful violin or klezmer music. And now, those who once worried about no one reading their books can worry about no one watching their trailers. (A mother still nursing her 8-year-old: 25,864,943 views; recent best-selling maternal memoirist: 5,124 views.)
I read the piece with great interest, as I read all stories about the marketing (and fate) of books with great interest. I read it with a flush in my face. Citing book trailer budgets of up to $15,000, I thought of my own budgets (no pennies, just my time, which I leave others to value), my own resources (the photographs I know how to take and the video I don't), my own technology (iMovie, after I lost patience with Final Cut during one particularly hot, sweaty day), my own music choices (severely limited by lack of budget and lack of personal composing/performing/recording capabilities, though I do hum a mean "Twinkle, Twinkle"), my own microphone (which is attached to my unportable computer, which sits on my glass-topped desk in my glass-surround office), my own vision (and how sorely it compares to the final product), my own un-desire to sit in front of my little Apple camera and interview myself (what a monumental bore, I think, to interview myself), and my own aims (to tell someone out there what the book is about in 90 seconds or less).
Had I thought, for example, about how hard it would be to create a trailer for my upcoming historical novel, Dangerous Neighbors, I might have thought twice (I'm saying might have, only) before signing up for all the difficulties that simply writing the book entailed. Because how, in fact, does a woman like me—lacking budget, lacking video talent—recreate the kaleidoscopic quality of that book? The skating on the Schuylkill River, circa 1876. The digging for clams at the Cape May beach in the era's bathing costumes. The fire that swept through Shantytown. The massive grandiosity of the Centennial grounds themselves. The Laurel Hill Cemetery in winter, as it was then, not as it is now. How does one talk about twin sisters, when there are no 18 year old twin sisters in sight, and nothing late nineteenth century to dress them in? Dangerous Neighbors is a book in which high color is thematic and the pace ever quickens; the images from 1876—still images—are black and white and grainy. Dangerous Neighbors features a baker's boy who rescues lost animals from the streets of Philadelphia. Can one let a pig loose in Rittenhouse Square?
The "de riguering" of book trailers is, I think, a fascinating development, and I myself watch many trailers—applauding and admiring and, yes, envying writers like Maggie Stiefvater—writer, artist, musician, film maker—who can do it all. This is not to say that there isn't much I can still learn, much I can work against, much I must transcend. I'm in the book business and so, alas, I must crack the code on video problems that have, until now, proved confou
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That was actually the plan. But my boy got a great internship and also works four days a week at a theater, meaning that he is barely home and I don't want to put additional pressure on him when he is.
I just had to stop by and say -- unless you feel called to do a book trailer -- DON'T! They can help you, but yeah, so could a spot on Oprah. They're just one of the tools you can use and they are an unreliable tool at that. Honestly, if I hadn't wanted an excuse to play with stop motion, I wouldn't have done mine. So if you can let a pig loose in Rittenhouse square, go for it. But if you can't? Just write the next book, which is always the best marketing. :)
I hardly ever watch book trailers. They don't really sell me on books. Plus, it seems like something that would be hard for new readers to stumble upon organically.
But, they are new. That could change.
(And I do watch Maggie Stiefvater's, if only because I love stop motion.)
Book trailers are a little bit of a puzzle to me, as a reader. Are they the "must-have" marketing device because everyone seems to be doing them or ... some other reason? As bermudaonion said, I'm not sure why they are so popular. They don't sway my opinion on whether to read the book or not, the written word holds that power and always will, I suspect.
(Really like your new trailer and the footage from the Please Touch Museum.)
These comments are so enlightening (and encouraging) and I thank you all for them. The article, if you can get onto it, goes on to talk about just how effective these trailers are (according to surveys) in securing readers for books. Time will tell. I like your responses much more than anonymized survey results.
I think your book trailers are wonderful. Either way, I don't watch that many book trailers, so like everyone else, I'm not too sure why they're so popular. I feel like they just give readers a little idea of what the book will be like. But most of the time, it seems like the trailer just contains the book summary with a couple visuals to go with it.
The New York Times has picked Pamela Paul to serve as the 
The New York Times will divide its Children’s Bestsellers list for chapter books, creating separate middle grade and YA lists. NYT editor Pamela Paul announced the news last night on Twitter. We’ve embedded her three tweets below.
What’s the best young adult novel of all time? NPR Books wants to know. The media outlet 
! I loved the event and I’m sad I didn’t know about the Literary Salon sooner as I am a recent NYC transplant via the Washington, DC area. 
I am there in spirit!
Way to go Fab Five! How cool is this!