Earlier this fall, following the presentation we gave at ALA Annual on the topic, Liz Burns, Sophie Brookover, and myself were asked by Roger Sutton if we’d be interested in writing about “new adult” fiction for The Horn Book.
After lots of brainstorming and a lot of editing, reframing, reconsidering, and rewriting, we were pleased with the final product. You can read the article “What’s New in ‘New Adult'” in the January/February print edition — or you can click and enjoy it right here in full.
Over at Book Riot, I continue my monthly “Beyond the Bestsellers” series by talking about suggested next reads for those who love Ransom Riggs’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Check it out.
Finally, a link I don’t have and likely won’t have for a while, I do have an article in the January edition of The Teaching Librarian, which is a publication out of the Ontario Library Association (you can read full back issues and learn more about the journal here). I wrote about having a “gender-free” library and all of the ways that librarians can develop, promote, and encourage library participation without falling into the “for boys” or “for girls” mindset.
There’s one more guest post I wrote that’ll go up some time before the end of the year, and when it goes live, I’ll post about it. Otherwise, it’s business as usual here at STACKED. And as always, thanks for being readers — I appreciate it, and I’m pretty sure I can speak on behalf of Kimberly in saying that we are so grateful for everyone who stops by, reads what we write, comments, shares, or even thinks about what we have to say.
I stop by, read, share, and think about what you have to say pretty much every day. After reading your tweet that people aren't commenting as much as they used to, I realized I rarely comment. So here's me commenting: Stacked is basically my morning newspaper these days and I so appreciate what you all are doing. All best and happy holidays : )
Thank you — and thanks for sharing our stuff so much. I see it and appreciate it a LOT!
What Jody said!
I'm really looking forward to reading your piece on gender-free libraries. It is disturbingly easy to fall into the girl/boy reader mindset, especially in a school where gender divides are so strong. I've even had a teacher ask me to come into the classroom and do book talks on books for boys (even though there were girls in the class as well). I didn't feel good about it, but I also felt that I couldn't say no.
Thanks 🙂
When the journal is up, I'll link to it. It's a topic that fascinates me to no end because I think as a profession, we continue to believe in some of those gendered ideas. I mean, I opened up this year's CSLP booklet (if you don't know what that is — it's the big binder of ideas for teen summer reading programs) and there's a whole piece in there about how mostly girls attend library programs and to get more guys, you should advertise in "boy-friendly" places. My mind. It boggles — what does that even MEAN? (And also it's not true: I get far more boys at programs than girls).