This was a good year. There’s no other way to put it. Here’s a look back at some of the stellar moments from 2011. Several of the items are linked to the blog posts where I originally blogged about them. Legally Married: After 16 years of being together, and 14 since we had our commitment ceremony, [...]
26Dec11
2011: Year in Review
I’ve been incredibly lucky to read two extraordinary books in the past few weeks. I followed up According to Hoyle by Abigail Roux with The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan. I’m a big fan of Levithan’s but this book takes his work to a whole new level. It’s exactly what it says it is–a dictionary. [...]
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan is one of the more imaginative books I’ve read recently (and be warned… this review leans a little toward spoilers, so proceed at your own risk). It focuses around two teenagers in the Midwest who are both pretty miserable. As you might guess from the [...]
Eighteen excellent short stories are inside How They Met and Other Stories by David Levithan. Of those I have to single out two as extraordinary… stories that will sit in my brain forever and, hopefully, make me a better writer for having read them. As you might guess from the title, the book is about [...]
The NYC Teen Author Festival is back this week and last night Will and I went to our neighborhood Barnes & Noble in Tribeca to check out a panel discussion titled “Inside the Mind of a Teen Boy.” Of course, this was particularly interesting to me since I continue to work on my own YA [...]
